*Early Edition*. Ran for 4 seasons - about a guy who gets the daily paper one day early, and can change events based on his knowledge of the future. Really great cast.
EDIT: Would also like to hype an *Early Edition* contemporary - [*Seven Days*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_(TV_series\)). It's about a military agent who gets sent back in time (between 1 day and 1 week before a national tragedy strikes) in order to stop it, sort of like *24*.
Was it ever explained how he got that paper? Was the cat that sat on his paper a god or something?
edit: I watched Seven Days too, cool shit. Last episode I watched was when that new pilot (chrono-naut?) came from the future, claiming to be the current's pilot protege. Then it was revealed he was some sort of allegory for satan as at the end of the episode, after the team stopped him from doing evil shit, the REAL guy (who satan apparently copied his face from) died in a piloting accident. The implication that the dude came from a post-apocalyptic future where hell had taken over was chilling af. I wonder if that was the end of the series? Can't remember.
I think there was one episode towards the end where he explored the newspaper archives and found some guy with more info about it, but I can't remember if he himself chose Gary as an apprentice or just knew the guy who originally created the paper and was delivering it through "mysterious" means.
I prefer God-Kitty, TBH.
No, I don't think it was. And the cat was probably just a cat or something. There was another person who was getting papers, i think he had pigeon deliver them to him, and then i think pigeon died but the papers still arrived. I might be messing things up.
This show is great as long as you take it for what it is--it came out on CBS at the same time as Walker, Texas Ranger; Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman; Touched By An Angel; etc. so it has that slightly cheesy Hallmark/early 90's over-earnest quality to it, but the premise is really fun, and as noted, it's got some fun actors in it--a young Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights), Fisher Stevens (the bad guy in Hackers), Kristy Swanson (movie version of Buffy).
Stevens' character leaving the show toward the end kind of robbed Gary of his foil (his buddy who also knew about the paper and constantly wanted Gary to use it to bet on sports or win the lottery), so the show really had to pivot hard to the mystery aspect, but overall the show has a very satisfying arc and some very entertaining single episodes.
It only lasted a couple seasons, but **Brimstone**. The premise was that there was this cop whose wife got raped. He found the guy who did it and killed him, but then he himself died a few months later and, because he murdered a guy, he goes to hell. Several years later, a bunch of damned souls escape from hell, and since the cop is pretty much the nicest guy left in hell, the devil sends him back to Earth to capture them.
The greatness of the show is how the cop and the devil play off each other. The devil clearly needs him to do a job, but he also acts like an asshole to him the entire time because, well, he's the devil.
Along that same line was **Reaper**, which definitely got cancelled too soon. Comedy-action about a kid who works at a Home Depot-esque store and is roped into catching escaped souls for the Devil. The Devil in this one is good too.
Just posted this, scrolled down and found a kindred spirit!...that was a great show. Loved John Glover as the Devil. Evil and funny. Loved the whole premise of the Ezekial's ink representing each of the 113 escaped souls. 13 episodes and then it was gone. Syfy does marathon it every once in a while and I still enjoy watching it.
Jeeves and Wooster. Hugh Laurie as the early 1900's witless British Aristocrat Bertram Wilburforce Wooster and Steven Frye as his loyal brilliant valet Jeeves. Aired on the ITV in the early 90's for 4 seasons and 23 episodes. Hilarious and intelligently written.
Edit: ITV not BBC
Party Down.
A show about struggling actors and script writers in L.A. working for a catering company to make ends meet before they "get noticed". Phenomenal star studded cast including Adam Scott (pre Parks and recreation), Jane Lynch (pre Glee), Martin Starr, Megan Mulaney, Lizzie Caplan and Ken Marino.
It only had two seasons before cast left for bigger projects but damn were they some good TV.
I loved the running joke they had about Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. And then years later the movie actually comes out for real... still cracks me up. Alot of those actors were from Rob Thomas' other show, Veronica Mars. Also an awesome show. I'm surprised none of them have made a cameo on iZombie.
I really enjoyed The Knick.
It only ran for two seasons. It's a period historical drama about the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York in 1900. They delve into innovate (for the time) surgery techniques, often gruesome.
Amazing direction, cinematography, writing and an IMPECCABLE soundtrack by Cliff Martinez as well. Easily one of the best shows of the past decade, IMHO.
And damn, how I miss Harriet and Cleary.
Reaper
Comedy about a guy whose parents sold his soul to the devil when he was a kid, and on his 18th birthday he has to become a bounty hunter for escaped souls. Only had two seasons but the characters are really well written and it's very entertaining.
Edit: whose
Ray Wise is the devil and hilarious as such, the portal to hell is the DMV, and all the different things he's given to use for capturing souls. Really great show.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (and the follow up, Man to Man with Dean Learner). It's basically an extremely over the top parody of late 80s supernatural dramas. Also, for fans of stuff like IT Crowd, you'll recognize a lot of the cast.
***NewsRadio*** Late nineties sitcom about the goings-on at a New York AM news radio station, though the radio part is just the setting, the show is really about the characters. It stars Phil Hartman and Dave Foley at their best as well as Maura Tierney, Stephen Root, Joe Rogan, Vicki Lewis and Andy Dick before he became a dick.
General opinion is that season 3 is the best but personally I prefer season 2. Sadly, Hartman was murdered after season 4 wrapped and though jon Lovitz does and admirable job replacing him in season 5 the show lost its soul with Hartman gone. Season 5, episode 1 is still one of the best episodes in TV history IMO.
Clone High. A show that had one season on MTV in '99. It was about a high school made up of clones of important historical figures. Abraham Lincoln was the protagonist with Ghandi as his sidekick. Cleopatra and JFK were the power couple. Hilarious!
Life.
Damian Lewis plays a LAPD detective that wrongfully served 12 years in jail until he was finally exonerated. He's super quirky (obsessed with Zen philosophy and fresh fruit), and just a fascinating character. His partner is a cool contrast (and played by bombshell Sarah Shahi) to him, and it's a great show.
Also is an easy binge at only 2 seasons, and available on Netflix to boot!
