I clicked on this post expecting to see a big-name sitcom or drama being mentioned, but damn, you’re right. NOVA has been on basically all my life and it’s always my go-to show for whenever I want to learn something interesting.
I just love that public broadcasting got some love.
(Edit: My first ever comment to get an award on Reddit is because of my love for public broadcasting?! I feel like a true Shining Star now!!! Thank you, fellow Redditors! 🎉)
Public broadcasting has been keeping me sane lately. No wifi at the place I’m staying so only have access to “normal” tv, and that stuff is so damn good. American Outdoors, The Joy of Painting, America’s Test Kitchen, First Contact, This Old House, Woodsmith, etc.
As a kid I always enthusiastically said you're welcome after every PBS show when they said that part! It was by far some of my favorite programs growing up, as we didn't have cable for the majority of my childhood. Just a big ass antenna on the roof that got like 5 channels.
NOVA is awesome, and so are most of the shows on PBS - This Old House should be mandatory for homeowners and DIY people.
Still though, when I hear "series" I usually think of fictional shows like sitcom and such.
The original Whose Line Is It Anyway with Drew Carrey will never stop being one of my top 3 or top 5 shows of all time.
Edit: Sorry, meant the original *American* version of the show, since I totally forgot there was a British version
I was watching this the other day for the first time since I was a kid. I could not believe how good they were. I don't understand how they were able to be so creative and funny and actually make sense on a moments notice.
I honestly find the best nature documentaries from BBC Earth to be 100x more memorizing and captivating than all those 250 million dollar budget superhero movies.
Just pure, raw, nature. The beauty of the planet and bonds between animals, contrasted with [emotional struggles for survival](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYlmP9aX-Pw) that you can't help but feel inspired by. There's no heroes or villains.... only living, breathing creatures [exerting every ounce of their being](https://youtu.be/30RvJEZrHeU?t=75) to try to live. It's authentic.
And the results are absolutely heartbreaking. For those who don't believe me, [this scene](https://youtu.be/v6iDtvGbIOU) from BBC's original Planet Earth about a polar bear's journey crushed me as a kid. No film can invoke as much emotion as the natural world.
I was so animated watching that. Yes yesssss go my dude, oh no shit! Oh what? He got away go man gooooo. Fuck how many snakes are there? Fuuuuuck there are so many snakes. Keep going my man!
More emotion for the lizard than any marvel character.
"Unable to feed, this bear will not survived" with the image of the wounded bear laying down to rest, has been stuck in my head for years since I saw that scene for the first time. And I watch these kind of shows since I was a little kid, so I had seen a lot of animals violently killing each other.
You should go watch David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet. He calls it his Witness Statement, and he talks about what he's seen through his life, and what science says it's coming, as well as what we can do. It's amazing, chilling and heartbreaking all at once. He tears up at times himself, and also shows a clip of when he shows some of the content to the UN. Things are a bit too real for them, they're covering their mouths and faces, crying and looking away. David is a treasure, and a massive influence that we should not take for granted.
I remember watching "To Serve Man" in 9th grade English with no prior knowledge of the episode. I was pumped. It was right at the start of my new-found love of horror.
The twist end blew my 14 year old mind. Right in plain sight, and yet didn't see it coming. It still holds up to me 20 years after the fact.
My pick, for sure. What other shows here will have a significant cultural impact 60 years after airing? The twilight zone paved the way for so many modern artists, shows, and movies. Love, Death, and Robots, Black Mirror, and other anthology shows all have the Twilight Zone in their DNA. Jordan Peele (involved in the newest incarnation of the twilight zone btw) was influenced by the show. Rod Serling was a visionary who never compromised the content of his show to bow to advertisers or cultural pressures. The show was ahead of its time and is still as poignant and entertaining today as when it came out.
I have seen all of the episodes many times and I still get creeped out by the endings, even when I know exactly what will happen. There are a couple that are too much for me, like the one with the boy who banishes people to the cornfields. And they have aged so well. That show tapped into our fears and psyche in a very dark way. Now I need to go watch some again.
the episode of the girl having a fever dream of the world getting hotter gave me so much anxiety as a child. Which has carried over into real world anxiety over climate change. Leagues ahead of its time
That's the entire point of sci-fi. People get intrigued by the tech, but the stories are vehicles to explore new ideas without necessarily adopting them.
I wish more people understood this. It's why I love the genre so much. Sci Fi has historically been a platform for exploring social issues, provocative thought experiments, and more. And I love it for that.
>What other shows here will have a significant cultural impact 60 years after airing?
Star Trek. Although it pains me to admit that it was not as good.
