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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    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.

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        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