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TV shows that deserved more love.
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Profit [even though it seems a bit cheesy now]
Studio 60
Firefly
Space: Above & Beyond
Veronica Mars
Dead Like Me
Wonderfalls
Cupid (the original)
Rome
Deadwood
Pushing Daisies
Kindred: The Embraced
I would add Kindred: The Embraced, but it was taken off the air due to the death of its main star. Awesome show though, and I don't even like vampire shit.
EDIT: Or maybe it wasn't. Appears it was cancelled prior to his death. Fucking adding it.
Profit [even though it seems a bit cheesy now]
Studio 60
Firefly
Space: Above & Beyond
Veronica Mars
Dead Like Me
Wonderfalls
Cupid (the original)
Rome
Deadwood
Pushing Daisies
Kindred: The Embraced
I would add Kindred: The Embraced, but it was taken off the air due to the death of its main star. Awesome show though, and I don't even like vampire shit.
EDIT: Or maybe it wasn't. Appears it was cancelled prior to his death. Fucking adding it.
sublime085
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Aliens in America. Seriously funny show, and no one EVER talks about it. It was canceled quietly after its first season.
And Seinfeld didn't hit the top 20 until its 5th season.czartim said:
sublime085 said:Aliens in America. Seriously funny show, and no one EVER talks about it. It was canceled quietly after its first season.
And Seinfeld didn't hit the top 20 until its 5th season.
I talked about it on the 101st post, but I didn't get the title right. I agree, though, I loved that show.
A Link to the Past
Banned
I gotta say, Journeyman sounds suspiciously like Quantum Leap.
And I also gotta agree that Mission Hill was cut down in its prime. It's such a good show.
And I also gotta agree that Mission Hill was cut down in its prime. It's such a good show.
Human Target
Even though it hasn't been officially canceled I fear it will be because it apparently didn't get good ratings at all, which is a damn shame because it was just an amazingly charming show. Great popcorn action show with a cross between James Bond and Indiana Jones.
Even though it hasn't been officially canceled I fear it will be because it apparently didn't get good ratings at all, which is a damn shame because it was just an amazingly charming show. Great popcorn action show with a cross between James Bond and Indiana Jones.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
A Link to the Snitch said:
Comparing the two is like saying The Wire sounds like CSI because they both involve cops.
Sam Beckett never had to go back to his life after disappearing for days into the past. He also didn't have to deal with the changes that his actions in the past made. He also knew why he stuck in the past. And maybe most importantly he didn't have hotass Moon Bloodgood bouncing around the past with him.
soundahfekz
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Journeyman was the shit, I can't believe people slept on it so hard to where it ended up canned.
Mr_Guillotine
Member
Portal, it was a show that come on really late at night when G4 had just started up. Was the only show I would watch on that network besides X-play at the time. Is Twin Peaks a show that was pushed aside by its network? I'm watching the show now but never got to watch it when it was out as I was too young.
Rahxephon91
Banned
Unscrewed with Martin Sergent was also an awesome Tech Tv and then G4 show. Actually I liked a lot of G4's stuff. I was also like 12.
Oh and for my sister.
Oh and for my sister.
beelzebozo
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not a "tv show" per se, but a tv miniseries that i think gets extremely neglected because it lives in the shadow of a (purportedly better) movie. THE SHINING, starring steven weber and rebecca demornay.
this was not only my first full exposure to stephen king's work (i had been scarified by the IT miniseries years earlier but had only seen bits and pieces) but was also my first tv miniseries. i was just not prepared for the cool little character touches and depth that king brings, nor the really great expansive pacing that a miniseries can afford such an intimate story. think on it: this is three 90 minute segments of not a whole lot more than jack, wendi, and danny, and they're just dwarfed by the majesty and spookiness of this huge, ancient hotel. steven weber's work here is very unappreciated; i watched both the kubrick version and this version in the course of two days, and while i understand that nicholson was going for something wildly different, his complete maniac take on jack torrance isn't nearly as resonant or impressive as steven weber's slow decline from a great father to a man who loses his shit. it has the requisite caveats of any stephen king horror adaptation--the occasional cheesy line, stuff from the book that could have been cut that doesn't transition well, some cgi that's questionable--but on the whole, this is a fantastic effort that is just a fundamentally more interesting story than what was made previously.
