• Ben@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    This is very difficult… and we must be very careful indeed…

    You shouldn’t ask for MORE simply because you enjoyed it.

    Friends already seemed to go on endlessly - but most shows are rightly put to bed and overshadowed by newer and better ideas.

    Now I’m watching Blue Light and don’t miss NYPD blue… I still watch Kojak occasionally, but I sure wouldn’t want any MORE.

    Gentleman Jack

    • Awesome stuff

    • HBO sucks and I hate them (but Band of Brothers was almost perfect, except that it was a little bit too restricted/condensed/reduced).

    Black Mirror

    'Nuff said.

    • Given that this is a collection of stories, and that I started READING stories a lot more recently (currently just finished Harrison Bergeron - the second story in “Welcome to the Monkeyhouse” written by Kurt Vonnegut. These stories are brilliant ideas put into short form - perfect.
    Quantum Leap
    • was almost as good, but a little more formulaic - so I’d vote for Black Mirror to take the flag forward for interesting short stories.

    Talking about Black Mirror…

    The OA

    • Going back in history…

    Firefly

    Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    • Anything of that time with Summer Glau looking incredibly gorgeous. Sure, you know I’m right - even when it’s bad, it’s just really good.

    Scarborough (2019)

    • lovely, and took me back to some childhood holidays.

    Victoria (2016-19)

    • certainly died too early (I love Jenna Coleman).

    Tom and Jerry (original style, painted on glass, with no fear of being politically correct or educational).

    Pink Panther

    • I know, they DID do more, a lot more Tom and Jerry - but most of that just sucks and I don’t know why people even liked the continuation once the original atmosphere was lost. HD brought nothing to Tom n Jerry for sure.

    • Pink Panther owes 90% of it’s success to bad drawing, amazing music, and sheer atmosphere surrounding mostly not amazing stories if the truth be told… but it worked so well. Hours of endless fun with just one bucket of blue, and another of pink paint… yes, you know what I’m talking about.

    I still have a ‘random cartoon’ habit with Pink Panther/Tom n Jerry

    There isn’t much room for anything else in there.

    I just wish there had been MORE of them.

  • justhach@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    I wish the answer here was “Westworld”.

    That first season was perfect television. And that season finale? My god. I was so excited to watch season 2 and it… just fell short on all fronts. It has its moments, but ultimately failed to measure up to that first season.

    Which would have been okay, but then season 3 and 4 happened, and diluted the overall quality of the show to a point where I stopped recommending the show to anyone and just tell them to stick to S1.

    I want to live in a timeline where we left off on that S1 ending wondering what could have been.

  • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The Brink.

    How the fuck did a hilarious show with Jack Black as one of the showrunners not get a second season. It’s probably one of the better things HBO has pumped out.

  • CyanPurple@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    1899

    I’m still heartbroken Netflix cancelled it because it had the unfortunate timing of airing at the same time as Wednesday. The directors’ previous series, “Dark”, was a proper mindfuck.

  • jetsetdorito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Sense8. There’s nothing else quite like it. I really wanted to see more of that story, I’ll never forgive Netflix for cancelling it.

  • jake_eric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I Am Not Okay With This

    Had a great first season on Netflix, then got cancelled. I think it had to do with COVID, but still, that was a horrible cliffhanger ending. Any kind of continuation would be amazing.