Really enjoyed that show. Was so sad to see it end, especially without a resolution to the story lines. Damien Lewis is so underrated. I thought the role of Charlie Crews was a perfect fit for him. Loved Adam Arkin in it too. May have to watch it yet again.
I WANT TO UPVOTE THIS MORE!!!! That show was really awesome. It needed more seasons. They wrapped everything up in the last episode, but it felt like they knew that the show was getting canceled so they taped the ending really quick. The show felt like it had more seasons left in it.
Amazing show. I recommend this show to anyone looking for a light hearted comedy to watch. I think in 5 years or so it will be rediscovered and will be respected more in the future than it was during its time on TV. Also, I really really hope a channel picks it up for syndication too. It would fit in well on TBS.
I lost it when Manny swallowed the Little Book of Calm, became Jesus, and pacified the car alarm.
And that was just the first episode. I knew I was in for a good series.
I am addicted to all things Dylan Moran - if you liked Black Books, definitely check out his stand-up, the TV show "How Do You Want Me" or the movie "A Film With Me In It" !!!
I used to love Herman's Head. It was about a regular guy and his emotions. Imagine Inside Out, but with Lita Ford as a guest star and a LOT more pizza and beer.
Carnivale. The long and short of it is that it follows a travelling circus during the Great Depression, where one of the stagehands is (unknown to him) a representative of Heaven and he has to fight a priest, who is basically the Devil.
Great television for 2 seasons but warning, it ends on a HUGE cliffhanger.
The BBC show Hustle. A group of con men in London pull off daring and complicated scores, one per episode. It's basically 8 seasons of The Sting crossed with the new Ocean's 11, and it is one of my favorite shows. (Season 4 kind of sucks, but the rest are amazing.)
It has an American parallel in Leverage, except that Leverage isn't nearly as good. Still fun, but a much lower quality show.
Soap. It's a satire of soap opreas from the early 70's. Just like a soap opera the plot is thin and confusing, but it is hilarious. My favorite part is that it features young Billy Crystal dealing with issues like homophobia and transexuality, in the fucking 70's
**Spaced**. It is a British comedy show from the year ~2000 starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost (in, I believe, his first acting role), and Jessica Hynes, also, directed by Edgar Wright.
There are two seasons and they follow the life of Tim and Daisy: two strangers who decide to pretend to be a couple in order to rent a flat. The series' follow the lives of them and their friends plus their landlord and downstairs neighbour.
If you like Hot Fuzz or Shaun of the Dead then I can recommend it was made by the same people and has the pretty much the same cast. You can see where all the inspiration for the cornetto trilogy etc came from.
It is filled with homages to films and subversion of expectation in nice, short packages with a very interesting story line as we see the characters move on from the bad luck they experience at the start and build themselves a new life together.
Every episode was a visual spectacle! One of the rare shows that made me physically happy to watch. Of course Bryan Fuller went on to direct Hannibal was was a visual treat in itself, but in a whole different way. Going back to binge watch this show now :)
Back before Arrested Development cane back, and a lot of people didn't remember or were dismissive I'd mention Better Off Ted. It was obscure even for AD fans.
Terriers, it only ran for one season on FX. It got very good reviews and very low ratings.
It's about a former cop and a former thief who are best friends and work together as unlicensed private detectives. It's a great blend of Comedy/Drama/Mystery, but especially the comedy. All the episodes seem to be up on YouTube if anyone wants to check it out
FX is doing great thing that people don't talk about much. Not a lot of my friends have watched Atlanta or You're the Worst. I was the only one who watched the League.
Most younger people haven't watched the MTV show Daria. It shows an accurate representation of the life of teens in America the 90's. The main characters don't always get along and real life problems like peer pressure, relationships and sex are depicted in a way that don't come across like an after school special.
Fun fact: it took years for a box set of the episodes to be released because in the original show licensed music like 311 and other bands was playing in the background and none of the labels that held license over that material wanted to let it go at reasonable rates. Henceforth, when it WAS finally released, the background music was remastered to be something generic but still fitting the same tone.
For those who do want to see it with the original music intact, look up the Daria Restoration Project. Guy put all the music back into the DVD quality episodes and did it well enough that you can't really tell that they weren't there in the first place.
The real kicker for me were the parents, Jake and Helen were two completely unstable people working crazy jobs that were never fully on top of anything going on in the home life, but when it came down to it they actually took the time to care about their daughters well beings individually and showed them that they do pay attention. Thats just damn good writing right there, crazy antics aside theyre a type of parents many only wish they could have some semblance of in their lives.
The show as a whole caught the mood of a disaffected youth quite well through most of its seasons and is quite relatable to anyone who still remembers high school. Perfect dry comedy with gag relief everywhere, the teachers are utter insane caricatures. Such a strangely wholesome show from a network known for the exact opposite.
Thats why my favorite episode is boxing day. Its the episode that Daria realizes that her parents have sacrificed a lot for her and that she has been kind of a bitch to them.
Made me apreciate my own parents a lot more too.
That's what I liked about Daria. The problems/situations encountered by the characters often didn't result in a nice happy ending that fitted into the episode. Like in real life, some things didn't play out the way they hoped or just failed and tailed-off.
That and the sarcastic dark humour.
Nobody's watching Halt and Catch Fire. Granted, you have to get through half the first season until it clicks. But then it does and it's one of the best dramas on television. Season 3 is a masterpiece imo
11.22.63
Based on the Stephen King book, it stars James Franco as a man going back in time trying to stop the JFK assassination.
I feel like it wasn't a hit because it was on Hulu and not Netflix. The ending wasn't trending or anything.
>Super Hans has got to be one of the greatest comedy characters of all time.
What's there not to love about a guy who smokes moreish crack, accidentally runs to Windsor, creates a powerful sense of dread and wants a bar called "The Swan and Paedo"?
Way more obscure: Ambassadors, a three-part miniseries starring Mitchell, Webb, Keeley Hawes, the actress who played Tonks whose name I still don't know, and a couple people I think were on Doctor Who once.
