• djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Shows that fit this bill for me:

    Schitt’s Creek Breaking Bad

    Schitt’s Creek in particular, from S02 onwards they really locked in to what we ended up loving about the Roses, which was there in S01 but not so clear. As a result, S02 on is damn near perfect.

    • johan@feddit.nl
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      3 months ago

      I really liked season 1. Season 2 as well I think (it’s been a while), but season 3 was just too confusing and I really didn’t care for it

      • UncleArthur@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        It all came together in the end. I remember getting to S3E4 and my brain was fried so I just let it wash over me. Then E7 and E8 explained everything and were perhaps the best 2 hours of TV I’ve ever watched. A re-watch of the entire show made everything so much better too!

        • homoludens@feddit.org
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          3 months ago

          If you have to explain that much about your story, it just means that you weren’t able to show your story (or universe). So it’s either not a good story or you’re not a good writer. After all, we call them “TV shows”, not “TV explains”. And it had strong “it was just a dream/wasn’t real” vibes.

          • UncleArthur@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            I would have to disagree. It wasn’t an explanation of the plot, it was philosophical discussion on the concept of free will. Everything was shown but one had to really observe: not a show to watch whilst looking at one’s phone!

            Edit: I know I used the word ‘explain’ in my previous post; ‘clarify’ would have been a better word. Let’s be honest: I’m a massive fanboy of the show and have watched it 8 or more times. I just think it’s the best thing I’ve ever seen.

    • Seefra 1@lemmy.zip
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      3 months ago

      Used to watch Stargate as a kid on TV, but how I can’t imagine myself rewatching it, episodes are all copy paste of the same, gets more interesting with Valla and the Ori, but until there it’s not something I want to rewatch.

      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        I miss episodic “monster of the week” series like it. Now most shows are serialized where you have to pay attention to the stretched out story arcs and deal with filler episodes.

    • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      Rambling old person storytime, consider yourself warned:

      My wife is from Hungary, and grew up while it was still communist so there’s many TV shows she’s never seen.

      When we were first together I introduced her to Star Trek, which she’d never heard of, and we got into the routine of watching one or two episodes of TNG every week.

      Fast-forward 9 years and we’d watched every Trek we wanted to, and were at a loose end on how to continue. My first thought was Babylon 5, but after Trek that first season appeared rough as anything, and it became more of a time-filler than actual enjoyment.

      A little while ago we hit the third season, and my goodness, it’s still rough, but the whole thing came together into something properly enjoyable!

      Me and my wife just hit our 10 year anniversary, and we’re both happily Trekkies together :-)

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Babylon 5, season 1, is largely skippable.

      2 and 3 are very good. 4 is the single best season of sci-fi television ever done.

      Ideally, you watch it all in order.

      In a pinch? 2-3-4-1-5.

    • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I’ve probably watched all of B5 about 10 times or more. Going through another cycle right now. Just watched the first episode of season 2 today, having finished season 1 yesterday, so this is very fresh. I think if I was going to introduce a friend to it, I’d say to skip season 1 entirely.

      There’s a lot of stuff that feels like filler in season 1, even though I think quite a few of those episodes are actually trying to introduce lore in a sneaky way. Like, the Soul Hunter episode feels a lot like hot garbage, but it does put some important lore in your head. Similar with the episode that they find some ancient organic alien technology. Plus, I think everybody will instantly like Sheridan in a way that never happened with Sinclair.

      I’ve grown to like season 1, but it took several watches before it stopped bothering me.

  • Joelk111@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    SNL is nightmare material for this. There are some good bits in seasons 2-5, but seasons 6-11 are apparently awful. I’ve been attempting to watch the entire show, and I’m currently stuck halfway through season 6.

    • tyler@programming.dev
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      3 days ago

      I mean, I love SNL but I’d never in a million years spend time watching any of the previous seasons again. A large part of SNL isn’t just sketch comedy, but weekly news. So many of the skits need a serious amount of context that I don’t think you could ever get with a rewatch. You’d need to be googling every single line of dialogue.

      • Joelk111@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Yeah, I don’t expect to really enjoy it until I get to the SNL of my highschool years which *checks watch* is roughly season 35. I’ll also note that I’m not sitting down and watching it through, I’m watching it while I do other things, because ADHD I guess.

        I will say that, while a lot of it is political and news based, it’s mainstream enough and often spelled out enough that I usually can pick it up either through context or because I’ve kinda heard of the event. There are also a lot of sketches that are largely not based on current news. I’d say I more or less understand most of what they’re putting down, though I’m certainly missing more than I think, as it goes.

        I mainly wanted to watch it all to learn about this history of the cast, as well as do a more serious watch of the era from my high school years when I was super casual about watching it and missed a lot, as well as the legendary eras from the ~10 years before I was watching at all. Slogging through the early season is just a side effect of that I guess. I’ve just made it to S07, it’s a slow process haha.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Are you not supposed to treat it like the NFL and just watch the highlight reels?

      Nothing against the comedians on SNL but who’s line is it anyway has a much higher hit rate.

      • Joelk111@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        You can watch SNL however you see fit. I also enjoy Whose Line is it Anyway, both can exist and be good. I like sketch comedy, and the fact that SNL is live really adds to it and makes it all the more impressive imo, though I am aware that it’s popular to hate on it of course.

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          WLIIA has the advantage of editing out the sketches that don’t land. SNL cannot. That’s why i say that “the best of SNL” is a preferable watch. No hating.