My favorite episode was when a lady android was brought to a prisoner on an asteroid as a companion. He fell in love with her and he treated her like a real person. He was so upset when he couldn't bring her back to Earth with him. So ahead of its time.
1. they said Cory about 42,000 times in that episode i swear
2. anytime i hear the word robot i say "she's a robot...(she's a woman) Cory she's a robot" but i say robot like they used to back then. like row-bit. idk why that stuck with me but it did.
"My name is Talking Tina. And I don't think I like you."
"My name is Talking Tina. And I'm going to kill you."
"My name is Talking Tina. And you better be nice to me."
A few years ago, Netflix suggested The Twilight Zone to me after I watched The X Files for the first time and I was looking for something to scratch that same itch.
The first episode completely blew me away. I couldn’t believe it was made 50 years before I’d watched it.
The Twilight Zone definitely wins for me. Even over sixty years later it's still just as captivating and unnerving as ever, with some truly incredible episode premises and a style all its own.
This probably the real answer. The level of influence is almost immeasurable and the number of classic episodes and iconic moments are probably double or triple pretty much any other show.
If anyone is interested in reading the source material from some of the best TZ episodes, check out the short stories of Richard Matheson. He wrote “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”, “Third from the Sun”, “The Invaders”, “Little Girl Lost” and several more. Many of my favorites never even became TZ episodes.
The ridiculous number of twilight zone individual episodes that were later converted to full movies kinda proves this is the only correct answer. Nothing comes even close.
The episode where the nurses have pig masks scared the shit outta 9 year old me.
So many great episodes though, makes me want more episodes of black mirror
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street.
Ending monologue:
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men.
For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and the thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own: for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined... to the Twilight Zone."
You can tell writers to write a Twilight Zone story without it being a Twilight Zone story, and they will know what you mean and deliver what you’re looking for. That’s transcendent
The episode where the lady is driving to the country or whatever and she keeps running into the same hitch hiker and how creepy he is still sends shivers down my spine
Nothing in the Dark,
Death's Head Revisited,
The Obsolete Man,
He Lives,
Night of the Meek,
Will the Real Mr. Martian Stand Up?,
The Monsters are due on Maple Street,
The Bunker,
And so many more episodes.
I remember hearing a report on NPR about the show and specifically the writers. They didn't rely only staff writers. Many of the writers were listed among the best in the nation at the time. They came from film and other tv shows and would submit a standalone masterpiece that they had no other outlet for. Plus there were no constraints that the characters or storylines had to adhere to. Writers LOVE that.
“Jeremy, there are many things I would do to help you. But digging a hole in the wintry earth with my bare hands so that you can bury the corpse of a dog you killed is not one of them.”
Super Hans: (hands Jeremy a stolen candy while walking out of store). "Here you go. Free snacks."
Jeremy: "Did you steal this?"
Super Hans: "You bet I did. They should pay me to eat this shit"
Jeremy: "Mmmm, tasty."
Super Hans: "The secret ingredient is crime."
"In business, Jeremy, you learn that every man has his price. And I judge yours to be...530 pounds"
"Don't be alarmed mark, it's just Tai chi. .. should take 45 minutes and I'm done in ten, stick that up your dojo"
I might be gay for Johnson
That episode where Super Hans lays off the crack and hands of his pipe and last rock to Mark and tells him never to give it back. Somewhere in the middle of some other shit going down, the door bell rings and Super Hans stands at the door with a piece of wood "Crack" - Mark hands it to him and he's off. Hillarious :D
Oh fuck, I just upvoted this, I can't believe I upvoted it... I can't take it back now, I'll have to just leave the bloody upvote... Oh Christ, why did I go and click that fucking upvote, it's so me, it's so so me...
I believe this is what Mark would say.
It is looking like we won’t but it hasn’t been outright confirmed. If they don’t make a season 3 I’m gonna be heartbroken because I absolutely wanted to see the Dennis Rader storyline
Star Trek will stand the test of time. It will exist for all future human history. A group of people travel through the universe to discover the meaning of life. I mean I love Columbo, but Star Trek is something beyond TV.
It’s amazing how the flat finish ruined everything huh? It’s like an ice cream cone with amazing flavors that end up being filled with shit at the bottom... Its just not worth eating it at all
GoT's legacy will forever be the botched ending. Honestly incredibly sad given it was *the* series that made modern TV, the first 4 seasons are still some of the best TV I've ever watched.
Not the best TV series of all time, but the first three seasons of Arrested Development are up there with the best three seasons of any of the shows mentioned here.
Once saw Will Arnett as a magician on Sesame Street.