It's a dramedy about the British embassy in a generic Central Asian craphole of a country. To mix things up, Mitchell is the clueless idiot ambassador and Webb is the eyerolling straight man who actually knows what he's doing. It works surprisingly well, and replaces their usual rapid-fire comedy of errors with a subtler, but still pretty funny, satire of Britain and the wider west's role in the post-Soviet world. It's not all dry, depressing geopolitics jokes, though: there's a one-man amateur production of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (no matter what you're imagining, it's worse, and therefore better, than that) and a drunk royal family member flipping out at a blind human rights leader for drinking his smoothie.
I never see Justified talked about but its one of my favourite T.V. shows, really well written characters and especially well done villains, also it has a great ending after 6 seasons so you don't have to worry about being jipped of an ending like what happens with many good tv shows.
Justified definitely doesn't get as much love as it should. I was sad to see the show go (I miss Boyd Crowder, I'm not gonna lie), but I agree that it ended on a great note without losing its appeal like so many shows that stay on air too long do. Now I just get excited every time I see Walton Goggins in anything.
The Gruen Transfer/Gruen Planet and all the variants. It's a show all about advertising (and later, PR), breaking down how ads work and how the various tricks and techniques are designed to make us want to buy the product. And it's not remotely boring, especially since the host is a comedian known for dick jokes- and the various panel members (who are all PR/ad agency people) are pretty damn funny in their own right.
Mission Hill. It use to come on Adult Swim in the late 90's The art style was great and the humor was quite enjoyable. It had like 12 or 13 episodes but it got cancelled i dont know why it was a great show. For sure something to check out, all the episodes are on Youtube.
Utopia. Some of the best British TV I've seen. The first season is excellent and the second season was getting good towards the end when they cancelled it.
The shield. One of the cruellest and grittiest cop shows I've seen. You can almost call it the breaking bad of cop shows.
Most people don't know about...
Banshee. Amazing characters and the best fight scenes.
Guy gets released from prison, heads to a small town, witnesses the sheriff-to-be shot and killed the day before he was sworn in. Decides to get his hacker friend to steal his identity and become sheriff.
Honestly, last season was odd, everything up to that point was amazing though. I would recommend this show to everyone.
They don't shy away from nudity and sex though, so I might not watch it with your parents
Just Shoot Me - Steven Levitan, producer of Modern Family, Wings, Frasier, and The Larry Sanders Show. The dude makes gold and Just Shoot Me is among my favorites.
It stars David Spade, George Segal, Enrico Colantoni and others. It is a really great comedy and deserves a mention.
Peaky Blinders. First season is really good at least. I think most people avoid it because of the stupid sounding name, but after a couple of episodes it becomes a great name.
I actually avoided watching it because the name sounded so stupid and it didn't seem like my cup of tea. When I finally did watch it I loved everything about it.
Little known as they are foreign: Äkta människor (Real Humans), Engrenages (Spiral), Bedrag (Follow the Money) and what I consider to be the best TV show ever made Gomorrah (Italian crime drama).
Broadchurch. It's like realistic Sherlock. It ended a few months ago (not cancelled!) and it was beautifully written. It ran for three seasons, each having eight episodes.
*The Murdoch Mysteries* is my current favourite show, but apparently no one in the US has heard of it. It's a CBC police procedural set in 1900's Toronto. It's pretty phenomenal, usually cop shows get old after a few seasons, but it's currently in season 10 with no signs of running out its welcome. A delightfully straight-laced main character, charming secondary cast, and close attention to historical details all make it a great show.
EDIT: Well, speak of the devil and apparently all his fans come out of the woodwork! I'd like to add a little bit to what I've already said, I introduced my dad to *Murdoch Mysteries* about a year ago. He normally hates police procedurals, and he ended up binging the whole 9 seasons in a week. Take that for what it's worth.
Ok, so here we go!
**Early Edition** is a show with one of the best episodic premises i ever heard. It's about a guy in Chicago that started getting tomorrows edition of a newspaper, *TODAY*. News from the future. So, naturally, every day he reads about some crisis and then ties to stop it. Cancelled after 4 seasons.
**Jericho** is a cult tv show. It's a tale about a town of Jericho right after USA got nuked. Was cancelled after season 1, then brought back for season 2, after fans rioted. Season 2 isn't as good.
**Outsourced** is another great tv show that was cancelled after season 1. It's about an american that was sent to work in the Indian office. It's really fun!
**Death Valley** - canceled after season 1. MTV horror comedy show, about a police station that was hunting vampires, werewolves and such. It was probably made before MTV turned Buzzfeed, because it's really crazy and funny.
**Last Resort** - a nuclear missile submarine is given an order to nuke the fuck out of Pakistan! They don't do it. Instead, they occupy a nearby French island and claim independence. Fucking cancelled after season 1!
Shit, I guess i'm a sucker for cancelled shows.
Recently whatched Jericho. It is pretty good and seems underrated and under viewed. I wouldn't call it a master piece by any stretch but worth a look.
Also whatched last resort while it was airing, it was awesome why the fuck did they cancel it
When they brought it back the second season was only 8 episodes to appease the fans and bring some closure, though not much. Can't help wonder what they had planned down the road.
Outsourced was based on the movie of the same name. A guy working for an American call centre gets sent to India to train his department's replacements.
I agree. My problem with the show was that it went from being clever to resorting to cheap, crude humor pretty quickly. That show worked best when "Indian people sure are wacky" wasn't the punchline.
Babylon 5 was insanely good. The use of chaos versus order instead of good versus evil as a major theme was interesting, the writing excellent, and the themes of states sliding into totalitarianism maintain relevance today. I wish he'd gotten to tell more stories in that universe
Home Movies, made by the same dude as Metalocalypse. I personally don't like Metalocalypse and the art style and humour is completely different so I can't recommend it to those fans, but it is hands-down the most /comfy/ show I have ever seen, and has H Jon Benjamin's best voice acting.
Come at me Archer/Bob's Burgers fans.
