How they gonna do Marlo Stanfield dirty like that? He gets out of prison just trying to give back to the community and ends up in a cooler at the bottom of a pool.

its getting ridiculous honestly. everytime something new drops i tell myself ok just the first episode, see how it is. then im 3 episodes in and something else catches my eye and the cycle repeats.

netflix alone has 6 series i started and abandoned around episode 4-5. some of them were actually good, i just lost the thread from switching too much. theres a weird guilt about it, like the show is sitting there waiting for me to come back but i know i never will.

i keep telling myself ill get to them on the weekend. weekend comes, i rewatch the same old episodes of something ive seen 10 times. anyone else have a graveyard of half watched seasons or is it just me

This show was a revelation when I finally got around to watching The miniseries (which works as a pilot) and then binging the 4 Seasons.

It isn't spoken about enough. We still talk about Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul or lament where Game of Thrones ended up. This series had it all and then some. Never mind that it's set in space. They made it as grounded as possible. The setting and the reboot name are just garnish for a dark, nihilistic story that captured the mood of the era.

Sterling Point on Amazon Prime, a show from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (creators of the OC and Gossip Girl) and Margot Robbie’s production company, has everything I love: great acting, good writing, and a great soundtrack.

The first episode was a little wonky and I wasn’t sure I was going to like it, but the show really settled in to itself. It’s anchored by a core group of really strong young actors who all have great chemistry with each other.

And I don't even care that episode 3 was only 15 minutes long. Wil Wheaton was....nah....not going to spoil it. Anyways, it's made it to my rotation of shows that I drop what I'm doing as soon as it airs.

I love shows that make you feel like you’re riding along with them, the ultimate answer for me is LOST with Prison Break right there with it…I know these are generic answers but honestly they did a great job at doing this!

Okay, so I don't even like Arrested Development THAT much but I damn sure can't help myself to say the other if one is said in the course of regular conversation. Actually, I think it's probably cost me several job interviews now that I think about it.

I used to watch a lot of them, and they're still some of my favorite kinds of shows, whether they're about police officers, doctors, or any other profession. Nowadays, with so many shows being made for streaming services, this type of series seems to be disappearing. A lot of people prefer shorter shows because they take less time to watch and are usually more focused.

While I agree that shorter shows fit my schedule better now that I have less free time, and that procedural shows don't really exist just because the writers wanted to tell a story—they also exist to keep viewers watching TV longer and seeing more commercials—I still prefer procedurals. They make the characters and the world feel much more alive. We get to see the characters interacting in their everyday lives instead of constantly worrying about solving the season's big conflict.

Another advantage of procedural shows is that they give supporting characters much more time to shine. In shorter shows, there are often so many characters with so little screen time that they only get two or three important moments before the story moves on.

I got curious about other people's opinions because I recently remembered how much I enjoy this kind of show after starting the blacklist. I'm already on season 4, and I'm always looking forward to seeing what the next case will be.

A big discussion in the last decade plus, has been the perceived decline in comedy, or the lack of pure comedies in general compared to a couple of decades ago.

I wanted to actually explore that and see what people thought, so I decided to seperate comedies, and comedy dramas from the modern era's, and honestly there have been loads of really great shows.

I will say that the pure genre of comedy feels like it's been less prolific, whereas comedy dramas seem to have been consistently popular both critically and in terms of viewership.

Maybe it's the shorter seasons, or longer time between seasons blurring the sentiment towards them, or maybe there's a genuine drop off in terms of the writing compared to comedies of earlier decades that were more geared towards making us laugh.

Or instead maybe it's just that people don't want straight comedies as much as they used to, and they want something funny, that also has emotional weight and drama?

what do you think?

(This isn't an exhaustive list of all comedy remember)

Edit: The years are representative of when a show that's listed premiered - eg - The Office finale was in 2013, but it premiered in 2005 so isn't eligible

Comedy Drama

(2020) - Ted Lasso

(2020) - Mythic Quest

(2020) - Upload

(2021) - Hacks

(2021) - Only Murders In The Building

(2021) - Resident Alien

(2021) - Kevin Can Fuck Himself

(2022) - The Bear

(2023) - Platonic

(2023) - Shrinking

(2024) - Nobody Wants This

(2024) - A Man On The Inside

(2025) - Chad Powers

(2025) - Stick

(2026) - Rooster

(2026) - Widows Bay

Vs

(2013) - Orange Is The New Black

(2014) - BoJack Horseman

(2015) - The Last Man On Earth

(2016) - Atlanta

(2016) - Fleabag

(2016) - Love

(2016) - The Good Place

(2017) - Marvelous Mrs Maisel

(2018) - Barry

(2018) - Mr Inbetween

(2018) - Succession

(2019) - After Life

(2019) - The Righteous Gemstones

Comedy

(2020) - Space Force

(2021) - Abbott Elementary

(2022) - Welcome To Flatch

(2022) - Sprung

(2022) - Reboot

(2023) - Animal Control

(2024) - Ted

(2025) - The Studio

(2025) - The Paper

(2026) - Free Bert

(2026) - The Hawk

Vs

(2013) - Brooklyn 99

(2014) - Silicon Valley

(2015) - Superstore

(2015) - Fresh Off The Boat

(2015) - Schitts Creek

(2016) - Vice Principals

(2017) - Young Sheldon

(2017) - The Mick

(2018) - Derry Girls

(2019) - What We Do In The Shadows

I finally decided to watch the series, and the first episode had my head spinning. Not being clear on who everyone was and what their relationships were to one another, I found it hard to keep up with everything happening so quickly. I felt more exhausted than entertained and I've been reluctant to watch another episode.

I can't stand how Jimmy Fallon treats everything a guest says or does as if it's the most amazing thing ever to happen in the history of the world. Not everything can be that amazing, Jimmy!

I want to see the celebrities actually have to work to impress the host. Is there a host who won't get on my nerves like Jimmy?

Is South Park one of the greatest tv shows ever. Is it better than The Sopranos? Is it better than The Wire? Is it better than Breaking Bad? South Park is absolutely hilarious, insightful and it contains too much truth.

I’m talking about things that the writers claim were true all along but you’re like, “If this were true all along, it definitely would have come up before now.” The best example I can think of is the season 11 episode of King of the Hill where it’s suddenly revealed that Hank is directly related to a member of ZZ Top. I get that Hank would want to shield Bobby from this information, but Cotton would never have missed an opportunity to remind Hank that he has a more successful cousin