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This is a recreation of a fictional computer program from the excellent Apple TV show - Severance. The work is mysterious, and important. Season 2 is going no
by teej 2y ago
This is a recreation of a fictional computer program from the excellent Apple TV show - Severance.
The work is mysterious, and important.
Season 2 is going now. It’s one of my top 3 shows of the last decade, highly recommend it.
- tombh 2y agoWhat are your other 2? Severance could well get into my top 3, but currently I think mine would be: Mr. Robot, Breaking Bad and Wednesday.
- have_faith 2y agoFor me, Bir Baskadir (Ethos) is easily in the top 3. It only got one season but it's very self contained, highly recommend.
- antirez 2y agoFor me other than severance: Halt and catch fire and Better call Saul.
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- teej 2y agoI enjoy shows where I get completely engrossed in the world and the story. I love shows that I can fall in love with again on a rewatch. And I want to have lingering thoughts about it when it’s over. True Detective S1 (2014) is perfect television, but is too old for the last-decade list. The only other definitive Top 3 is Dark (Netflix) Other candidates: - Frieren - Better Call Saul - Arcane - Midnight Mass - Counterpart (underrated) - Andor
- whycome 2y agoIs it too late to watch True Detective S1 then? Old as in dated?
- pja 2y agoYou should absolutely watch True Detective Season 1. It definitely holds up a decade on.
- teej 2y agoOld as in not made in the last 10 years, so not in the list's window (2015-2025)
- thegabriele 2y agoIt's timeless.
- Supermancho 2y agoTrue Detective S01 seems more cultural for a time, rather than a good story. It's a very drawn out, non-interactive (meaning you can't figure anything out) detective story that's really more of a convoluted buddy cop story with lots of time skipping around. One cop is unlikable and the other is weird (nihilist). The best part is the title theme song and the main character actor performances. My wife and I think it's some kind of nostalgia for when there was nothing better on. Nic Pizzolatto was writing up until 2019 and the subsequent seasons weren't lauded. Probably because he's not that great of a writer.
- omnimus 2y agoDisagree. All True detective have some plot holes. Yet all the seasons are still in highest tier of the genre. Every season has very different setting. Because its series very much about mood people were upset after season 1 that instead of rural occult mystery they got casino gangster corruption. But if you accept its all completely separate mini series each season is pretty good on its own.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y agoIt started off as one of the best tv shows ever. Each season after that made you think it couldn't sink any lower, Game-of-Thrones-season-8 style. I think season 4 might actually have been trying to make fun of the first season, though I have no evidence for it. I do not accept seasons 2 through 4. I reject them.
- walterbell 2y agoIf you like Counterpart, see Fringe, an earlier show with parallel universe.
- ethbr1 2y agoJohn Noble as Dr. Bishop is amazing. And manages to keep it cohesive given later... developments.
- walterbell 2y agoHe later appeared in the Sleepy Hollow series, which had a great first season.
- rcarmo 2y ago+1 for both Andor and Arcane (although I would probably do a +10 for Arcane given how amazing it was inside the genre even not knowing anything about the background story)
- teej 2y agoArcane was really something. Hard to think of anything like it.
- xnx 2y agoNot familiar with all the other shows mentioned, but strong upvote for Andor. Possibly the best Star Wars anything. It's a shame that people might not give it full credit for the drama it is because of the Star Wars association.
- xena 2y agoAlso check out Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. It's got an infectious positivity that we need more of in this day and age.
- teej 2y agoI will!
- ethbr1 2y ago> I enjoy shows where I get completely engrossed in the world and the story. Have you watched LOST? If not, don't read anything on the internet (you'll get spoilers in search results) and give it a shot.
- aaarrm 2y agoFrom is quite fun too. It is extremely similar to lost in its vibes and writing style. For the record I think both of these shows are not good shows, but are definitely entertaining shows.
- teej 2y agoI watched when it was originally aired, but never came back to it. It didn't come together in the end in a satisfying way.
- ethbr1 2y agoHehe, I'm essentially the only person I know who loved the ending. I appreciated that it was a tribute to the characters we'd grown to love, and also kind of a middle finger to the plot bits that didn't line up perfectly. I'd rather watch a show with plot gaps and great characters than a perfectly plotted show with middling characters.
