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What 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.
by tombh 2y ago
What 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.
- lostlogin 2y agoNo, watch it. And speaking of old goodness, The Wire, possibly the best TV series ever. And with the 1080p re-release, I’m going to claim it’s younger than 10 years old. Edit: oops. 1080p happened in 2014. https://www.theverge.com/2014/12/28/7457291/the-wire-hd-screenshot-comparisons https://www.theverge.com/2014/12/28/7457291/the-wire-hd-scre...
- __rito__ 2y agoYeah, I rate The Wire among literature. It transcends television. It's great, and also very enjoyable.
- 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.