Any good Sci-Fi (or post apocalyptic) shows out there?
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Season 4. Just kicked off. Much better so far. Losing Timothy Dalton kinda left it without a glue man.
Don't forget For All Mankind (8.0)
A few cerebral (less action) shows worth checking out include
Counterpart (8.0)
Night Sky (7.4)
The City and the City (6.4)
The City and the City is based on the novel by China Mieville. Which probably explains the rating. His stuff can be, um, challenging. Not everybody likes that. It's like subtitles: You have to be in the mood to pay attention.
As for your bolded "considering next" choices, definitely go for Travelers.
I liked Station Eleven as a novel, but didn't get into the show. It wasn't bad, though. Probably just too soon after reading the book.
I also liked 12 Monkeys.
It looks like all the American stuff is covered, so I’ll mention a couple of good foreign series.
Alice in Borderlands is essentially the Squid Games in an oddly abandoned Tokyo.
Hellbound is a Korean show about otherworldly beings appearing and telling people they have a set time to live before they drug to hell in horrific fashion in front of people. It’s very well done because it basically takes the position of what if it really did occur to todays society. What if All of the Biblical nonsense was suddenly real…or is it? And how various cults and factions would occur.
Space Sweepers is a FANTASTIC Korean scifi movie that is basically a mix of Firefly and Cowboy Bebop.
Alice in Borderlands is essentially the Squid Games in an oddly abandoned Tokyo.
Hellbound is a Korean show about otherworldly beings appearing and telling people they have a set time to live before they drug to hell in horrific fashion in front of people. It’s very well done because it basically takes the position of what if it really did occur to todays society. What if All of the Biblical nonsense was suddenly real…or is it? And how various cults and factions would occur.
Space Sweepers is a FANTASTIC Korean scifi movie that is basically a mix of Firefly and Cowboy Bebop.
Gonna have to add For All Mankind to the list.
I never saw Suits during the first run, watching that these days.
I love Night Sky, mentioned it before, but the cast is awesome. Hope it gets a run, but not beyond the good arc of the story.
It took me most of the first season to get hooked. Definitely one of the better sci fi shows out there.
Station Eleven is probably the best post-pan/post-apocalypse show i've watched all year.
I disagree. I’m typically not a space sci-fi, kind of guy… But I thought the expanse was very good. It started a little slow, and was definitely not what I thought it was going to be. But it’s very intelligent.
I'm 3 episodes in. It's good, but still not 100% certain I know what's going on. LOL It has a LOST feeling to it where all these story lines are going to intersect.
I didn't like it at first, but Bel told me to keep watching. I did and man did it get good--far from boring.
They do a lot of jumping between characters and timelines but it ties together eventually.
I prob didn't give it enough time, but I don't watch much tv and I don't have the patience for shows to get good.
Then you clearly missed out on a great show called Parks and Recreation.
Farts and Procreation was good but you could easily jump in at S3. S1 and 2 weren't good but they were short and they were 22 minute episodes and not 42-60.Then you clearly missed out on a great show called Parks and Recreation.
Yes. I thought it was a really good series and thought it would make a good TV series. Then I see it's coming out in March on Apple TV+ I'll be excited about this one
I agree...show found its legs midway through S2. Had to put Ron in a primary role.
Then definitely check out Counterpart.
Who knew that the Farmers ins guy was such a good actor?
I had read and loved a couple of the novels in the series before they launched the TV show. I expected it to last about 3 episodes before they pulled the plug. It's quite complicated at first and I really didn't think they could translate it to the screen and keep people engaged long enough to get it. Very glad to be wrong. It's superior SF.
Does Travelers abruptly end or does it wrap up and actually finish? I'm on season 2, ep 3 and really like it.
I really liked the first episode, but honestly was bored the rest of the way (and not a good bored like with Andor, like a "why am I watching this still" type bored). I finished it, though. Meh.
Evidently I am a good deal older than most of the posters here so take this with a grain of sand.
My favorite television sci-fi show of all time remains Babylon 5. I know many of you dismissed it because it wasn't a major studio production, had no box office stars or wasn't part of an already existing tv franchise. Oh well your loss. It was the show "Deep Space Nine" wished it was. It started with a tv movie/ pilot in 1993 other than to get a feel for the set design and "atmosphere" It was pretty forgettable. If you choose to watch it ,a few thoughts , be patient, this is not a "monster of the week" series. It is a fully realized television novella intended to play out over Five seasons. The next is "pay f-ing attention" as several times along the way a seemingly chance exchange will turn into a major plot point. Oh and one little "Jab" at many other sci-fi series, Babylon 5 existed in a universe governed by physics, ie: solid objects only move in straight lines. But enough of my fanboy rantings, another series I thought should have lasted longer was "Dollhouse" and not just because of Eliza Dushku.
My favorite television sci-fi show of all time remains Babylon 5. I know many of you dismissed it because it wasn't a major studio production, had no box office stars or wasn't part of an already existing tv franchise. Oh well your loss. It was the show "Deep Space Nine" wished it was. It started with a tv movie/ pilot in 1993 other than to get a feel for the set design and "atmosphere" It was pretty forgettable. If you choose to watch it ,a few thoughts , be patient, this is not a "monster of the week" series. It is a fully realized television novella intended to play out over Five seasons. The next is "pay f-ing attention" as several times along the way a seemingly chance exchange will turn into a major plot point. Oh and one little "Jab" at many other sci-fi series, Babylon 5 existed in a universe governed by physics, ie: solid objects only move in straight lines. But enough of my fanboy rantings, another series I thought should have lasted longer was "Dollhouse" and not just because of Eliza Dushku.
Just finished Station Eleven. Holy schnikes, that was something different. So good. And we'll be getting no more seasons and loving it (more good shows need to end after 1 season as much as it sucks to have to deal with finding new shows).
It was freakin incredible. A utopian apocalypse.
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I can’t seem to get anyone else to watch it, but Resident Alien on SyFy/Hulu is outstanding.
Good old fashioned sci-fi “fish out of water” story that also has a nice amount of humor, some of it a bit dark.
Highly recommend.
Good old fashioned sci-fi “fish out of water” story that also has a nice amount of humor, some of it a bit dark.
Highly recommend.
What was that? Was that like Brecht but with the fourth wall kind of in tact technically contained in the TV show? Having roughly the plot of Hamlet play out with three characters in the show and then within the play they portray their appropriate Hamlet analogs in Hamlet?
Too much anti-American sentiment for me
@millah_22 ChatGPT agrees with me:
Can you please confer on me an honorary minor in Theatre Arts from UI? I did one semester as theatre arts major including a playscript analysis class.
Station Eleven is so freaking good. Edible/trip binge of the decade imo.
Read the book.
TLDR whole thread, but if not already mentioned, the 4 seasons of Westworld were a mind boggler.
On one level I get it (s3 in particular went off the rails imo), but I hate that HBO put so much time and effort into that show and didn't give them the final season to bring everything full circle.
