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Which format of video entertainment do you like better: Television Series or Movies? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One of the major problems with TV that I've noticed is that you can have a great premise and great starting season, then the show gets cancelled for some stupid reason. I often find movies to have higher quality than TV. What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Care to share? I'm a bit bored.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My favorite example is still The Wire (or even before that Twin Peaks).

A more recent example is Dark.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Wire is really not what I'd enjoy watching. I got to the point where the cop and the gang had some confrontation and the cop was intructed by his superior to lie and claim that he "feared for his life". At that point I just fucking can't continue watching. Too real for my liking. I want to watch tv for escapism, not to be reminded how shitty real life is.

[+] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The Americans was boring af. Stopped watching early on.

I already finished Dark, I loved it, although the "You can't change fate" type of theme is a bit annoying. I watched 12 Monkeys (the TV show, not movie) which is anothet time-travel series and the atmosphere was not as dark (pun intended), and much more "chill" to watch.

The genres I like are: Science-Fiction, Alt-History, Political (but not too "real")

I liked watching:

The Magicians
The Expanse
The Good Place
For All Mankind
Man in the High Castle
(it was dark, but alt-history isn't really realistic so it wasn't that horrifying to watch)
Travelers
12 Monkeys (TV, not the movie)
Game of Thrones (minus season 8, that doesn't exist for me)
Breaking Bad
Designated Survivor
Kingdom (the Netflix Original that's in Korean)
Fringe

Some movies I liked were:

Terminator 2
Interstellar
The Martian
1917
Dunkirk
Back to the Future 1-3
Star Wars 1-6
12 Angry Men
Primer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Some recent series I have enjoyed are Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Foundation, Wednesday and The Mandalorian.

Some older ones I would recommend are Babylon 5, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Star Trek DS9, Community, The Good Place,

Out of all of those I would say Babylon 5 has the best long term story and character development in a way that just isn't possible in something that is as short as a movie (especially the characters Londo and G'Kar).