Good TV shows “worth watching”

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My oldest son got me watching - Stan Lees Super Humans recently.
You’ve got to see this show. I remember hearing about it a while ago when it came out. I think there are 3 seasons.
The episode we watched last night has a guy who was born blind that can see using his other senses or ....? It’s a kid in his 20’s. He can tell color , shape and location of objects , blindfolded ( on top of being blind ). Tested in a lab too.
There’s a bunch of people that have “super human” abilities , they show throughout the episodes.
Good stuff.
 
The episode we watched last night has a guy who was born blind that can see using his other senses or ....? It’s a kid in his 20’s. He can tell color , shape and location of objects , blindfolded ( on top of being blind ). Tested in a lab too.

Daredevil?
 
Better Call Saul
Billions
Breaking Bad
Dead To Me
Designated Survivor
Gifted
Homeland
House of Cards
Killing Eve
Money Heist
Orange Is The New Black
Ray Donovan
Shameless
Stranger Things
Westworld

All binge-watching worthy IMO.
 
These days my first criteria first and foremost is is it woke or not? Which is very sad because the first question should have been is it good? Second question should be, does it stay good? So many series start good, then take a slide down shite town. I LOVED the reimagined Battlestar Galactica when it came out. I was a die hard, using whatever method was available to get the new episodes as they came out. And then came its final season and it became very clear that they were just making it up as they went along. There was no Cylon plan. And then came the show's ending and I was 'this was what it was all about?' Haven't rewatched a single episode since. Still love the music though. They had an epic soundtrack and the Bear McCreary version of All Along the Watchtower is still the best version of that song. Save Jimi Hendrix of course.
 
These days my first criteria first and foremost is is it woke or not? Which is very sad because the first question should have been is it good? Second question should be, does it stay good? So many series start good, then take a slide down shite town. I LOVED the reimagined Battlestar Galactica when it came out. I was a die hard, using whatever method was available to get the new episodes as they came out. And then came its final season and it became very clear that they were just making it up as they went along. There was no Cylon plan. And then came the show's ending and I was 'this was what it was all about?' Haven't rewatched a single episode since. Still love the music though. They had an epic soundtrack and the Bear McCreary version of All Along the Watchtower is still the best version of that song. Save Jimi Hendrix of course.
Agreed everything is woke, virtue signaling or reruns, remakes and real crappy writing, cant watch very much, cant stand too many celebretards either, thank God for guitar and my Axe Fx III , dont need tv at all
 
Schitt’s Creek - sitcom mostly Canadians.
Letterkenny - irreverent, weird, offbeat but frequently hilarious Canadian sitcom
The Deuce - 3 season NYC based drama about the start of the porn industry. Interesting. Great cast.
Fleabag - short, award winning, English sitcom. Really good.
Marvelous Mrs Maisel - a rising, Jewish comedienne in the 50’s. Great show.
Don’t F#$k With Cats - Documentary on catching a serial killer via the web from thousands of miles away.
 
After Ricky Gervais' brutal roasting of Hollywood I started watching his show: After Life. I don't know how it will be later on, but the first two episodes are pretty great. The premise is basically this: a dude loses his wife to cancer, and instead of killing himself just decides what the heck, might as well not give a shit and tell everyone exactly what I think without any filter, life is meaningless anyway. Don't blame me if it turns into garbage beyond the first two episodes, but so far so good.
 
After Ricky Gervais' brutal roasting of Hollywood I started watching his show: After Life. I don't know how it will be later on, but the first two episodes are pretty great. The premise is basically this: a dude loses his wife to cancer, and instead of killing himself just decides what the heck, might as well not give a shit and tell everyone exactly what I think without any filter, life is meaningless anyway. Don't blame me if it turns into garbage beyond the first two episodes, but so far so good.
It's good the whole way thru.
 
If you can handle the diconnect of overdubed speech - some of the international stuff on Netflix is good.

"If I Hadn't Met You" was throught provoking and entertaining.
 
These days my first criteria first and foremost is is it woke or not? Which is very sad because the first question should have been is it good?
Funny: When I saw how you began that post, Muad'zin, my first reaction was, "Is he saying he only watches a show if it's woke enough? Or is he saying that -- like most guitar players I know -- he's tired of being clubbed over the head by someone else's pedantic-yet-shrill moralizing, and therefore avoids anything that's self-consciously woke?"

Then I saw you say, "Which is very sad because the first question should have been is it good?" ...and somehow that made me confident that it was the latter option, not the former, though I couldn't put my finger on why.

So I thought about it, and then I laughed, realizing that nobody whose media-preferences started with a minimum-required wokeness would go on to assert that, really, quality should matter more. The latter implies an objective standard of how things ought to be. It assumes that reality is internally consistent and that words really mean things, apart from our feelings.

And since that kind of thinking sends our would-be woke overlords scampering into trees, I could be pretty sure you weren't one of 'em. ;)
 
The wife and I are always on the hunt for another series to blast through. We don’t watch a ton of TV and just stick to Netflix, Hulu and Prime as all three are still way cheaper than cable, where we’ll maybe watch 5% of what we’re paying for.

My wife prefers comedies and more light-hearted stuff. Occasionally she’s done for darker stuff, she loved Mindhunter, for example. I just try to avoid watching The Office for, literally, the 12th-15th time. (Love it, but I need a break before they get unfunny).

Better Call Saul was GREAT and we’re anticipating the next season.
We’re on Nurse Jackie right now, while it’s not exactly top level content, it’s entertaining.
House is always good for a chuckle, especially if you deal with pains in the ass regularly and don’t have the option of talking down to them....I kind of live vicariously through House.
Orphan Black was pretty cool, gets right on that edge of SciFi without going down the rabbit hole too far. A few filler episodes but mostly pretty good.
Black Mirror is awesome, I’ve dug almost every episode.
Mr. Robot was great as well, but I keep forgetting to catch up on it.
 
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