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I came across The Newsroom with Jeff Daniels and Olivia Munn. HBO 2012-14. Munn is a much better actor than the shitty roles she has had since, but the show predicted the corporate takeover of US media and the subsequent enshittification of news. Scarily accurate, and in fact was too optimistic because the current shit show is much worse than they predicted would happen and they gave the IQ of the American public far too much credit.
I wfh so this is gold when I find a good show that has multiple seasons and I can actually follow while working.
I spent a couple of months only watching Venture Bros in my free time and oh boy it was so fucking GOOD
Battlestar Galactica 🤍
I much prefer a show that comes in, does it’s thing, and fucks off again. Respect my time.
Stretching it out to a million seasons with a million episodes each just for archaic syndication purposes is a big no from me, dawg.
Time to rewatch The Wire again…
Supernatural or Smallville for sure. Or Stargate sg1.
Soul crushing when it ends on a major cliffhanger and you find out it was cancelled.
Fringe, Fargo and True Detective
24 epis per season too.
For me:
The Following
Ash vs Evil Dead
Mr Robot
IT crowd
Futurama
Chuck
I just discovered Person of Interest a few weeks ago, and have been binge watching it. It’s so good.
And 20 episodes per season. Each episode 40 to 60 minutes.
I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first time this year. It was the perfect end-of-day comfort show.
Now I’ve finished all 7 seasons and there is a hole in my life.
Ope, that hole is a rough one. I still crave more similar style shows with that good mix of light and dark and urban fantasy that doesn’t need to take itself too seriously.
Wildly different show, but The Magicians scratches a somewhat similar itch, especially after season 2. It’s definitely darker, but is also about young people struggling with the consequences of living in a world with magic that most people don’t know about while also having fun with it from time to time
Angel is pretty good but takes a season or so to find its feet.
The problem with angel is that there’s always something wrong with it.
Buffy regularly has seasons that are clearly what it should be and it’s easy to remember the baseline of what it is. Season 1 is monster of the week, high schoolers finding their footing. Season 2 has Angel, 3 has Faith. You don’t ever feel like “wait why isn’t soandso here”.
Angel is the opposite. Every watch I’ve wondered why some characters take so long to arrive or leave so soon when they’re so iconic. The overarching story also kinda meanders and I think part of the problem is that Angel is just a worse center for a show than Buffy was (or Cordelia was, I’m still mad she was written out). Also season 4 (or whatever the season with Connor being edgy) was actively bad. Then unfortunately the show was canceled after the best season where it felt like it finally understood itself.
Still absolutely worth a watch, it did great things for a few of the characters of Buffy who had to leave Sunnydale, as well as having more post face turn Cordelia and some of the best Faith scenes.
Angel is cursed to have better individual episodes (especially toward the end) but to have worse arcs (until the very end). For any Buffy fans, here are some gems that come to mind:
2x17 Disharmony
5x14 Smile Time
6x05 The Cautionary Tale of El Número Cinco
It’s not at all similar but try Psych
I should rewatch psych. It was a really fun show. Colombo but he’s psychologically incapable of maturity
Since no one else has said it, I want to recommend “Dark.” It’s German, so subtitled unless you watch it dubbed, but oh shit what a lengthy ride
Dark was good, but it ended with too many holes for my liking. (Can’t remember them now, sorry).
Thank god I didn’t have to scroll too far to find this!
