I haven’t been watching much in terms of actual shows for a good while, then while listening to a podcast a host casually mentioned they had rewatched Chernobyl, how it still holds up, that there’s a reason it got as much acclaim as it did, etc. So I thought I’d give it a go and wow, loved it (still one episode left to watch).

Had me thinking, what else have I missed out on? What are some “absolute cinema” TV shows that still hold up and and are considered must watch?

  • harc@szmer.infoEnglish
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    30 days ago

    I’m really surprised The Expanse didn’t get more of a mention here. Great scify series, and I don’t like series in general.
    Its closer to hard sci fy than prob anything else, it has pretty realistic politics of exploitation, rebellion and inyterdependace in the near (few hundred years) colonisation of the solar system. There’s some gritty pewpewpew in space, balanced out by some space opera, with spectacular characters that have more depth than most and a story arch thats likely to make you binge it.

    As an added bonus the series is 6 out of 9 (/10) books it is based on. There are some notable differences by the end but still you can… expand beyond what the series shows.

    • Summzashi@lemmy.world
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      30 days ago

      It’s biggest problem was the arguably not so good first season I think. Also the ending is kinda eh.

      Other than that, it’s my favorite series since TNG. I absolutely loved it and I pity the people that couldn’t see past the first season

      • Jack@lemmy.caEnglish
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        30 days ago

        It’s biggest problem was the arguably not so good first season I think.

        I thought the 1st season of The Expanse was good, but the 2nd season was so bad that I stopped watching in middle of episode 2. The difference was pretty stark, almost as bad as the difference between the great season 1 of Spooks/MI-5 vs its god-awful season 2.

        I’d recommend the first 2 seasons of Okkupert, and Firefly.

        While I think Chernobyl is a great fiction series, there’s a huge amount of completely unnecessary lies in it, including the intro and outro about lies.