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I've been really loving the British show Taskmaster.
Basically you take a bunch of comedians and have them perform various inane tasks. Some of my favourites are:drive this barge down a canal and spear 5 rubber dinghies with a lance attached to the barge. Fastest wins. Or draw the rainbow with the correct colours. In the dark. There's often some tricks in these tasks and watching the contestants figure out their own way to solve the task is the best part of the show.
I can't recommend "Better Off Ted" enough to people looking for something smart and witty.
Pushing Daisies: Brian Fuller ran show from the mid aughts. Lee Pace plays a man who can bring the dead back to life if he touches them provided he never touches them again. He is a pie maker that helps a friend out with his detective agency. His bff from childhood and eventual love interest was the little girl who lived next door he touched her once to bring her back...
Moonlighting- This isn't that obscure. It's a show about a former supermodel played by Cybill Sheppard who is facing economic disaster as her managers stole all her money. The only thing she has left is a detective agency ran by David Addison a rabble rouser and ner do well played by Bruce Willis. It's a procedural detective show with some incredible talent on screen. It finally hot streaming a few years back.
Pushing daises is fantastic
Better off Ted.
That scene where they are trying to have a meeting about developing a bomb with Ted's daughter in the room may be one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my lifetime.
Definitely this
Red oaks,
Rake
The Cockfields
The Deuce
Men of a Certain Age
There are some good non-Squid Game korean dramas. Off the top of my head:
I've been loving Korean tv this past year or so.
Review with Forrest McNeil, it's based off an Aussie show of the same name that I keep meaning to check out; starts off slow but builds to get pretty wild. I really enjoyed it.
The American version (which I assume you are referencing) is just called Review, the Australian version is called Review with Myles Barlow. Fun fact, the final "caller" in the series finale of the American version is Myles Barlow.
You're right, been awhile since I watched it. Going to take this as my sign to finally watch the Aus version!
Scavenger's Reign
Common Side Effects (still airing)
Dark Matter (SciFi show with similar storytelling to Firefly IMO)
Poker Face
Twisted Metal (especially if you played the games)
Shut Eye
I grew up on twisted metals games. The show was better than it should have been!
Mr. Inbetween
Tremé
eta:
The Corner (predecessor to The Wire (not prequel))
Danger 5. It's an Australian tv show that had two seasons. It's a surreal, screwball comedy about a ragtag team whose mission every episode is to kill Hitler.
If you want to see a TV show that has Nazis, dinosaurs, cigarette commercials, and a talking bald Eagle, then this is your show.
This show is funny as shit. I love it.
And, of course as always, kill Hitler. 🦅
Can confirm. I've also seen Danger 5. Nothing quite like it, except for maybe their other projects.
The good place
The day of the jackal
The good place is such a great show! I want to rewatched it but I'm waiting for a while yet so that it can have some of the original impact again.
The Day of the Jackal is a weird name for a show (or book, that it's based on), but a fun show.
I wasn't sure Eddie Redmayne would be able to be a believable international assassin, but he's got the quiet killer vibe down.
I also liked Lashana Lynch and her "complex hero character".
Lashana Lynch mild character spoilers
Since Eddie Redmayne is our main character, and he's a villain, it means Lashana Lynch had to be our villains antagonist. She's the "hero" of the show, but a deeply flawed one that I found interesting to watch. I think she makes choices that are human and realistic and justifiable...but not ones a hero would make.
Blood Drive was everything the trailer promised.
Idk if it's "lesser known" exactly but it's a comfort show that I can have on in the background at all times: Psych.
It's got a specific pacing and humor that tickles my brain just right. They will let some of the funniest jokes you have ever heard just fly right by if you aren't paying attention.
Not super complicated or deep thinking. Just cheesy fun.
It’s a show that gets funnier each time you watch as you get more and more of their references.
If you like Psych I'd recommend High Potential. Very similar but stars Kaitlin Olson (from it's alway Sunny) as a single mom with high IQ helping the police.
I used to love Psych but, after binging a season or two, it was too "one note" for me and couldn't keep my interest. Similarly, for High Potential, it couldn't keep my attention once I found out that it's almost another take on Psych's formula.
Not sure if Black Sails is not well known. The fact that Patriot ended after 2 seasons makes me think it's not well known since it was a truly great show.
EDIT: Patriot ends fine. You can see where it could have continued but where it stops isn't an issue
Is that the folk singer one? That was fun.
Yeah, that's the one. Might be time for my 5th rewatch now that I think about it
Jericho (2006) is a post-apocalyptic drama about a town sheltered from a nuclear catastrophe in the US. Shows it's age in a few spots but still a great watch.
Ah yes, I've seen that. Was well developed.
Black Spot (original title: Zone Blanche)
It's about a village in a rural wooded area in France that has a tight-knit isolated community, no cell phone coverage, and 6x the national average murder rate.
