Avatar: the Last Airbender.
This is the only series that I rewatch a bunch of times. I miss it so much, after 1 or 2 years I have to watch it again.
The Good Place. Funny, compelling, I cried through the final episode. It also doesn’t waste your time, things will happen mid-season that any other show would have dragged out for the season finale.
More like a miniseries, but HBO’s Chernobyl. Some of the best television I’ve ever seen.
Firefly
Found-family space western with excellent music and characters
Yes, it has Joss Whedon’s name on it, but either because it was made much earlier in his career or because Tim Minear was showrunner, it doesn’t have the modern bathos issue commonly associated with him these days
Expanse
Mr Robot. So many twists and turns, and had me absolutely fascinated from start to finish
(Staying spoiler friendlyish) My absolute favorite little bit in Mr. Robot is the thing that they do the thing on 5/9. In the IT infrastructure world “five nines” means 99.999% uptime/availability, which means you have less than five and a half minutes of downtime a year.
Scavengers Reign.
Fringe
Firefly.
Andor is the best piece of Star Wars media and the best TV show I’ve ever seen. You don’t need to like Star Wars. I don’t know if seeing Star Wars would even increase your enjoyment. I think seeing Rogue One would probably be good but otherwise just jump in. No space wizards or laser swords or destiny or whatever. It’s so adult and grounded. I can’t believe Disney let them make this.
The IT Crowd
Have you watched it recently? There are a couple of episodes (foremost the one with the trans woman, who is of course not played by a trans actor) that have NOT aged well. Especially when you look at the creators response to the criticisms.
Dunno, just soured the whole series for me.
“What’s Jen doing with the Internet?” This show had me laughing uncontrollably so many times
Fringe.
Not for everyone, but if it is for you, you’ll adore it.
As a scifi buff: Battlestar Galactica, and The Expanse were excellent. Nightsky was also a really good watch even though it was slow moving, and was more about relationships than SciFi
Obligatory Firefly mention.
Babylon 5 and Farscape
Babylon 5 wasted no episodes, everything was great
Frell yeah
