Whites
One season, six 30-minute episodes.
British comedy set in a hotel kitchen starring Alan Davies, Darren Boyd, Katherine Parkinson. It’s witty, silly, and has a ton of charm.
Better Off Ted. Sharp humor, on point for large corporations. only 2 seasons
Dead before its time, and if they revived it then it wouldn’t be the same. RIP Better Off Ted, I don’t think there’s a single episode of it that doesn’t make me crack up.
Kevin Can Fuck Himself.
Told from the wife’s perspective, in 2 different styles. One is her perspective from living in a sitcom where her dumb husband’s hijinks get laughs as she rolls her eyes, full with laugh track. Behind the scenes it’s shot as a drama with all the characters living with real world ramifications of his stupidity and stress from it. It really builds into this dark dramedy of not living your true self and what people can drive you too. Super cool concept that has acting and writing to back it up.
This show was awesome and it still bums me out that not very many people watched it, but I think it makes people uncomfortable to see just how fucking stupid and reductive their favorite sitcoms were.
Sense 8
Legion
Scavengers Reign
+1 for legion
3rd Rock From the Sun, my favorite 90s sitcom. Not exactly unknown, but I barely ever hear people talk about it. Created by Bonnie and Terry turner who also did Coneheads and That 70s Show. And the cast is just brilliant, especially John Lithgow.
Also Wellington Paranormal. New Zealand spinoff about the cops in the movie What we do in the Shadows.
Continuum, the Canadian sci-fi series. I haven’t seen it in years, and watched it after it came out, but I never see anyone mention it.
Law enforcement officer chases bad guys and gets trapped in the past, trying to find her way home to the future while also preventing the future from becoming terrible.
I definitely don’t hear enough about this show. It was pretty decent in terms of time travel shows.
Most have been mentioned here so I’ll name some others that stuck with me
Travelers - great time travel show Lie to Me - short lived pseudo science show Limitless - one of the few series reboots from movies I enjoyed. Also short lived
I personally don’t know anyone who has watched any of these.
Sense8. A tv series about 8 strangers across the world who suddenly become empathetically linked to each other. Incredible storytelling by the Wachowskis. Only 2 seasons but it wraps up well and had me ruminating for weeks after.
I can’t understand why “Black Sails” isn’t as famous as Game of Thrones.
More sex and violence than GOT with a much quicker pace.
Another good one is ‘TURN - George Washington’s Spies.’ Shows Washington as a slave owner and Benedict Arnold as justifiably angry. Cool espionage tricks from the 18th Century, like putting secret messages in hard boiled eggs.
I loved Black Sails. Still want more.
I watched the first season of Black Sails. It was okay. I can’t remember if I finished the second season. I vaguely remember someone getting keelhauled on a ship that wasn’t in the water (like it was in a dry dock). For those who don’t know, keel hauling is running a chain under the ship from one side of the other (think like a jump rope) and then tying someone to it and dragging them across the underside of the ship across their back. This was typically done when the ship was asea. Barnacles would grow on the ship, so if the person tried to hold their breath, they’d probably scream as they were being dragged. If they didn’t drown, and they survived, their whole back would be fucked up. I’m not sure what the survival rate was for it, they could always send them around a second time (or more) if they wanted to kill them. So yeah, not short on brutality. But for brutality I don’t think Game of Thrones set the bar, I think either Sons of Anarchy did it when they burned that guy’s back tat off with a blowtorch and knives, or Vikings, with the Blood Eagle (victim kneels, their back is cut open, their ribs broken one by one with an ax, then their lungs dragged out and slung over their shoulders — the catch being, if they scream out, they’re denied Valhalla, and if the procedure doesn’t kill them, they basically bleed out and die slowly).
Always wanted to watch TURN.
I left ‘Vikings’ off my list because it seems to be much better known than the other two.
I watched the first season of Black Sails. It was okay. I can’t remember if I finished the second season. I vaguely remember someone getting keelhauled on a ship that wasn’t in the water (like it was in a dry dock).
I think you misremembered there in terms of the first season.
Maybe. It’s been close to a decade?
It’s funny, I hear about the show every few months, it comes up in conversation. I might have to give it another chance.
TURN is a great show. Very compelling, some truth to it although not the main characters or the spy ring itself. Finishingsn episode always leaves me wanting to immediately watch the next.
Obligatory, fuck Simcoe.
If you’re into historical pieces, I strongly recommend Babylon Berlin or Warrior.
Liked both.
I do like historicals.
Ah, so you’re quite indepth on this like me then. Black Sails is my (2) show of all time. Heard of Balkan Shadows?
I found a Serbian language trailer and I must say I want to see more.
What platform is it on?
Also, go back a few years, BBC show ‘Reilly, Ace of Spies.’ Based on an actual Russian Jew who became a British agent before WW1 broke out.
It’s basically Babylon Berlin but in Serbia.
And you will have to sail the high seas for this one.
Thanks.
Because the first season of black sails was a mess.
That’s like, your opinion, man.
I was a fan from the first episode and don’t think I skipped anything.
Have a good week.
Andor. I realize that it doesn’t fall under obsure really, but people might not watch it because it’s Star Wars.
Andor is a great story that happens to be in the Star Wars universe. You don’t even have to know SW or like scifi to get what’s happening.
Kaos. Jeff Goldlum plays a paranoid Zeus. That’s pretty much all to need to know, but the cast and writing are both incredible
Short but fun watch!
Mrs. Davies is a very hilarious and weird Show about a nun riding a motorcycle.
Maybe Party Down? It had a pretty small following back in the day because it was on STARZ, then it was cancelled. Thirteen years later it came back for a third season on Hulu, but that was more of a reunion thing for its small but dedicated fan base as opposed to relaunching the series for a new generation of viewers. The cast is pretty stacked, a lot of them have had mainstream success elsewhere. I think the humour would also appeal to a pretty broad audience, particularly as so many people have worked in catering/hospitality and can relate to the characters.
I had/have a big LESBIAN crush on Lizzy Caplan, which led to me getting the two original seasons on DVD in college. I think at one point or another I wound up showing every roommate I had the first episode.
Conveniently, the first episode is free on YouTube, so I can keep the tradition alive.
Seriously though, if you’re scrolling through this thread, give it a shot. Under 30 minutes, and funny as hell.
Are we having fun yet?
Snuff Box. The caveat: they got complete creative control in exchange for never doing another season and it only aired once in an overnight time slot.
Snuff Box is absolutely insane, in the best way.
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