Changes to laws in the late 90's made kids programming far less profitable. In addition sports programs turned out to get just a good of ratings and are far cheaper to produce.

I’ve literally watched all of these, they’re all very popular. Killing Eve is the only one that isn’t completely mainstream,

To be fair, it is reasonably popular in Germany. I can see how it falls between the cracks in the Anglo world.

Definitely cultural! I have watched Korean variety/reality shows for years and the editing is usually way worse sometimes they’ll replay things 4 times. It’s annoying but the shows are still great despite that haha

It’s because sound mixers nowadays wear top of the line headsets that can detect someone breathing from a mile away.

That’s what they work on, so they that’s their threshold when mixing sounds.

Now translate that to your regular TV and everything outside of music feels muted because your TV speakers mash everything together instead of delicately picking and choosing what you wanna hear.

Oh Wellington Paranormal looks interesting. Boy is the only thing from New Zealand I've seen, but have been meaning to watch more. Pantheon is one of the best slow burns. I love your taste lol

Nope. My comment was none of those things. The person I was responding to said they hoped the show was canceled because they didn’t like watching it. The person had no discussion about why they didn’t like the show.

If someone dislikes a show (that has only aired 7 episodes!) they are watching so much they hope it gets cancelled doesn’t it make sense they should stop watching the show and watch something they enjoy instead ?

I used to find it the HBOMAX YouTube shorts annoying but it’s actually a great way to promote the depth of the library beyond all he new stuff. There’s a lot of “oh hey i love this show/movie let me check it out” moments

Wow what a condescending, shitty comment that adds nothing to the conversation. You can tell how defensive fans get when they resort to this

i feel like it got pretty popular again around 2020-2021. on young people meme twitter the show and more specifically Tony are still pretty popular, being used for gif and meme reactions

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It also has good audio, if you use a good home theater or sound bar with Dolby atmos it's great.

The only reason I haven't watched an entry on this list is because it lies so far out of my interests that high quality alone isn't enough to interest me. Sometimes I can get into a show just because it's good, but not always.

For a few that that might fly under the radar I suggest:

Derry Girls - 5 teens in Derry, Northern Ireland, get into outrageous situations set against the backdrop of the final years before the Good Friday Agreement. Equal parts vulgar, heartbreaking, and hilarious.

Extraordinary - A 25 year old in a world where everyone gets a super power doesn't have hers yet. I can't say much without spoilers, it's also vulgar, and it's not a hero show.

Pantheon (though it got canceled sadly) - Great adult animation sci-fi. A slow burn that looks at the consequences of uploading human consciousness. A second season was ordered and then rescinded.

Wellington Paranormal - Taika Waiti, the man responsible for something everyone seems to love on the internet lately, produced this spinoff of the What We Do In The Shadows movie about the cops we see in it. A New Zealand import for people waiting on Our Flag Means Death, WWDITS, or any of his other 50 projects they love to return in some form.

Rutherford Falls - For people who love Michael Schurr (The Good Place, Parks and Rec, Brookyln 99, etc...), especially the Natives in Parks this was a fun 2 season comedy that could have been more. Overshadowed by the admittedly much better Reservation Dogs on a larger platform (Hulu vs. Peacock) my biggest hope now is for Michael Greyeyes to join Rez Dogs since he's free and is about the only actor not to split time between the two already.

Doom Patrol - Somehow it fought its way to 4 seasons and a proper ending coming. More absurd than Wandavision, a show that really looks at how dysfunctional a group of super powered people would be with their typical origin traumas.

Everything on Apple TV that isn't Severance or Ted Lasso - Kinda kidding here, but seriously, I got it free with Game Pass for 3 months and I've been blown away. I knew the first two were great and get lots of deserving buzz, but The Afterparty, Schmigadoon, Shrinking, For All Mankind, Mythic Quest, everything I try is good.

My personal favorite line delivery is when Roseanne is helping Larry overcome his addiction and she brings his staff to his house for an intervention and Larry asks what everyone’s doing here on a work day.

And Artie with his usual happy and caring but somehow dismissive tone goes “Hey ya sport it’s Saturday.”

So many memorable lines… I haven’t seen the show in years, so apologies for the inevitable inaccuracies in the following:

[From the episode where Hank’s sex tape gets out…]
Larry: Is it me or is Hank really well hung?
Artie: Well, don’t forget the camera adds 10 pounds.

[From the series finale]
Tom Petty: (whining) Aw, but I wanted to be your Bette Midler!
[OP: How many people nowadays would get this is a reference to Midler singing on Carson’s last show?]
[From the same episode]
Artie: Sorry, the show is running late, we’ll have to bump you to next week. Bruno Kirby: Are you crazy? There are no more shows. This is the last show dammit.
Artie: (Choking up) I know it is son, I know.

[Larry having to piss badly as his previous attempts at leaving during the show breaks were thwarted]
Larry: Artie, at the next break, clear the hallway to the bathroom. Warn the staff that it’s going to be out, and it’s going to be spraying.

[When a show is going particularly badly]
Larry: Artie, if I had a gun now I’d put it to my head, and stand close to you so that hopefully just the one bullet would take us both out.

[Edit: fixed line breaks]

For once, a truly underrated show.

It is. (A troll post)

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Thank you everybody who commented! Honestly, I thought my inability to hear the dialog was because of getting older. I have had to rely on CC too much recently. CC really ruins the feel of a show for me and because I have to read the CCs I often miss key visuals.

If I had my druthers...there'd be no world hunger.

> Surprisingly, even after 16 years, The King of Queens still has an active Twitter account.

I get the impression that The King of Queens is heavily run in syndication even to this day. That's probably why they keep updating their Twitter page. Our local station has been showing the reruns since 2005 or so, when the show was still airing new episodes on CBS. It apparently has been run a lot in New York too, since the New York Times described it as "a campaign of rerun-saturation so thorough that you might begin to suspect a state sponsor."

EDIT: Wikipedia reminded me that it used to run on TBS too, from 2006 until 2019.

Not sure where you are hearing that.

Dexter is barely above network television writing quality, it just has cable content (violence, sex, etc.). It's like Sons of Anarchy and stuff like that.

outsiders is a great show

i havent really read much in this sub didnt know it was popular, but its not in my country surely

>A quest for high dynamic range so that exciting explosions and the like seem louder than dialogue.

I hate this trend so fucking much, it pretty much never enhances the viewing experience. In 95% of the cases, it's just annoying.