What is an old show you think is great and really doesn’t get mentioned enough? Why should someone watch it?
Bored to Death (2009 - 2011)
Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis, Ted Danson form a weird and wonderful friendship that revolves around being detectives, drinking white wine, and a little bit of weed.
I don’t think I’ve met anyone else who watched it, but I loved it and watched it all.
Galavant
It’s 2 seasons, bingeable in an afternoon, with a soundtrack that will have you reliving such fun memories.
The princess is captured by the evil king and the heroic knight charges off to save her. Except the princess is a bitch and stays with the king, the king is incompetent and tries way too hard to be likable, and the knight is a little past his prime.
And the whole thing is set in medieval times, and it’s a musical.
It should’ve never gotten a second season, it was way too good to have a second season, and when they got a second season they went so hard on it.
If you’re a fan of fantasy, or musical theater, or comedy, you have to check it out, because I doubt you’ve heard of it.
Yes exactly the kind of reply I was hoping for!! Let’s get weird and obscure!
That has been a random show on my to watch list for years all because I liked the description and was really into psych at the time. You have convinced me to go for it!
If it’s been on your list then it’s absolutely a show you should watch! And Lassiter, I won’t say he steals the show, but he is a great king.
It’s so incredibly bingeable as well.
I’ll try and come up with some other obscure ones, but galavant is the one I recommend to people who have seemingly seen it all.
Terriers.
One season, 13 episodes. Great writing, great acting, real-life bffs playing bffs on screen and that chemistry shows (also real-life brother-sister relationship with the same dynamic). Not super trope-y and the ones they do lean on don’t end up playing out in the way you’d expect. It’s just a great show. I place it up there with Firefly and Freaks and Geeks when thinking about shows that only got one season and could have gotten sooooo much more love.
Oh SHIT! I’m sold. I’m putting this on my “dinnertime TV show” watch list which is a weird and kinda sad high regard; it’s just the one show a day I really pay attention to.
My wife recommends “better off Ted” a workplace comedy centered in a corporate research facility. It’s like witnessing the business side of aperture science (if you play videogames). The fake commercials they run in every show are so unbelievable in parody that they’re starting to become actual corporate practices. The cast is amazing, and if you haven’t seen it you’re missing a surprising amount of inside jokes on the internet.
Other Space
It is a brilliant little space comedy that died the worst type of death. It was a Yahoo Screen original. As you might infer from that it only got one season before the whole platform imploded. I think it might still be available on Netflix or Hulu?
A young space cadet is made captain for an exploratory deep space mission. His second in command is his older sister and she is not happy about it. He also appoints his best freind to the bridge crew and a girl he likes as the coms officer. The Chief engineer is a spaced out hippy type played by Joel Hodgson of MST3K and his robot companion is voiced by Trace Beaulieu who voiced Crow on MST3K. First episode is a little it of a slow start but the show is hilarious. I rewatch it from time to time.