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Arcane

Silo. It’s so fucking good. So are the books.

Older than you are and worth looking at. [available on Youtube]

The Prisoner. Imagine if Ian Fleming and Franz Kafka got together to do a TV show. A government official resigns and is immediately kidnapped. He wakes up in The Village; a lovely little place with nice views, great food, plenty of fun things to do, and no possible escape.

I, Claudius. A very young Patrick Stewart is the least reason to watch this reenactment of the first five Roman emperors.

Connections. Non-fiction. Wonderfully entertaining and informative. The creator's premise is that scientific progress is almost never straight forward. Coffee houses open in London = coffee houses become popular places to do business = coffee house customers join together to invest in ships to the New World = the new 'companies' begin looking for ways to make their ships safer = they start to invest in making pine tar to protect the ships = add two hundred years and you have insurance companies and the chemical industry

• The good place
• Inside job
• Dogs in space
• Daredevil
• Final space

No Good Deed is really good, although it moves pretty slow.

Here's a list of some of the good ones I have seen:

• The 8 show
• The good place
• Grey Zone
• The Boys
• Klovn
• Thermae Romae Novae
• Russian Doll
• Dark Matter

I just finished Only Murders in the Building. I love it. Its a whodunit with Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez. The whole cast always feels to me like they're always having a lot of fun!

I started watching Scavengers Reign recently on a suggestion from a friend. I normally don't go for animated shows, but this one is really enjoyable for me. Calm & explorative.

Columbo

Marvelous Miss Maisle is solid from om beginning to end. Not a minute, scene or note is wasted. The writers know how to pack every scene with as much energy and storytelling as possible. Just perfect.

Severance is the best show of the 2020s IMHO.

Something I haven't seen mentioned is Ghosts. Recently got caught up on it and it's definitely a fun watch!

Landman.

I'm watching the dune show, it's not great.

I'm also watching creature commandos which is pretty good if you don't mind animation.

I've been enjoying Skeleton Crew as it releases.

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DanDaDan on Netflix is bonkers.

Foyle's War. A British drama about a detective in England during World War 2.

Excellent acting, and the period backdrop is very well-written. Gives you a bit of a sense of what it was like to live during that period.

Right now I'm watching silo (apple tv+) and Gilmore girls. They are nice

The Expanse. I forgot how good the earlier seasons were, and looking forward to seeing the newer stuff for the first time.

Arcane.

I missed the hype for Arcane season 1, mostly because it didn't really seem up my alley. I figured it'd be boring to me because I wasn't into that specific game, or too juvenile for me, or something.

I was really wrong. Really, really wrong. It stands on its own and season 1 has the strongest storytelling I've seen in anything in a good, long time. You don't need to care about or play League of Legends to watch the show. And it's very much NOT a kid's show even if it starts with kid characters...it touches a lot on crime, poverty, mental illness, etc. It's very honest and truthful and complex and nuanced on these things.

And every aspect of storytelling was strong. EVERY ONE.

What I mean by that is this...in most TV shows, animated or live, you usually have one form of strong(ish) storytelling carrying the entire thing and compensating for other things that are weaker. So a show will have one or two stand-out aspects, and others that are okish to bad, but able to be overlooked because of the other awesome things going on.

Like, you might have a poor script but really good actors who can elevate the poor script with their spoken intonation or physical acting. Or you might have a good script and really good soundtrack but mediocre acting and bland costume/set design. Basically, script, art/costume design, music, and actor ability all play together to deliver a story, and usually you have one or two of those that are strong, and the rest are being carried by the strong parts and ranging from competent-but-not-awesome to mediocre to bad.

Arcane's not like that.

Arcane has top-tier storytelling on the writing level, AND on the art and animation level, and in the choice of songs for the soundtrack. Like, the script itself is fantastic, but then you watch the animation and see they decided not to use common animation shorthand. Instead, they went back to actually LOOK at how humans display emotion and move their bodies and translated THAT into their animation. So you have a strong script AND strong "physical acting". How they frame shots is fantastic too. And if that wasn't enough, all the music is stellar and pertinent to the scenes it's used in. And if THAT wasn't enough, even the design of the characters BEFORE they even move or speak is top-notch. And if THAT isn't enough the voice actors are phenomenal too.

For Season 1, nothing's carrying anything else, everything is strong. And that's EXTREMELY rare in ANY show. So, so, SO rare.

Season 2 is not as good--but that's really just in comparison to how outrageously and unusually good Season 1 was. I'd say in Season 2, the script is not as tight, but all the other things are still as good as Season 1. So the animation/art design/music/etc. carry the script a little in the second season. The script isn't HORRIBLE though...it's mostly the pacing is off and it's missing some appropriate build-up in some parts. I've read they had to cut some scenes, and if that's true it would completely explain the flaws. The second season also suffers a bit in comparison to Season 1...Season 1 did everything right, so anything that's not perfect in Season 2 naturally sticks out. It doesn't make it bad though.

Anyway, yeah. Watch Arcane, if you missed that boat previously.

Person of Interest.

I've recently fallen down an Anime rabbit hole after almost a decade of being out of the loop.

The fact I'm re-watching "Bocchi the Rock" is a pretty big recommendation.

Schitt's Creek is currently on Netflix. One of my favorite, wholesome sitcoms!

Shrinking is excellent

I feel like I'm hating on this thread too much.

Invincible Fight Girl is a surprisingly good (cartoon) show.

I've heard good things about Taskmaster