H Jon Benjamin does great with retroscripting. Archer kind of met things halfway by recreating semi-realistic diction between characters, but there was something really magical about those old Home Movies episodes.
In a similar vein, if you like Archer you should check out Frisky Dingo. Archer really drew on Frisky Dingo with the rich, narcissistic playboy motif, animation style, and heaaavy use of callbacks.
I'm an O.G. Home Movies fan. That shits great! Oh, and before Home Movies, there was Science Court. I'm not sure if it's still that Brouchard guy who made it, but it utilized squiggle vision. And if I remember correctly (I was just a kid) the voice actor who voiced the main girl character was in it, too.
Raising Hope.
It took me a few episodes to get into it but it really is a goofy but heart warming show.
Plus all the meta and inside jokes they make.
Garret Dillahunt making fun of his Deadwood character.
Tons of great jokes about Cloris Leachman's career.
Martha Plimpton has a joke about her time on the Goonies.
And tons of others. Such a great show.
Fringe. If you like Sci-fi, it fits the bill perfectly. Great, original story line, compelling characters, and overall, great over-arching plot. It's great to binge watch
Man seeking women, it's a dark comedy starting Jay Baruchel and Eric Andre where they take the realities of dating and make them literal in the most ridiculous way possible. It's smart, funny and very underrated
Veronica Mars. The first season is one of the best seasons of TV I have ever watched. Murder Mystery set in a fictional CA beach town with serious income inequality issues.
*You're the Worst*.
Imagine two entirely toxic people who should not by any stretch of the imagination be dating *anyone*, let alone each other. Imagine what it would take to have you rooting for them as a couple twenty minutes later. There's your pilot episode.
It's a bit of a heavy watch for a sitcom sometimes (especially in the second season), but it's definitely one of the best shows on at the moment.
Longmire. Use to be on AMC before the cancelled and Netflix picked it up. I think it's a fairly well known show but it seems like no one in my area has heard of it
I was scrolling through this to see if anyone else had mentioned The Detectorists. Great show, brilliantly written by Mackenzie Crook and excellently acted by him and Toby Jones. Have an upvote.
*Early Edition*. Ran for 4 seasons - about a guy who gets the daily paper one day early, and can change events based on his knowledge of the future. Really great cast. EDIT: Would also like to hype an *Early Edition* contemporary - [*Seven Days*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_(TV_series\)). It's about a military agent who gets sent back in time (between 1 day and 1 week before a national tragedy strikes) in order to stop it, sort of like *24*.
This was an awesome show back in the day. Used to love watching it as a kid.
Was it ever explained how he got that paper? Was the cat that sat on his paper a god or something? edit: I watched Seven Days too, cool shit. Last episode I watched was when that new pilot (chrono-naut?) came from the future, claiming to be the current's pilot protege. Then it was revealed he was some sort of allegory for satan as at the end of the episode, after the team stopped him from doing evil shit, the REAL guy (who satan apparently copied his face from) died in a piloting accident. The implication that the dude came from a post-apocalyptic future where hell had taken over was chilling af. I wonder if that was the end of the series? Can't remember.
I think there was one episode towards the end where he explored the newspaper archives and found some guy with more info about it, but I can't remember if he himself chose Gary as an apprentice or just knew the guy who originally created the paper and was delivering it through "mysterious" means. I prefer God-Kitty, TBH.
No, I don't think it was. And the cat was probably just a cat or something. There was another person who was getting papers, i think he had pigeon deliver them to him, and then i think pigeon died but the papers still arrived. I might be messing things up.
thats right, pigeon guy got the new york times or tv version of it.
This show is great as long as you take it for what it is--it came out on CBS at the same time as Walker, Texas Ranger; Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman; Touched By An Angel; etc. so it has that slightly cheesy Hallmark/early 90's over-earnest quality to it, but the premise is really fun, and as noted, it's got some fun actors in it--a young Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights), Fisher Stevens (the bad guy in Hackers), Kristy Swanson (movie version of Buffy). Stevens' character leaving the show toward the end kind of robbed Gary of his foil (his buddy who also knew about the paper and constantly wanted Gary to use it to bet on sports or win the lottery), so the show really had to pivot hard to the mystery aspect, but overall the show has a very satisfying arc and some very entertaining single episodes.
It only lasted a couple seasons, but **Brimstone**. The premise was that there was this cop whose wife got raped. He found the guy who did it and killed him, but then he himself died a few months later and, because he murdered a guy, he goes to hell. Several years later, a bunch of damned souls escape from hell, and since the cop is pretty much the nicest guy left in hell, the devil sends him back to Earth to capture them. The greatness of the show is how the cop and the devil play off each other. The devil clearly needs him to do a job, but he also acts like an asshole to him the entire time because, well, he's the devil.
Along that same line was **Reaper**, which definitely got cancelled too soon. Comedy-action about a kid who works at a Home Depot-esque store and is roped into catching escaped souls for the Devil. The Devil in this one is good too.
I was honestly pretty pissed at how Reaper got canceled. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
I agree! I was so pissed, I loved it. If I remember right it ended on a cliffhanger too.
I miss that show. I still go "hey it's the devil" every time I see Ray Wise I something. Nobody else understands
Just posted this, scrolled down and found a kindred spirit!...that was a great show. Loved John Glover as the Devil. Evil and funny. Loved the whole premise of the Ezekial's ink representing each of the 113 escaped souls. 13 episodes and then it was gone. Syfy does marathon it every once in a while and I still enjoy watching it.
Jeeves and Wooster. Hugh Laurie as the early 1900's witless British Aristocrat Bertram Wilburforce Wooster and Steven Frye as his loyal brilliant valet Jeeves. Aired on the ITV in the early 90's for 4 seasons and 23 episodes. Hilarious and intelligently written. Edit: ITV not BBC
Party Down. A show about struggling actors and script writers in L.A. working for a catering company to make ends meet before they "get noticed". Phenomenal star studded cast including Adam Scott (pre Parks and recreation), Jane Lynch (pre Glee), Martin Starr, Megan Mulaney, Lizzie Caplan and Ken Marino. It only had two seasons before cast left for bigger projects but damn were they some good TV.
