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Oh man, I've been rewatching Lexx, I have no idea how it got four seasons but I'm incredibly glad. It's a Canadian/German production, and it's probably the most horny SciFi/Comedy show I can think of, the ships are all inspired by insects and bugs, and it feels like half the props and sets are straight out of a BDSM store. What's makes it even stranger is it's got a rather serious plot about overthrowing a dark brutal ruler called "The Shadow". Oh, it also guest stars Tim Curry and Malcolm McDowell. It should be really well known, but I think I've only met perhaps two people who've ever seen any of it, and that's because they've watched almost all SciFi out there.
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Uh, His Divine Shadow, you absolute poser. (Lexx was a good show)
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Nov 4, 2021 15:31
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Ohhai posted:Oh man, I've been rewatching Lexx, I have no idea how it got four seasons but I'm incredibly glad. If you like it, and haven't heard about it's major inspiration, try Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Mœbius. Batshit space opera. Violent, weird, and very Jodorowsky. Pretty in a very ugly way. If you find yourself liking that, The Metabarons, by Jodorowsky and Gimenez, expands on the story and goes it's own bizarre way. Transgender and hermaphrodite characters as a central theme (this is not bizarre, just neat how it fits into the story), a disem-headed body as galaxy-wide assassin, cow-sized spider-wolves with an appetite for destruction, a universe-eating flea... thing the size of a galaxy, motherfucking sentient carnivorous whale spaceships, and it doesn't stop there.
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Nov 4, 2021 16:11
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1997 gave us Over the Top, which was cancelled after 3 episodes. Tim Curry stars as a desperate past-his-prime actor who crashes with his ex-wife (Annie Potts) and her daughter. Steve Carell also plays their foreign chef or manservant or something. Tim Curry is his marvelous self, but Steve Carell's character is very cringy. Overall, it's not the worst sitcom I've seen, but even despite Tim Curry, I wasn't interested in watching more than a few episodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x31SbbeVfb4
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Nov 4, 2021 16:27
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Shout-out to other The Cape series about astronauts with Buzz Aldrin as a tech. advisor apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cape_(1996_TV_series) IIRC it's mostly notable for contributing to lost cosmonaut lore with its Halloween episode "Buried in Peace." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0536126/ http://www.astronautix.com/m/mikoyanandrei.html here's some random forum talking about it https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=45936.0
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Nov 4, 2021 16:34
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Just about the only thing I remember from "The Cape" was the titular "Cape" himself had to sneak into a high-rise building, and they determined the ONLY way to do that was teach him to tightrope walk from the building next door in, like, a day. There was no reason he had to tightrope walk (and I want to say without a harness, even.) Also...how did they get the cable to the building? Maybe they used a batman style "Grapple gun," I can't remember, but there's no reason he couldn't just have done some sort of rappelling-esque type of thing. Just a harness attached to the cable that he hands-over-hands his way to the other building...no risk of falling, no need to learn a kill that takes years to develop in less than a week, etc... Another series that had two season, but they were short seasons and I'm still mad it was canceled, Ugly Americans. Suck MY balls.
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Nov 5, 2021 14:25
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Remembered The River just recently. It wasn't the best, but I was basically ALL IN on the found footage Lost style poo poo in a rainforest. The ending it was left with was a cliffhanger, and now I'm all salty again it got canceled and then the possibility of Netflix having it continue through them fell through.
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Nov 5, 2021 17:45
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The Inside was a cool (if uneven) "FBI profiler vs. serial killers" show starring Rachel Nichols, Peter Coyote, and Adam Baldwin, with a writing staff featuring most of the big non-Whedon writers from Angel, like Tim Minear, Jane Espenson, et al. Only lasted half a season. The central conceit is that Rachel Nichols plays a profiler who had been abducted as a child, in a case that had been famous within the universe of the show. Highlights included a fun twist on a "bad seed" child villain, an Insomnia-style pursuit as the protag is lost in the woods, and an episode with a very disturbed fat guy in an electric wheelchair. It's on YouTube. It's very mid-00s. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG5YX8k3vkx5nb9R2ljthjsmq79JRFYMx
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Nov 5, 2021 21:03
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I have been remiss in not mentioning 12 Monkeys in this thread. It got four seasons to fully tell its story, and it's a very, very good show (I actually like it better than the source material, which is saying something), but it does seem forgotten. I rarely see people talk about it in the same way they do other sci-fi TV series, but the people who *did* watch it are absolutely fanatical. It has something in common with my beloved Lodge 49, mentioned a-ways up thread, in that it was an obvious labor of love for everyone involved, and everyone who worked on it cites it as one of the best working experiences they've ever had.
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Nov 5, 2021 21:36
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12 Monkeys probably wasn't helped by the weird way Syfy released seasons 3 and 4. They both aired on TV but were released as blocks of episodes instead of regular weekly airing. Like the entirety of season 3 aired over one weekend.