- jbeninger 2y agoHaving caught a few episodes since it ended, I think the real tragedy of LOST is how good each individual episode was in comparison to how terrible the overall planning was. It was engrossing during the episode, but any time spent outside that trying to tease out meaning or clues was just wasted time. Ostensible foreshadowing was really just "wouldn't it be cool if?" with no further thought behind it.
- fumar 2y agoDevs, scavengers reign
- grumpopotamus 2y agoThe box contains everything.
- bdndndndbve 2y agoScavengers Reign is an amazing, 10/10 show and it's so depressing we'll never get a second season. I miss my telepathic dead wife salamander addiction metaphor.
- ethbr1 2y agoScavenger's Reign made me remember how much I missed the batshit crazy Liquid TV animation of the 90s. The SR episode with the moment in the cave wall is the most profound and beautiful animated thing I've seen in awhile. Amazing how tame everything has gotten by comparison.
- mehphp 2y agoSo glad I watched Midnight Mass on a whim. Incredible show.
- plasma_beam 2y agoYes. Best vampire show ever!
- hwestiii 2y agoCounterpart may be the best show of that sort I’ve ever seen.
- aaarrm 2y agoHave you seen Patriot?
- insane_dreamer 2y agoCounterpart was excellent - until it got cancelled :/
- tazjin 2y agoIt's fine, it's wrapped up enough. Watching it is totally worth it, and it won't leave you hanging. The authors were saying that a third season would've pursued a different storyline anyways.
- lostlogin 2y agoTrue Detective was great, but the last episode of season 1 really was a crappy ending.
- walterbell 2y agoThese were good, but short lived. Incorporated (Damon & Affleck), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporated_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporated_(TV_series) Peripheral (Nolan), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peripheral_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peripheral_(TV_series) Zoo (James Patterson), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_(American_TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_(American_TV_series)
- myvoiceismypass 2y agoSlow Horses (also on Apple TV+) is currently my favorite - Gary Oldman is crushing it. Severance is my second favorite of the last decade.
- ethbr1 2y agoSlow Horses is great... until there are action sequences. At which point it does that British television thing where action just isn't. But given there isn't a ton of actual action in it, the bulk of the show holds up.
- defen 2y agoIt's great at building tension but the actual action is pretty underwhelming, as you say.
- ethbr1 2y agoBut it's quirky, because there are some great action shots too. E.g. Jackson Lamb. But those tend to be tighter, usually interior shots. So maybe they should avoid the grand exterior action sequences.
- DonHopkins 2y agoDefinitely The Americans as mentioned above, also The Expanse, The Man in the High Castle, Slow Horses (especially the panoramic London drone shots), Preacher (in which both Tom Cruise and a sewage treatment methane reactor violently explode for their own independent reasons), Babylon 5 (relaxing the last decade constraint), LEXX (a soft porn space opera), Farscape (with real MUPPETS!!!), A&E Network's "A Nero Wolfe Mystery" (with Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe, who was also just as grumpy in War Games), and Wilfred (both the original rough edgy low budget original Australian version, and the well produced clean cut American version with Elijah Woods). Also anything with Esteemed Character Actress Margo Martindale, who was Claudia the KGB handler who liked playing PacMan in The Americans, Mags Bennett the ruthless head of the marijuana and moonshine smuggling clan in Justified, a fictionalized (or was it???) version of herself "Esteemed Character Actress Margo Martindale" in Bojack Horseman, records supervisor Camilla Figg in Dexter, and Ranger Liz in Cocaine Bear ("I'm sorry. Where'd the bear go?"), and a Canadian maple syrup smuggler in The Sticky. Such a wide range and prodigious rap sheet! The Complete Margo Martindale Timeline | BoJack Horseman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX1zXzz8xVw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX1zXzz8xVw
- lostlogin 2y agoIf someone would be kind enough to make a Trakt list (or similar) of HN favourites for Sonarr and Radarr, it would save a lot of community time. For research only, obviously.
