I haven’t been watching much in terms of actual shows for a good while, then while listening to a podcast a host casually mentioned they had rewatched Chernobyl, how it still holds up, that there’s a reason it got as much acclaim as it did, etc. So I thought I’d give it a go and wow, loved it (still one episode left to watch).

Had me thinking, what else have I missed out on? What are some “absolute cinema” TV shows that still hold up and and are considered must watch?

  • eightpix@lemmy.world
    19·
    17 hours ago

    Better than the rest

    • The Wire & Homicide: Life on the Street (David Simon Box Set)

    • Atlanta

    • The Expanse

    Comedy

    • NewsRadio (for Maura Tierney and Dave Foley and Phil Hartman and Khandi Alexander and Vicki Lewis and Stephen Root)
    • Schitt’s Creek
    • Ted Lasso (Seasons 1 and 2)
    • Murphy Brown
    • Sex Education

    Sci-Fi

    • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    • Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009)
    • Dark
    • Devs
    • Altered Carbon (Season 1)

    Drama

    • The Newsroom
    • Law & Order (seasons 1-8)
    • Succession
    • Severance

    Intense Drama (TV-MA and little levity)

    • Chernobyl
    • Adolescence
    • Utopia
    • MR. ROBOT
    • Luther
    • True Detective (Season 1)
    • Vince Gilligan Box Set (Better Call Saul & Breaking Bad & Plur1bus (has levity))
    • Ozark

    Anthology shows

    • Black Mirror
    • Love Death + Robots

    Animated

    • Rick and Morty
    • Samurai Jack (2001-2004, 2017)
    • Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008)
    • Gravity Falls
    • South Park
    • Neon Genesis Evangelion
    • Final Space

    Perpetually on deck for me

    • Fargo
    • Andor
    • Band of Brothers
    • Barry
    • Legion
    • Letterkenny
    • Bojack Horseman
    • Scavenger’s Reign
    • Fringe
    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      2 hours ago

      I think The Pacific is a way more brutally honest series than Band of brothers. I would put it in the same bag as Platoon, Apocalypse now, Full Metal Jacket, true this is fuking war stuff . Band of brothers has a bit of USA, USA! thing to it. Also the fact that it claims the taking of the Eagle’s Nest, when it was “La Nueve”, who also liberated Paris, BTW, pisses me off. La Nueve would make such a banger of a miniseries!

    • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 hours ago

      I forgot about Altered Carbon! That first season was amazing, and it’s borderline criminal how shit the follow up season was.

      • eightpix@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 hours ago

        I wish I had the spare $200 for it. Ill have to pick it up used or from collector in, like, 4 years.

        Really, though, my discretionary $200+ spent on a single book — at this point — would go to Le Pater. I dig Alphonse Mucha and Art Nouveau.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      1·
      14 hours ago

      bsg wouldve been better if they acknowledged the og series, but the showrunner is a “christian/mormon” so he had to insert a messianic message in the show, which rubbed some people the wrong way.

      resident alien was fun, but being syfy they cancelled the show after season 4. they dint do ALAN TUDYK justice.

      mythology/fantasy:

      supernatural 1-5 by kripke, season 6-15 is very cheesy and very "sexualized by the fans to the point the writers just wrote it as a fanfiction.

      Grimm, is too similar to SPN, but its fun its a niche way.