check it out!
this was not only my first full exposure to stephen king's work (i had been scarified by the IT miniseries years earlier but had only seen bits and pieces) but was also my first tv miniseries. i was just not prepared for the cool little character touches and depth that king brings, nor the really great expansive pacing that a miniseries can afford such an intimate story. think on it: this is three 90 minute segments of not a whole lot more than jack, wendi, and danny, and they're just dwarfed by the majesty and spookiness of this huge, ancient hotel. steven weber's work here is very unappreciated; i watched both the kubrick version and this version in the course of two days, and while i understand that nicholson was going for something wildly different, his complete maniac take on jack torrance isn't nearly as resonant or impressive as steven weber's slow decline from a great father to a man who loses his shit. it has the requisite caveats of any stephen king horror adaptation--the occasional cheesy line, stuff from the book that could have been cut that doesn't transition well, some cgi that's questionable--but on the whole, this is a fantastic effort that is just a fundamentally more interesting story than what was made previously.
check it out!
TOM f'N CRUISE
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yeah, you didn't miss much.......but then again i only seen a few episodes...when there was nothing coming out....and i really didn't wanna go to sleep.Whoompthereitis said:
Larson Conway
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We literally become what we do, not what weÂ’ve done, or what we will do. WeÂ’re best defined by our actions in the moment. [Dollhouse S02E13]
JumpJeff84
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beelzebozo said:
Always wanted to check this out. Like the Kubrick version, but I'm also a fan of the book. It'd be neat to see this take on it.
Vinci said:
Rome is my favourite show, it pisses me off that it isnt talked about with the same love in the press then Sopranos and The Wire even though I find it a more enjoyable show. I always felt in the UK BBC really fucked up the showing of it. They advertised it pretty hard at first but stuck it on BBC2 so was never gonna get the same audiences as BBC 1.
J-Roderton
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SquirrelNuckle said:
Friday Night Lights.
It my get a lot of love on GAF, but boy none of my friends in real life have even heard of it. They always think I'm referring to the movie when I talk about it.
Couldn't agree more. I certainly have heard of it Squirrel.
I wanna add Drinky Crow show to the list.
Rahxephon91 said:Oh and for my sister.
No, no... for me! I LOVED this show! I think it helps that I was just a tad younger than the lead characters when it came out, but the show has aged really well with only a few exceptions. It's well written, gracefully plotted, and features some incredible performances from the entire cast. The thing that's interesting to me is that when I was a kid watching the stories that centered around the adults were still interesting to me. Shows with similar teen to parent ratios of the time (BH 90210, Blossom, etc.) didn't have this amount of depth.
On top of that, you've got Ricky, one of the very few honest portrayals of gay youth that I've ever seen on TV (at least here in the states). As a very much closeted gay kid when the show originally aired, I can't tell you how moving it was to see the character deal with the same anti-gay bullying that I had to go through on a daily basis in school. I appreciated that the show didn't sugarcoat it or pretend that everyone accepted him by the end of an episode, but offered a supportive message or two without being preachy.
My favorite episode had to be the one with the World Happiness Dance, where, in a very realistic high school fashion, no one got to go to the dance with the person they really wanted to go with and had a generally miserable time. But at the end of the day, the two misfits totally turned it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v15dqcwIh68
The fact that we only got one season,
which ends on multiple cliffhangers
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
game-boi said:
Agreed on essentially everything you said. There's hardly an episode where I didn't come away thinking, "This, this is my favorite one" only to change my mind yet again the next time through.
Part of me wishes there were unaired episodes stashed somewhere in a closet at ABC, but cliffhangers and all, I'd prefer just to leave it as is. Sometimes, as in life, part of the charm lies in the unknowns.
BrokenSymmetry
Member
Space Above and Beyond can not be mentioned enough. It did what BSG did, but ten years earlier, and I liked its characters much better than those in BSG.
