I’ve been rewatching my favorites (Mr. Robot, Andor, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) and I’m curious: What is your favorite show of all time? What makes that your favorite?
Firefly/Stargate/expanse
wow. did a ctrl-f and firefly did not come up. Normally I find the first person to say firefly and reply to it. guess im that guy today. anyway. yeah. im one of those firefly folks. firefly for tv and lotr for movies.
Replying to your Firefly comment.
That’s currently 83 comments and the post is 17 hours old. Your comment was made an hour after the post was made. How many comments were there?
The top comment right now lists Firefly
im not sure. I mean enough I had to scroll a bit.
Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Rewatching this for the nth time right now.
Does a version that doesn’t look like crap exist? Seems like it’s very low res everywhere I can find it, even through the seven seas.
Honestly the one I’m streaming now looks like crap too. I had torrented a really high quality one a couple years ago, so probably on TPB?
I was thinking that I didn’t have one, but Avatar is one of the one’s I rewatched the most, so it has to be up there. It’s probably between that and The Office.
I’m no particular order:
Dramas:
- The Wire (truly incredible TV, maybe the best Shakespeare ever told through Baltimore drug trade)
- Succession
- Damages (legal drama)
- True Detective (wish I could go back and experience watching this for the first time again so bad)
- Mad Men
- Widow’s Bay (apple TV and absolutely hysterical horror)
Comedies:
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Arrested Development
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Veep
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Silicon Valley
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Schitt’s Creek
Regularly on in the background:
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Futurama
- 30 Rock
- The Good Place
The Good Place had no business being as good as it was.
Fork yeah!
This. This is a rock solid list, dude.
Cowboy Bebop (the animated ver) - Just absolute cinema the whole time. Never watched the live action, probably never will. Soundtrack goes so hard and the voice acting in both English and Japanese are unparalleled imo. Such an imaginative and realistic depiction of the future, especially for the time. Thanks a million to Adult Swim for introducing me to my fav show of all time.
I really liked the live action Cowboy Bebop. But then, I never watch the anime. Then again, I don’t mind remakes and format changes, so long as it is still well made.
The Expanse, Fringe, Malcolm in the Middle, Archer, GITS SAC, off the top of my head.
I’m a big fan of sci Fi and the expanse does hit a lot of boxes. It’s in my top few as well.
I can definitely rewatch The Expanse every few years.
I’ve tried several times to get into it, but I can’t seem to get over the acting being sort of second rate. It keeps pulling me out of the story.
I’m really hoping they do the Laconia story now that the requisite years have passed. Or at least enough that the actors will look correct.
Fringe doesn’t get mentioned enough nowadays
Walter is one if the most dynamic characters in TV history IMO.
John Noble is amazing
im partial to malcom in the middle, until we find out frankie muniz hangs out with people like joe arpaio, and a known conservative himself. i think in one interview he said he “dint like his co-stars political views, other than his”
Star Trek TNG. Without a doubt.
Macgyver is up there, so is Westworld.
I do love MacGyver! Grew up on that, Quantum Leap and Wings!
I’m genuinely curious how you rate the seasons of Westworld, the first season is absolutely one of the best things I’ve ever watched, and I still enjoyed the second season, but it really declined from there in my opinion
Encounter at far point is one my favorite sci-fi movies of all time.
Babylon 5 — just the perfect scifi show for me with a five-season story arc that was planned from the beginning.
Others: Farscape, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dark, The West Wing, Community, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
DARK.
I should watch this again.
It’s different, and arguably better, on second viewing.
Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley. The best representation of actual computer nerds I’ve ever seen.
Runner up: The Wire
Runner up: The Wire
“You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, and you don’t know where the fuck it’s gonna take you.”
- The Simpsons 2-9
- It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
All because of their fantastic comedy writing: nuanced, layered jokes, with satisfying stories, characters and plots which leads to endless rewatchability.
- Community
- Atlanta
For being weird experimental extremely well written comedies. Rick and Morty’s early seasons might make it on this list but I haven’t gone back in a while.
- Breaking Bad
- The Expanse
For being long serious satisfying dramas with great characters and writing.
- Dark
Get a special shout-out for being one of the only mystery box shows I’ve ever seen that sticks the landing.
- Arrested Development 1-3
- Parks and Rec
- 30 Rock
- The Office
All get shout outs for being great comedies, if not quite at the tier of the above.
Since all of these are also my favourites, you may want to try Fleabag for a comedy, and the Wire, Fargo, True Detective and Severance for drama. Fargo might be my favourite series in general, Fargo and the Simpsons, if I could pick two.
I agree with almost all those choices but I never finished any of those series so didn’t put them on.
Severance is the only one on there I disagree with. They may stick the landing, but imho I highly suspect they’ve fully jumped the shark and are in the “oh fuck, we didn’t actually plan for it to go on this long” part of a mystery box. I suspect it will just waste time for like another 2-3 seasons then suddenly end while not answering half the questions from the early seasons … like virtually all of mystery boxes that aren’t Dark do.
Do you even read comments from people who post?
This guy is talking about MC dicks… Various fast foods. If you don’t realize this guy is either in marketing or is just a bot that markets… That’s on you.
Lol shut the fuck up you cunty dumbass. No one is on here reading through everyone’s post history but you, you crept fucking weirdo.
Market my sweaty asshole after you finish munching on it numb nuts.
Atlanta is so good. There’s a Canadian show called Late Bloomer that for some reason gives me similar vibes. It’s not really similar other than it being a darkish comedy about a troubled artist, but just something about the writing hits the same way.
Look at this side show mel… the first season of The Simpsons was absolutely the best season of The Simpsons.
(Bob was replaced my mel. Bob is cool. Mel is just a tool.)
Poster is AI. Blocked.
Mr. Robot. I’m super into the sometimes cheesy “fuck society” mentality. And everything that happens in that show either could or has already happened in reality.
Scrubs, the good place, star trek tng/ds9, doctor who, torchwood
- Frieren
- ATLA
- Firefly
ATLA is the GOAT.
Firefly - I’m not into it, but my wife fucking loves it. She had a Firefly wedding, like all themed and stuff. Which I don’t understand but whatever.
That’s wild. So you don’t particularly care for the show, but it was presumably the theme for your wedding as well? Or was this a previous marriage?
Not my wedding, haha. Her previous wedding. Our wedding together was conducted by a gay pastor in a park.
And I send her ex-husband a “fuck you” message once a year, along with a picture of his ex wife happy in glorious locales.
So… funny story. Before I ever watched frieren, I bought a T-shirt about that series in Akihabara. Then when we got home we watched the first season and I regretted not buying several amazing figures from the series while I was there.
Tough call. Absolutely depends on mood but right now I’d say Bojack Horseman. One of the few shows that got better all way through and ended at exactly the right time.
