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I've literally never heard of any of these shows and I watch a lot of TV shows. I only know of Vikings in the top 50
by drexlspivey 3y ago
I've literally never heard of any of these shows and I watch a lot of TV shows. I only know of Vikings in the top 50
- ferrumfist 3y ago"Beef" was pretty great, I'd recommend that. I'm surprised to see no mention of "The Witcher", though, I figured that would've ranked relatively highly despite the many creative shortcomings of the show.
- kranke155 3y agoWitcher S1 is at row 171 Witcher S2 at row 233 Witcher S3 at row 556
- jay_kyburz 3y agoI really love the production values, the costumes, the makeup, the world. I love the idea of the Witcher. But I have no idea what the story is about or what anybody is talking about. It's just all way too complicated.
- kranke155 3y agoThe TV show made it hard to follow. The games are fairly easy to get I’d say.
- jncfhnb 3y agoI thought season 1 was straightforward once you understood the dual timelines
- spiderice 3y ago> once you understood the dual timelines That's a big caveat. Haha. I made it through almost the entirety of the season before I realized there were dual timelines. Nothing made sense. Maybe that's on me.. but I feel like enough people had similar issues that it's more likely a major shortcoming of the show.
- jncfhnb 3y agoI think that’s supposed to be intentional though. It didn’t click with me either even though in retrospect characters in the future are reflecting on their pasts that were shown in the very same episode. I thought it was a really good execution tbh. It’s rare to see fantasy play out the effect of different lifespans
- deadbunny 3y agoI'm the same, something as simple as `$year` at the bottom of the screen when switching about would have helped me immensely. It was disorienting enough that it put me off watching any of the further seasons.
- kranke155 3y agoI think the writers were being too clever.
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- watwut 3y agoIt does not help that main character only grunts in the show instead of talking. The book version of Geralt is the most talkative swordsman ever, so you learn a lot from dialogs or his thoughts. When you replace dialogs by grunts, you loose a lot of information.
- acchow 3y ago"Beef" was the only Netflix show I liked in a long while. Have since canceled Netflix.
- firecall 3y agoI thought the live action One Piece was amazing! My 14 year old boy loves One Piece anime, so we watched it together so I could see what it was all about. It’s a surprising substantial TV show in its own right, and for once a fantasy TV is just good fun without trying to hard to be serious drama.
- wmil 3y agoOne interesting difference is that in the TV show Luffy has a friendly smile on most of the time. In the anime Luffy runs around with a wide eyed unblinking psychopathic stare.
- humanrebar 3y agoAlso less objectification of women in the update.
- firecall 3y agoUpvote for Beef. As with some shows the description doesn’t really do it justice. It has a lot more going for it than the premise suggests!
- watwut 3y agoThe Witcher was pretty bad in its last season. I know multiple people who just stopped to watch it, because the show was too annoying for millions of reasons. I mean, I myself could not handle last series. Not just because of "faithfulness to source" issues, but because pacing, insufferable dialogs, characters that done makes sense etc. And the series before that would be fine if it was not called the Witcher, but as it was it made any reasonable progress impossible.
- terminous 3y agoThe obvious question: do you watch a lot of TV shows on Netflix? Because these are all [edit: not all, but mostly] Netflix originals/exclusives. I ask because as a Netflix user, these titles are constantly being pushed to me when I open up the app.
- drexlspivey 3y agoNot anymore but even If I haven't watched it I'll probably hear about it from friends/online/twitter etc if it's any good.
- karmelapple 3y agoThese are not all Netflix exclusives - I see "Breaking Bad: Season 5" on here, Minions: The Rise of Gru, etc.
- technothrasher 3y agoI've heard of plenty of them, but only watched a few, and only watched maybe two of them more than once. But I watch weird back catalog documentaries and such that I wouldn't expect to be crowd pleasers.
- jl6 3y agoStephen Fry described TV as the nation’s fireplace, with the implication that shared viewing of a common canon strengthens cultural connections with other people. It’s like how millennials can drop a Simpsons quote into a conversation with their peers and everybody gets the reference. Peak TV has annihilated this. Nobody watches the same stuff anymore. Did you catch the latest season of Current Thing? No, because there’s no Current Thing any more, there’s a thousand of them. The more we watch, the more isolated we become.
- Tadpole9181 3y agoLess pessimistically, we now have content for a broader diversity of tastes - greater than ever before. As a result, people can choose to watch shows socially with friends, as well as have content just for themselves. And consuming that content can lead to finding new social groups based on shared interests, if they do desire. I find the diatribe of "things got better, we got worse" so... boring and antisocial? You never magically made friends, you have always had to make them. There are now tools specifically to help you do this, and your pool has become unrestricted to the geographical region of your job. It's easier than ever, it's more likely you're just overwhelmed by the change. But even that's fine - I made a new friend today while out and about. Just from talkin' like "the good ole days".
- Kye 3y agoWhat We Do In The Shadows is extremely queer and has managed to develop significant reach, and that makes me happy. I thought some of the jokey bi stuff in the first season would be throwaway like usual, but they keep dialing it up. The writers are very well-versed in the vampire meta, and it shows.
- jncfhnb 3y agoIdk. On one hand all the main characters are gay or bi (I think Collin is?). On the other it’s almost entirely a non issue. The vampires have no concept of gay culture at all. As a straight guy with no particular connection to in group lgbt culture this seems preferable. It’s often culturally alienating. What we do in the shadows is comfortably normative
- whartung 3y agoIn the top 50, I've see Night Agent (give it a 7), Luther (6-7), Extraction 2 (6). I've heard good things about Beef, and maybe Kaleidoscope. Kaleidoscope is novel because it's an 8 episode heist show that, in theory, can be watched in any order and be cogent. Arguably, this is one reason I have not watched it. Not a big fan of gimmicky things. Of course there's also the bit of the "how can there be 18,000 shows and nothing to watch?"
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- ghshephard 3y agoI don't watch any TV, with a few exception for prestige shows that everyone else is watching - and I recognized a lot on that list - Walking Dead, Suits, Grey's Anatony, Gilmore Girls, Breaking Bad (which I've watched), Friends, Lucifer, Big Bang Theory.
- S04dKHzrKT 3y agoI'd say give Breaking Bad a try. It regularly comes up in "Best TV Show of All Time" conversations.
- xarope 3y agoBased on the synopsis, I expected to NOT like Breaking Bad, but Bryan Cranston's performance was superb. I will never be able to see another Los Pollos Hermanos with a straight face again.
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- firecall 3y agoSurely you’ve heard of the Walking Dead?