From on MGM+ is absolutely fantastic. I love the mystery, the horror, and everything else about it. I am excited to see where it goes. I also absolutely love Foundation on Apple TV+, amazing CGI and fantastic world (or universe) building.
Farscape
Best alien puppets in any show ever
truly
It’s not exactly “unrecognized” because it’s fairly popular, but From – yes, that’s the name, and yes, it makes it very difficult to search for.
It’s pretty highly rated, horror/mystery show. It’s a lot like Lost except more horror less mystery. It even stars Harold Perrineau who played Michael in Lost.
The concepts and monsters are very scary and/or creepy. It gives me a Dead by Daylight “The Entity” and “The Entity’s Realm” vibe if you’re familiar with the game.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9813792/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_(TV_series)#Reception
Firefly
I don’t recall how I heard about For All Mankind, and I never see it mentioned very much, but I have had such a great time watching that.
It’s an alternate history of the space race from the 60s onward, and it’s so exciting to watch what could have been. Each season jumps forward a decade, so the advances in missions and tech keep leaping forward.
If you grew up thinking we should be pioneering space by now, you will probably enjoy it.
I absolutely love For All Mankind. Such a great show, although it has been lacking in terms of intensity in recent seasons
Intensity is a good word to describe that element. I feel the show is willing to bump off characters, but 2 of the leads have survived too many close calls and it lowers the stakes a good bit.
The individual that showed up with the surprise faction really threw a wrench into things that I enjoyed though!
Most likely I’m too specific about it, but I see quite some shows mentioned that I’d not really consider underrated or unrecognised. Firefly is one of my all time favourites but not really underrated or unrecognised. Or Fringe, possibly not even From (of which I’ll just say I very much hope they have an ending planned because I don’t want it to end lost like Lost).
Perfect examples of underrated or unrecognised shows are Galavant and Utopia, mentioned by others, they are brilliant.
In a similar direction I’d say Dead Set, a UK show that really surprised me ages ago but never see mentioned. https://imdb.com/title/tt1285482/
Maybe I should include also Dr Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, but that may be a lot less underrated and it’s a minishow only.
I never actually watched dead set, but I remember it was airing at the same time I had a Media Studies project at school about zombies so the tutors kept bringing it up
If you like para-military actions I highly recommend Spec Ops: Lioness.
Lioness is a CIA program who recruits military women to infiltrate terrorist organizations and destroy it from within.
It’s currently on its second season. Zoey Saldana is fantastic in the show.
I’m gonna give it a second try
China, IL would be on my list
Devs
Devs
does it have mr robot levels of reality when it comes to the story?
Where Mr robot is an unreliable narrator that questions himself, devs has a paranoia that someone else is controlling the narrative to purposefully make you question,
That makes it sound more enticing.
I was asking about the technology. The wiki article said it was a story of a software engineer’s experiences and I was asking if the technology portrayed in the show was realistic like it was in Mr robot; it’s my field and I’ll get turned off to the show if it’s laughably unrealistic.
There’s no safe way to answer this without giving away plot points, I don’t think. Most important thing is that it’s sci-fi, not a drama about developers in the way you might expect.
As egrets mentioned, it is more sci-fi tech rather than realistic tech. I don’t think it is extremely unrealistic as a proposed idea, but it is something that could never work at the scale shown in the show. In a weird way, the end of the show felt to me like it got both more realistic and more unrealistic. I’m trying not to spoil anything, but I hope that can give a bit more info to decide if you would like it.
The Boy’s Word: Blood on the Asphalt
Not “unrecognized” in Russia, but Woids are missing out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy’s_Word%3A_Blood_on_the_Asphalt
Rubicon
If you like espionage but from the analytical side.
Counterpart
If you like espionage, JK Simmons, and parallel dimensions
Berlin Station S1
If you like espionage and postwar Germany
Rubicon was excellent. Most of the other shows mentioned here are actually well known, but this one truly is a deep cut.
It really was. I’ve watched it several times.
I’m not really sure what’s well known unless it’s enormously popular.
I’ve looked up the director, writer and actors from Rubicon to find similarly great work but this seemed to be a special convergence.
3rd rock from the sun
Newsradio (RIP Phil hartman)
. Rilley, Ace Of Spies, a mini series about the life of spy, Sidney Rilley, directed by Martin Campbell who would go on to direct James Bond film ‘Casino Royale’.
. Tracey Takes On…, you may not of heard of Tracey Ullman but you’ve felt her impact. She is most known for being the woman who kinda created The Simpsons. Back in 87 Ullman commissioned Matt Groening to some shorts for the ‘Tracey Ullman Show’ which go on to become ‘The Simpsons’ we know and love today.
. Drawn Together, if you like adult animated comedy on the lines of Family Guy or American Dad with the satire and social critique of South Park and The Boondocks you’ll love Drawn Together.
Gary and his Demons is a great animated show that no one seems to have ever heard about
Preacher, it’s on Netflix now. So good.
Warrior, also I think on Netflix now.
Andor was crazy good too, and Scavenger’s Reign.
Not sure about unrecognized, but those are great.
I was going to say FROM when I saw your question. I’m glad you mentioned it.
Exactly same. Gf & I got into it a few weeks ago and just caught up to current. We’re champing at the bit to see what happens next.
Jade #1!