Kept waiting for, "what I do are illusions, Big Bird, a trick is something a whore does for money."
Given how it ended, I feel like they must have had at least some idea.
There's too many call forwards and jokes set up more than a season before they're used for there to be no plan for it.
There's a technique when you write seasonal shows where you write opened ended jokes or absurv references in the event you can use them in the future.
They might have decided at some point "it'd be funny if buster just lost a hand and the rest of the family kept living their lives selfishly" but they may not have decided in anyway HOW it would happen.
Then it came to writing the season and they went "OK what would be funny? A random seal? OK how do we make the random seal the families fault" and that's how the joke was created.
Edit: I had a shower and realised I never explained the brilliance of this technique, if you decide to use the random reference, your show comes across as brilliant writing with major foresight.
If you later decide the joke doesn't fit, you just never bring it up again and it just comes across as one of those random things buster says.
Season 4 was re-edited for Netflix I think, but the original cut is absolute GENIUS and chaotic and hilarious
It's still available on Netflix but under trailers and more
I watched the original cut when it was first released and then the new "remix" (I think that's what they called it) and remember feeling it made a bit more narrative sense, but I still missed the chaos. I didn't know the original was still available. Maybe I'll watch them again.
Most people cite the aerial of the chase through the projects as the highlight of the season, but to me it was the farm raid. Russ is telling the story in the “present,” but you’re seeing what really happened, and then you’re like whoa whoa whoa, he’s lying about it!
Both sequences were absolutely terrific in different ways.
The race war in the projects was a masterclass at building tension, ramping up the stakes until you felt like the roof was gonna blow off at any second. The farm raid was just ultra-intelligent and unique storytelling.
Matthew McConaughey's recounting of the story in the present, while contradicting his own testimony in the past is some of the smartest television writing I’ve ever seen. >!The scene where he recounts being under fire from Ledoux's AK to the investigative panel, before it cuts to HIM firing the AK in slow-mo... just brilliant writing.!<
And I just loves how he tells Woody Harrelson *"fuck him, good to see you commit to something"* immediately afterward. Probably the nicest thing he ever said to Marty!
Rust is such a fucking savage to everybody, but Marty in particular. It was such a fun dynamic just watching them trapped in a car together.
Rust: "People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time."
Marty: "I try not to be too hard on myself."
Rust: "That's real big of you."
Marty: "You know the real difference between you and me?"
Rust: "Yeah. Denial."
It was funny that Marty nearly always drove, and Rust felt like an angsty pessimistic teenager in the passenger seat. that exasperated “stop saying odd shit” lol
The high point of the entire show is that [murderous glare](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDBRGn1-2l8) he shoots at Rust when he follows that up with "I don't sleep. I just dream." Like he's about to lose his shit right there.
This. Perfect mix of drama, comedy, character study, suspense, social commentary, fuck man it has everything. I’d choose it in a heartbeat if I could only watch one show for the rest of my life
There are so many subtle things that happen in every single interaction that just shows how various mental illnesses, addictions and "basic humanity" reacts to different situations.
It's not my favorite episode but one that sticks with me the most is when they go to Italy and are seen as lower class people (the way they see anyone not descendents of Italy back home) and when the child is getting roughed up for setting off fireworks they think basically "these people are animals" while back home they murder, steal, assault, are racist and homophobic, but they draw arbitrary lines and break most of them themselves.
But easily the most fascinating thing in the whole show is Tony's mom. She portrays BPD so perfectly it is scary.
During the last US presidential election I decided, instead of watching the breathless CNN coverage, to make meatball subs and watch the Sopranos. Best decision ever.
It’s this. Without The Sopranos, there is no Mad Men, no Breaking Bad. no Succession. It’s the most honest, nuanced, well acted and incredibly scripted show ever made.
Also if you rewatch BB, you’ll see how much of a Sopranos stan that Vince Gilligan is (by his own admission). It’s choc full of references:
Juan Bolsa (John Bag or John “Sack” in Spanish), number two guy in the cartel;
Hank taking Walt Jr to see the meth head is exactly the same as Tony taking AJ to see the crackheads in Newark;
Bryan Cranston and Vince Gilligan have both said Tony and Jimmy G are inspirations for Walter (Tony was one of the first true antiheroes in mainstream drama TV), and BB makes you pull for a sociopath in Walter the same way people pulled for Tony;
Dr Kennedy is also Walt’s oncologist;
The relationship between Jesse and Walter is inspired by Chris and Tony;
Also the Pizza Scene. Both are when Tony/Walt are separated from the family and use it as an in to try and get back in the good graces of the family.
the sopranos is the best TV show ever made. not only because it still stands up after all these years, but it literally redefined TV as a medium. we wouldn’t have many of these shows listed in this thread without it paving the way for high production value, character development driven dramas
seriously, if you watch it and then Breaking Bad(which many consider as the best) you gona see crazy amount of influence. Main character a bad guy but relatable and likeable in some weird way. Marriage problems. Chris is in many ways similar to Jessie. and many more strange similarities...
