Television

Younger people should watch Taxi. It didn't fly under the radar but it's old enough to be fresh even if you've seen it. My favorite new discovery for sure

I quite liked Continuum, but it never seemed to enter the zeitgeist. It is still one of my favorite time travel series'.

I don't know quite how obscure it is because of how it ended up, but Summer Camp Island.

It's a 6 season Cartoon Network cartoon about a group of kids who attend a summer camp on a magical island with 3 teenage witch camp counselors. First maybe season or 3 the show is mostly episodic and can be watched in any order after the first establishes some things.

Later seasons they really start having more lore and push more story driven narratives ( and even dividing the season into little character focused mini-arcs for one season ) into the picture. Season 6 definitely felt a little rushed ( probably because cartoon network/hbo just wanted the series finished so they could quickly shove it out and then kill it for tax purposes ), but it has some pretty amazing moments and themes later on. For pretty much as much of the series as I can remember, the show doesn't have a bunch of "lol random!" style comedy, so you shouldn't have to worry about that.

One of my biggest gripes is that there's a later season episode I absolutely cannot watch as someone with arachnophobia because it involves one of the main characters and a talking spider. Other than that, it's how the pacing can feel a little rushed towards the end of season 6 ( which I, again, attribute the most likely cause being corporate telling the people behind it that they don't get a season 7 so they better wrap things up as fast as possible ).

Remember WENN. A performance driven comedy that takes place almost completely at a radio station in the 40s. Has a very theater play feel.

Clever dialog and great acting.

Star Trek Prodigy!

Best show I’ve seen in the past couple years is a single season mini series called “The Investigation” a Danish series about a true murder that occcurre and the investigation into it following. Really well done.

Shatter Belt. It's like Black Mirror used to be. I absolutely loved it.

Off the top of my head, Oz and The Americans are under-appreciated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A6turvaktin and its sequel series are really good, if we want to go proper-obscure.

BBC’s “Survivors”. The 1970s original, not the later remake. About the people left over after a pandemic.

1971 “The Guardians” also from BBC. About fascism in a near future UK.

“Thriller” another British show from 1974. It’s an anthology series centered around a mystery/suspense/horror story each week. The Helen Mirren and Bob Hoskins episodes are particularly good.

Slings and Arrows

Wise Guy and Crime Story.