The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
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Maybe not super obscure and more my wife’s suggestion than mine (though I also enjoyed it), but Merlin (2008) was a great show that unfortunately had a low budget for the first couple seasons and got cut short with very little warning to the directors at the end, but it’s still a great family friendly fantasy show. It’s my wife’s all-time favourite TV show, and while it’s not mine (I’d probably say Doctor Who for me), I totally get it. It’s very entertaining.
I think my top pick has to be Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot. I gather it's pretty well known in Germany, but in the US pretty much no one has heard of it.
It's a sci-fi comedy, based loosely on The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem, who is one of my favorite authors. The first season was all web episodes made on a shoestring budget; the spaceship is just the main actor's apartment for the interior, and a coffee press for the exterior. There's also a lot of use of puppets and amusing costumes. It's just incredibly creative. The stories involve things like Tichy's navigation system malfunctioning, so he accelerates out of control around a gravitational anomaly and starts experiencing time slips. Which could be kind of convenient, because fixing the navigation is a two-person task, but the first time his future self asks for his help he thinks it's a dream, and the second time he knows it's real but won't help because if they actually got it fixed then obviously his future self wouldn't still be coming back in time to get his help, so what's the point? etc. I know Lem isn't the best-known sci fi writer these days, but it's criminal that this show hasn't gotten more attention.
Snuff Box. Only 6 episodes but infinitely quotable. The theme song also fucking slaps. It’s the only show's theme song I actually occasionally listen to.
I liked the premise for The Lone Gunmen as a spinoff from the X-Files but I don't think they got the overall production quite right.
Life After People. One of the last amazing productions of the History Channel as-was, before it became all Ice-Road Truckers, Ancient Aliens and fucking Pawn Stars.
It's just the speculative history of all of what humanity would leave behind if, for some reason, every human disappeared in a single day. With experts in preservation, ecology, geosciences, history and infrastructural engineering, it asks: What are the cascading effects of a worldwide technological civilisation? And how long would it take for everything we have built to be buried in the dusts of time? Look on, ye mighty, and despair.
Sounds fascinating. By coincidence, I just listened to an episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage about "technofossils".
Brian Cox and Robin Ince dig deep into the strata of an imagined human history to unearth the curious concept of technofossils. Joined by paleobiologist Sarah Gabbott, material scientist Mark Miodownik and comedian and tech enthusiast Aurie Styla the panel unearth how the everyday objects that we throw away today compare to fossils of the past.
Together, the panel investigates how these modern artifacts could degrade over time to become the fossils of the future. From old smartphones buried in bedside drawers to sprawling landfill sites, they imagine how these remnants of the Anthropocene might puzzle future archaeologists—and speculate on what these researchers might infer about our technology, customs, and way of life.
Brad Neely's Harg Nallin'
We need more Fruit Blood, and there are apparently 120 songs already written
Metalocalypse which has probably one of the best first episodes of all time.
And Corporate
The line 'I think I lost some weight because my belt doesn't fit around my neck like it used to' had me rolling.
Cardiac Arrest by Jed Mercurio. He later created megahit thriller series like In the Line of Duty and Bodyguard, but I still hanker for this medical drama/black comedy from the 90s, when Mercurio was still (or had just finished) working as a doctor in the NHS.
4400, threshold. some of the pre-disney merger series, like gifted, runaway, i feel these are better than todays MCU interpretaiton of "xmen" related content. ALSO AOS, eventhough they had 7 seasons, they dint have the marketing and hyping of post-mcu. x-men related spinoffs seems better without disney inteference.
damages with glen close,
What's AOS, it doesn't bring up anything on IMDb.
The Goncharov TV mini-series was 5 episodes of pure perfection. Best thing NBC ever did.
The Patriot on prime. It's the greatest show nobody's watched, no bad episodes. Acting, script and production values are top notch. Cancelled after 2 seasons...