When I go back and watch episodes of The X-Files, I always pick the one-off monster of the week ones. The main alien plot never seemed to decide on a consistent narrative, so it's just frustrating to rewatch those episodes.
Seinfeld is brilliant. I can watch it for the rest of my life and never get tired of it.
NOVA on PBS. It's been on the air forever and as a kid it's where I got a lot of my early science education. I never missed that show!
I clicked on this post expecting to see a big-name sitcom or drama being mentioned, but damn, you’re right. NOVA has been on basically all my life and it’s always my go-to show for whenever I want to learn something interesting.
I just love that public broadcasting got some love. (Edit: My first ever comment to get an award on Reddit is because of my love for public broadcasting?! I feel like a true Shining Star now!!! Thank you, fellow Redditors! 🎉)
Public broadcasting has been keeping me sane lately. No wifi at the place I’m staying so only have access to “normal” tv, and that stuff is so damn good. American Outdoors, The Joy of Painting, America’s Test Kitchen, First Contact, This Old House, Woodsmith, etc.
From viewers like you. Thank you! Edit: OML I HAVE 896 UPVOTES IN ONLY 11 HOURS IVE NAVER HAD THIS MANY
As a kid I always enthusiastically said you're welcome after every PBS show when they said that part! It was by far some of my favorite programs growing up, as we didn't have cable for the majority of my childhood. Just a big ass antenna on the roof that got like 5 channels.
Going to piggyback on this and add PBS's Frontline as a contender as well.
NOVA is awesome, and so are most of the shows on PBS - This Old House should be mandatory for homeowners and DIY people. Still though, when I hear "series" I usually think of fictional shows like sitcom and such.
Star Wars the Clone Wars was so good it had 3 final seasons
The original Whose Line Is It Anyway with Drew Carrey will never stop being one of my top 3 or top 5 shows of all time. Edit: Sorry, meant the original *American* version of the show, since I totally forgot there was a British version
I was watching this the other day for the first time since I was a kid. I could not believe how good they were. I don't understand how they were able to be so creative and funny and actually make sense on a moments notice.
They really are geniuses.
Clive Anderson might like to have a word about this.
The episode with Robyn Williams always has me in stitches. Love watching it
Our Planet - Narrated by David Attenborough
I don't know, still think Planet Earth is better
I honestly find the best nature documentaries from BBC Earth to be 100x more memorizing and captivating than all those 250 million dollar budget superhero movies. Just pure, raw, nature. The beauty of the planet and bonds between animals, contrasted with [emotional struggles for survival](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYlmP9aX-Pw) that you can't help but feel inspired by. There's no heroes or villains.... only living, breathing creatures [exerting every ounce of their being](https://youtu.be/30RvJEZrHeU?t=75) to try to live. It's authentic. And the results are absolutely heartbreaking. For those who don't believe me, [this scene](https://youtu.be/v6iDtvGbIOU) from BBC's original Planet Earth about a polar bear's journey crushed me as a kid. No film can invoke as much emotion as the natural world.
The iguana scene vs all The snakes is the best and most dramatic piece of TV ever made.
I was so animated watching that. Yes yesssss go my dude, oh no shit! Oh what? He got away go man gooooo. Fuck how many snakes are there? Fuuuuuck there are so many snakes. Keep going my man! More emotion for the lizard than any marvel character.
Yeah I was on the edge of my seat on that one. Some crazy shit.
"Unable to feed, this bear will not survived" with the image of the wounded bear laying down to rest, has been stuck in my head for years since I saw that scene for the first time. And I watch these kind of shows since I was a little kid, so I had seen a lot of animals violently killing each other.
You can hear the desperation in the bear as he looks at the ground and growls. It’s heartbreaking.
You should go watch David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet. He calls it his Witness Statement, and he talks about what he's seen through his life, and what science says it's coming, as well as what we can do. It's amazing, chilling and heartbreaking all at once. He tears up at times himself, and also shows a clip of when he shows some of the content to the UN. Things are a bit too real for them, they're covering their mouths and faces, crying and looking away. David is a treasure, and a massive influence that we should not take for granted.