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Nov 5, 2021 21:48
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Pastry of the Year posted:I have been remiss in not mentioning 12 Monkeys in this thread. It got four seasons to fully tell its story, and it's a very, very good show (I actually like it better than the source material, which is saying something), but it does seem forgotten. I rarely see people talk about it in the same way they do other sci-fi TV series, but the people who *did* watch it are absolutely fanatical. The only issue I had with it was that it had a tendency in the later seasons of solving every problem with an automatic rifle. Otherwise it was great, especially the episodes where they go into full heist-mode, and it does of course have one of the greatest scenes ever put on TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDEgASduaR8
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evobatman posted:The only issue I had with it was that it had a tendency in the later seasons of solving every problem with an automatic rifle. NBC Universal is not happy with your link.
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Nov 6, 2021 20:00
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I don't know why, but this show pops up in my head every now and then. Nearly Departed only ran for a few episodes. It had Eric Idle and Caroline McWilliams as a couple that just died and they're living in a house that was just bought by a family (where only the grandpa can see and hear them). I remember it because I was obsessed with Beetlejuice and the show's premise is kinda lifted from it. Plus, it had Eric Idle and I thought he was funny. The show's theme song literally explains everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2roa-VT-9U volts5000 has a new favorite as of 23:11 on Nov 6, 2021 |
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Nov 6, 2021 23:07
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I have to mention the first season of Murder One, a serial legal drama that aired on ABC in 1995-96 that was shockingly ahead of it's time. The entire 23 episode season focuses on one murder trial, and it is masterfully written and acted. If it wasn't for the dated CGI intro and overly long recaps, you could easily mistake this as a series made today for Netflix that is set in the mid 90s. It covers issues like homosexuality, racism, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and corruption in an incredibly progressive and nuanced way for the era. The second season wrote out the main characters and was generally terrible, you should pretend it doesn't exist, and the show was cancelled and mostly forgotten after that. Still, the first season is one of the best seasons of television from the 20th century, and Netflix/Hulu are fools for not streaming it.
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Nov 15, 2021 09:40
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Ralph Crammed In posted:I really liked Becoming a God in Central Florida. It was renewed for a second season but then the pandemic hit and evidently it wasn't working out and now it's permanently canceled and no one seems to give enough of a poo poo about it to try to get a second season going
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Nov 29, 2021 03:34
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Ohhai posted:Oh man, I've been rewatching Lexx, I have no idea how it got four seasons but I'm incredibly glad. I feel like I've seen some affection for Lexx out there, although it was definitely a cult thing. My sophomore year of college, my roommate was seriously into Lexx and taught herself video editing to make a fan music video out of it, so... yeah, you're not alone. (Unless you're my sophomore roommate, in which case, I am very sorry.)
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Nov 29, 2021 04:46
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Konstantin posted:I have to mention the first season of Murder One, a serial legal drama that aired on ABC in 1995-96 that was shockingly ahead of it's time. The entire 23 episode season focuses on one murder trial, and it is masterfully written and acted. If it wasn't for the dated CGI intro and overly long recaps, you could easily mistake this as a series made today for Netflix that is set in the mid 90s. It covers issues like homosexuality, racism, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and corruption in an incredibly progressive and nuanced way for the era. The second season wrote out the main characters and was generally terrible, you should pretend it doesn't exist, and the show was cancelled and mostly forgotten after that. Still, the first season is one of the best seasons of television from the 20th century, and Netflix/Hulu are fools for not streaming it. Yeah, I remember watching this one a few years back. They really go through the whole process. Great cast too: Daniel Benzali kills it in every scene and so does Stanley Tucci.
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Nov 29, 2021 12:10
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I did a thread search and nothing came up so my submission is Nowhere Man that aired in '95-'96. It stars Bruce Greenwood who is a photographer whose life is erased. Was his family and everyone he knew being forced by some agency to not recognize their husband/father/friend? Was it something else? Who knows because it was canned after 25 excellent episodes, but ratings weren't high enough for UPN and the internet wasn't full of outrage at the time to help to save it.
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Antivehicular posted:I feel like I've seen some affection for Lexx out there, although it was definitely a cult thing. My sophomore year of college, my roommate was seriously into Lexx and taught herself video editing to make a fan music video out of it, so... yeah, you're not alone. (Unless you're my sophomore roommate, in which case, I am very sorry.) Lexx is genuinely the best and least embarrassing of all the various sci-fi space opera shows out there. From Star Trek to star gate to star wars.
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muscles like this! posted:Just remembered a super fun show that had one season on HBO a couple of years ago and by this point isn't getting any more, Los Espookys. A show about a group of horror movie fans who start a business where they fake supernatural events. An example of the sense of humor is how one of the characters starts dating a guy online who says he's a Spanish Prince, when she finally meets him he reveals that he's been lying the entire time and is only a Duke. Quoting myself because it was recently announced that season 2 of Los Espookys just finished filming.
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