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These are all contemporary turn-of-the-century comedy TV series where each pairing shares at least one cast member:

• 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.

• 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.

• Green Wing - Turn the surrealism up yet another notch, add in a teaspoon of darkness, then set it in a hospital.

• JAM - Turn the surrealism dial fully around to the black setting, to the point of being outright disturbing and wrong.

• 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:

• Babylon 5 - Top rated sci-fi. Some episodes can be a bit meh, but the ones that aren't are amazing.

• 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.

How are we supposed to know what you have or have not seen?!

• The Iron Giant
• Succession

Utopia, the original UK Channel 4 series not the godawful piece of shit US remake

• Scavengers Reign
• Beef
• Adolescence

In Bruges, a spiritual predecessor to The Banshees of Inisherin. It's dark, dry humor.

Patriot it's on prime and it's incredible. Not a single bad episode, outstanding tv show that nobody has watched

• The Good Place
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Series)
• In China They Eat Dogs
• The Boondock Saints

• The Shield (Corrupt Police)
• Battlestar Galactica (SciFi)
• Star Trek - The Next Generation (SciFi)
• Ozarks (Drug Cartel)

Better Off Ted
Veronica Mars

The Man Who Knew Too Little.

Great Bill Murray movie that I never see anyone talk about.

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Twelve Angry Men. I like the original black and white version, haven’t watched the remake.

Farscape.

Series-es that I found so much better than expected:

Preacher

Scavengers Reign

Warrior

Movie I found much better than expected:

Wicked Little Letters

Stargate SG-1 series and its spin offs

Travelers

White Collar

Red

Knight and Day

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.

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Years and Years

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• Justified
• Tombstone
• Unforgiven

Only Murders In The Building.

Dersu Uzala. Akira Kurosawa, 1975.

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.

For some thing new, I loved Common Side Effects.

• Longmire
• Dark Winds
• Department Q

Movies:

• Original 2012 chilean version of the movie "cabin in the woods": En las afueras de la ciudad.

Series:

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• Stop Nyqvist (Pysäyttäkää Nyqvist)

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Psych

The Testuo trilogy, that shit is wild.