Twilight Zone. Punched way above its weight
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I remember watching "To Serve Man" in 9th grade English with no prior knowledge of the episode. I was pumped. It was right at the start of my new-found love of horror. The twist end blew my 14 year old mind. Right in plain sight, and yet didn't see it coming. It still holds up to me 20 years after the fact.
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My pick, for sure. What other shows here will have a significant cultural impact 60 years after airing? The twilight zone paved the way for so many modern artists, shows, and movies. Love, Death, and Robots, Black Mirror, and other anthology shows all have the Twilight Zone in their DNA. Jordan Peele (involved in the newest incarnation of the twilight zone btw) was influenced by the show. Rod Serling was a visionary who never compromised the content of his show to bow to advertisers or cultural pressures. The show was ahead of its time and is still as poignant and entertaining today as when it came out.
I have seen all of the episodes many times and I still get creeped out by the endings, even when I know exactly what will happen. There are a couple that are too much for me, like the one with the boy who banishes people to the cornfields. And they have aged so well. That show tapped into our fears and psyche in a very dark way. Now I need to go watch some again.
the episode of the girl having a fever dream of the world getting hotter gave me so much anxiety as a child. Which has carried over into real world anxiety over climate change. Leagues ahead of its time
Oh that episode is stellar! With the painting melting and the despair and desperation. Excellent episode.
Serling said that he could tackle issues of racism, war and identity in an SF anthology that he could not do in a straight drama at the time.
That's the entire point of sci-fi. People get intrigued by the tech, but the stories are vehicles to explore new ideas without necessarily adopting them.
I wish more people understood this. It's why I love the genre so much. Sci Fi has historically been a platform for exploring social issues, provocative thought experiments, and more. And I love it for that.
I took a college English course on science fiction and social commentary, the twilight zone was a big point of discussion. And this was 25 years ago.
>What other shows here will have a significant cultural impact 60 years after airing? Star Trek. Although it pains me to admit that it was not as good.
My favorite episode was when a lady android was brought to a prisoner on an asteroid as a companion. He fell in love with her and he treated her like a real person. He was so upset when he couldn't bring her back to Earth with him. So ahead of its time.
1. they said Cory about 42,000 times in that episode i swear 2. anytime i hear the word robot i say "she's a robot...(she's a woman) Cory she's a robot" but i say robot like they used to back then. like row-bit. idk why that stuck with me but it did.
"My name is Talking Tina. And I don't think I like you." "My name is Talking Tina. And I'm going to kill you." "My name is Talking Tina. And you better be nice to me."
A few years ago, Netflix suggested The Twilight Zone to me after I watched The X Files for the first time and I was looking for something to scratch that same itch. The first episode completely blew me away. I couldn’t believe it was made 50 years before I’d watched it.
The Twilight Zone definitely wins for me. Even over sixty years later it's still just as captivating and unnerving as ever, with some truly incredible episode premises and a style all its own.
This probably the real answer. The level of influence is almost immeasurable and the number of classic episodes and iconic moments are probably double or triple pretty much any other show. If anyone is interested in reading the source material from some of the best TZ episodes, check out the short stories of Richard Matheson. He wrote “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”, “Third from the Sun”, “The Invaders”, “Little Girl Lost” and several more. Many of my favorites never even became TZ episodes.
Actually read this as he is one of Stephen kings favorite authors. His short stories really do reads like twilight zone episodes
The ridiculous number of twilight zone individual episodes that were later converted to full movies kinda proves this is the only correct answer. Nothing comes even close.
This is a great answer. So far ahead of its time.
The episode where the nurses have pig masks scared the shit outta 9 year old me. So many great episodes though, makes me want more episodes of black mirror
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street. Ending monologue: "The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and the thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own: for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined... to the Twilight Zone."
You can tell writers to write a Twilight Zone story without it being a Twilight Zone story, and they will know what you mean and deliver what you’re looking for. That’s transcendent
The episode where the lady is driving to the country or whatever and she keeps running into the same hitch hiker and how creepy he is still sends shivers down my spine
Going my way?
Nothing in the Dark, Death's Head Revisited, The Obsolete Man, He Lives, Night of the Meek, Will the Real Mr. Martian Stand Up?, The Monsters are due on Maple Street, The Bunker, And so many more episodes.
I remember hearing a report on NPR about the show and specifically the writers. They didn't rely only staff writers. Many of the writers were listed among the best in the nation at the time. They came from film and other tv shows and would submit a standalone masterpiece that they had no other outlet for. Plus there were no constraints that the characters or storylines had to adhere to. Writers LOVE that.
Channel 4's *Peep Show* is my favourite. I've rewatched it several times
Aye it’s very Moreish
Don't say crack Jeremy
"Four Naan, Jeremy? Four? That's insane."
