The wealth of depth of Claire and her story as a silver eyed witch brings us on a journey of struggles and the power to overcome in an anime series that has content that hails back to the golden age of anime and what made anime a household term. By far the only modern anime that truly grabs my attention.
Watch Claire battle the ancient Japanese mythos of the Yoma as a Claymore, an ancient sect of dedicated protectors who earn their right to living in this world by being the very evil they seek to eradicate and living by strict codes.
My favorite series of all time of all genres, the wealth of depth to the characters, their stories, and the stories of the universe that surrounds them brings you on an unparalleled level of quality and talent in bringing you this intergalactic journey of two bounty hunters while their pasts and future intersect at an operatic crucible.
Even the soundtrack fine tuned to each episode and the entire scope of the story, outshines what a soundtrack can do for a series. One of the few series where a soundtrack tells part of the story.
The level of ingenuity, talent, and pure genius that goes into what brings us the story of the crew of the Bebop, is truly once in a lifetime.
The life of a spy who always seems to land on the right side of luck with some of the basest and ill conceived motivations, be sure that you are now in The Danger Zone when you come across whatever Dr. Krieger has dreamed up now. Archer gives us an Fx series from an early [as] creator who redefines sea lab, comedy, and mechanisms to tell a story. Grab some Anejo, kick back, and go on an animated adventure that pushes borders of, ducks, and dodges mature content.
Red Green and his nephew Harold take us on a rustic tour of Possum Lodge as the world around them changes and they do not. Possum Lake stays stuck in time as Lodge members make some off the beaten path memories that redefine ridiculous.
From Handyman’s Corner, Adventures with Bill, to lessons in forest safety and loneliness with Ranger Gord; Remember Red is pulling for you, we’re all in this together.
My favorite Chuck Lorrie series featuring the life and times of Charlie Harper and his brother Allan as they cope as modern men with dating, the definition of being a man, marriage, and life after marriage. Far from role models their lives serve to tell stories of the non-conventional ethics of day to day life while chasing relatively nothing of substance other than the modern hedonistic suburban man’s utopia.
Another show, this time from HBO’s overnight line up, that would’ve been more at home on [as], Duckman takes us on a journey of rants, life fizzled from tragedy, the male ego meeting a new day and age, and how it bucks back. The life of a private detective, his family in a life after love, as well as his best friend and business partner the Dragnet styled straight man Cornfed.
Based on the most vast and well defined fantasy worlds with grim reflections of our own history, since J.R.R. Tolkiens Middle Earth; Game of Thrones takes us through the events and history of Westeros bringing myth to life, while the wheel turns and crushes the lives of many others. The Song of Fire and Ice brought to life in the darkest of times. For the night is dark and full or terrors, & winter is coming.
One of the single most influential Tv series of all time, Rod Serling takes us through a journey of imagination where it meets plot twists tangled up with the best SciFi has to offer to deliver an often heavy handed message of humanity. The true golden standard for all SciFi that follows. Twilight Zone often shines with its ingenuity in presenting the story as well as how to tell the story itself. Ahead of its time and ours, this titan of SciFi history will always remain relevant.
One of my all time favorite sitcoms, we follow Dr. John Becker on the last leg of his disappointing life as a not so friendly Bronx neighborhood doctor, and those who get stuck in life around him.
Often on the stubborn side of the point Becker is hardly for those who can’t tolerate anything less than politically correct. A show with the off beaten path of points and life lessons, takes us through life with those who learn to live together.
Like other nick toons of its time, this show would’ve likely been more at home on [as] than Nickelodeon. Rocko’s Modern Life follows a wallaby from the outback’s move to a big city in America and his journey adjusting to a modern world that’s never quite what it seems.
The most timeless comedy troupe hailing from their Vaudeville days with Ted Healy, the 3 Stooges tackle social issues, politics, daily life struggles as three vagabonds in almost endless zany scenarios that have kept us laughing since the 1930’s. Playing with boundaries and perspectives they deliver a form of slapstick and satire melded together, with a sense of ingenuity to tell the stories that made countless episodes instant classics even in their own time.
