Firefly
OK, OK, I know it’s not obscure or forgotten, but why has nobody done something similar since?
Literally my first thought when I opened this thread.
Primo. A show about a teenager, his mom, and six uncles. Nothing groundbreaking but well done. Really wish it’d got a second season.
Dead Like Me
Banger of a show
Due South. A Royal Canadian Mountie ends up working as a liaison with the Chicago Police Department while on the trail of his father’s killer. It’s a comedy-drama with a great cast.
Common side effects was good. Its on adult swim so maybe not that obscure but I don’t see it talked a whole lot about. Older things would be police story and hill street blues which because they don’t rely on special effects have aged well. Its interesting to watch things like cop shows from the 70’s and 80’s as while they might not show exact reality of cops form the time its just amazing to see how we expected cops to behave compared to now.
Mr Inbetween. Brilliant from the start to the very last scene. Everyone who watches it thinks its superb. Getting them to actually start watching it is hard work.
Love/Hate. Irish gangster show. I felt it got better each season. Loved the unhinged & dangerously unpredictable Fran (Peter Coonan).
First few seasons of Italian mob show Gomorrah were amazing but I think some were put off by it being in Italian language (fine with me as I’m an English speaker but watch everything including English language shows with subtitles on)
Sports Night was a late 90s comedy-drama about a nightly sports show like Sportscenter.
Great characters, good storylines and created by Aaron Sorkin post-West Wing, so really good writing
The Middleman. Without a doubt one of the funnest comic book series adaptations. Natalie Morales and Matt Keeslar on a ridonkulas romp of silly yet intelligent adventures. Poor show only got 13 episodes but each ones a gem.
Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea.
Brimstone, a series with the premise that some demons escaped from hell, the devil makes a deal with a literally damned cop to track them all down and send them back to hell. John Glover played the devil and he does an amazing job in that role.
Lie to Me, and Battle Creek.
Both shows had their strengths and weaknesses but I found both entertaining for different reasons. Lie to Me had a slow burn romance subplot that never quite came to fruition.
Battle Creek was funny and silly and I always got the feeling the actors were having fun making it.
Scavengers Reign
Better off ted deserved more than what it got.
I feel like Black Books was very underrated. A drunken Irish misanthrope runs a bookshop with an idiot for a sidekick
Tbf idk that Mannie was ever an idiot
Naive and well-meaning but not stupid
It’s not his fault, he’s got Dave’s syndrome
The Shield is an amazing, gritty series about The Strike Team, a special unit in an LA police department. The writing is tight, the story threads are engaging, and the end of every episode makes you want to immediately start another one just to see how it all plays out. It was seven seasons long, and they all connect from the first episode to the last one.
It’s on Hulu in the US, and well worth the watch.
Oh man I watched that show a very long time ago, idk probably close to 15 years at this point. But holy cow some scenes have stuck with me. It is fantastic and I need to give it a go again
It’s amazing how much you can pick up on a rewatch that you missed the first time.
We recently watched, overlapping, The Shield and The Commish. The contrast between Chiklis’s two roles was astounding!