- ethbr1 2y agoIf you like Margo Martindale, you'd be remiss in not starting to watch The Riches immediately. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0496343/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0496343/ Eddie Izzard putting in a serious character acting role as an Irish Traveler ner-do-well who essentially steals a Florida suburban identity. With Minnie Driver as his just out of prison addict wife. It was really good, even moreso for its time.
- pavlov 2y ago“The Americans” doesn’t get enough love as one of the top shows of the past decade. The darkness sneaks up on you. The people who start out seeming like James Bond characters end up carrying the full intolerable weight of their lies and destructive actions. People who looked like side characters are followed up with entire life stories in the shadows.
- aaronbrethorst 2y agoThe Americans also has the advantage of being done. It's six seasons long and, imho, manages to the stick the landing.
- simonw 2y agoOne of the best endings of any show I can remember. It answered the biggest question of the show (concerning Stan) so well, and the ending was both surprising and fully earned. Masterful television.
- myvoiceismypass 2y agoI never finished The Americans but The Shield had the most perfect ending possible for that show and it was amazing! Worth checking out for anyone who has not already seen it.
- aaronbrethorst 2y agoFor someone clearly interested in Cold War era espionage movies ("my voice is my password"), you should definitely go back and finish The Americans...
- aaronbrethorst 2y agopassport not password. ugh, been too long since I watched Sneakers
- hwestiii 2y ago
- gordon_freeman 2y agoSame for me. Severance is probably the best show of last decade. The last time I had such an engrossing experience was while reading 1984. My other two are: - Shogun (The depiction of 1600s Japan is so real) - Resident Alien (Funny and heartwarming to see an Alien getting accustomed to life on Earth dealing with complex human relationships with their flaws) PS: I am sad to exclude Parks and Recreation which ran from 2009-2015 so probably considered outside of last decade.
- lostlogin 2y agoFor a similar vibe to parks and Recreation, Veep.
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- udev4096 2y agoYou'll find halt and catch fire equally engrossing. Give it a shot!
- __rito__ 2y agoTotally liked Halt and Catch Fire. One of the best I have seen.
- tazjin 2y agoCounterpart! (That, by the way, is where Severance seemingly got the inspiration for "The Board")
- ethbr1 2y ago"Patriot" (on Amazon Prime) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4687882/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4687882/ Criminally underrated. If you enjoy older Guy Ritchie films or In Bruges, do yourself a favor and watch it. Also thematically similar, re: alienation and disassociation!
- wellthisisgreat 2y agoPatriot is unlike anything else. Magical in a way it worked. The same crew made another show and I couldn’t get past 2 episodes. Patriot was really a celestial event in the world of TV
- vFunct 2y agoMy favorite show over the last decade. Also on Amazon is Zero Zero Zero. Intense.
- dumbfounder 2y agoSo very sad it did not continue. Another underrated gem: Wayne.
- taberiand 2y agoI was very happy with how Patriot ended though - it's probably heavily influenced by where my head was at when I watched it but it left me deeply affected for days, and it's the only show to ever do that.
- Duanemclemore 2y agoPatriot is indeed criminally underrated. I knew about "pipe speak" [1] before the show [2]. But it turned my partner on to it, and so we speak a lot in it to this day for fun. [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HML8PMPeFkg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HML8PMPeFkg [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_encabulator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_encabulator
- ethbr1 2y agoI may be able to make your weeks then. https://m.soundcloud.com/leslie-claret/chapter-one https://m.soundcloud.com/leslie-claret/chapter-one Nine episodes were made as part of the show: https://www.lgclaret.com/ https://www.lgclaret.com/
- inopinatus 2y agoI am enjoying the form and structure but still uncertain about the substance. I do hope they have a narrative arc planned with a satisfyingly metaphorical conclusion and will not, like certain other shows in a similar genre, meander from one surrealist allegory to another because additional seasons were ordered. The only truly exemplary production I can name in this vein being the sole season of The Prisoner (McGoohan, 1967-68). Be seeing you
- wk_end 2y ago(spoilers) It was really good at building up a mystery over the course of the first season, but I've been a little disappointed in the second so far. The pacing's become glacial; the first couple of episodes worked mostly to undercut the dramatic significance of the events of last season's finale. And I feel like the way that the satire is slowly being replaced by self-serious "lore" is hurting the show; it was very funny and disturbing to see the way the innies are "raised" in a cult and view the CEO as a kind of Messiah (and observe the parallels to real-world corporate culture); Lumen really being an evil cult - as opposed to just an evil company - in "reality", feels less satirical and more ham-fisted. The ending of the most recent episode suggests promising things to come at least.
