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Looking back my votes, there's so many shows that I just stopped watching. Never seeing their end, because the shows became meh.
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Looten Plunder posted:Going from top 10 to giving up on a show entirely is pretty dramatic. What are some examples? Pretty much all the CW Superhero shows, IZombie, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Jane the Virgin, Crazy ex-Girlfriend and Westworld. I still like the earlier seasons, but when I've tried rewatching them, my interest just fizzle out after earlier seasons. Some of them are going to make it to my top 20 list, because those few seasons were sooo good. Maybe I'm just not that much of a TV-viewer any more? I still watch youtube/twitch content creators and looking forward to new seasons of Witcher and Orville.
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My top 20 list. I've listed on parenthesis, which season I think are worthy of the nomination. Usually series went downhill on later season and I didn't list those season. I haven't watched really any new series since the last season of Orville ended. I cheated a bit by lumping similar series under honourable mentions, instead of separate entries. The Honorable Mentions: American Gods (S1, Starz) What a great season based on a modern classic, by the Neil Gaiman. Shame about all the behind the scenes fuckery. Never watched the later seasons. The Librarians (S1-4, TNT) Campy C-tier action-adventure show in spirit of Indiana Jones. What’s not to like? Based on Straight to Brooklyn Nine Nine (S1-3 FOX) Very funny original comedy with Andy Samberg and Terry Crews. Very fresh at the start, but show got flanderised at some point and it mostly started coasting with old jokes. First few seasons were great though. Top 20 list: 20. Lucha Underground (S1-4 El Rey) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYipyNbZimg One of those too beautiful to last concepts. It was a Pro-wrestling show, but it was not as a standard wrestling show. No It was filmed with a TV-series storylines with live-action matches. The production values were good, wrestling was very Luchadory, which is to say it was mostly flippy spotfests, but I loved it. I don’t currently watch any other wrestling, but if a show like LU was on, I definitely would watch it. 19. Awake (S1 NBC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfPVoiQKFvk a Mid-season filler show that never got renewed. A Nice little mini-series about a detective, who was in a car accident and now alternates between realities, where either his wife or his son died. Very interesting concept show and the gimmick never got stale, maybe thanks to the short 13 episode running time. Was earlier on netflix, but can’t find a streaming service that would show it in Finland anymore  18 Jessica Jones (S1-3 Netflix, with honourable mentions to Daredevil) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWHUjuJ8zxE My favourite drunk superhero. 17. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (S1-4, Netflix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIdFa1qLgNQ Quirky, fish out of water comedy from Tina Fey. There’s just something lovely about main character and how she faces the world with such a cheery optimism. 16. Jane the Virgin (s1-2, CW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSizHgQNBZQ CW show, that had a great beginning with the telenovela gimmick and heartwarming characters. Show ended up being stale on later seasons. 15. Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (S1-S2, HBO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9wHzt6gBgI Great weekly show about important topics like Indian elections or plight of the chicken farmers. John Oliver mostly avoided topical news as most other pundits would grind all the jokes to the ground, before he had the change to comment on them. Then during the 2016 elections he fell to the Trump derangement syndrome and the show became almost exclusively about Trump and daily Ameripol crap, that he mostly avoided earlier. RIP 14. Ash vs Evil Dead (S1-3, Starz) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdZUN8jdY-g Splatter isn’t my favourite horror genre, but there’s something about Bruce Campbell that makes this show so entertaining. Show kept churning forward and kept going one body part after another. Probably ended right before getting too stale. Great series. 13. Crazy ex-girlfriend (S1-3 CW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIJKuxzWAGs Another CW show? This is a tale old as CW. Couple of great season, got stale… yada yada. I love musicals and the earlier seasons and songs were really great. 12. Arrow (S1-3 CW, with honourable mentions for Legends of Tomorrow S2-3, Flash S1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzRVoGz3maM “My name is Oliver Queen. For five years I was “stranded” on an island with only one goal… survive. Now I will fulfill my father’s dying wish… to use a list of names he left me, to bring down those who are poisoning my city.” Early seasons of Arrow had a very strong narrative with episodes main story gets reflected with what happened on Oliver’s past on the Island. Before this show, I had no idea about DC superheroes outside of the earlier movies like Batman and Superman. This show made me a fan. Special mention to Flash S1. It also had a tight season narrative with Barry, his mentor and his nemesis. Too bad all the cw superhero shows went too saturday morning cartooney and just cruised along churning more bland seasons. But they all had a stronger earlier seasons. Arrow with his streetlevel storytelling was my favourite. 