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What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend?
Submitted 2 days ago by Skavau@lemm.ee to Television@lemm.ee
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idriss@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
notalentassclown@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Patriot. On Amazon prime. Dark comedy. CIA and government ineptitude.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Honestly, great show. I don’t know what I expected, but it was so much better.
some_dude@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
Hell yeah
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
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Odyssey 5 (Only lasted a season, but damn…)
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Boardwalk Empire (for some reason the least talked about and most forgotten HBO show)
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Into the Badlands (Deserved a longer life. Great martial arts action in a post-apocalypse)
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First Wave (Nostrodamus, Conspiracy theories and the first wave of an secret Alien invasion)
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RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Otherworld.
asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Haven’t seen these mentioned yet:
Fringe
Killjoys
thebigslime@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Better Off Ted
Jarix@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I forget the name of it, but you might enjoy the show rob lowe is currently doing on Netflix can’t remember the name
Jarix@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Being Erica
Forever Knight
La femme Nikita (Peta Wilson version)
Space above and Beyond
Sliders
Doraleus and Associates (web series)
Dr Horribles Singalong Blog (is this okay for this list?)
Due South
Celebrity Deathmatch
Ask a Ninja (early YouTube channel)
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Oh man, Ask a Ninja just unlocked a core memory that I had buried. What a perfect example of early Internet comedy.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I would disagree with due south and being Erica but to each own.
Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Gosh I was gonna say “perfect”. Though to be fair I haven’t rewatched Being Erica and it did happen at exactly that time on my life, so was very relatable.
Due South is a treasure. No notes.
Jarix@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Disagree for them flirting under the radar or you wouldn’t recommend them or both?
redxef@feddit.org 11 hours ago
milliams@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
- Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place
- The Armando Iannucci Shows
- The Adam & Joe Show
el_bhm@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Blood. Blood. BLOOD. Blood.
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 7 hours ago
Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place
Now that’s an obscure gem and suddenly I want to hear that 80s synth song from Matt Berry www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-ZGP68-3w
CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 11 hours ago
The Patriot on amazon is one of my favourite tv shows of all time. Tragically cancelled but each episode is outstanding. Nobody’s seen it!
pickle@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
Danger 5. Greatest Australian comedy of all time. youtu.be/0Z09bNgSeMI
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 1 hour ago
This was hilarious. Every episode final ending somewhat the same way 👌
PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
The trailer sold me on it, downloading now
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 10 hours ago
It’s so good. I watch it once a year
ninja@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The Leftovers - 2% of the worlds population just vanishes. Enough to freak people out but not cause the complete collapse of civilization.
The Endgame - High class criminal commits crimes by way of getting herself arrested. There’s only 1 season. Ignore the last ~10 minutes of the last episode and the story wraps up fine.
Counterpart - Mid-level bureaucrat finds out there’s a doorway to a parallel dimension with whom the world’s been in a secret cold war
Okokimup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you like Severence, you really need to see Dollhouse. Only 2 seasons, complete story. Slow start, but it doesn’t go where you expect, it’s a complete story, and Dichen Lachman (Gemma Scout) plays basically the same role.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
As far as I can remember, Dichen Lachman has never been in anything that wasn’t science fiction. Altered Carbon, The Last Ship, Dollhouse, and Severance. I’d check her imdb but it would ruin my wierd fanboy theory.
ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I feel like the end of season 2 got wonky because they found out they were getting cancelled. They did make it work with the little time they had left.
Glytch@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Because I’ve never met anyone else who ever watched it and I haven’t been able to pirate it:
An action/comedy police procedural about a unit of the Chicago PD that manages cryptids (called “Links” in the show). A little bit like a terrestrial MIB.
TommySalami@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Raised by Wolves. It was killed by HBO around the time of the discovery merger thing, but was a fully written (creator originally wrote it as a book, and then made it into a screenplay) and unique show. Produced by and has some directing from Ridley Scott.
The show follows two androids, Mother and Father, raising a human child alone on a desolate planet after fleeing a dying earth controlled by hi-tech zealots. This new home might be far more related to them than they realize, and maybe not always so desolate. It blends mysticism and sci-fi in a really fun way, and I will never not be angry I don’t get to see how it ends.
CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 12 hours ago
It was pretty decent deffo worth a watch
reddig33@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I hope the rest of this story gets told at some point. It would make a good graphic novel.
noxypaws@pawb.social 1 day ago
Lexx, a show about a giant dragonfly spaceship that destroys planets and the creepy cowardly idiot who somehow lucked into becoming the single person in the two universes that it obeys. And an undead assassin-warrior-poet. And a woman who survived a botched “love slave” transformation. And a weird robot head.