- aaarrm 2y agoI think season 2 will end up doing a lot tbh. It got great reviews from critics and they allowed critics to watch the full season before reviewing, which isn't as common. Usually it's only one or two episodes. It makes me feel like they had a big story that they wanted to be witnessed in its entirety for the critics.
- _petronius 2y agoIt did the thing I hate, which is a cliffhanger climax, and instead of picking up the thread where it left off and providing resolution/denouement, it just sort of ... resets? The gold standard, IMO is something like the TNG episodes "The Best of Both Worlds" pt 1 and 2 -- an end-of-season cliffhanger that rewards you returning to the show by telling you what happens next! I think the lacuna here is meant to add to the tension and mystery, but I agree that the new season has started off frustratingly slow. You gotta wrap up stuff to move forward with a plot, otherwise it's all just treading water for the sake of atmosphere.
- steve_adams_86 2y agoI’m routinely pulled out of it for a moment to appreciate how genuinely interesting and thought-provoking the writing is compared to what I’ve been seeing for years now. Maybe I watch the wrong stuff, but I’m glad I gave this a chance. It’s so fun.
- UncleOxidant 2y agoAgreed. I think "The Americans" is still at the top of my list for the last decade then it's a tossup between "The Leftovers", "Severance" and "Mr. Robot". Edit: I forgot "Andor". Easily the best Star Wars thing since the original 3. I like how it shows the hubris and infighting of The Empire and how that leaves openings for the resistance. Feels like a very real look into the workings of an authoritarian regime.
- jiggawatts 2y ago"Or perhaps you find my politics a bit strong for your taste?" was some of the best television I had ever seen in my life, easily up there with the best lines from Breaking Bad or Anthony Hopkins' monologues in West World. The build-up to that moment was masterfully done. I got goosebumps at that crescendo.
- georgeecollins 2y agoAmericans is great-- a little uneven because there is a lot more of it then say, Patriot, but also a typically underrated show. Superb cast (they were actually married) and a great take on the material. They could have made them goodie two shoes who subverted their mission; they could have made them sinister spies. Instead they made them people.
- beardedmoose 2y agoMr. Robot had one of the craziest endings I have ever seen in a show. I'll admit I had a tough time watching it around S2 because so much was unexplained, and I felt like I was going insane. So glad I stuck it out though, I still think about it.
- UncleOxidant 2y agoYeah, it takes a while to figure out that the narrator is unreliable... oh, don't want to spoiler it. I hope Sam Esmail is working on something else for us.
- spaceman_2020 2y agoApple TV is silently killing it Both my two favorite shows of the last few years are on it - Severance and Silo
- trevorhinesley 2y agoSeconded
- phren0logy 2y agoYou forgot Slow Horses!
- wellthisisgreat 2y agoStarted ok to good. Latest season is near masterpiece especially in terms of dialogue
- nikisweeting 2y agoNow they just have to revive Maniac from Netflix!
- MrDrMcCoy 2y agoRevive it? It was a complete story and ended where it wanted, as far as I can tell. I loved it, but can't imagine how it would continue in a meaningful way.
- nikisweeting 2y agoIt was such a beautiful world that could've contained so many more stories, I was just devastated to see it end so soon.
- brujoand 2y agoMy current theory is that the severed workers are actually monitoring silos.
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- philip1209 2y agoI'd add in The Bridge - original Swedish version with subtitles - is another of my favorite shows. The Nordic Noir genre has mix of intellectualism and misanthropy that I love in shows (including Severance). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1733785/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1733785/
- __rito__ 2y agoI liked first two seasons, but couldn’t continueq watching the third one.q
- jrmg 2y agoAll these people in this thread listing great recent shows, and no love yet for Fargo?!
- stevefeinstein 2y agoOnce I got to the chase scene with Fleetwood Mac's Tusk on the soundtrack of the first episode I was hooked.