Not every great TV show gets its fair time to grow an audience. There are many disgruntled fans who enjoyed one or two seasons of a show before it was canceled for not having a big enough audience. These Redditors are discussing shows they wished had been more popular so they could have enjoyed more than a couple of seasons or had more people to talk about it with.
Very underrated show. If you've never heard about it, this is all you really need to know to start off: The main character, a young female slacker, gets killed in the first ten minutes by a toilet seat falling from an abandoned space station that burns up in the atmosphere. She then gets recruited as a reaper, her job is to basically separate peoples souls from their bodies shortly prior to their death so that they can transition to the afterlife without the trauma of their deaths weighing on their souls. It's a dark comedy that is profoundly deep at times. It also stars Mandy Patinkin in a supporting role. It was a great show.
Counterpart: amazing sci-fi/espionage series that lasted 2 seasons at Showtime a few years ago. JK Simmons plays a meek, gentle paper pusher at a mysterious company in Berlin who finds out that his organization is actually in charge of communicating with a twin organization in an alternate universe. He then meets HIS own twin who is an amoral, cynic, calculating assassin.
S1 and S3 are stellar, raving reviews too. The shtick where a newly arrived traveler sees undestroyed earth for the first time and just can't believe it, it's a feeling that nothing else can quite compare to, and I'm getting queasy again just writing about it.
Also great characters, just the right mix of clever but not too serious/heavy, and the whole premise is of course extremely f*cking relevant.
HBO’s Carinivale - a wonderful and strange depression era story about the forces of good and evil as a bunch of carnies make their way through the dust bowl. It was tragically canceled after two seasons, but is an absolute must watch.
