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I used to come back late from work and crash out in front of late night TV, featuring all these strange shows that never made it in primetime but somehow limped along for years: * Silk Stalkings was about cops in Miami investigating crimes that always turned out to be sex-related (detective checks out the half-baked dead body and quips "looks like another SILK STALKING"), shot in a lurid neon-heavy vaporwave aesthetic. The first episode we see their neon and glass police headquarters, which the chief excuses in an aside ("can't get any money for more staff but never any problem for facilities, am I right?"). There was lots of shoulder pads and hairgel. The lead actress was named Mitzi Kapture and unbelievably had not worked in porn. Her character had a brain aneurysm "that could go off at any moment" which was an occasional B-plot between pouting over naked corpses. This went on for 8 years, so maybe not a failure? https://youtu.be/_Yp3_zOaz9w * I have terrible remembering what happened in Thunder in Paradise, possibly because the production crew weren't sure themselves. Two ex special ops types (Hulk Hogan and Jack Lemmon's son) hang out on a beach, and somewhat they have this super fast boat that they use in missions for the government. The heroes spend a lot of time working out and posing and highfiving each other, while wordless crowds of women ogle them, having somehow found their secret beach hideout: https://youtu.be/WGklwzZs14M
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Inzombiac posted:Kindred The Embraced, a show that tried to Vampire The Masquerade appeal to a wide audience. All 8 eps are on Youtube. That show is burnt into my memory because of an article I once read about vampire media, which observed there is always a scene where someone explains how, actually, vampires are real but, actually, they work like this. Sure enough, Kindred is littered with this, because they've got a dozen different clans and types of vampires to explain: "Hey, how can you walk around in sunlight? I thought that killed vampires." "That's because I'm a ..."
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DrBouvenstein posted:Speaking of mostly forgotten reality TV shows. My personal favorite... Joe Schmoe. I always thought it must have been brutal to be the real contestant, to recollect your interactions over the last X weeks and realise they were all fake.
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Aug 21, 2021 13:23
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It was either this or a sitcom with a very similar plot (maybe the protagonist had been held hostage for 10 years), where a large number of the jokes surrounded him having missed the 80s and so still acting like a guy from the 70s. Which from a distance you wonder if there was that much difference.
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Aug 26, 2021 16:08
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Violet_Sky posted:Not a sitcom, but wasn't that the plot of Austin Powers? Only he was from the 60s. Similar, but there was definitely a TV series somewhere in the early 90s starring a Bronson Pinochet type who was acting like it was still the 70s. It's a tough thing to google for though.
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Aug 26, 2021 18:47
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CannonFodder posted:Better Off Ted was a great show that only had two seasons and was dropped during the Writer's Strike. That was incredible, that show. Like the one where they install proximity sensors on all their equipment, that fails to recognise black staff members. Which is then corrected by issuing black staff members with offsiders who can trigger doors, drinking fountains etc. for them.
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Sep 13, 2021 22:38
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Groke posted:American Gothic from the mid-90s, criminally canceled after one season. Gary Cole as a corrupt small-town sheriff who may be (or be in league with) the devil. Young Lucas Black as the main protagonist. Very nice and creepy. That was good. The sheriff manipulating all the town folk, lots of Dutch angles, a possible angel hanging around, creepy atmosphere. My one complaint would be that it felt like there were several scriptwriters involved, who weren't talking to each other. One episode would be very suggestive, the next would go full on with the supernatural, etc.
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Sep 16, 2021 22:02
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evobatman posted:Stark Raving Mad from 1999-2000, with Tony Shalhoub and Neil Patrick Harris. I remember it being fun as hell, but apparently it was completely memoryholed. When I went looking for it a few years ago, all I managed to find were some VHS rips. Wild Palms was great. It was based off a comic strip but took it in wild new directions, ending up with up age-old plots, VR, media, swapped children, dreams ...
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Sep 23, 2021 08:40
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I got a different take to Trabant. Fortitude is by no means a good show. But it's a crazy one that just gets crazier and crazier as it goes along and is worth watching in the sense of I cannot believe this is happening ... Like there's a murder, mysterious fossils in ice, corporate shenanigans, fishing hijinks. domestic drama, dangerous infections, politics, infidelity, criminals in hiding, comedic cops, anguished cop on the edge, mysterious research ... And none of this stuff is resolved, it just keeps getting added to.
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There's only so much of Fortitude you can follow. There's not a plot, but a dozen independent plot threads. I especially love the hard-bitten Norwegian cop (with the heavy Scottish accent) who seems to spend every scene looking for an opportunity to totally lose it and wig out. Even when he's in the background of a scene, he dominates it with his intensity.
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