Maybe not super obscure and more my wife’s suggestion than mine (though I also enjoyed it), but Merlin (2008) was a great show that unfortunately had a low budget for the first couple seasons and got cut short with very little warning to the directors at the end, but it’s still a great family friendly fantasy show. It’s my wife’s all-time favourite TV show, and while it’s not mine (I’d probably say Doctor Who for me), I totally get it. It’s very entertaining.
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Mr Inbetween. Brilliant from the start to the very last scene. Everyone who watches it thinks its superb. Getting them to actually start watching it is hard work.
Love/Hate. Irish gangster show. I felt it got better each season. Loved the unhinged & dangerously unpredictable Fran (Peter Coonan).
First few seasons of Italian mob show Gomorrah were amazing but I think some were put off by it being in Italian language (fine with me as I'm an English speaker but watch everything including English language shows with subtitles on)
Chowder - old Cartoon Network show about a purple bear raccoon thing who tries to be a chief making wacky dishes and breaking the 4th wall. ‘Tis was a good show.
I loved the static the texture thing they had with their animation.
The Goncharov TV mini-series was 5 episodes of pure perfection. Best thing NBC ever did.
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Ghosts. The British version, not the American remake. It is a heartwarming comedy about some ghosts that haunt a mansion.
Soo good. It's amazing to see the cast being silly with intent, dedication and love.
The caveman immediately climbed my "best written and portrayed character" list of all time. Perfect depiction of an enlightened being. Childish and wise in beautiful harmony.
Btw, the US version has grown on me. It starts as really really "American" with the extra-ness but over time it mellows out with some really heartfelt moments, interesting questions and wacky antics. I usually hate this cliche but.. "it gets better after the first season". Would recommend if you have time to kill and want to watch something light.
I haven't caught the UK version yet, just some of the US one, definitely interested now.
The US one's British character, Nigel (of course, "Nigel"; US writers seem to be pathologically incapable of not naming a male British character "Nigel"), has an accent so bad I'm genuinely starting to feel it qualifies as racist. :D
Haha the accents are quite heightened. My benefit of the doubt reason is that it's meant to be old timey so has to be extra. I am not in the US so I still can't believe that Alberta's accent is a real accent.
The show is a really good example of UK vs US humour and styles. Both quite well done so it's nice to see the positive differences. One is a quiet, mind your business deal and the other is a huge celebration of character and emotion.
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I liked the premise for The Lone Gunmen as a spinoff from the X-Files but I don't think they got the overall production quite right.
I don't know how forgotten it is since I only learned of it a few years back, but Sliders. People say around the quality starts dropping in the 3rd season before the 4th season being pretty bad, but I enjoyed all 5 seasons with few exceptions.
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Probably plenty of episodes missing ( original English dub ) but I just remembered Class of 3000 and think that takes more precedent than Sliders because you can find all the episodes of Sliders through piracy. Same cannot be said about Class of 3000.
Class of 3000 has things Sliders would never have: amazing songs made specifically for the show. Songs like the jazz song My Mentor or the rap ( rock? ) song We Want Your Soul or the blues song Rich Shade Of Blues.
I loved Sliders. I used to get into arguments with my wife when we first started dating. She would always rep Quantum Leap as a better show, but I never saw it so I would just say that Sliders was better.
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Space: Above & Beyond and Earth 2.
The former is a gritty wartime drama against an unknown alien species, and follows a Marine squadron.
Come for the cool spaceships, stay for the great storytelling.
The latter is about the colonization of another planet that we thought was uninhabited and also never visited by humans.
Come for the wagon train, stay for Tim Curry saying “poppet”
Both only lasted a season.
Metalocalypse which has probably one of the best first episodes of all time.
And Corporate
The line 'I think I lost some weight because my belt doesn't fit around my neck like it used to' had me rolling.
The Patriot on prime. It's the greatest show nobody's watched, no bad episodes. Acting, script and production values are top notch. Cancelled after 2 seasons...
The Count of Monte Cristo (2004).
Tales from fat tulip's garden.