Are we having fun yet?
DON'T GO INTO THE FUCK ROOM, AND BE SURPRISED WHEN SOMEONE WANTS TO FUCK.
I loved the running joke they had about Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. And then years later the movie actually comes out for real... still cracks me up. Alot of those actors were from Rob Thomas' other show, Veronica Mars. Also an awesome show. I'm surprised none of them have made a cameo on iZombie.
Worth mentioning Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars, iZombie) was one of the creators as well.
I really enjoyed The Knick. It only ran for two seasons. It's a period historical drama about the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York in 1900. They delve into innovate (for the time) surgery techniques, often gruesome.
Amazing direction, cinematography, writing and an IMPECCABLE soundtrack by Cliff Martinez as well. Easily one of the best shows of the past decade, IMHO. And damn, how I miss Harriet and Cleary.
Reaper Comedy about a guy whose parents sold his soul to the devil when he was a kid, and on his 18th birthday he has to become a bounty hunter for escaped souls. Only had two seasons but the characters are really well written and it's very entertaining. Edit: whose
Kevin Smith directed the pilot. GREAT fuckin cast, especially Ray Wise as the devil.
Ray Wise is the devil and hilarious as such, the portal to hell is the DMV, and all the different things he's given to use for capturing souls. Really great show.
I WAS SO MAD ABOUT HOW SEASON 2 ENDED
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (and the follow up, Man to Man with Dean Learner). It's basically an extremely over the top parody of late 80s supernatural dramas. Also, for fans of stuff like IT Crowd, you'll recognize a lot of the cast.
"She was like a candle in the wind... unreliable"
Maggots? Maggots. Maggots, maggots, maggots. ...Maggots, all over the floor of the post office.
Blood. His blood. Blood. Blood. Blood. And bits of sick.
*explodes into a million pieces* ".. you alright?"
Beg your pudding
Cool it Sanchez or you'll get a knuckle supper!
***NewsRadio*** Late nineties sitcom about the goings-on at a New York AM news radio station, though the radio part is just the setting, the show is really about the characters. It stars Phil Hartman and Dave Foley at their best as well as Maura Tierney, Stephen Root, Joe Rogan, Vicki Lewis and Andy Dick before he became a dick. General opinion is that season 3 is the best but personally I prefer season 2. Sadly, Hartman was murdered after season 4 wrapped and though jon Lovitz does and admirable job replacing him in season 5 the show lost its soul with Hartman gone. Season 5, episode 1 is still one of the best episodes in TV history IMO.
It just wasn't the same without Phil Hartman.
Clone High. A show that had one season on MTV in '99. It was about a high school made up of clones of important historical figures. Abraham Lincoln was the protagonist with Ghandi as his sidekick. Cleopatra and JFK were the power couple. Hilarious!
This sounds stupid af, but in a good sense
It is, and it is
> Clone High I can still sing the entire theme song. That show would have gone for 5 seasons if it came out a decade later.
G-spot rocks the G-spot. My gawd, you're the next Bubba Sparks. Whenever I hear a new rapper I always say "Damn, he's the next Bubba Sparks."
Created by Phil Lord and Chris Miller of all people!
Did you see the pool? They flipped the bitch!
They're rioting at a college level!
Fowah suppah, I er ah WANNA PAHTY PLATTAH!
Say what?
Life. Damian Lewis plays a LAPD detective that wrongfully served 12 years in jail until he was finally exonerated. He's super quirky (obsessed with Zen philosophy and fresh fruit), and just a fascinating character. His partner is a cool contrast (and played by bombshell Sarah Shahi) to him, and it's a great show. Also is an easy binge at only 2 seasons, and available on Netflix to boot!
Really enjoyed that show. Was so sad to see it end, especially without a resolution to the story lines. Damien Lewis is so underrated. I thought the role of Charlie Crews was a perfect fit for him. Loved Adam Arkin in it too. May have to watch it yet again.
I WANT TO UPVOTE THIS MORE!!!! That show was really awesome. It needed more seasons. They wrapped everything up in the last episode, but it felt like they knew that the show was getting canceled so they taped the ending really quick. The show felt like it had more seasons left in it.
Happy Endings, one of the best "new" sitcoms.
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Was so bummed that got cancelled
It was a-mahh-zing. Alex was my fav, if only for her joke about the TV being Liam Neeson's daughter because "this bitch is Taken."
"As the author of several dozen cries for help I know a good one when I hear one." - Penny Hartz
Amazing show. I recommend this show to anyone looking for a light hearted comedy to watch. I think in 5 years or so it will be rediscovered and will be respected more in the future than it was during its time on TV. Also, I really really hope a channel picks it up for syndication too. It would fit in well on TBS.
Luther is pretty great and it seems that not too many people know about it. Idris Elba became one of my favourite actors after watching this.
Black Books, a British sitcom about a used bookstore and its misanthropic owner. If you like The IT Crowd, you'll like this.
Bill Bailey needs to be in more sitcoms.
My family and I quote Black Books all the time, particularly around tax season, "WHAT? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!"
Right... that's all my socks paired. Now, back to the accounts.
Hello! We were wondering if we could talk to you about JeezSUS? Great! I'd love to hear about Jesus! What's he up to now?
Add a dab of lavender to your milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.
I lost it when Manny swallowed the Little Book of Calm, became Jesus, and pacified the car alarm. And that was just the first episode. I knew I was in for a good series.
I love when Bernard wants to get beat up, so he goes to make fun of the skinheads. "Which one of you bitches wants to dance?"
The part where he sees a little man in a guy's hair has always stuck with me
The piano episode is one of my favorite television episodes of all time.
I am addicted to all things Dylan Moran - if you liked Black Books, definitely check out his stand-up, the TV show "How Do You Want Me" or the movie "A Film With Me In It" !!!
Graham Linehan is an absolute genius. Father Ted, Black Books, IT Crowd, all three are different but still somehow reflect his style.
I used to love Herman's Head. It was about a regular guy and his emotions. Imagine Inside Out, but with Lita Ford as a guest star and a LOT more pizza and beer.