11 Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (S1-3, Netflix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tup-5yOcJuM Lovely series about 3 orphans and their legal guardian Count Olaf. Nothing bad or untoward ever happens. Very happy story that is carried by Neil Patrick Harris performance. 10 Key & Peele (s1-5, Comedy Central) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-2ZxldMO-M Great comedic duo that had lot of really funny sketches. There’s nothing more to say about them so here’s some of the sketches. 09 Legion (s1, Fox) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pep_HiCqYJA Tightly woven story about a z-tier marvel superhero. Very cool stylistical 60-inspired design combined with some modern stuff. First season of this was just magic, with tightly told mystery about main characters past and the weird world they live in. I never finished the 2nd season, but it is on my to do list… eventually.  08 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (s1-2, BBC America) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj7xMKxXYvU Quirky little mystery show in Douglas Adams spirit. 07 Doctor Who (S6-10, BBC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vIsQ25Krq8 Season 5 would have elevated this to top3, but it just missed the cut. Moffats direction elevated this legacy series from merely good to mostly great show about madman with box. Shame that the quality nosedived after Moffat left the show. Haven’t seen the latest season and not planning to watch it until Chibnall is gone. 06 Sense8 (S1-2, Netflix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8vd0AjdNbQ Pretty queer show from the Wachowskis and Straczynski. I love how over the top, bold and sexual this show is and is not ashamed of it. Beautiful visuals and conspiracy storylines carry this story, although the main cast is pretty great too. I loved their individual stories and how they interweave with each other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el4CQj-TCbA 05 Planet earth 2 (BBC with honourable mentions to other Attenborough documentaries from last 10 years, including: Frozen planet, Africa, Life Story, Blue Planet 2, Dynasties, Our Planet) What can I say. I’m sucker for these high budget BBC nature documentaries and Sir Attenborough voice is simply amazing. He could read me a phonebook and I would listen to it. Modern cinematography really does justice to majesty of the nature and is the best argument for having huge 4k television. Shame about 3D-bluerays being just a fad, because 3d-nature documentaries simply popped. 04 Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (s1, Fox) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_erVOAbz420 What’s better than nature documentaries? Space/science documentaries. Like Sir Attenborough, Neil DeGrasse Tyson has a great voice. I loved the 1:st season and planning on watching the 2nd one, when I have the time and can find a streaming service for it. 03 Orphan Black (S1-5, Space) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do_BCA-vR9E One womans show about a clone conspiracy. Great story with Tatiana Maslany carrying it with her 4 5 main cast roles. 02 Community (s3, s5 NBC and S6 Yahoo Screen (lol)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01t_XVaPud8 Apart from season 4, which doesn’t exists, this show was a masterpiece of comedy. I would have even paid for Yahoo screen to see another season of Community, but luckily it was free. Show lost lot of talent in later seasons, but the replacement characters were luckily great. 01 The Orville (S1-2, Fox) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWBRMaKsGN4 Best drat Star Trek show currently on television of all time! Post 9/11 world has been pretty grim dark and modern television shows including current Star Trek shows have mirrored it. The Orville is the shining beacon on the hill about a better tomorrow. Yeah, there’s still problems and conflict in the future, but people are mostly decent and the future spaceships are brightly lit. Currently I’ve mostly given up on following current tv-series, but I’m waiting for the 3rd season of The Orville, which comes in Spring 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heMcSXRXm5Q Edit1: For some reason arrow had wrong number in front of it. Fixed it from 18->12. Issaries fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Nov 19, 2021 |
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Oct 23, 2021 03:20
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Yeah. I love how people love so different things. I find most 'prestige series' pretentious, boring and filled with unredeemable characters. And I value great comedy more than drama.
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Oct 23, 2021 10:25
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Oh shi. I completely forgot You're the Worst! But I don't know if it still fit into my top 20. I already left out bunch of other shows. 
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Dec 30, 2021 20:00
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