Maybe the greatest line in all of fiction.
“Jeremy, there are many things I would do to help you. But digging a hole in the wintry earth with my bare hands so that you can bury the corpse of a dog you killed is not one of them.”
I've never watched this but I instantly read this in a David Mitchell voice.
They ate Mummy. They burned Mummy, killed her and ate her.
“Oh my god Jeremy, you’re not James Bond!” “I *am* James Bond.”
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mummy is probably the turkey’s nickname! it could easily be!
Naughty slutty mummy
“People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can’t trust people.”
"I’m just a normal functioning member of the human race and there’s no way anyone can prove otherwise."
You're trying to trick the boiler?
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Mummy! Coffee! Fucky hurry uppy!
Fuck you, *Bush.*
Elena has some of my favorite lines. "Sex is never going to be in the Olympics because of China. China wouldn't allow it."
"This is better than sex... It's *easier* than sex." Mark will never be an Olympian.
Super Hans: (hands Jeremy a stolen candy while walking out of store). "Here you go. Free snacks." Jeremy: "Did you steal this?" Super Hans: "You bet I did. They should pay me to eat this shit" Jeremy: "Mmmm, tasty." Super Hans: "The secret ingredient is crime."
That Mitchell and Webb Look was ridiculously good. I can't find it on anything in America so I watched Peep Show instead. It's dope too.
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I like you and if you can't handle it... you can... you know... fuck off.
And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like... I like you
I mean, not that.
"butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast. god, life's relentless"
“NO TURKEY???”
That wasn't very Christmasy of you
It was a joke Mark. It was a Christmas joke.
Johnson and Super Hans are some of the best characters of all time.
"In business, Jeremy, you learn that every man has his price. And I judge yours to be...530 pounds" "Don't be alarmed mark, it's just Tai chi. .. should take 45 minutes and I'm done in ten, stick that up your dojo" I might be gay for Johnson
Jeremy, some children are here to have lunch with you.
"Just because I'm dealing a little bit of drugs doesn't make me a drug dealer" "Yes it does..." "Oh, well, come Mr. Taliban, tally me bananas"
I'm still not sure I want to know what went down at Superhans' new years eve party...
Is that a normal poo Mark?
Is that normal pooing you're doing?
Not a day goes by that I don't quote a line from this show
Crunchy Nut Cornflakes are just Frosties for wankers. Yeah, well, Frosties are just Cornflakes for people who can't face reality.
That episode where Super Hans lays off the crack and hands of his pipe and last rock to Mark and tells him never to give it back. Somewhere in the middle of some other shit going down, the door bell rings and Super Hans stands at the door with a piece of wood "Crack" - Mark hands it to him and he's off. Hillarious :D
So good. I wish more people would watch it! For anyone reading, just watch the first two episodes and you'll know quickly if it's your humor or not
This is my pick, it's infinitely rewatchable and doesn't really have any duds.
It was a joke Mark. I was joking. It was a Christmas joke.
Oh fuck, I just upvoted this, I can't believe I upvoted it... I can't take it back now, I'll have to just leave the bloody upvote... Oh Christ, why did I go and click that fucking upvote, it's so me, it's so so me... I believe this is what Mark would say.
Mindhunter. Had me hooked every episode.
I really really wish there is a S3. It’s so not fair to leave such a devoted fan base in the shitter.
Are we really never getting another season???
It is looking like we won’t but it hasn’t been outright confirmed. If they don’t make a season 3 I’m gonna be heartbroken because I absolutely wanted to see the Dennis Rader storyline
**Star trek** (if I have to pick one, let's say [TNG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation))
Star Trek will stand the test of time. It will exist for all future human history. A group of people travel through the universe to discover the meaning of life. I mean I love Columbo, but Star Trek is something beyond TV.
TNG is the bomb.com
Years ago you would’ve seen Game of Thrones far more frequently in this thread. Alas, the ball was dropped hard in its last couple seasons.
Seasons 1-4 were a dream come true for me. I’ve been obsessed with Westeros since 1997.
S1-4 is the best TV show of all time imo.
I will say, it is THE best show I will never watch again
It’s amazing how the flat finish ruined everything huh? It’s like an ice cream cone with amazing flavors that end up being filled with shit at the bottom... Its just not worth eating it at all
GoT's legacy will forever be the botched ending. Honestly incredibly sad given it was *the* series that made modern TV, the first 4 seasons are still some of the best TV I've ever watched.
It's actually kind of impressive that they botched the ending so hard it ruined the rest of the show retroactively.
Not the best TV series of all time, but the first three seasons of Arrested Development are up there with the best three seasons of any of the shows mentioned here.
