Looking for some slop I can binge watch.
Any suggestions? Currently on the final season of Schitt’s Creek. Just rewatched The Expanse, Better Off Ted and Letterkenny before I started Schitt’s Creek.
Nothing serious. I don’t want to learn anything. No true crime or docuseries whatevers. No an*me. Nothing political (I know I know everything’s political). I’m fine w it being something you have to pay attention to from ep to ep. I’m fine with something you don’t have to pay attention to. Doesn’t have to be modern, or new. Doesn’t have to be in English as long as there’s some subtitles.
Just need some slop. Please and thanks n stuff.
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This Flag Means Death is hilarious, and also is shockingly true to what actually happened. The story of this rich man who decided to run away from his wife to become a pirate and was hilariously bad at it and became friends with Blackbeard is absolutely true, and the story is almost entirely faithful to the history of it. It’s just hilarious.
Also VEEP is a hilarious parody of the White House. It’s also not very political one way or the other for being a comedy about politicians.
I’ve never heard of it until this post. Looking it up, it looks interesting. And I completely forgot about VEEP. Thanks!
What we do in the shadows
Thanks!
Np, also Wellington Paranormal is amazing
This is a very good rec
Twin Peaks or The X-Files. I throw either on depending on whether i want to pay attention or just want to have something on in the background.
Second for Twin Peaks. The OG is more slopish while the sequel is much darker and requires some pondering.
It’s been recommended a few times so far. I’ll have to put it on my list once I’m done binging Schitts Creek.
It’s a favorite of mine. The first season is so good, the second season is a bit wack because Lynch didn’t direct until the final 2 episodes.
Highly recommend Barry if you have not seen it. Hitman becomes theatre guy but cant escape being a hitman. Henry Winkler is great in it, but the real show stealer is Anthony Carrigan as NoHo hank, a Chechen gangster who is also Barry’s gay friend and just fucking owns so much.
I haven’t but you’re the second to recommend it so it’s going on the list for sure. Thanks.
Also liked Barry a lot
The acting in this show is insanely good, from everyone
Yeah it really is a bit of a circlejerk of actors acting their most actorly but as a theatre kid myself it just makes it all the better.
The lives of the characters becoming preposterously bleak in the later seasons is when this show thrives and allows all the actors to just act it all up
Every Star Trek, including The Orville but not including Discovery or Picard. Precluding animation leaves out some of the best ones though.
Andor is the only good Star Wars thing.
Shogun was decent.
Was Discovery not good? Heard Picard wasn’t good, but thought I heard Discovery was one of the good ones.
I’ve been starting from scratch at season 1 of the Original Series and am surprised at how much fun I’m having. It’s basically Twilight Zone in space and I didn’t expect that for some reason (to the point where they basically ripped off a Twilight Zone episode in one of the first couple episodes lol).
They had a lot of crossover, IIRC, and several sci-fi writers got involved with scripts. There’s some brilliant concept plots, and even in some of the really dated ones you can still see what they were going for.
Discovery and Picard were libshit shows that hated every premise of Star Trek, basically. Others often struggled with them, or outright challenged them, but Discovery and Picard were outright nasty in that particular bullishly ignorant way.
That’s awesome! I had no idea and it totally explains the great concepts they work with.
I found Discovery to be much too grimdark and hopeless about a positive future.
There were also a lot of bad faith criticisms of it from reationaries mad that the main character is a Black woman but unfortunately not everything that makes reactionaries mad is good.
I’m willing to give something a watch, but animation has a hard time holding my attention for some reason. Even versus audio medium. Not sure why.
Lower Decks is my absolute favorite Star Trek
Kind of the opposite of slop, but Blackadder.
Thank you. I’ll put this one on the list.
The Wire
Chernobyl (there’s a lot of anti-communist lies and half-truths, but if you can ignore that it’s well worth it). It’s more of a drama than a docuseries, but it might be a bit much however.
