What's the best "good-bad" TV series you've seen?
What's the best "good-bad" TV series you've seen?
TV series that have no right to be as good or as fun as they are based on their premise, or are campy and absurd and yet somehow make it work.
The Good Place. Did not expect it to be as good as it is.
Agents of SHIELD. Full of camp but also full of heart. It also had some pretty great fight choreography at times. Its canonicity with the MCU is currently up in the air but still very much worth a watch IMO
I love a campy marvel show tbh
It's anime, but Dandadan's premise is absurd yet it works.
Resident Alien
There was a show that ran on Canadian TV called Forever Knight. It was about a vampire detective who could only work the night shift and used the blood bank like a soup kitchen. It had surprising depth and rtich relationships among the the supporting cast. You had a sense that it was an actual community with a history and connections that existed outside the plotline. Also it had the best ending for a series I've ever seen.
This sounds similar but different to another show called iZombie about a zombie that works in a police morgue and gets brains from there (in this universe, zombies only turn feral if they go without brains for too long). Also, a side effect is that she gets flashes of that person's memories after eating their brains and helps solve their murders lol.
I might have to check Forever Knight out.
I loved that show back in the day. Nigel Bennett is such a solid character actor. I don't remember how it ended though, which I guess means I need to re-watch it.
I will suggest "The 100" which had varying quality levels throughout, full of The CW tropes but somehow managed to be fun.
I liked it until there was one massacre too many.
This was also my answer. I really wasnât sure if I would finish that show but the more I watched the better I felt about it. Ended up being a good show.
Donât judge off the first few episodes.
Notably though, it really did have a garbage ending.
Futureman. This fits your description perfectly.
Farscape
Is this a safe space to answer Doctor Who? đ¶ It's so campy but for some reason I'm hooked
I know I suck, I know it beyond any shadow of a doubt. I have know. It for over fifty years. Sometimes my brain is mostly silent on that subject, other times it is not.
I have a friend who heard me make the above statement. She took umbrage that I would say such a thing, and sent me this clip...
I'm not a fan of the show, but to me, that one clip was life-changing.
I have a Van Gogh action figure on my desk as a constant reminder.
Love that episode, there's some amazing CGI scenes too
My other suggestion is "Foundation" which was basically 3 TV series in a trenchcoat in Season 1 at least. 1 had HBO tier writing and detail. 1 had middling Amazon Prime writing and 1 was The CW garbage. It had improved somewhat in Season 2 and the plots were more balanced.
harvey birdman, attorney at law is a certified hood classic
12oz Mouse. All of the voices are oddly soothing, and itâs just an endless absurd mystery parodying The Big O.
"The Recruit." It's about a CIA lawyer whose job is to make sure the Agency has a fig leaf of legality covering their crimes.
I had very low expectations with Mr. Robot when it first started and imagined a lot of eye-rolling. Most of this was based on it being on the USA network.
I thought Mr robot was just good, not good bad