Submitted 3 weeks ago by Skavau@lemm.ee to Television@lemm.ee
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.
The woman was called Xev Bellringer. But don’t google it because you’ll find something else.
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.
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
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.
Tell your cat I said yo-way-yo hum-va-ray!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scavenger’s Reign and Pantheon
Scavengers Reign is great.
I hope you have watched Common Side Effects. Joseph Bennett (co-creator) is also the co-creator of Scavengers Reign. It’s excellent. Mike Judge is also EP and voices some roles. It was renewed for a second season last week in advance of the season finale, which aired Sunday night.
I’m in season 2 of Pantheon. It’s quite good.
Wow how could I forget Common Side Effects?? I’m happy it’s getting a second season but sad Scavenger’s Reign wasn’t so lucky :( something tells me CSE is going to hit mainstream popularity though.
I love Joe Bennett’s (what I call) “American Chibi” style soooooo much. Such weird big heads and little bodies but it works so well.
He also illustrated Joe Pera’s bathroom book. “A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing but Using the Bathroom as an Escape”
I really enjoyed Scavenger’s Reign. Never heard of Pantheon, but if you mention both in the same sentence I’m intrigued!
Get ready for a little existential crisis after watching Pantheon (at least that’s what happened to me). I loved it!
LOVED Pantheon it’s one of my top shows easily
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.
Just don’t watch the movie that followed the series. It’s not worth it.
I rediscovered this again recently. I watched it when it was new a long while back, and had totally forgotten about it until seeing it pop up while browsing MAX.
News Radio.
Miss that.
Miss Phil.
Dave Foley and Stephen Root are also excellent in Newsradio
Foley and Hartman, that comedic tension between them was gold.
Spaced
Early Simon Pegg / Nick Frost / Edgar Wright collaboration, sitcom style.
I think you are right in the sense that this may be under the radar now, but this was a big hit at the time. Made the careers of all the people you list, plus Jessica Hynes. Fantastic show.
You might enjoy Black Books, if you haven’t seen it. Another one is The Royle Family.
Loved Black Books, thanks I’ll check out Royle!
Mrs. Davis
Dirk Gently’s Detective Agency
Space: Above & Beyond
Earth 2
Lucy: Daughter of the Devil
Final Space
The Lone Gunmen
The Max
The Oblongs
Parker Lewis Can’t Lose
The Regime
The Secret Life of Machines
Both Dirks. The BBC was a little closer to the books but both are great. And if we’re going in an Elijah direction, the US version of Wilfred.
Cancelling Space: Above and Beyond was tragic. With a couple more seasons it could have become an enduring cult classic. If it has been made later, it would have thrived in the streaming era.
Mrs. Davis is one of my favorite shows period. That was a masterpiece.
Parker Lewis Can’t Lose
Coolness
I kept waiting for Jonas Quinn to say “synchronize swatches” on SG1
I second Dirk Gently. Amazing show.
I used to have nearly all The Maxx comic books, and gave them away to a friend when I moved across country.
Of those I’ve only seen Dirk Gently and Maxx. The later was cool to young me, but the former I just can’t get into. It feels too over the top random, like they’re forcing it too hard. Too bad, Dirk’s books are my favorite from Adams.
I found Dirk Gently to be fine, with the glaring exception that the main fucking character made it almost unwatchable.
Better Off Ted
I forget the name of it, but you might enjoy the show rob lowe is currently doing on Netflix can’t remember the name
Utopia - The UK version though, fuck the American remake.
Monkey Dust - Obscure UK animation.
Utopia was so wild. I’m ready for a nice little show with silly people having a bit of fun, and suddenly I’m up to my neck in total insanity.
Monkey Dust is great is you’re cool with black humor - well, humour!!!
Utopia was too violent for my taste. Not really thrilled with hearing children shot even if it’s offscreen. Gave up after that episode.
Aye, that scene probably caused quite a stir at Ofcom.
Probably a contributing factor to the third season getting axed
First, monkey dust was amazing. Legit surprised to see that one mentioned (Mr hoppy!)
Second. Australia version of Utopia is the best version of Utopia. Hands down.
Didn’t even know that Australia did their own version, I’ll check it out
Dark
Danger 5. Greatest Australian comedy of all time. youtu.be/0Z09bNgSeMI
Station Eleven
It’s absolutely criminal how little attention HBO gave this show. It wasn’t even brought to Europe, so you can’t watch it legally over here. But IMHO it’s one of the best TV shows of the past few years, and it’s a complete story so no cliffhangers. It’s also one of the rare cases of a show being better than the book it was based on, and the book was already a bestseller.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Wonderfalls
It depends so much on one’s tastes… But
Forever Street Hawk Firefly Travelers
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
Monkey Dust. BBC show from the late 00’'s that went ~3 seasons. Animated sketch comedy that was ostensibly British but wasn’t SO British that Americans wouldn’t get it. Example sketch-
Sliders
The Knick
The Magicians
How about two with Rosa Salazar?
Undone on Amazon Prime, a trippy psychological show about a girl (Salazar) exploring the link to her present and her dead father (Bob Odenkirk). It’s rotoscoped to add to the trippiness
Brand New Cherry Flavor on Netflix, where an aspiring writer gets her career ruined by a director when she turns down his sexual advances. She makes a deal with a witch to get revenge
Haven’t seen these mentioned yet:
Fringe
Killjoys
Kim’s Convenience
I don’t see Dame Judy Dench’s masterpiece “As Time Goes By” mentioned often.
It’s about a love affair between the acclaimed author of “My Time in Kenya”, and his publisher.
(This summary is intentionally reductive to the point of absurdity. But trust me, it’s quite good.)
I became a big fan of the series “V”, specifically the 2000’s remake. I think they discontinued the series due to mixed ratings.
manxome@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Pushing Daisies
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The pie maker is happy to be included
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Paul Reuben’s cameo in Pushing Daisies is a lovely part of an even lovelier show.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Really any Brian Fuller show
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Dead like me
Junkernaught@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I was trying to remember the name of Reaper the other day, thanks! Loved the guy who played The Devil.