I forgot to add on my first post:
Dare to Believe - Weird UK sketch show
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
Edit Unstable is the name of the show
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.
Agents of SHIELD. That counts.
Forgot that. She murdered Admiral Adama
Danger 5. Greatest Australian comedy of all time. https://youtu.be/0Z09bNgSeMI
This was hilarious. Every episode final ending somewhat the same way 👌
The trailer sold me on it, downloading now
It’s so good. I watch it once a year
Haven’t seen these mentioned yet:
Fringe
Killjoys
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.
Lexx resulted in my marriage (at a lan bash, we’re all sharing the ol’ yar har haar me 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
The woman was called Xev Bellringer. But don’t google it because you’ll find something else.
wow this is some boring porn
Different strokes for different strokers.
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.
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 would if I could but he went with my ex while I kept the dog, who is named after the god emperor of the known universe.
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.
I always mention this one, but The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
It’s got Bruce Campbell in it (Army of darkness) And he plays a cowboy as the lead character where he goes on wacky steampunk-filled hijinks and adventures through the Old West.
it came out in the early 90s and you can watch it for free on tubiTV.
Fun fact, a lot of the old timey western movies used a particular set and the Adventures of Brisco County Jr. was the last show to use that set.
When they finished it was torn down.
Another fun fact, you’ve heard the theme song.
It’s now used in the Olympics when America plays.
It’s a fucking amazing show.
I still remember my favorite character from that show: Bowler.
LORD Bowler.
I think that was the first show I watched that got cancelled and I was waiting for the next season wondering what the fuck happened.
Unfortunately not available on Tubi right now
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.
It was pretty decent deffo worth a watch
I hope the rest of this story gets told at some point. It would make a good graphic novel.
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.
🎶blah blah blah blah GALAVANT!🎶
And if you like galavant, Psych!
Easy now, fuzzy little man-peach, hmm? You ever drunk Bailey’s from a shoe?
Kim’s Convenience
Seconded
Being Erica
Forever Knight
La femme Nikita (Peta Wilson version)
Space above and Beyond
Sliders
Doraleus and Associates (web series)
Dr Horribles Singalong Blog (is this okay for this list?)
Due South
Celebrity Deathmatch
Ask a Ninja (early YouTube channel)
Oh man, Ask a Ninja just unlocked a core memory that I had buried. What a perfect example of early Internet comedy.
Space above and beyond died too young. It was such an awesome scifi show with some really mind blowing good episodes
I would disagree with due south and being Erica but to each own.
Gosh I was gonna say “perfect”. Though to be fair I haven’t rewatched Being Erica and it did happen at exactly that time on my life, so was very relatable.
Due South is a treasure. No notes.
Disagree for them flirting under the radar or you wouldn’t recommend them or both?
Due south was pretty big and so was being Erica but I wouldn’t put it up there with corner gas or trailer park boys. Those changed lives.
They were big, but 20+years later they are pretty under the radar now
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
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Odyssey 5 (Only lasted a season, but damn…)
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Boardwalk Empire (for some reason the least talked about and most forgotten HBO show)
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Into the Badlands (Deserved a longer life. Great martial arts action in a post-apocalypse)
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First Wave (Nostrodamus, Conspiracy theories and the first wave of an secret Alien invasion)
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Seven Days (The younger lapaglia brother jumps back in time 7 days to prevent various threats)
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Sense8 (strangers from all over the world find themselves linked mentally for some reason)
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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.
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
If you liked what we do in the shadows…
Wellington Paranormal - it’s about the police tasked with investigating all the dumb shit that goes on in what we do in the shadows. Gold.
Sealab 2021 is classic Adult Swim. Same with Venture Bros. Love them both!
Do you live in Serbia or something?
Party Down is great. I also realized I’ve been sleeping on the 3rd season revival.
https://www.polygon.com/23610906/party-down-revival-season-3-how-to-watch-starz
Are we having fun yet.
I know like 3 people that have seen party down and 2 of them watched it with me.
