the most accurate depiction of corporate IT support that has ever been put to screen
Tom Baker era of Doctor Who. So good.
Futurama.
I put it on to fall asleep. I’m out before the episode ends. A downside is that I’ve seen the start of so many episodes, but rarely the end.
Community never ceases to cheer me up
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Absolutely!
SG1, ALL 3 series. some law and order and house. 2000s the golden era of shows. and also TREK shows, not the crappy nutrek(too much kurtzman, jj abrams meddling). ISAIP (S1-12 only), 13+ seasons were just terrible and ionly fan service with cringey skits. the animated nutrek is much better than the 3 live series.
SPN 1-5, by kripke, 6+ and they made to fanfiction and made it homoerotic because the fans are fantasizing about the characthers.
IASIP… The final episode of season 16 is worth a watch.
13+ clips, and other people defending it just left a bad taste, plus the creators, are all sketchy people now.
- King of the Hill
- Haunting of the Hill House
- Haunting of Bly Manor
- Batman (Animated Series)
- IT Crowd
Band of Brothers once per year, without fail. Curahee!
The line I look forward to the most is: “We’re paratroopers lieutenant. We’re supposed to be surrounded.”
3 miles up; 3 miles down.
An annual audiobook listen for me is Winters’ memoirs, Beyond Band of Brothers. Helps keep me grounded.
Oh, man. Fantastic show, but I find it really hard to watch because I know it’s so damn accurate.
I admire your commitment, it should be in high school history classes. It shows better than anything I’ve ever watched, how hellish it was for everyone.
The D-day beaches, holy hell.
They did a great job of being even handed, and the final episode where the general is addressing his men was so well done, it’s very moving.
The Wire and Luther. Can you tell I love Idris Elba?
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90’s Trek is my go too comfort food. Especially TNG and Voyager. Less so Enterprise. And I never got into DS9 at all (fight me). When I’m looking for a random episode to watch in the background, it’s usually one of those.
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Comedy-wise, Community, Night Court (the original), The IT Crowd, The Office, Futurama, all fill the same role as Star Trek above.
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Less often, but still on a pretty regular rotation, 80’s shows like Quantum Leap, Simon & Simon, MacGuyver, Knight Rider. Just dumb shows where they have a one hour adventure and then have a new one the next week; where you don’t have to stress about watching every damn episode because the entire season is one big plotline.
In Trek, there’s ToS and TNG. After that, meh. They became soap operas, full on. ToS was Greek Morality Plays, and TNG followed that, though had it’s issues too.
Great closing bullet point.
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The Andy Griffith Show. Wholesome, and ALWAYS funny, at least until Don Knotts left the cast. I just watched an Earnest T Bass episode and an Otis the Drunk episode over the weekend.
My dad’s bird could sing the theme when I was really small
Usually, it’s Parks and Rec, The Office, Scrubs, and IASIP. But I have gotten sick of those after watching most of them a dozen plus times, so now it’s Community, Zoeys Playlist, and Cougar Town until I get sick of them too
Have you seen 30 Rock? And Schitts Creek? Would fit in your lists.
I never liked 30 Rock most of the cast I can’t stand. But as a Canadian Shitts Creek is required watching, just not one I found myself wanting to rewatch (the ending with Ted and Alexis really pissed me off)
Oh didn’t expect you to not line 30 Rock after the rest of your list but there ya go. I’m doing a Schitts Creek rewatch now, don’t remember why the Ted/Alexis ending would be annoying but looking forward to remembering 😂
None.
Futurama and avatar are endlessly rewatchable imo
Trailer Park Boys. I can never get enough of the chaos
TNG, Voyager and DS9.
Gotta finish off with Enterprise, it has been a long road.
Binging it right now. The NX is probably my favorite trek ship design. I loved the less polished design.
Thank god for the “skip intro” button. That theme song is the worst.
Underrated take. The true end of the TNG era of shows.
(not era of time, obviously)