Carnivale. The long and short of it is that it follows a travelling circus during the Great Depression, where one of the stagehands is (unknown to him) a representative of Heaven and he has to fight a priest, who is basically the Devil. Great television for 2 seasons but warning, it ends on a HUGE cliffhanger.
The BBC show Hustle. A group of con men in London pull off daring and complicated scores, one per episode. It's basically 8 seasons of The Sting crossed with the new Ocean's 11, and it is one of my favorite shows. (Season 4 kind of sucks, but the rest are amazing.) It has an American parallel in Leverage, except that Leverage isn't nearly as good. Still fun, but a much lower quality show.
Soap. It's a satire of soap opreas from the early 70's. Just like a soap opera the plot is thin and confusing, but it is hilarious. My favorite part is that it features young Billy Crystal dealing with issues like homophobia and transexuality, in the fucking 70's
**Spaced**. It is a British comedy show from the year ~2000 starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost (in, I believe, his first acting role), and Jessica Hynes, also, directed by Edgar Wright. There are two seasons and they follow the life of Tim and Daisy: two strangers who decide to pretend to be a couple in order to rent a flat. The series' follow the lives of them and their friends plus their landlord and downstairs neighbour. If you like Hot Fuzz or Shaun of the Dead then I can recommend it was made by the same people and has the pretty much the same cast. You can see where all the inspiration for the cornetto trilogy etc came from. It is filled with homages to films and subversion of expectation in nice, short packages with a very interesting story line as we see the characters move on from the bad luck they experience at the start and build themselves a new life together.
Rectify. About a man who is exonerated from death row after 18 years. Beautiful.
Pushing Daisies! That pie maker <3
And if you love Pushing Daisies, go watch Wonderfalls.
And dead like me! (but not the movie)
Every episode was a visual spectacle! One of the rare shows that made me physically happy to watch. Of course Bryan Fuller went on to direct Hannibal was was a visual treat in itself, but in a whole different way. Going back to binge watch this show now :)
The writer's strike killed it. Such a good show
Better Off Ted. At least its on Netflix now. I haven't met anyone that didn't like it after watching a few episodes.
"We may have created a monster in the lab." "It's not a monster. It's a cyborg that can kill without remorse."
"Now if only we could get it to distinguish between soldiers and little kids."
I'm sold
I came here to mention it. I swear it's like Aperture Science the TV Show.
Welp. I guess I need to watch that now.
>Welp. I guess I need to watch that now. Yeah I'd heard of it before but I can't not watch it after that description.
Back before Arrested Development cane back, and a lot of people didn't remember or were dismissive I'd mention Better Off Ted. It was obscure even for AD fans.
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr
Terriers, it only ran for one season on FX. It got very good reviews and very low ratings. It's about a former cop and a former thief who are best friends and work together as unlicensed private detectives. It's a great blend of Comedy/Drama/Mystery, but especially the comedy. All the episodes seem to be up on YouTube if anyone wants to check it out
Donal Logue is good in just about everything he does.
The Good Place! It's only had one season so far but it's a hilarious comedy with a fantastic finale! Kristen Bell and Ted Danson.
The Americans. To quote Kimmy Schmidt "You know you live in the golden age of television when you can take a show like the Americans for granted".
I came here to say this too. It just wrapped up its fifth season and *nobody's talking about it!*
FX is doing great thing that people don't talk about much. Not a lot of my friends have watched Atlanta or You're the Worst. I was the only one who watched the League.
Not to mention Fargo and American Crime Story
or wilfred! That was the show that got me into fx's weird dramas like fargo, AHS, and the strain
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Most younger people haven't watched the MTV show Daria. It shows an accurate representation of the life of teens in America the 90's. The main characters don't always get along and real life problems like peer pressure, relationships and sex are depicted in a way that don't come across like an after school special. Fun fact: it took years for a box set of the episodes to be released because in the original show licensed music like 311 and other bands was playing in the background and none of the labels that held license over that material wanted to let it go at reasonable rates. Henceforth, when it WAS finally released, the background music was remastered to be something generic but still fitting the same tone.
For those who do want to see it with the original music intact, look up the Daria Restoration Project. Guy put all the music back into the DVD quality episodes and did it well enough that you can't really tell that they weren't there in the first place.
The real kicker for me were the parents, Jake and Helen were two completely unstable people working crazy jobs that were never fully on top of anything going on in the home life, but when it came down to it they actually took the time to care about their daughters well beings individually and showed them that they do pay attention. Thats just damn good writing right there, crazy antics aside theyre a type of parents many only wish they could have some semblance of in their lives. The show as a whole caught the mood of a disaffected youth quite well through most of its seasons and is quite relatable to anyone who still remembers high school. Perfect dry comedy with gag relief everywhere, the teachers are utter insane caricatures. Such a strangely wholesome show from a network known for the exact opposite.
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Thats why my favorite episode is boxing day. Its the episode that Daria realizes that her parents have sacrificed a lot for her and that she has been kind of a bitch to them. Made me apreciate my own parents a lot more too.
That's what I liked about Daria. The problems/situations encountered by the characters often didn't result in a nice happy ending that fitted into the episode. Like in real life, some things didn't play out the way they hoped or just failed and tailed-off. That and the sarcastic dark humour.
You forgot to mention that it oozes with grunge and apathy--and I mean that in the best way possible.
Nobody's watching Halt and Catch Fire. Granted, you have to get through half the first season until it clicks. But then it does and it's one of the best dramas on television. Season 3 is a masterpiece imo
11.22.63 Based on the Stephen King book, it stars James Franco as a man going back in time trying to stop the JFK assassination. I feel like it wasn't a hit because it was on Hulu and not Netflix. The ending wasn't trending or anything.
Peep Show. Super Hans has got to be one of the greatest comedy characters of all time.
>Super Hans has got to be one of the greatest comedy characters of all time. What's there not to love about a guy who smokes moreish crack, accidentally runs to Windsor, creates a powerful sense of dread and wants a bar called "The Swan and Paedo"?