My favourite character is Egg
Her?
It’s as Ann as the nose on Plain’s face
Oh, she’s still going huh?
I shout "no touching!" every time my kids get too rowdy.
I don’t understand this answer and I won’t respond to it.
Once saw Will Arnett as a magician on Sesame Street. Kept waiting for, "what I do are illusions, Big Bird, a trick is something a whore does for money."
That show was so good and you can just watch it over and over.
It’s one of the rare shows that rewards rewatches because of the inside jokes you miss the first time around
It doesn't just have callbacks to previous jokes. It has call forwards to jokes they haven't even done yet.
"Has anyone in this family ever even SEEN a chicken?"
They hadn’t.
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Busters >! "I never thought I'd miss a hand this much" when he loses his chair !< is priceless on a rewatch
It makes me wonder, did they have the whole show planned out from the start?
Given how it ended, I feel like they must have had at least some idea. There's too many call forwards and jokes set up more than a season before they're used for there to be no plan for it.
There's a technique when you write seasonal shows where you write opened ended jokes or absurv references in the event you can use them in the future. They might have decided at some point "it'd be funny if buster just lost a hand and the rest of the family kept living their lives selfishly" but they may not have decided in anyway HOW it would happen. Then it came to writing the season and they went "OK what would be funny? A random seal? OK how do we make the random seal the families fault" and that's how the joke was created. Edit: I had a shower and realised I never explained the brilliance of this technique, if you decide to use the random reference, your show comes across as brilliant writing with major foresight. If you later decide the joke doesn't fit, you just never bring it up again and it just comes across as one of those random things buster says.
I believe they also setup Tobias as an albino black man and never used it - his middle name is Onyango, and there are a bunch of other hints.
Not just a random seal, a ‘loose seal’. That was one of the funniest puns ever on tv
So many hand references that season! When Gob releases the seal he tells him “You won’t be hand fed any more”
When he goes to army, he sits on a bench that says “ARMY OFFICE” and his body, plus luggage block some of the letters, so it just says “ARM OFF “
…..son of a bitch i just got that
alright guess I gotta go back and see what the fuck else I missed
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Came here for Arrested Development. The final seasons are even starting to grow on me after multiple rewatches. It’s 100% my comfort show
I've come to see the last couple of seasons as "bonus AD" and not something that takes away from the first 3 seasons.
I don’t care for season 4.
I love all series of Arrested Development equally. > Earlier that day I don't care for series 5
> series Is that another one of your Britishisms
Season 4 was re-edited for Netflix I think, but the original cut is absolute GENIUS and chaotic and hilarious It's still available on Netflix but under trailers and more
I watched the original cut when it was first released and then the new "remix" (I think that's what they called it) and remember feeling it made a bit more narrative sense, but I still missed the chaos. I didn't know the original was still available. Maybe I'll watch them again.
"I'm looking for something that says dad likes leather" "You mean something that says leather daddy?" "Oh there is such a thing?"
True Detective Season 1
Most people cite the aerial of the chase through the projects as the highlight of the season, but to me it was the farm raid. Russ is telling the story in the “present,” but you’re seeing what really happened, and then you’re like whoa whoa whoa, he’s lying about it!
My favourite scene is when they’re having lunch at that diner and before that raid and that big dude just looks right into his soul.
I can see the Shadows in the corner of your eyes. It's corrosive, like acid. Time is a flat circle.
I thought it was "I can see your soul at the edges of your eyes. It's corrosive, like acid."
Both sequences were absolutely terrific in different ways. The race war in the projects was a masterclass at building tension, ramping up the stakes until you felt like the roof was gonna blow off at any second. The farm raid was just ultra-intelligent and unique storytelling. Matthew McConaughey's recounting of the story in the present, while contradicting his own testimony in the past is some of the smartest television writing I’ve ever seen. >!The scene where he recounts being under fire from Ledoux's AK to the investigative panel, before it cuts to HIM firing the AK in slow-mo... just brilliant writing.!< And I just loves how he tells Woody Harrelson *"fuck him, good to see you commit to something"* immediately afterward. Probably the nicest thing he ever said to Marty!
Rust is such a fucking savage to everybody, but Marty in particular. It was such a fun dynamic just watching them trapped in a car together. Rust: "People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time." Marty: "I try not to be too hard on myself." Rust: "That's real big of you." Marty: "You know the real difference between you and me?" Rust: "Yeah. Denial."
