Can anyone recommend more tv shows to watch?

POSTED BY: Stylinlp38
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 17:13
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JARON95

Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:59 PM

Cowboy Bebop (anime) and the new Battlestar Galactica are top notch. I love them!

Outlaw Star (anime) is pretty good, but just can't touch Bebop's sense of "cool" and doesn't have as many Firefly parallels.

I strongly believe that Firefly and Bebop could coexist in the same 'Verse.

CHRISISALL

Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:04 PM

Definitly try Dark Angel! Whole first season is GOLD!! 2nd takes a while to get up to speed, then kicks ass!!

Also give Buffy a serious shot- First season has some duds, but 2nd and 3rd are the bombs!!

Farscape is great (if you can deal with all-aliens, all-the-time).

And the new Battlestar Galactica is serious, dark chocolate.

Chrisisall, endorsing the best

ODDNESS2HER

Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:14 PM

Let's see...

Sundays: 'The West Wing' (NBC); 'Desperate Housewives' and 'Grey's Anatomy' (ABC); 'The Simpsons', 'King of the Hill' and 'Family Guy' (Fox); Adult Swim lineup on The Cartoon Network

Mondays: 'Arrested Development', 'Kitchen Confidential' and 'Prison Break' (Fox); 'How I Met Your Mother' and 'CSI: Miami'(CBS)

Tuesdays: 'Gilmore Girls'(WB); 'Bones' and 'House:MD'(Fox); 'My Name is Earl', 'The Office' and 'Law & Order: SVU' (NBC); 'Boston Legal' (ABC)

Wednesdays: 'Lost' (ABC); 'Veronica Mars' (UPN); 'South Park' (Comedy Central)

Thursdays: 'Alias' (ABC); 'CSI' and 'Without a Trace' (CBS); 'Reunion' (Fox)

Fridays: 'Malcolm in the Middle' (Fox); 'Threshold' and 'Numb3rs' (CBS)

Saturdays: 'Mad TV' (Fox); 'SNL' (NBC)

Mon-Thurs: 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report' (Comedy Central)

Mon-Fri: David Letterman (CBS)

Tues-Fri: Conan O'Brien (NBC)

Whew! That oughtta hold ya!

STYLINLP38

Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:30 PM

Thank you all for the responses.

I noticed some of you actually "like" television shows. So your recommendations is a little fond of alot thats out there.
Some of you have really interesting recommendations to look into. I think I will order Farscape on Netflix. That should keep me busy for a month or more. I may check out some Red Dwarf and a few others you guys mentioned. Probably get that Battlestar Galaga Starbug with boobs show. (Its just wrong to get a boner for StarBuck) Something about that Cylone robot Im not so sure of. Seems like a weak idea.
I watched a few episodes and they looked ok. But no where near as good as Firefly.
I can only take teen chicks on tv with the smarts of a box of dirt so much unless they start pulling their clothes off. So I doubt I would ever like Muffy.

Those UK series look facinating. I will check those out at Netflix also :)

Basic TV format is to wrap up everything between commercials and end the entire story thread within 42 min is just lame. Every episode with a differant writer and nothing really ever changes. Thats the main reason I only watch movies. I want a TV show that is not a TV show. Firefly was like that except for a few of the episodes.

ECGORDON

Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:50 PM

The only shows I have made a point to watch religously this year are Lost and Veronica Mars, and it's a good thing I have two vcrs 'cause they are on at the same time, Wednesdays at 8pm Central, Lost on ABC and VM on UPN. Both are in their second seasons, but both first seasons are out on dvd now too.

Here's a list of shows out on DVD (but no longer on the air) that I would recommend.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (never got into them until after Firefly, but they are both well worth the time and effort)
Babylon 5 (all five seasons + movies are available)
Dark Angel (2 seasons)
Dead Like Me (2 seasons)
Freaks and Geeks (unless I missed it, no one else has mentioned this, which is surprising)
Jeremiah (only season 1 available so far)
Joan of Arcadia (ditto)
Sports Night (when I am watching it I think it at least ties with Firefly for best series ever)
Wonderfalls

ETA: And one more that is due out next week - American Gothic

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SLOWSMURF

Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:02 PM

Well, just to warn you again. Farscape is a cross between episodic and continuous, as you'd expect. The characters change the most, which might be most of what you're looking for.(though it gets increasingly continuous as time goes on)

Just expect the occasional stand alone episode, though they nearly always have a point or cause some change, even then.

CONOR

Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:07 PM

ill second ecgordon on freeks and geeks,great show with brilliant cast and great 80's soundtrack,which also suffered the same fate as firefly.There is a brilliant yearbook edition available thanks to the fans fight for this series(sound familiar)well worth the look.

conor chaney

NERVOUSPETE

Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:13 PM

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Originally posted by Stylinlp38:
Thank you all for the responses.
Probably get that Battlestar Galaga Starbug with boobs show. (Its just wrong to get a boner for StarBuck) Something about that Cylone robot Im not so sure of. Seems like a weak idea.
I watched a few episodes and they looked ok. But no where near as good as Firefly.
I can only take teen chicks on tv with the smarts of a box of dirt so much unless they start pulling their clothes off. So I doubt I would ever like Muffy.

Those UK series look facinating. I will check those out at Netflix also :)

Everything changes by the end of Ultraviolet, no tidy conclusions, no moral in the end, just a horrible... awareness. It's brilliant. And it does things and goes places other shows fear to tread. Vampires and artificial insemination and a Catholic priest calling for an abortion, an age old cold war between vampire and man, and the vampires making full use of the modern world. Stock markets, futures, business, money and blood. They're stronger, smarter, faster - all we have is faith and humanity against them, but we even begin to lose that in the long struggle.

As for Red Dwarf...

Series 1-3:

Terrible effects, excellent scripts. Probably the most intelligent at this stage, but not leaning very heavily on sci-fi concepts - it's more to do with character. Still, my personal faves.

Series 4-6:

Outdated but rather fun effects, exciting plots, funny and more outlandished humour based on situation rather than character. Relies a little too heavily on catchphrases and stock jokes, but four and five are definitely worth getting.

Series 7-8:

Tired, unfunny, lazy, charmless guff. DO NOT BUY. Plus Kochanski finally comes back, only she's played by talentless bland actress Chloe Annett, with all the comic timing of Stalin. A dead Stalin. Made me miss the original series one Kochanski, C P Grogan, who I adored - the wry little Scottish pop-minx, until I found out that she wisely turned down the offer to be in it oweing to the terrible scripts.

Oh! And Buffy is actually quite clever in BTVS. She's funny and smart, but occassionally lazy and stupid, thus getting into trouble. Willow of course is gloriously clever. I've only seen series 1-3 1/2 but I love it! And I always thought it wasn't my sort of thing...

... until I caught 'Hush' on TV one night. Gosh!

"If you can keep your head whilst others... eurgh! Ack! I've spilt my ink! Ugh! Ink on my trousers! Agh! Ink on my shirt! My only hope! The window! Aieeeeee!" (Falls to death)
- Jonathan Nash

DRU

Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:26 PM

Most of the shows that I would recommend have been mentioned already, except "The Pretender". Season 1 and 2 are out on DVD and American Gothic soon will be.

CHINDI

Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:29 PM

Thanks for the suggestions (she said while scribbling them all down...)

I liked Lost last year.. this year.. the Jury is still out for me.. they are dragging it out and loading it up with commercials.. and so far I am underwhelmed...

For me the one show I would NOT MISS... Deadwood... maybe its the western thing.. but man I LOVE that show.. I know it is not everyone's cuppa but, it is to me smart and well acted TV..

Chindi

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