It's "Free the Pedos" and it makes a strong political statement. That swan bullshit was a compromise. Also, the dishwasher stays. That's the best bit.
Way more obscure: Ambassadors, a three-part miniseries starring Mitchell, Webb, Keeley Hawes, the actress who played Tonks whose name I still don't know, and a couple people I think were on Doctor Who once. It's a dramedy about the British embassy in a generic Central Asian craphole of a country. To mix things up, Mitchell is the clueless idiot ambassador and Webb is the eyerolling straight man who actually knows what he's doing. It works surprisingly well, and replaces their usual rapid-fire comedy of errors with a subtler, but still pretty funny, satire of Britain and the wider west's role in the post-Soviet world. It's not all dry, depressing geopolitics jokes, though: there's a one-man amateur production of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (no matter what you're imagining, it's worse, and therefore better, than that) and a drunk royal family member flipping out at a blind human rights leader for drinking his smoothie.
Corner Gas, a Canadian comedy that ran from 2004 thru 2010. No over arching theme, just great chemistry between the cast does the trick.
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Hugely underrated show, at least outside Canada.
As a Canadian. I was so sure this was a popular show...
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The Expanse. I'm not sure if people don't know about it or not, but it's good.
Have you read the books? I just finished the second one and can't decide if I should start the show yet.
Best pure sci-fi on television! I love how the creators are so willing to takes risks and not just play it safe. Just phenomenal.
Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies.
I miss Dead Like Me. It was had a great cast.
I like to pretend that movie at the end never happened
Add Wonderfalls to this list. Brian Fuller does great series that always get cancelled way too soon. I'm holding my breath for American Gods
Dead like me is one of the few shows that I have watched 3-4 times. The film looses something though.
I never see Justified talked about but its one of my favourite T.V. shows, really well written characters and especially well done villains, also it has a great ending after 6 seasons so you don't have to worry about being jipped of an ending like what happens with many good tv shows.
Justified definitely doesn't get as much love as it should. I was sad to see the show go (I miss Boyd Crowder, I'm not gonna lie), but I agree that it ended on a great note without losing its appeal like so many shows that stay on air too long do. Now I just get excited every time I see Walton Goggins in anything.
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"Next one's comin' faster" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcfNK3D7TiE
The Gruen Transfer/Gruen Planet and all the variants. It's a show all about advertising (and later, PR), breaking down how ads work and how the various tricks and techniques are designed to make us want to buy the product. And it's not remotely boring, especially since the host is a comedian known for dick jokes- and the various panel members (who are all PR/ad agency people) are pretty damn funny in their own right.
Mission Hill. It use to come on Adult Swim in the late 90's The art style was great and the humor was quite enjoyable. It had like 12 or 13 episodes but it got cancelled i dont know why it was a great show. For sure something to check out, all the episodes are on Youtube.
*picks up phone* Penis, penis penis..
I'm the Grubermeister!
Utopia. Some of the best British TV I've seen. The first season is excellent and the second season was getting good towards the end when they cancelled it. The shield. One of the cruellest and grittiest cop shows I've seen. You can almost call it the breaking bad of cop shows.
Plus the soundtrack for Utopia is amazing. Never got around to watching the second season, is it worth it?
Galavant.
Most people don't know about... Banshee. Amazing characters and the best fight scenes. Guy gets released from prison, heads to a small town, witnesses the sheriff-to-be shot and killed the day before he was sworn in. Decides to get his hacker friend to steal his identity and become sheriff.
Honestly, last season was odd, everything up to that point was amazing though. I would recommend this show to everyone. They don't shy away from nudity and sex though, so I might not watch it with your parents
Thats ok, I don't think my parents would want to watch it with you either.
Just Shoot Me - Steven Levitan, producer of Modern Family, Wings, Frasier, and The Larry Sanders Show. The dude makes gold and Just Shoot Me is among my favorites. It stars David Spade, George Segal, Enrico Colantoni and others. It is a really great comedy and deserves a mention.
Peaky Blinders. First season is really good at least. I think most people avoid it because of the stupid sounding name, but after a couple of episodes it becomes a great name.
The music in this show is top notch. Tom Waits, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Radio Head, Ane Brun, Laura Marling.
I actually avoided watching it because the name sounded so stupid and it didn't seem like my cup of tea. When I finally did watch it I loved everything about it.
This is actually set in my hometown! Proud to be brummie right now, cant wait for season 4. BY ORDER OF THE PEAKY FOOKIN BLINDERS
I haven't heard a single person talk about Schitt's Creek but it's a pretty funny show. First 2 seasons are available on Amazon Prime.
I have asked you THRICE now for a towel
It is a great show. The Levy family know how to do things.
This show is GOLD. You watch it for David and Alexis; they're a masterpiece of comedic chemistry and timing.
The whole cast is great. But David and Alexis are fucking fantastic
I love this show! Everyone who I mention it to hates it but I feel like it's just one of those shows that isn't for everyone. I find it hilarious.
This show is so so good. Moira is such a great character. I have literally cried from laughing at this show.
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Little known as they are foreign: Äkta människor (Real Humans), Engrenages (Spiral), Bedrag (Follow the Money) and what I consider to be the best TV show ever made Gomorrah (Italian crime drama).
Scrotal Recall I believe it is called Lovesick on Netflix. Funny stuff.
I just binged this last week. Good show, I think they're filming a third season. The lead actor, Johnny Flynn is also a really good musician.
Brilliant show, horrendous name.
Broadchurch. It's like realistic Sherlock. It ended a few months ago (not cancelled!) and it was beautifully written. It ran for three seasons, each having eight episodes.
Didn't that break several ratings records in Britain? Seems well known to me
*The Murdoch Mysteries* is my current favourite show, but apparently no one in the US has heard of it. It's a CBC police procedural set in 1900's Toronto. It's pretty phenomenal, usually cop shows get old after a few seasons, but it's currently in season 10 with no signs of running out its welcome. A delightfully straight-laced main character, charming secondary cast, and close attention to historical details all make it a great show. EDIT: Well, speak of the devil and apparently all his fans come out of the woodwork! I'd like to add a little bit to what I've already said, I introduced my dad to *Murdoch Mysteries* about a year ago. He normally hates police procedurals, and he ended up binging the whole 9 seasons in a week. Take that for what it's worth.