It’s outrageously strange and strangely horny and hornily gross. Highly recommend if you like weird TV.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Lexx resulted in my marriage (at a lan bash, we’re all sharing the ol’ yar har haar ame maties, a certain young gentleman browses the wares, goes “holy shit Lexx, who has all of Lexx i must find this person” and 20 years later we have matching rings, a house and cats. )
Actually just finished snagging the 1080 rip, makes my dvd boxset look like poo
spirinolas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The woman was called Xev Bellringer. But don’t google it because you’ll find something else.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Lexx is brimming with campy nonsense!
But it has moments when an actor delivers a heartfelt performance that tells a meaningful story.
And then those moments are followed by a robot with a saw arm chasing some folks through a cardboard maze before a planet gets blown up.
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
My cat was named after the undead-assassin-warrior-poet.
Great show in that it is so strange and offbeat that you don’t really know why things are happening but they certainly are happening.
noxypaws@pawb.social 1 day ago
Tell your cat I said yo-way-yo hum-va-ray!
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I loved Lexx. It was one of those weird science fiction series that were popping up in the 90s as a response to the success of ST: TNG and Battlestar Gallactica. I haven’t watched it in decades, I have to go find it.
manxome@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Pushing Daisies
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Dead like me
Junkernaught@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
I was trying to remember the name of Reaper the other day, thanks! Loved the guy who played The Devil.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Really any Brian Fuller show
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The pie maker is happy to be included
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Paul Reuben’s cameo in Pushing Daisies is a lovely part of an even lovelier show.
bojiggy@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Mr Inbetween
lemming@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Galavant Mighty boosh Red dwarf Misfits
I guess in this case obscure differs a lot geographically, but I definitely know places where they are almost completely unknown.
Uranus_Hz@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
🎶blah blah blah blah GALAVANT!🎶
nieminen@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
And if you like galavant, Psych!
BreadOven@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Easy now, fuzzy little man-peach, hmm? You ever drunk Bailey’s from a shoe?
Pulptastic@midwest.social 23 hours ago
These don’t seem obscure to me but most folks I know have never heard of them:
What We Do in the Shadows
Sealab 2021
Parks and Rec
Party Down
Freaks and Geeks
Venture Bros
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Party Down is great. I also realized I’ve been sleeping on the 3rd season revival.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Do you live in Serbia or something?
50MYT@aussie.zone 17 hours ago
If you liked what we do in the shadows…
Wellington Paranormal - it’s about the police tasked with investigating all the dumb shit that goes on in what we do in the shadows. Gold.
Glytch@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Sealab 2021 is classic Adult Swim. Same with Venture Bros. Love them both!
doublenut@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
Are we having fun yet.
I know like 3 people that have seen party down and 2 of them watched it with me.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 day ago
Reaper was a really brilliant, easy-watching action/comedy show akin to Chuck. It’s centered around a young man whose family has sold his soul to the devil, and now he must fulfill the contract by hunting down souls that have escaped from hell.
It features the typical “monster of the week” premise, along with a longer story arc across the seasons and has a rather fun mythology and world building. Ray Wise puts in a phenomenal performance as the devil, and I remember the show having a pretty genuine and surprisingly wholesome sense of humour.
Sadly its momentum got interrupted by the writers strike, and its second season was shortened and then cancelled. I still highly recommend it.
kipo@lemm.ee 1 day ago
You’re The Worst
– A dark comedy / romantic comedy that centers on two toxic, self-destructive people who fall in love and attempt a relationship. –
Absolutely amazing TV show by Stephen Falk. Criminally underrated. It is my favorite show of all time. It should be available to stream on Hulu, otherwise pirating it may be the only way to watch it.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3228420/
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
A bright, wonderful and adorable show (animated by Dreamworks) that follows 13-year-old Kipo navigating a post-apocalyptic world full of evolved animals, and making friends along the way.
This is a family-friendly show that took me about 7 episodes to get hooked. I am so glad I stuck with it! Made by Radford Sechrist and Bill Wolkoff. It’s on Netflix. It also had a small DVD release that may be difficult to find.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
“On The Air”
forrgott@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Wonderfalls
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dead Like Me It was pretty much all over the place but I liked the tone and premise. IMO, I really doubt anyone would’ve been able to make that kind of story work any more than the original folks did but yeah. I don’t think the writing was that good but I liked the cast. That alone would’ve sold me. Also maybe throw in the fact that I found the show while I was kind of starting out on my own during college and so in ways, I related to the main person. Yada yada yada.
DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Spaced
Early Simon Pegg / Nick Frost / Edgar Wright collaboration, sitcom style.
MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 2 days ago
News Radio.
Miss that.
Miss Phil.
Foreigner@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Scavenger’s Reign and Pantheon
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 1 hour ago
Flash Foward was an interesting series, sadly it end on a major cliffhanger and was never continued.