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.
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Mission Hill. It was 90s era animated sitcom that was taken off the air before the first season finished, resulting in the last few episodes never getting animated.
Today it stands as a really engaging period piece, and if you ever wanted to see Spongebob (Tom Kenny) as a flamboyant gay man or a violent teenage ne'er-do-well it's well worth the seven or so episodes.
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a likely story; it was a reading show on wcvb (like reading rainbow) about a woman - alison martin - who was a librarian who drove a bookmobile around and read to kids. i watched it every day.
https://collection.oldfilm.org/Detail/occurrences/56859
https://oldfilm.org/more-than-the-news-programming-from-wcvb/
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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
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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)
Galavant, at least the first season, the second season wasn’t as good. It’s fun. It’s hilarious. It’s a musical.
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Chowder - old Cartoon Network show about a purple bear raccoon thing who tries to be a chief making wacky dishes and breaking the 4th wall. ‘Tis was a good show.
I loved the static the texture thing they had with their animation.
Kingdom (2014)
It’s a drama that follows this family of mma fighters. It aired on a small network and never really promoted. It’s actually really well written and entertaining. You really care for some of the characters. One of the characters is gay, the series finale has an interaction related to that had me crying.
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.
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.
Profit
I passed on a lot of NBC shows after the canceled this and didn't even show us the episodes they'd already made.
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Ghosts. The British version, not the American remake. It is a heartwarming comedy about some ghosts that haunt a mansion.
Soo good. It's amazing to see the cast being silly with intent, dedication and love.
The caveman immediately climbed my "best written and portrayed character" list of all time. Perfect depiction of an enlightened being. Childish and wise in beautiful harmony.
Btw, the US version has grown on me. It starts as really really "American" with the extra-ness but over time it mellows out with some really heartfelt moments, interesting questions and wacky antics. I usually hate this cliche but.. "it gets better after the first season". Would recommend if you have time to kill and want to watch something light.
I haven't caught the UK version yet, just some of the US one, definitely interested now.
The US one's British character, Nigel (of course, "Nigel"; US writers seem to be pathologically incapable of not naming a male British character "Nigel"), has an accent so bad I'm genuinely starting to feel it qualifies as racist. :D
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Primo. A show about a teenager, his mom, and six uncles. Nothing groundbreaking but well done. Really wish it'd got a second season.
Tales from fat tulip's garden.