I have a few, but each in their own categories.
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Reality - Departures - A show where three fellows in Canada give up everything to travel the world together for a year, documenting their journey. One year becomes three. It released me of all my anxieties about leaving the comfort of my home and is now a gem of a series I keep close by. Shout out to Andres Dupuis, Justin Lukach, and Scott Wilson for being such a huge inspiration.
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Live Action Drama/Comedy - Scrubs - The best medical drama out there. It is so well written, so impactful, and so enjoyable to go through. It helped me come to terms with my dad’s passing.
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Live Action Sitcom - Friends - 10 seasons of ups and downs, laughter, and tears. The show definitely told us life was gonna be this way. Can’t go wrong with this classic.
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Animated - Futurama - Another contender for one of the best written TV shows out there. It’s so perfectly complete.
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Anime - Log Horizon - I’m a long-time fan of both .hack// and Log Horizon. Both are incredible series. But Log Horizon is maybe a bit more compact and easy to follow for outsiders and is generally a more casual watch experience while still having solid continuity across the series.
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Seasons 2 through 4 of Babylon 5, especially that 4th season.
Seinfeld because it is so rewatchable
- The BSG remake series is the GOAT
- TNG and Voyager. (Never got into DS9…too much religious hibbidy-jibbidy and scenery chewing from Sisko…come at me, bro.)
- Stargate Atlantis (And of course SG1, though on the whole I think Atlantis was the superior show)
- Bojack Horseman (Because I credit that show for finally getting a handle on my own mental health)
And yes…I realise the hypocrisy of not liking DS9 because of its religious hibbidy-jibbidy, but calling BSG the GOAT. I have no answer for you. Maybe the Bajoran religion itself was just stupid.
Haunting of Hill House was really good.
BSG… Big Scary Guy? Boobs Sex Guns? Beavers Selling Green? Brave Snew Gworld?
No offense, but your post reads like a military dudebro’s war story. Introduce initialisms the first time, please. I knew a few of them through context clues, but not everyone will.
Hard to pick, so here are a bunch I love:
- Game of Thrones (until it got bad, but the early seasons were amazing)
- True detective season 1
- Attack on Titan
- Pantheon (Second season is on youtube)
- Breaking Bad
- Better Call Saul
- Bojack Horseman
- Fleabag
- Altered carbon season 1
- Rick and Morty (early seasons. Maybe 1-4 or so)
- Invincible so far
These shows always make me feel good when I watch them.
- Bob’s Burgers
- Mash
- Star Trek Voyager
- Derek
- Trollied
- Corner Gas
- Reba
- Would I Lie To You?
- Taskmaster (UK)
- The Simpsons
- Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
- Avatar the Last Airbender
- Firefly
Psych. A cliche “murder mystery of the week” show has no business being as wholesome, kind, friendly, and upbeat as Psych. I realized a few years ago when I was going through some personal issues and had started rewatching Psych that it was helping me deal with the stress, and it wasn’t the first time I’ve done that with the show.
Maybe a year ago I went to Psych’s first convention near Chicago. It was both surprising and reassuring to hear other fans go up to ask the actors questions and they all shared similar stories to me. People have used to show to help them briefly escape from challenging situations from dealing with the death of loved ones all the way to someone using it as background TV while trying to study in medical school.
One of the few things I miss from Reddit is the active Psych subreddit over there.
Also, the 80’s references are fantastic.
I find it interesting how many people I’ve seen on Reddit (just started using Lemmy) say psych. It’s not my favorite, but clearly there’s a very positive sentiment.
Star trek the next generation and deep space nine Battlestar Galactica The Orville
Yes, I’m a sci-fi nerd
Also “the good place”, it’s awesome
I’ll take the original Battlestar Galactica. As a kid, it blew my mind.
Have you watched the Expanse? I highly recommend it.
Ah the expanse, of course! Awesome, though the last two seasons went down in quality. Especially the lady season was a mess only surpassed bu game of thrones season 8
There are too many but I name one: Fawlty Towers
This is hard.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender + The Legend of Korra together. Don’t even get me started (actually please do).
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Pantheon. Dense, proper sci fi, criminally and tragically suppressed IRL. Watch it, right now.
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I am really loving Severance so far.
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Arcane is up there, maybe as most artistic.
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Star Wars: Andor. Not a huge Star Wars fan, but it’s so good, and grounded. It has everything.
I have a lot of “secondary” favorites I am excluding here, like The Expanse, Person of Interest, Fringe, The Americans, Narcos, Mythbusters, and such for various reasons, but are still amazing.
+1 for Avatar. Such a phenomenal cast of characters and world building. Korra got really weird but I still appreciate it.
I love LoK, honestly more than ATLA, for many reasons. Along those lines, I was more into ATLA for Zuko than the Gaang.
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Some that come to mind, and merely in order I thought of them:
- Danger Five
- Green Wing
- Blackadder
- Clone High (Edit: should probably be AtlA, but I’m holdin)
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Cowboy Bebop
- Flight of the Conchords
- Inside No. 9
- The Wire
- Atlanta
Only finished shows considered, as a poor ending can ruin a show.
The Simpsons and yes even the new seasons. I’m a true fan.
Futurama will always hold a special place in my heart
Family Guy!
