12 Monkeys the TV show. I’ve never met anyone that has even heard of it, and I really enjoyed it! Same main characters as the movie, more or less, but a more involved story. Very satisfying, tidy ending.
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Odyssey 5 (Only lasted a season, but damn…)
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Boardwalk Empire (for some reason the least talked about and most forgotten HBO show)
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Into the Badlands (Deserved a longer life. Great martial arts action in a post-apocalypse)
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First Wave (Nostrodamus, Conspiracy theories and the first wave of an secret Alien invasion)
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Seven Days (The younger lapaglia brother jumps back in time 7 days to prevent various threats)
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Sense8 (strangers from all over the world find themselves linked mentally for some reason)
RIP Into the Badlands, you were done dirty.
100% agreed. Such a fun show.
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Lexx, a show about a giant dragonfly spaceship that destroys planets and the creepy cowardly idiot who somehow lucked into becoming the single person in the two universes that it obeys. And an undead assassin-warrior-poet. And a woman who survived a botched “love slave” transformation. And a weird robot head.
It’s outrageously strange and strangely horny and hornily gross. Highly recommend if you like weird TV.
Lexx resulted in my marriage (at a lan bash, we’re all sharing the ol’ yar har haar me maties, a certain young gentleman browses the wares, goes “holy shit Lexx, who has all of Lexx i must find this person” and 20 years later we have matching rings, a house and cats. )
Actually just finished snagging the 1080 rip, makes my dvd boxset look like poo
Dark
Idk, Dark has a pretty big fanbase in Latin America at least. Most Netflix types I know have given it a go
Spaced
Early Simon Pegg / Nick Frost / Edgar Wright collaboration, sitcom style.
I think you are right in the sense that this may be under the radar now, but this was a big hit at the time. Made the careers of all the people you list, plus Jessica Hynes. Fantastic show.
You might enjoy Black Books, if you haven’t seen it. Another one is The Royle Family.
Scavenger’s Reign and Pantheon
Scavengers Reign is great.
I hope you have watched Common Side Effects. Joseph Bennett (co-creator) is also the co-creator of Scavengers Reign. It’s excellent. Mike Judge is also EP and voices some roles. It was renewed for a second season last week in advance of the season finale, which aired Sunday night.
I’m in season 2 of Pantheon. It’s quite good.
Wow how could I forget Common Side Effects?? I’m happy it’s getting a second season but sad Scavengers Reign wasn’t so lucky :( something tells me CSE is going to hit mainstream popularity though.
How about two with Rosa Salazar?
Undone on Amazon Prime, a trippy psychological show about a girl (Salazar) exploring the link to her present and her dead father (Bob Odenkirk). It’s rotoscoped to add to the trippiness
Brand New Cherry Flavor on Netflix, where an aspiring writer gets her career ruined by a director when she turns down his sexual advances. She makes a deal with a witch to get revenge
oo, Brand New Cherry Flavor was fun
This question feels overly broad.
“What are some foods that people like but not everyone knows about?”
“Name some music that you like that you won’t hear on the radio.”
You gotta give a genre or era or example for comparison to help narrow focus. Otherwise it’s just like “name all the tv shows.”
Dude I’m just trying to entice continued activity. I appreciate that some here are sharing more popular shows. Maybe I could make a rating cut-off point on IMDB (5k votes or lesser) and remove all comments that include a show above that threshold lol.
I wouldn’t even get that technical. “What’s a comedy from the last ten years that has gone under the radar?” “Name a light-hearted sci-fi show that deserved more seasons than it got.” There’s still plenty of shows there without leaving it wide open to anything anyone ever liked across all time.
M.A.S.H.
If you haven’t heard of M.A.S.H. may I also politely recommend the sleeper hit, Star Trek?
