i've been so out of touch with this part of the site i cant even remember which threads i've posted in but i've been watching hella netflix when i've been off work lately

omg i'm shocked that more people aren't watching russian doll tbh!! i adore natasha lyonne so i was hooked as soon as i watched the first episode, binged it in one night lmao but its so good! i really like atypical as well, season two is so much better than the first one though. More people also need to be watching one day at a time tbh

Legit love all three. I can't get enough of 'One Day At A Time' and agreed about 'Atypical' - I adore the show but it's odd, it has such unlikeable characters for the mostpart!

Legit love all three. I can't get enough of 'One Day At A Time' and agreed about 'Atypical' - I adore the show but it's odd, it has such unlikeable characters for the mostpart!

Casey is enough to keep me watching it tbh

I liked her first season but she became such an unlikeable little c*nt in the second series. I'm probably one of the only people who felt sorry for the Mum :(.

100% agree about Atypical having some really unlikeable characters. Obviously there's Elsa but sometimes I find myself feeling sorry for her. :lol: Doug and Julia kinda annoy me. Like Lindsey says though, Casey is enough to keep me interested (hopefully her storyline is a key part of season 3), and Sam's great.

omg i hate elsa lmao, at least the bartender was hot i suppose

Have to agree with Killing Eve for my favourite current show! It manages to flick between suspense and comedy so easily and both of the leads are so loveable! I can't wait for season 2!

Day 01. A show that should have never been cancelled: Flashforward

Day 02: A show you wish more people were watching: Episodes

Day 03: Your favourite new show: Maniac

Day 04. Your favourite show ever: Doctor Who

 

Of course! Nothing can ever come close - such a long history of the show that it can (and it certainly does!) have terrible episodes that I will rewatch multiple times and end up finding something to love about it. It's the perfect show for me as it can constantly refresh and change itself in a natural way, be completely different each and every week whilst also having the opportunity to dig out stuff from its history and bring things back. It's an absolutely genius idea and it's a show that will never, ever die no matter what happens.

 

Day 1. A show that should have never been cancelled: The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya

Day 2: A show you wish more people were watching: Mob Psycho 100

Day 3: Your favourite new show: The Promised Neverland

Day 4: Your favourite show ever: Game Of Thrones

 

What? Not anime? Yep (oh I am going to have fun on Day 24). And Game Of Thrones isn't unassailable, there are certain anime that come close and also Breaking Bad on occasions. But see, despite how talked about, how overused it is as a comparison, how amazing everyone says it is and how that might put some off, there's a reason why that was. Its star has faded a little with a somewhat underwhelming season 7 and it being a couple of years before the final go this year, but my god if Seasons 1-6 weren't the most gripping, brutal, all-consuming pieces of hype I've ever experienced. It made fantasy, my favourite TV genre, cool to like again. It got me a large majority of my uni friends. It introduced me to the incredibly detailed world of the A Song Of Ice And Fire books - the TV show only scratches the surface for the most presentable bits.

 

It's a whole world in a TV show and it's a fully realised world with a long history that is taking its cues from actual history, with characters that you're constantly unsure of and yet find compelling to watch whether you hate them or love them, deep, meaningful conversations that make for incredibly well-acted set pieces, shocking twists that make you fear for characters' lives, and the great uncertainty about how it'll turn out. With the fantasy, almost all of my favourite dramatic shows have at least one of those factors, Game Of Thrones combines it into all of them.

Day 04. your favourite show ever. omg this is so hard as I've had a solid top 3 of Orphan Black, American Horror Story and Brooklyn Nine Nine for years but I've never tried to rank them 😭 maybe Orphan Black :unsure:

1. A show that should have never been cancelled. American Vandal

2. A show that you wish more people were watching. Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.

3. Your favourite new show. The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

 

4. Your favourite show ever. Friends

 

Such an easy one to chose. I must have seen every episode at least 50 times and will still never get bored watching it. While it might never truly hit the highs of some of my other favourite shows, I don't believe that there is a single bad episode of Friends and it remained consistently great throughout it's whole run. Ms Chanandler Bong is my favourite character of all-time. I'm just a sucker for a good sitcom really, my other favourite 2 shows would be Community & It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

 

Day 04. Your favourite show ever: Doctor Who

 

 

No shockers here! A show I loved from the moment I started watching in 2006, and nothing has come close since. The Doctor is the best character on television, and every incarnation is intriguing and interesting in their own way. I love how Doctor Who brings such a sense of adventure, making what could easily be a very childish format into something for all ages. The risks and experiments it can take with such a flexible premise has made for some incredible episodes too (and some poor ones, but across 55 years that's a given really). Always such a special show to me!

