The good place

• Mr Robot
• Blue Eye Samurai
• Alice in Borderland
• The Expanse

Schitts creek.

It was pushed so hard by Netflix when it first came out that I ignored it. Just seemed like an overdone rich fish out of water idea and I just wasn't interested.

I finally got round to it when I think they did another promotional push. After watching it I basically forced every person I know to watch it and it is now a comfort show that I've watched a bazillion times.

But it is just so good.

Arcane, the animated League of Legends show on Netflix.

Oh MY GOD, every element is seriously SO mind-blowingly good. And imo its animation is at least as good as—if not better than—the Miles Morales Spiderman movies... though they did spend six years working on it tbf.

And to be clear, while I'm vaguely familiar with LoL, I've never played it so I had zero emotional connection to any of the characters before watching.

Be prepared to cry though. Like the loud, punched-in-the-gut, ugly sobbing kind of crying.

I avoided Bojack Horseman for years because I thought it was going to be like so many other edgy adult cartoons. I thought I knew what it was going to be like. I was so wrong.

Ted Lasso is a great stepping stone to get into soccer and also throughout its 3 seasons a great, empathetic critique of toxic masculinity and how racism, homophobia and narcissism affect individuals and groups. The writing, the characters, both the villains and the team members are well written and incredibly funny. One of my favourite shows I didn’t expect really like.

Cougartown is also very funny, I loved Community and had seen Abed reference the show several times before finally watched Cougartown. Lots of clever gags and jokes, well thought out, flawed characters with interesting dynamics and (mis)adventures.

The Wire. Everyone always ranted and raved about it. And I was like "no way it's that good".

It's better.

The Expanse, people keeps recommending it and I kept ignoring it thinking it was the Extant. I hope it gets picked up again.

Halt and Catch Fire.

Moon. Extremely underrated Sci-fi movie

Vera. Excellent British detective show

Might be a bit controversial, but I really enjoyed sense8.

Better call Saul. I avoided it at first but then dared myself to watch it when Netflix was getting real skimp on its shows. Loved it.

It is genuinely unreasonable how good Arcane is.

I went in thinking OK, this is an animated show based on League of Legends, it's gonna suck but at least the fight scenes will be fun, right?

Reader, I cried. You could teach classes on how good the writing in this show is. The last half hour of season one is, without question, one of the most perfect scenes in television history. A flawless masterclass in character development and believable conflict, paired with note perfect editing and some of the best animation you'll find outside of a Miyazaki or Satoshi Kon movie.

This show is based on a god damn MOBA. It had absolutely no right going this damn hard and I fucking love them for it.

Battlestar Galactica. I sort of knew about it in a vague sense and once I finally watched it was pretty impressed

The Expanse

Also Fringe

Dark on Netflix. I had started it once and gave up after 2 episodes, but came back years later and finished it. It’s now one of my all time favorite time travel stories. Lots of big, cascading mysteries kind of like Lost, but the ending was so satisfying!

Breaking Bad. I heard I'm not the only one who started watching it and gave up after the first 2 or 3 episodes that were just setting the scene at a fairly slow (boring) pace. Someone had to convince me to push through them because it gets so much better. It does.

After a LONG stretch of mediocre Star Wars content, I was burnt out on the franchise and had pretty much tuned out from new releases cuz they all sucked.

...saw people rave on and on about Andor, finally dove in expecting it to be more of the same half-assed shit we'd been getting for years leading up to it.

IT IS SO FUCKING GOOD!

Like holy shit, it felt so good to actually enjoy SW content again!

Community. I kept casually hearing about it. My first episode was the paintball episode. Needless to say, I was hooked from the start.

Resident Alien

The original Cowboy Bebop series. Brilliant episodes with a great story arc, good characters and awesome Jazz soundtrack. The first few episodes do the overall experience no justice.

Dungeons and dragons.

Fight club was intentionally misadvertised seeming like it would be some dude bro 'FIGHTING IS HARDCORE AND AWESOME LET'S CHUG A BEER' bullshit.

Completely ignored it for that reason until there is nothing better on TV so I said fuck it I'll give it a shot and holy crap did that destroy my mind.

ARCANE!!!

I'm over here thinking: Oh, League of Legends fans are all overreacting over getting something that's probably decent at best...

My friend, let me tell you, they were not overreacting.

Reservation Dogs. I heard it was good but didn't realize it's probably the best TV show ever made. So good. Funny, happy, made me cry like a baby and is super awesome. Go watch it you shit ass.

Severance

The Wire

Haven't seen anyone mention Severance, which is one of my more recent obsessions. Everyone I watched the first episode with bounced off pretty hard, saying it was too weird. Man the payoff is amazing though, everything slowly ramping up to a crescendo in the final couple of episodes. Highly recommended if you like early Black Mirror.

Fleabag for sure

Edge of Tomorrow. Blew my mind once I finally got around to watching it.

The Haunting of Hill House

Fall of the House of Usher

Blade Runner - the final cut

Originally, I planned to skip it before Blade Runner 2049 as I seen people shit on the original blade runner. But then I realized they were referring to the Theatrical cut as it was apparently filled with a lot of boring or even off-putting narration. It was definitely worth it to watch it before 2049 (and also the 3 short films that were included on the DVD* of 2049).

Secondly, They Live (1988).

Really describes the world we live in well.

*Yes, I buy DVDs. I like them. And there's no way I am paying for a movie unless I get a physical copy. Otherwise, himovies.sx.

Based on the trailers back when Kung Pow: Enter the Fist released, I wouldn't have thought anything about it. It didn't seem like a good movie. But then I saw it because my mom made me drive my two younger siblings who wanted to see it to the theatre and nothing else was playing that I hadn't seen so I just went with them.

It's one of my top 10 favorite comedies.

Columbo. It's fucking fantastic.

Stargate Universe. A more serious take on the canon than the original campy version.

True Détective Seasone one !

Each season is a completely different story, so they're not related. But season one of this show absolutely killed it, starring both Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. TD is a must watch show for anyone into the crime genre as this, dare I say it, is the king of all crime.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2356777/

Legion.

Orphan Black.

Black Sails.

Babylon 5

Star Trek TNG. I'm slowly watching DS9 but it's not as fun

The Owl House

Into the Spiderverse is a perfect movie.

Pluto

Blue Eye Samurai

Oh and Guardians of the Galaxy I thought would be so stupid but really liked it.