I haven’t been watching much in terms of actual shows for a good while, then while listening to a podcast a host casually mentioned they had rewatched Chernobyl, how it still holds up, that there’s a reason it got as much acclaim as it did, etc. So I thought I’d give it a go and wow, loved it (still one episode left to watch).

Had me thinking, what else have I missed out on? What are some “absolute cinema” TV shows that still hold up and and are considered must watch?

  • benignintervention@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I always plug Scavenger’s Reign. It’s a a sci fi survival show about a set of people who get stranded on an alien planet animated kind of like a graphic novel. The creators used a bunch of nature documentaries as inspiration to create a truly alien and interdependent ecosystem, but the theme tells you everything you need to know about the tone.

    Also, animated sci fi comedy, The Venture Bros

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      The creator behind Scavenger’s Reign, Joe Bennett, has animated for the FXX series Cake, and he also created Adult Swim’s Common Side Effects, as well as soon to be on Netflix Dealies which is based on one of his Cake shorts.

      Everything he does is excellent, even his illustrations for Joe Pera’s bathroom book “A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing but Using the Bathroom as an Escape” are wonderful.

      Also the artistic inspiration for Scavenger’s Reign is french graphic novelist Jean Henri Gaston Giraud, also known as Mœbius, if you’re looking for similar artwork.

      /infodump