Day 4: Your favourite show ever: Parks and Recreation

 

I can't even begin to describe how much i love this show. Incredible in every way.

Day 4: Your favourite show ever

 

 

Doctor Who (Nu Who) (NB: I haven't seen a lot of Classic Who)

 

It was either this or The Simpsons. I eventually settled for this, because while I consider The Simpsons as one of my favourite shows, let alone one of my favourite cartoons, it kind of declined in quality after the movie (It's still mostly solid, despite a few episodes I found to be weak such as Love Is A Many Strangled Thing).

There is an outstanding use of world-building throughout each series, and there is a huge ensemble of enemies and obstacles for the Doctor to face, including one of my favourite villains in all of media, The Daleks.

 

 

Speaking of The Doctor, he is a very well-written character with some really interesting lore behind him and how a huge battle he was involved in led to the demise of his home planet Gallifrey.

The soundtrack, whether it's Murray Gold or Segun Akinola composing it, does an excellent job at capturing the atmosphere of Earth and the other planets in the Who-niverse. The latter's score reminds me of the ethereal sound of C Duncan's 2016 album The Midnight Sun (which I did a short review of on AlbumOfTheYear)

My favourite era of Doctor Who (in terms of showrunners) has to be the RTD era, that's when the elements of fantastic worldbuilding and brilliantly written plots are used to their full potential, it also brought in some magnificent episodes such as Army Of Ghosts/Doomsday and Turn Left. Though there will be one post-RTD era episode I might talk about later on in the TV challenge.

Edited February 21, 20196 yr by DalekTurret32

Day 04. Your favourite show ever: Teen Wolf

 

 

It could not have been anything else. Words cannot describe how much I stan this show. The community is... questionable, but it's really evident that the cast love each other, the chemistry is astounding, and save for a few episodes, there's a lot of suspense to be had. Season 3A is probably one of the best seasons of TV history. I have to tell you, I analyzed the shit out of most of these episodes, especially the series finale. Seeing Scott keep the same insecurities despite the huge change in responsibility was a nice touch. It showed that despite the development, there are some aspects of a character that are hard to change, especially for someone who has gone through so much. You can probably run through the thread (or pretty much anywhere else) to see how much effort I put into talking about it lol

 

It wasn't the first show I properly stanned (that will come up in a few days), but at the time it was the first show I stanned in a while. With most of the Disney Channel shows I grew up with having gone and the quality dipping so much, it was time to move on to another channel and this show won my heart.

Day 4: Your favourite show ever: Parks and Recreation

 

I can't even begin to describe how much i love this show. Incredible in every way.

same. nothing other than 30 rock even comes close :wub:

Day 04. Your favourite show ever: Doctor Who

 

I'm in good company here *.* Can only echo the praise for it already, it was the first show I really remember enjoying back in 2005 when it first premiered when I was only twelve and I was really quite taken in by the adventure, sense of fun and various sci-fi concepts. I'd come to look forward to this every week with it's mix of comedy, horror, mystery and just real entertaining aura, and while there's definitely been a lot of duds, that's part of the package and what makes it so likeable. It tries a lot of things, not all of them work and when they do they can be fantastic, but it's almost always entertaining and always held together by the Doctor's personality and unique take on issues, the formula hasn't tired for me.

Day 4: Your favourite show ever: Parks and Recreation

 

I can't even begin to describe how much i love this show. Incredible in every way.

OMG Pav this was legit going to be my answer. :wub:

OMG Pav this was legit going to be my answer. :wub:

i want yours and pavs fav scene (bloopers excluded)

Day 1: A show that should have never been cancelled: Faking It

Day 2: A show that you wish more people were watching: Atypical

Day 3: Your favourite new show: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

 

Day 4: Your favourite show ever: Doctor Who

 

 

Can only echo what everybody else has said already. I remember sitting down to watch it for the first time and being blown away by the action, the monsters, the Doctor, and everything about it. Never thought that I would end up on this journey with the show almost 15 years later, collecting all the figures, becoming invested in all the spin-offs it's produced, etc. It's such a unique show that offers so much to both its fans and casual viewers. Stellar guest casts, regular characters that you really find yourself investing in, or going back and finding they were more brilliant than you first thought, and even to today going back and re-watching episodes and forming new opinions on them, discovering deeper layers than were first visible to you as an 8 year old. :lol: There's different aspects of being a fan that have tired on me (i.e. collecting figures, magazines, etc), but the show itself never will, and it'll always have such a special place in my heart.