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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I don't know how forgotten it is since I only learned of it a few years back, but Sliders. People say around the quality starts dropping in the 3rd season before the 4th season being pretty bad, but I enjoyed all 5 seasons with few exceptions.

Edit:

Probably plenty of episodes missing ( original English dub ) but I just remembered Class of 3000 and think that takes more precedent than Sliders because you can find all the episodes of Sliders through piracy. Same cannot be said about Class of 3000.

Class of 3000 has things Sliders would never have: amazing songs made specifically for the show. Songs like the jazz song My Mentor or the rap ( rock? ) song We Want Your Soul or the blues song Rich Shade Of Blues.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

I loved Sliders. I used to get into arguments with my wife when we first started dating. She would always rep Quantum Leap as a better show, but I never saw it so I would just say that Sliders was better.

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[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Primo. A show about a teenager, his mom, and six uncles. Nothing groundbreaking but well done. Really wish it'd got a second season.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Spartacus is such a a great show. I fucking hate Ashur, but I'ma watch that spin-off when it comes out.

https://deadline.com/2024/07/lucy-lawless-spartacus-lucretia-starz-house-of-ashur-1236018106/

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago
[–] klu9@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Scirocco@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Brad Neely's Harg Nallin'

We need more Fruit Blood, and there are apparently 120 songs already written

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The Goncharov TV mini-series was 5 episodes of pure perfection. Best thing NBC ever did.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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,

[–] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's AOS, it doesn't bring up anything on IMDb.

my guess is they mean agents of shield

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

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...

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

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.

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