Years and Years. A miniseries, but fantastic, and I never see people talking about it.
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+1 to others recommendations for Dirk Gently and Pushing Daisies
Kevin Can Go Fuck Himself. It's a basic family sitcom, laugh track and all, but only when the husband character Kevin is on the screen. Any other time there's a drastic shift in tone to dark and serious, and the wife character trying to figure how to kill Kevin.
You got me hooked. I have to watch it now. Thanks!
The Day of the Jackal.
It's a captivating thriller about an assassin. It's one of the best shows I've seen in a long time
https://www.justwatch.com/uk/tv-series/the-day-of-the-jackal
I haven’t seen it in awhile but I remember the british show Detectorists being surprisingly sweet/moving (I don’t usually enjoy dramas)
12 Monkeys, the show. Really deep dives into the nuances of time travel. Clearly had an excellent science advisor. Not the biggest budget or greatest script/acting but the writers really puts in the work for sci fi fans (The 100 style).
The detectorists is so good, a gentle watch tbf, but we need more like that I think .
I really enjoyed that show. I couldn't help but wonder where they were getting all the booze, bullets and cigarettes 25 years after the collapse of civilisation, though.
The Newsroom on HBO, 2012-2015. Jeff Daniels. It's about a TV cable news show trying to stick to integrity and real news while losing market share to FOX and CNN. Many, many story lines about the Republican news anchor warning Republicans about the Tea Party and the Koch brothers. If watched in 2012-15, it would all seem dramatic hyperbole but the show warned about far , far worse things to come. This is pre Alex Jones and Donald Trump.
Alex Jones was around back then, but he was very fringe. His biggest thing was being a "9/11 Truther". It's funny, because so many people associated him with the Left back in the early 2000s because of that. I know a lot of normally Left-leaning people who got sucked into his nonsense back in the day.
Trump was around too, but he was very much just a joke. We kinda fucked that one up.
Rubicon (2010), it's a proper spy thriller based on intelligence analysts as opposed to field agents.
Unfortunately it got canned early, but I loved the story and writing, I have a feeling the show was a little too close to home, but that's a whole other conspiracy theory...
Mr Inbetween
Is this still lesser known? I really like that it's Australian dialogue.
If you ever take the opportunity to watch these 13 episodes, be sure to read the "planned episodes" section afterwards to see how cursed the world is for Fox not having learned their lesson with having cancelled Firefly too soon.
A 20-something Niagara Falls souvenir-shop worker finds her life is changed forever when inanimate animal figures - toys, cartoon images etc. - begin talking to her. Their cryptic messages set into motion a chain of events that invariably lead her into the lives of others.
The Knick
I actually am curious how many others here remember Portal. Even when it was on the air, I never met anyone (IRL or online) that watched it.
The Night Shift (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A6turvaktin), an Icelandic sitcom about the staff of a service station - at least at first. It’s pretty deadpan like the Office or I’m Alan Partridge, and their situation just gets more dire and funnier as the series progress. It got a UK DVD release thanks to the BBC, and I just learned there is a movie too.
I have a bad radar for what is "Well known" so we'll see how this goes...
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was weird, wonderful, and deeply touching. Great performance from Elijah Wood.
Maniac is by the director of True Detective, and its a fucking surreal (literal) drug trip of a show that earns a high spot on the "Holy shit, Jonah Hill is a great actor?!" list.
SAS: Rogue Heroes is a bonkers fun historical drama that feels like a Guy Ritchie movie, and yet is somehow often understating the insanity of the real events. By the creators of Peaky Blinders.
Too Old To Die Young is a collaboration between legendary director Nicholas Winding Refn (Driver, Only God Forgives, Neon Demon, Valhalla Rising) and legendary comics writer Ed Brubaker (Daredevil, Captain America, Sleeper, Criminal). You either have no idea why you should give a fuck about that, or you desperately need to go change your pants right now and are seriously worried that the erection is going to last more than four hours. If you're the latter person, yes, it's everything you're hoping; unbelievably slow paced, weird, dark, contemplative, surreal, and brutally violent. This is NWR in full bore "They gave me too much budget and too much runtime and by God I intend to abuse the fuck out of both" mode. Watch it while high.
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