The original post: /r/television by /u/chrisrauh on 2024-05-19 15:59:48.

I’ve just realized the 90’s 30min season of Aeon Flux is on Paramount+.

I’m finally watching the whole season in sequence - it was hard to catch them live back in the day and I never heard of the dvd release - and it’s an animation art masterpiece.

A lot of people know about it but very few have watched the season. It’s def worth it.

It’s hard to express how deep the story can go with so little run time. The setting is incredible, the german expressionist megastructures, the misterious soundtrack, the ambiguity of plot and character plus the sheer genius creativity of Peter Chung.

So now I’m wondering if there is anything like it to cure the post-season blues and follow up with?

— Edit —

Collecting the suggestions (no particular order but the ones I already watched recently, are from Peter Chung or had multiple people suggesting on top and less consensus on bottom):

  • Aeon Flux shorts (Peter Chung)
  • Reign the Conqueror (Peter Chung)
  • The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury (Video 2004)
  • Various TV Ads by Peter Chung
  • The Maxx
  • Scavengers Reign
  • Cowboy Beepop (animation, not live)
  • Primal (aka Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal)
  • Lastman (french)
  • Love, death and Robots (1st season)
  • Animatrix
  • Phantom 2040 (same animators)
  • Pluto (anime)
  • Serial Experiments Lain (anime 1998, different but related interesting) - Ryūtarō Nakamura
  • Paranoia Agent (anime 2004, different but related interesting) - Satoshi Kon.
  • Castlevania
  • Arcane
  • Kontroll (movie)
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion
  • Lola Rent (movie)
  • Heavy Metal (movie, 2000 version less so)
  • Afro Samurai
  • Ghost in the Shell
  • Ergo Proxy
  • Gantz: O (animated movie)
  • Blue Eyed Samurai (not the same feel, but nice)
  • Robot Carnival (1987) - Anthology collection of 9 Sci-Fi anime films.
  • Akira (1988) - Katsuhiro Otomo.
  • Memories (1995) - Anthology collection of 3 Sci-Fi anime films.
  • Redline (2009) - Takeshi Koike.
  • Pantheon (2022) - Based on a shorty story collection by Ken Liu.
  • Metropolis (2001) - Rinataro/Katsuhiro Otomo.
  • Dota
  • X-Men 97
  • Invincible
  • Edge runners
  • Black Mirror (live action)

People:

  • Peter Chung (Aeon Flux creator)
  • John Rafter Lee (voice of Trevor Goodchild). Also voiced the vampire Meier Link in Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (English version of VHDB because that’s how it was originally written and filmed), Reign the Conqueror, Jason Wynn in Spawn, also narrated China Mieville’s books, and other audiobooks.
  • Enki Bilal (comic artist)
  • Gene Wolf
  • China Mieville
  • Genndy Tartakovsky (Primal)
  • Egon Schiele (painter)