Lt. Col. TC McQueen
Capt. Shane Vansen
Lt. Col. TC McQueen
Capt. Shane Vansen
So, I was LTTP: on The 4400, and I knew that there were 4 seasons. I was thinking, this can't be a show that died before its time, there must have been a good ending.
Well, I was wrong. Fucking cliffhanger season 4 ending and the writer's guild struck again. BLARGH!
So now I've wasted a good 30 hours catching up on a show that never ended
Well, I was wrong. Fucking cliffhanger season 4 ending and the writer's guild struck again. BLARGH!
So now I've wasted a good 30 hours catching up on a show that never ended
Odious Tea
Member
Dollhouse and Firefly.
Dollhouse didn't get enough. Firefly gained a massive following posthumously.
Dollhouse didn't get enough. Firefly gained a massive following posthumously.
RiggenBlaque
Member
Nert said:
Sorry, that show had some fucking hysterical moments like all the Clarence interviews (including the second half of the show being completely in reverse) and most of the Beat Kids segments, but the rest of it was utter garbage.
Agreed with Firelfy.
And another +1 for
Agreed for the first season, the show was slow and more foreplay than actually getting with the sex. But the entire second season, not only was I glued, but it sucked in my wife as well. Fantastic story ending on a hell of a cliffhanger. This deserved another season at least. Now I'll never know about the moment when magic died.
And though it had a long run, it was due to critical acclaim, and overall viewership never really took off like it should have:
No cop show in the past 25 years has been better. Not since perhaps Hill Street Blues. Andre Braugher as his finest, and Yaphet Kotto at his most badassedness. Plus, its the only fictional TV show to actually have caught a fleeing criminal.
And another +1 for
Agreed for the first season, the show was slow and more foreplay than actually getting with the sex. But the entire second season, not only was I glued, but it sucked in my wife as well. Fantastic story ending on a hell of a cliffhanger. This deserved another season at least. Now I'll never know about the moment when magic died.
And though it had a long run, it was due to critical acclaim, and overall viewership never really took off like it should have:
No cop show in the past 25 years has been better. Not since perhaps Hill Street Blues. Andre Braugher as his finest, and Yaphet Kotto at his most badassedness. Plus, its the only fictional TV show to actually have caught a fleeing criminal.
Skiptastic
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Spire said:
A dog and a ducky going....BUCK WILD!
hoverboarder
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chalkitdown1
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Freaks & Geeks, Undeclared, Action, Sleeper Cell, Carnivale & Brotherhood would be the big ones to me. All brilliant shows and all watched by about 20 people. God, I miss Brotherhood. The best thing Showtime ever made and they fucking cancel it.
Kudos to those that mentioned Kings. Amazing show. Had some of the best cinematography I've ever seen in a network show. It really belonged on cable, tbh.
Kudos to those that mentioned Kings. Amazing show. Had some of the best cinematography I've ever seen in a network show. It really belonged on cable, tbh.
BattleMonkey
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AFreak said:
Most of these shows people have posted were cancelled without a slot change or after only a few episodes.
It's true some don't get chances but it is the norm depending on the channel it's on and it's different options. Sci Fi shows espcially suffer greatly due to general shitty ratings as a norm, and higher than normal production values, so they are often seen as high risk... and tend to get cancelled easy.
Networks have less tolerance for failure and low ratings than cable channels also.
chalkitdown1
Member
Oh shit, just remembered Odyssey 5. Did anybody watch that? It was a fucking awesome sci-fi on Showtime(fuck you Showtime!), starring Robocop and that guy from Popular. I fucking loved it. Great story, great cast. The English guy was basically Gaius Baltar with a potty mouth. Really fun character. To make matters worse, the one and only season ended on a massive cliffhanger.
Fucking Showtime, man. Just thought of Dead Like Me, too.
Fucking Showtime, man. Just thought of Dead Like Me, too.
Tkawsome said:Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law
Genius show that moves so fast it almost demands repeat viewings to notice them all. It also has Phil Ken Sebben, one of the greatest characters in television. It's a shame it all fell apart when Colbert left to start his own show, but it really couldn't have survived without him.
Came to post this, godly, godly show. I just finished rewatching this series for the 5th time, gotta love all of the gags that they have throughout the show, like the lobster and clown car.
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