Loved The Magicians! I didn't even make it through the first book and I can't remember what on Earth convinced me to watch the show, but I'm so glad I got on board!
The audiobooks are among my all time favorites. I’ve listen to them 4 or 5 times all the way through. Mark Bramhall is the narrator, and he he’s incredible. Many times I think, “jeez.. how is he doing that? I know if I were reading that paragraph it would not have been that powerful or interesting”.
I think having been a young boy, and now being a grown adult, helps relate to a lot of the emotional parts of the story. The naive love of youth, and the conflicting feelings of welcome-banality and a desire for life to be more as an adult.
The books get criticism for being “Potter/Narnia for adults”, but I think people who say this maybe haven’t actually read the whole series. That is extremely surface level, and is plainly discussed in the story. The whole point is that this kid grew up obsessed with books like this, and is now just outgrowing the phase of youth where it’s not weird. All of the magic stuff becomes pretty meta after the first half of the first book.
Leverage. First the original, then onto Redemption.
I loved Max Headroom (the American drama series) as a kid, and am now rewatching it and while there's the odd bit of 1980s cringe, it still holds way up in a "how the hell did something this hip ever get greenlit on a major network?" sort of way.
My wife is not into cyberpunk dystopia stuff, but she's watching for the first time with me and doesn't hate it.
Doctor Who from Eccleston on. We missed much of it (including all of the Capaldi and Whitaker years) so it’s still new to us, and we’re catching up just in time for the new guy. I used to roll my eyes at folks who insisted Who was worth watching, but I was clearly wrong: It’s such a fun (and sometimes devastating) show. Loving it.
Final Space, kinda like a better Rick and Morty. Not an amazing series and it definitely did not age well, but it has it's moments.
Twin Peaks Season 3, although I've gotten distracted by the new show Ripley, which is excellent so far.
Northern Exposure
I rewatch shows regularly. Right now I’m watching The Lost Room, Glitch (Australian), The Sandman and Penny Dreadful again. And a Korean food series on Netflix called “A Nation Of Broth”, because I love Korean food.
Im watching the English dub of one piece. As far as dubs go, it's pretty good.
House.
As well as some anime I enjoyed in my youth.
And JJK because.... I love it.
Whenever I am cooking dinner or doing chores during the week after work I have a sitcom on in the background. New Girl, Friends, The Office, TBBT, etc. I've seen them dozens of times, but there is something about having them on the TV in the evening that reminds me of childhood. Simpler times maybe, I dunno. But I find it extremely relaxing.
Then every other year or so I'll go through Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis, because they are probably my favorite shows.
The 4400.
I originally watched it some 15 years ago, and I needed something to watch during long plane trips recently, so I downloaded the entire series and stuck it onto this USB drive that works well with my phone.
Once done I will start rewatching New York Undercover
I've just re watched Avatar:TLAB and Legend of Korra for the 3rd time at least
Have also watched TLAB at least three times. So good. Korra two times I think. About to be a third soon I hope.
Zhu Li, do the thing!
Star Trek TNG anf DS9, for the nth ~~degree~~ time.
I'll never stop watching that.
Star Trek (TOS), and Monty Python's Flying Circus.
And I go back to The Prisoner every few years.
Money Heist (but in Spanish, the english dub is awful)
Third time. Such a great show
I just finished up a re-watch of Stargate Universe. Amazing show, totally underrated. Its cancelation was absolutely criminal.
All three seasons of The Magicians were brilliant. Shame they didn't make any more. *clears throat*
Currently rewatching X-Men The Animated Series since X-Men '97 dropped. Even with all the production problems and janky animation, it remains a classic.
Watched Smallville for the first time recently! What a rollercoaster ride. Quality varies from "this is the best thing I've ever seen" to "this is literally a telenovela". 😆
Wolf Hall, because the books were brilliant and this, although not as good as the book is also very good and has Mark Rylance in it, who is always fantastic.
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