One of the major problems with TV that I’ve noticed is that you can have a great premise and great starting season, then the show gets cancelled for some stupid reason. I often find movies to have higher quality than TV. What do you think?
One of the major problems with TV that I’ve noticed is that you can have a great premise and great starting season, then the show gets cancelled for some stupid reason. I often find movies to have higher quality than TV. What do you think?
I find the opposite. Good TV series tend to have much, much higher quality story telling than even good movies, mostly because a movie is the length of a short story.
Care to share? I’m a bit bored.
My favorite example is still The Wire (or even before that Twin Peaks).
A more recent example is Dark.
The Wire is really not what I’d enjoy watching. I got to the point where the cop and the gang had some confrontation and the cop was intructed by his superior to lie and claim that he “feared for his life”. At that point I just fucking can’t continue watching. Too real for my liking. I want to watch tv for escapism, not to be reminded how shitty real life is.
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The Americans was boring af. Stopped watching early on.
I already finished Dark, I loved it, although the “You can’t change fate” type of theme is a bit annoying. I watched 12 Monkeys (the TV show, not movie) which is anothet time-travel series and the atmosphere was not as dark (pun intended), and much more “chill” to watch.
The genres I like are: Science-Fiction, Alt-History, Political (but not too “real”)
I liked watching:
The Magicians The Expanse The Good Place For All Mankind Man in the High Castle (it was dark, but alt-history isn't really realistic so it wasn't that horrifying to watch) Travelers 12 Monkeys (TV, not the movie) Game of Thrones (minus season 8, that doesn't exist for me) Breaking Bad Designated Survivor Kingdom (the Netflix Original that's in Korean) FringeSome movies I liked were:
Terminator 2 Interstellar The Martian 1917 Dunkirk Back to the Future 1-3 Star Wars 1-6 12 Angry Men PrimerRemoved by mod
Some recent series I have enjoyed are Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Foundation, Wednesday and The Mandalorian.
Some older ones I would recommend are Babylon 5, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Star Trek DS9, Community, The Good Place,
Out of all of those I would say Babylon 5 has the best long term story and character development in a way that just isn’t possible in something that is as short as a movie (especially the characters Londo and G’Kar).