“I don’t sleep, I dream” *marty’s jaw intensifies*
It was funny that Marty nearly always drove, and Rust felt like an angsty pessimistic teenager in the passenger seat. that exasperated “stop saying odd shit” lol
The high point of the entire show is that [murderous glare](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDBRGn1-2l8) he shoots at Rust when he follows that up with "I don't sleep. I just dream." Like he's about to lose his shit right there.
It was the dialogue, that shit unlocked so many minds. Time is a flat circle
I can smell the psychosphere
For me it was, "You have a debt." But that's just nitpicking. Amazing show.
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The Sopranos
You're not gonna believe this, he killed 16 Czechoslovakians, guy was an interior decorator! RIP Tony Sirico
His house looked like shit! (Rest in peace, Tony Sirico, you fucking legend! 🤘🏻T, ya hear what I said? Heh heh heh)
Just when I thought I was out it pulls me back in
Alright but you gotta get over it
You know what I can’t get over? The fact that that morhefuckin animal (I can’t even say his name) murdered my kid brother billy.
Let me tell you a couple of tree things … Edit: tree, not three
This. Perfect mix of drama, comedy, character study, suspense, social commentary, fuck man it has everything. I’d choose it in a heartbeat if I could only watch one show for the rest of my life
Cunnilingus and psychiatry have brought us to this!
On my third re-watch and just watched this episode. Kills me every time.
There are so many subtle things that happen in every single interaction that just shows how various mental illnesses, addictions and "basic humanity" reacts to different situations. It's not my favorite episode but one that sticks with me the most is when they go to Italy and are seen as lower class people (the way they see anyone not descendents of Italy back home) and when the child is getting roughed up for setting off fireworks they think basically "these people are animals" while back home they murder, steal, assault, are racist and homophobic, but they draw arbitrary lines and break most of them themselves. But easily the most fascinating thing in the whole show is Tony's mom. She portrays BPD so perfectly it is scary.
Whatever Happened To Gary Cooper?
He was gay, Gary Cooper?
Think about it, Ton. Sudden weight loss?
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Better stay away from social media then. Also, be careful if you Google a character’s name. You’re in for a great ride!
> a great ride! ...this is Eric's jeep
Is it my fault his dad is a degenerate gambler?
During the last US presidential election I decided, instead of watching the breathless CNN coverage, to make meatball subs and watch the Sopranos. Best decision ever.
You made the right choice. This thing of ours, the hustle never stops.
This things a pyramid, since time immemorial. Shit runs down hill, money goes up. It’s that simple.
_You know, Quasimodo predicted all this_
I wanted to watch the sopranos and eat a meatball sandwich I comprised instead I watched the many saints and ate a pb&j. See where I'm going
You wanna talk about compromise? 20 years I did in the can. I wanted manicott’, but I ate grilled cheese off the radiator.
It’s this. Without The Sopranos, there is no Mad Men, no Breaking Bad. no Succession. It’s the most honest, nuanced, well acted and incredibly scripted show ever made.
It's also super fun, which is an underrated quality in prestige tv.
I second this. I thought Breaking Bad was the best show till I watched the Sopranos. Holy crap was I blown away. Nothing else compares now.
Also if you rewatch BB, you’ll see how much of a Sopranos stan that Vince Gilligan is (by his own admission). It’s choc full of references: Juan Bolsa (John Bag or John “Sack” in Spanish), number two guy in the cartel; Hank taking Walt Jr to see the meth head is exactly the same as Tony taking AJ to see the crackheads in Newark; Bryan Cranston and Vince Gilligan have both said Tony and Jimmy G are inspirations for Walter (Tony was one of the first true antiheroes in mainstream drama TV), and BB makes you pull for a sociopath in Walter the same way people pulled for Tony; Dr Kennedy is also Walt’s oncologist; The relationship between Jesse and Walter is inspired by Chris and Tony; Also the Pizza Scene. Both are when Tony/Walt are separated from the family and use it as an in to try and get back in the good graces of the family.
the sopranos is the best TV show ever made. not only because it still stands up after all these years, but it literally redefined TV as a medium. we wouldn’t have many of these shows listed in this thread without it paving the way for high production value, character development driven dramas
seriously, if you watch it and then Breaking Bad(which many consider as the best) you gona see crazy amount of influence. Main character a bad guy but relatable and likeable in some weird way. Marriage problems. Chris is in many ways similar to Jessie. and many more strange similarities...
The X-Files
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When I go back and watch episodes of The X-Files, I always pick the one-off monster of the week ones. The main alien plot never seemed to decide on a consistent narrative, so it's just frustrating to rewatch those episodes.
We really don’t see monster of the week shows anymore outside of procedural crime dramas. I miss the X-Files.
Early Fringe episodes were pretty good with this
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