The film and its follow-up set of miniseries:
- This is England (2006) (The film)
- This is England '86 (2010)
- This is England '88 (2011)
- This is England '90 (2015)
From the same writer/director (Shane Meadows), I also recommend The Virtues (2019) miniseries.
Both projects are semiautobiographical. They can be a tough watch in certain episodes, so check doesthedogdie.com for possible triggers.
One of Shane Meadows' earlier films is often recommended, so it's probably one you've already seen, but Dead Man's Shoes (2004) is worth a look if it's new to you.
This is England is one of my favorites! Thanks!
Primer, if you like hard sci-fi. It's an indie movie about time travel, and it's got perhaps the most fleshed out time travel mechanic out of all movies I've seen. Last I checked, the director posted the full movie on YouTube for free
Letterkenny! The humour takes a few episodes for you to understand, but it's absurd sort of in the Seinfeld way but way more subtle.
What We Do In The Shadows is HILARIOUS.
For some thing new, I loved Common Side Effects.
Firefly - warning, only one season, 1 movie, and a short stack of comics.
Young Justice - The side kicks form their own team. Starts off strong but by season four it's kind of meh.
Fubar - cia spy show starring Arnold S.
Invincible - Violent cartoon, good writing.
Severance - It's a weird mind fuck.
X-Men 97 - Far better than the original series.
Brooklyn Nine Nine if you want a comedy cop show.
- Kevin Spencer
- Bromwell High
Farscape.
Mr. Robot
These are all contemporary turn-of-the-century comedy TV series where each pairing shares at least one cast member:
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Spaced - You'd probably want to be reasonably familiar with UK pop culture of the time to truly appreciate it, but it's still somewhat entertaining even without that.
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Black Books - Sister series to Spaced. Probably not in the same universe, but shares some of the same cast. A bit more surreal and doesn't require so much pop culture knowledge.
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Green Wing - Turn the surrealism up yet another notch, add in a teaspoon of darkness, then set it in a hospital.
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JAM - Turn the surrealism dial fully around to the black setting, to the point of being outright disturbing and wrong.
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Big Train - Turn that dial back into silly and relatively light hearted... though you can tell there's something a bit troubling going on at the same time.
Outside that stable, but you may have watched:
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Babylon 5 - Top rated sci-fi. Some episodes can be a bit meh, but the ones that aren't are amazing.
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The Animatrix - Apocryphal short animations of various stories set in the universe of The Matrix, which you might want to rewatch first.
Yes, I have been under a rock since the turn of the century. I like it under here.
+1 for Spaced
Jam is a great shout (as are the others!). Such a messed up show.
Could maybe throw in The Day Today and BrassEye as well.
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Seirei no Moribito (Guardian of the Spirits):
A spear-wielding badass protects a young prince after being hired by his mother to be his bodyguard. It's a beautiful character-driven fantasy anime that really delivers on the dramatic punches.
Monkey Man:
Dev Patel's modern down to earth retelling of the Hanuman myths. Folks dismiss it as a John Wick clone, but it really is so much more than that.
Twelve Angry Men. I like the original black and white version, haven’t watched the remake.
The Man Who Knew Too Little.
Great Bill Murray movie that I never see anyone talk about.
Utopia, the original UK Channel 4 series not the godawful piece of shit US remake
Fantastic!
It's delightfully weird, but be warned that it can get kinda bloody at times. Not like splatter but more, uh… disturbing in some ways I guess – hard to get more specific without spoiling things.
Patriot it's on prime and it's incredible. Not a single bad episode, outstanding tv show that nobody has watched
When I had Amazon this was a surprise favorite! The title and marketing images looked like some rah-rah-USA b.s. but it's so not that. Just an incredible show
Yep I was devastated when I saw it was cancelled. The acting, cinematography, dialogue etc was all flawless
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
I know people who use subtext, and they're all cowards.
Speed Racer
Good Place
I saw Speed Racer after someone recommended it here on Lemmy. They said it was the best movie ever.
I thought it freaking sucked ass. Took me like five attempts to finish it. I got bored and watched something else 4 times before I could finish it.
It was so weird. The plot was just much too basic. Old story, told a thousand times, predictable and boring af. Special effects were (intentionally) poor and too zoomed in and shaky.
They made everything in focus, nothing was out of focus. I think this was a choice of the Wachowskis', but it made for some weird-looking things sometimes.
All the racing was too busy, with camera switches that were much too frequent. Gave me a headache. And I'm used to watching quick switching content. There was just too much color and nothing on focus and too quick. It was a bold choice but it backfired in my opinion.
My two cents, I'm ready for the down votes. 😅
kung fu hastle
Shaolin Soccer (same director and a lot of the same cast) is also a good one
*Hustle.
Devil's plan
In Bruges, a spiritual predecessor to The Banshees of Inisherin. It's dark, dry humor.
- Scavengers Reign
- Beef
- Adolescence
Scavengers Reign was odd, but good. I still didn't know how to describe it to anyone.
It yielded excellent discussions between my partner and I. Our theory was that The Hollow and Kamen represented a codependent relationship, whereas Levi & Azi were a representation of adapting to a new environment and embracing change & independence.
And I don't necessarily mean romantic relationships. I am talking about relationships between people and also the relationships we have with our environments.
The planet is not hostile to humans. It's simply that humans are alien to it, thus it's more likely that humans will fail to thrive unless they learn to adapt.
Adolesvence was very good! Beef seems interesting!
Beef is fabulous. Utterly nuts, and some much fun.
Series-es that I found so much better than expected:
Preacher
Scavengers Reign
Warrior
Movie I found much better than expected:
Wicked Little Letters
The Creator
Yellowjackets
Psych
Yellowjackets <3
- The Good Place
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Series)
- In China They Eat Dogs
- The Boondock Saints
If u liked buffy I would recommend Jeniffer's Body
The movie from 2009? Seems to be available on Disney+, I’ll check it out. Thanks 👍
Buffy <3
The Testuo trilogy, that shit is wild.
Years and Years
Lammbock
- Longmire
- Dark Winds
- Department Q
Only Murders In The Building.
Movies:
- Original 2012 chilean version of the movie "cabin in the woods": En las afueras de la ciudad.
Series:
- From
- Stop Nyqvist (Pysäyttäkää Nyqvist)
Dersu Uzala. Akira Kurosawa, 1975.
- Takin' over the asylum
- We are lady parts
Monkey Dust Time Trumpet Peep Show