I’ve actually been meaning to give it a watch. I’m usually fashionably late by a few years or more when I finally get around to watching something.
Both are lib but at their best. Wire does drill in the concept of systemic problems with how every season resets in the end. Chernobyl is deeply critical of the soviet union’s internal censorship (afaik this is a fair criticism of the late soviet union), but it also shows the USSR moving heaven and earth to literally save the world. The US would be utterly incapable of cleaning up that sort of mess.
Murderbot.
I’ve never heard of that before now. I had to go look it up. It sounds weird and sounds like something I’d watch. Thanks!
Welcome. Great book series too.
X-Files is the perfect combination of slop and deep state paranoia
Severance
A coworker was recently talking about this one I think. It’s got Patricia Arquette and John Turturo in it correct?
Yes that’s the one. Great show, completely unique premise.
Not enjoying the second season as much so far, but I’m admittedly only a couple episodes in. Does it pick up or is the second season just not as good?
It takes a few to pick back up but it gets there
So, my understanding is the network made them stretch the show a bit. So season 2 is thinner than one. It does pick up iirc, but imo it never gets as good as season one.
Wondering the same thing
I am also kind of losing steam on season two, but only like two eps in. I think that in my case the issue is kind of the frustration of the time jumps and that it keeps going like two steps forward and like one or one and a half backwards. Though I guess they want to create the feeling, so I guess it is working. Same thing happens with other shows that do similar (or in other cases seem to try so hard to not reach a real point until like the last ep or two). I enjoy when they can land it, but I tend to kind of hate whole seasons until “the big reveal” or whatever is able to make it worthwhile.
When I watched the first season of Severance, I had just finished Pantheon and liked that it chose to end after two seasons. So after the first season of Severance, I was hoping that it would not try to run more than two or three. It is wild how much they can make these modern shows pack basically the slowness of older 25 ep seasons of older shows.
Kind of the same annoyance happens when I find what seems to be a long-form YouTube doc/deep-dive. But realize that it is all AI and keeps somehow constantly repeating the same information in a circular form instead of more information (gotten real good at picking up on that shit). Or like supper click-bait “articles” that have multiple “next page” bits at the end of each page. Just always circle with “but that is when the crucial and amazing blah blah” with like a few sentences that “advance” the topic (and of course the page is just loaded with ads).
If you haven’t watched it yet, the first 3 seasons of Arrested Development
Arrested development is a great show. I honestly think every episode except for the stuff in 4 is just great.
Our flag means death
there’s like 8 good seasons of The Simpsons 5 ok seasons and 25 bad seasons
I’ve tried Simpsons a few times actually. I’ve always just chosen a couple random episodes to sorta get me interested and it just never seems to happen for some reason.
the show doesn’t have much continuity but a lot of the best episodes you kinda need to understand who the characters are and maybe you don’t get that from one-offs.
Comedy Series I’ve enjoyed not mentioned by others:
- The Office Movers
- Party Down
- Shrinking
- Ted Lasso
- Uncle (BBC)
- Bored to Death
- Nobody Wants This
- Platonic
- Silicon Valley
Drama/Other
- Chance
- The Bear
- Condor
- The Day of the Jackal
- Lessons in Chemistry
- Lost
- Ozark
- Paradise
- Severance
- Sugar
- The Winter King
- Rome
No one ever brings up bored to death. That show ruled
Dang thats a good list. Thanks a bunch. I haven’t seen any of the comedy stuff listed and only seen Ozark from the drama list.
+1 for Chance. Season two in particular was outstanding.
I loved that show. it’s a rare gem, a show where the vigilantism themes don’t carry water for reactionary politics and their childish tropes in lieu of developing it’s characters, revealing their complexity, and confronting their/our preconceptions.
also agree about season 2. season 1 is very strong but season 2 really shines.
apparently it’s based on some books, which I’ve been meaning to look into.
Gravity Falls is a fun watch.
I also sometimes will watch a random episode of Colombo.
