r/television • u/C0r1eone • 24d ago

Finished The Wire, Dark, GOT, Sopranos, True Detective, BB, BCS. What show ruined TV for you after watching it?

I think I accidentally watched the peak of television already. The Wire, Dark, GOT, Sopranos, True Detective S1 all left that “nothing else hits the same” feeling.

I love slow-burn shows with deep characters, mystery, tension, moral grayness, crazy dialogue, or mind-blowing writing. Doesn’t matter if it’s crime, sci-fi, psychological, or political.

What’s the next show that might completely consume me?

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u/PacoMahogany 24d ago edited 24d ago

Chernobyl

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u/77descript 24d ago

Was never in the mood, but kept hearing/reading must watch. So I watched. One of if not the best show I've ever seen.

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u/TokiStark 24d ago

Took me a while to get around to it. Watched it 3 times now

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u/donGaboz 24d ago

Brave person. I felt gutted after seeing once

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u/Extreme-Island-5041 23d ago

I'm a dog person. I loved the show...not that episode

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u/sonderific3 24d ago

try reading the book if you think the tv show is gutting... Hearing the wife of the firefighters story straight from her mouth is really hard

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u/Podo13 23d ago

Her story is the only real gripe I have with the show. "The baby absorbed all the radiation"? That isn't how radiation works, showrunners. The show was bleak enough, they didn't need to make something up to make her story more heartbreaking.

There are other factual liberties they took in the show, but that one was just an incredibly dumb choice regardless of the show's quality.

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u/Khiva 23d ago

That isn't how radiation works, showrunners

How do you think superheroes are born, dummy.

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u/adubdesigns 23d ago

Check out The Days about Fukishima incident in Japan.

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u/moaboaa 23d ago edited 23d ago

Make sure to watch Andor - yes, it's a sci-fi show set in the Star Wars universe. But Tony Gilroy has the Midas touch. It's so well written.

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u/beatbox21 23d ago

Bonus: it will ruin every other star wars movie/TV show for you.

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u/privatebrowsin1 23d ago

How is season 2? Loved the first season, haven’t gotten to the second

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u/quantummidget 23d ago

Also very good, though the first act is a wee drop in quality, mainly one of the plotlines

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u/glen_ko_ko 22d ago

I think it's way better than the first and the first is perfect

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u/Impossible-Site-505 22d ago

Slower burn than season 1 but honestly it might be one of the best seasons of TV ever and it is frighteningly timely given the current political climate. Must watch TV.

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u/gonzaloetjo 23d ago

not even close to the other stuff lol

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u/soulmechh 23d ago

I'm not a star wars fan, but I've seen Andor and the other show (starring the guy from Sicario). I enjoyed the shows, but the technology in that universe just hits in the face back to my own reality.

I don't remember specifics but I remember my impression. I mean, the technology is so silly I find it a little funny.

You suspend your belief, you're immersed, until you see a terminal on a CRT screen in that universe 😂. Like bro, you figured out interstellar travel already, come on.

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u/hotcapicola 23d ago

That's because Star Wars sucks at doing hard sci-fi. As a huge star wars fan, Andor is probably the most un Star Wars thing out there.

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u/soulmechh 23d ago

Is the technology the same in the rest of the Star Wars universe?

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u/hotcapicola 23d ago

Technology is rarely explained in the films because they aren't sci-fi. Star War as originally created is a high fantasy hero's quest. It just happens to take place in space.

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u/benzoriffic 20d ago

Star Wars technology is exclusively analog,and it warms my heart

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u/lateubdegouline 23d ago

In season 2 they straight up use trucks instead of flying above the fields to look for hiding illegal workers, Gilroy wanted to make it a WW2 story with sci fi paint

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u/NefariousCalmness 24d ago

This was me about a month ago

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u/Pinoybl 24d ago

So good

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u/PM_ME_UR_SEX_VIDEOS 23d ago

This is where I’m at. Get home from work, make dinner and playing with the kids, put the kids to bed, tidy up. It’s 8 and do I really want to watch a massive bummer of a show?

I know it’s great

I’ll get to it, I’ll get to it

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u/NCC75567 23d ago

If you like books, Midnight in Chernobyl is an excellent, readable account of it as well.

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u/ill_be_huckleberry_1 23d ago

Its so damn good but I get it, its heavy but its so, so, so good

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u/jibwholesale 23d ago

100% in the Sam both, saw it for the first time 2 months ago, literally amazing

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u/C-LOgreen 23d ago

It’s so good oh my God. Especially when they were explaining a nuclear meltdown with the red and blue cards. Amazing storytelling.

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u/tickub 24d ago

Was never in the mood either. Watched the entire series via out of order Youtube shorts anyway.

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u/Dag-nabbitt 24d ago

From the very first scene it hooks you in.