Probably my favorite sitcom of all time, a series that professed not to take itself seriously tackled heavier issues to daily life as well as law and order more than others series of its kind.
Night Court follows the unconventional career of Harry T. Stone as the youngest appointed circuit court judge who relies on hijinks and magic tricks to lighten the tone during the darkness of night and life.
One of my favorite sitcoms, this show would’ve likely been more at home in the ratings these days. With the showrunner being a former alcoholic who looks to new beginnings at a dead end stop. It’s first season being too dark for the network, after lightening the tone in the second season this show sadly lost its audience quickly. A truly short lived gem of sitcom history.
This [as] satirical parody of reimagined and damaged comic heroes living out their midlife crises through arching and superscience! The Ventures giving us the golden standard [adult swim] has to offer, influencing a more serial than episodic view into what [as] can offer its fans.
Coming from one half of MTV’s [adult swim] before [as], Liquid Television pulling from an independent comic series, The Maxx gives us a look into a twisted dark world with some weighty themes and gallows humor to segue into a fantastical vision of the Australian Outback as a delusional homeless man’s visions of psyche on the fringe.
Let me show you sumthin’!
A 90’s sketch comedy at its finest with a more adult lens to satirical antics and dark humor, that ended every episode with a fond farewell and onstage cast party. Always remember kids, Hommie don’t play that!
Riffing on the worst movies Cinema has to offer at its finest with three unique wisecracking cohorts held hostage by sadistically zany mad scientists at the helm.
What if Starfleets bottom of the barrel captain’s laziest and most arrogant crew members were stuck alone together for eternity?
You don’t have to wonder any longer what that might look like in the best of British Tv comedy since Monty Python.
A series that feels like eternity that will keep you hooked as it continues finding more creative and zany ways to tell the story Lister and Rimmer as they meet new friends drifting in the infinity of the universe.
Classic horrors take on the twilight zone as told by a cryptkeeper addicted to corny puns. Wildly imaginative, creative, and takes an almost satirical look into aspects of modern life (in the 90’s) that’ll leave you with a scream.
My all time favorite faux documentary series with a dark humorous look into an all new creative take on the lives of Vampires in the modern world. This stands out to me as the gold standard of comedic satire. One of the few cases of a series out shining its source material while staying connected to it.
One of my all time favorite sitcoms that tells its story with a modern wit and down to earth moments that give you flashbacks of shows like M*A*S*H as if it were the 90’s sitcom of family medicine.
One of my all time favorite true crime series, that takes what Criminal Minds did in its first two seasons; and brought it to a very visceral look into the darkest of subjects and its impact on those who take it as a duty to look into the darkness that peers back.
Loosely based on the origins of the BAU at Quantico in the 70’s, and elements of the real life stories of Robert Ressler, John E. Douglas, and Dr. Anne Wolbert Burgess.
For me this series is pique SciFi, that fleshes out the universe as seen in Battlestar Galactica. Giving us an origin intertwined with a deeper look into the question why sprinkled with the existential look within its own story as well as our own.
A series that redefines what a stellar remake should be, albeit sprinkled with very heavy religious undertones that continue into the sister series Caprica. Even still this will remain a stand out masterpiece of SciFi.
For me this is the pique of SciFi for adults. It delivers with an innovative and creative take on the divide between upper and lower echelons of society. Told through a gritty narrative of dystopian resistance.
An another amazing live action series that makes you really feel for Old Ben in his exile watching over a young Luke Skywalker. For me this series also gave more dimension and form along with substance to the Inquisitors. The encounter with Vader giving fans everything they wished they saw out of their final duel on the Death Star.
One of my favorites from the new Star Wars live action series, it felt like an organic continuation for the story of Boba Fett, turning away from bounty hunting and having his past haunt him through a few story points, like his encounter with the Pike’s, guaranteed to please fans like myself.
The Mandalorian is the greatest SciFi series to release since Battlestar and Caprica. Opening up the Star Wars universe with a new lens to bring back some older story elements with a continued story. The true continuation of the Star Wars legacy.
This series left me wanting for everything that made How I Met Your Mother stand out as a top tier and original sitcom that had nostalgia sprinkled all through it, even in its opening song.
A great continuation of an MTV classic