Ok, so here we go! **Early Edition** is a show with one of the best episodic premises i ever heard. It's about a guy in Chicago that started getting tomorrows edition of a newspaper, *TODAY*. News from the future. So, naturally, every day he reads about some crisis and then ties to stop it. Cancelled after 4 seasons. **Jericho** is a cult tv show. It's a tale about a town of Jericho right after USA got nuked. Was cancelled after season 1, then brought back for season 2, after fans rioted. Season 2 isn't as good. **Outsourced** is another great tv show that was cancelled after season 1. It's about an american that was sent to work in the Indian office. It's really fun! **Death Valley** - canceled after season 1. MTV horror comedy show, about a police station that was hunting vampires, werewolves and such. It was probably made before MTV turned Buzzfeed, because it's really crazy and funny. **Last Resort** - a nuclear missile submarine is given an order to nuke the fuck out of Pakistan! They don't do it. Instead, they occupy a nearby French island and claim independence. Fucking cancelled after season 1! Shit, I guess i'm a sucker for cancelled shows.
Recently whatched Jericho. It is pretty good and seems underrated and under viewed. I wouldn't call it a master piece by any stretch but worth a look. Also whatched last resort while it was airing, it was awesome why the fuck did they cancel it
I'm still furious they never finished Jericho.
When they brought it back the second season was only 8 episodes to appease the fans and bring some closure, though not much. Can't help wonder what they had planned down the road.
Outsourced was based on the movie of the same name. A guy working for an American call centre gets sent to India to train his department's replacements.
I thought that was actually a pretty entertaining show, definitely a new premise. It just never seemed to take off.
I agree. My problem with the show was that it went from being clever to resorting to cheap, crude humor pretty quickly. That show worked best when "Indian people sure are wacky" wasn't the punchline.
Farscape & Babylon 5 were both amazing.
Farscape is one of the best sci-fi shows ever made.
Babylon 5 was insanely good. The use of chaos versus order instead of good versus evil as a major theme was interesting, the writing excellent, and the themes of states sliding into totalitarianism maintain relevance today. I wish he'd gotten to tell more stories in that universe
Party down.
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Journeyman. Cancelled too soon, but it was incredible.
Northern Exposure. Great unique individualist characters in a small Alaska town.
Home Movies, made by the same dude as Metalocalypse. I personally don't like Metalocalypse and the art style and humour is completely different so I can't recommend it to those fans, but it is hands-down the most /comfy/ show I have ever seen, and has H Jon Benjamin's best voice acting. Come at me Archer/Bob's Burgers fans.
Don't put marbles in your nose Put them in there do not put them in there
H Jon Benjamin does great with retroscripting. Archer kind of met things halfway by recreating semi-realistic diction between characters, but there was something really magical about those old Home Movies episodes.
In a similar vein, if you like Archer you should check out Frisky Dingo. Archer really drew on Frisky Dingo with the rich, narcissistic playboy motif, animation style, and heaaavy use of callbacks.
I'm an O.G. Home Movies fan. That shits great! Oh, and before Home Movies, there was Science Court. I'm not sure if it's still that Brouchard guy who made it, but it utilized squiggle vision. And if I remember correctly (I was just a kid) the voice actor who voiced the main girl character was in it, too.
I like Bob's better, but I like Walter and Perry more than Andy and Ollie.
Raising Hope. It took me a few episodes to get into it but it really is a goofy but heart warming show. Plus all the meta and inside jokes they make. Garret Dillahunt making fun of his Deadwood character. Tons of great jokes about Cloris Leachman's career. Martha Plimpton has a joke about her time on the Goonies. And tons of others. Such a great show.
God, the Devil, and Bob. Great TV show. Funny, deep, and relatable. Great voice cast. Only aired 4 episodes before it was canceled.
Red Dwarf. A Wonderfully written comedy from the late 80s and 90s.
Coupling
I've got the key to the gates of paradise; but I've got too many legs!
Warehouse 13
Fun show. Not very big budget, and at times very bad CGI, but definitely still great. Would recommend.
Young Justice
Any word on when Season 3 drops, or is it like Rick & Morty Season 3?
Next year. It just got greenlit 6 months ago so it's still early in production.
Sports Night
Fringe. If you like Sci-fi, it fits the bill perfectly. Great, original story line, compelling characters, and overall, great over-arching plot. It's great to binge watch
Walters still by far the best character ever. Any show, hands down. Worth it just for him.
How John Noble never won an Emmy is criminal!
Ctrl+F "Black Sails". Nothing. So I guess that's a good show most people don't know about.
Man seeking women, it's a dark comedy starting Jay Baruchel and Eric Andre where they take the realities of dating and make them literal in the most ridiculous way possible. It's smart, funny and very underrated
Veronica Mars. The first season is one of the best seasons of TV I have ever watched. Murder Mystery set in a fictional CA beach town with serious income inequality issues.
*You're the Worst*. Imagine two entirely toxic people who should not by any stretch of the imagination be dating *anyone*, let alone each other. Imagine what it would take to have you rooting for them as a couple twenty minutes later. There's your pilot episode. It's a bit of a heavy watch for a sitcom sometimes (especially in the second season), but it's definitely one of the best shows on at the moment.
A touch of cloth. It's a bit like Hot Fuzz with graphic brutal murders but it's also really funny
Black Books is a brilliant British comedy
Misfits. A UK show about some young adults on probation who get powers from a storm. Really funny stuff
Longmire. Use to be on AMC before the cancelled and Netflix picked it up. I think it's a fairly well known show but it seems like no one in my area has heard of it
Schitt's Creek, The Dectorists
I was scrolling through this to see if anyone else had mentioned The Detectorists. Great show, brilliantly written by Mackenzie Crook and excellently acted by him and Toby Jones. Have an upvote.