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#Orphan Black (TV)
terapsina 6 months
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Now that the writers and actors strike is about to begin being felt (and as we wait for those greedy billion dollar companies who are refusing to negotiate fair pay and conditions to give up) here's 10 of my favorite (all around best) fully finished older series you should definitely check out if you haven't watched.
I mean it, these are the shows with continuously great writing and a satisfying endings that manage to actually deliver on their promises.
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1. Leverage - (containing 5 seasons, or 77 episodes) - trailer here.
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Hitter, Hacker, Grifter, Thief and Mastermind. Heists and cons. Stealing from the rich and giving to their victims. They provide... leverage.
Meant for anyone who enjoys bad guys being the best good guys, who will burn down the lives of evil CEOs and then gloat in the background. Very satisfying.
Hands down the best example of a found family trope I've ever seen on screen. Barring none.
2. Killjoys - (containing 5 seasons, or 50 episodes) - trailer here.
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Space Bounty Hunters. Another case of found family trope. Bisexual space princess assassin. Quippy sentient ship. Green alien goo. Evil lesbians (but like... in a good way). The warrant is all.
More seriously though, it's a story about three killjoys and the bounties they go after. Initially. And then they have to save the entire Quad from some very terrifying... stuff.
Contains one of the best friendships I've ever seen on television.
3. Orphan Black - (containing 5 seasons, or 50 episodes) - trailer here.
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Found family trope but with clones.
Low level grifter sees a woman who looks exactly like her kill herself and plans to take over her identity long enough to cash out. Except then there's two other women who also look exactly like her. And apparently they're all clones and someone's killing them.
Enter a global conspiracy. Human experimentation. Lots of clone shenanigans. Some serial killings. And a few murders 馃挅.
4. Person of Interest - (containing 5 seasons, or 103 episodes) - trailer here.
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Okay I'm beginning to see how I might have a found family trope issue.
Former CIA agent gets recruited by a reclusive billionaire computer programmer who developed a... machine that can predict acts of terror before they happen. But it also predicts 'irrelevant' acts of violence that will result in someone's death.
Unless someone interferes.
I'd really like to spoil some stuff to get you all to watch this one. But I'm going to maintain self control and just mention that early on they get a dog named Bear. Bear is a very good boy. Watch it for Bear.
Also for excellent commentary on rights of privacy, government surveillance and what does 'greater good' even mean? But mostly Bear.
5. 12 Monkeys - (containing 4 seasons, or 47 episodes) - trailer here.
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The very best time travel show out there. What starts out as a confusing mess of causality basically exploding, by the end of the series all makes complete and total sense.
(when that final timey-whimey loop slid into place and revealed the entire pattern it was like a choir of angels started singing in the back of my head. It was freaking glorious).
Anyway, a man from a post apocalyptic future travels into the past to stop a plague from decimating nearly the entire world population.
He has the name of the man who released the virus and it's supposed to be a single trip. One trip. One bullet. Simple. Done.
Except then things keep escalating, and escalating until time begins eating its own tail and it might start looking like the end of the world might be a better ending than erasing all of time and space from reality.
Because when our guys screw it up, they screw it up GOOD.
And oh yeah... found family.
6. The Good Place - (containing 4 seasons, or 53 episodes) - trailer here.
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A self-proclaimed Arizona dirtbag opens her eyes and finds out that she's dead and got accepted in the Good Place. Except that as soon as she arrives the Good Place starts glitching, and she really, REALLY needs to become a better person before she can be found out and kicked out to the Bad Place.
Luckily her assigned soulmate was a professor of ethics and moral philosophy.
One of the funniest, most thoughtful and clever comedies I've ever watched. Ever. The characters are delightful and by the time the final minute rolled around I had sobbed my heart out multiple times (which, as we all know, is a sign of the very best comedies out there).
As for the question of whether or not this too contains Found Fami- Yes! Obviously, yes.
7. Avatar: the Last Airbender - (containing 3 seasons, or 61 episodes) - intro here (couldn't locate the trailer but it's basically the same thing in this case).
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The four nations lived in harmony. Until the Fire Nation attacked.
It's been a hundred years since the beginning of the war when two kids from the Southern Water Tribe find a boy frozen in ice and wake him up. A boy who's able to bend all four elements... though not very well.
Enter multi-nation flying road trip (thank you Appa, we love you most of all) as they try to find teachers for the Avatar and save the world.
Includes found family (shut up), amazing fight scenes, the most heartfelt and vivid characters ever, and the best example of a redemption arc actually done well.
8. Love Between Fairy and Devil - (containing 1 season, or 36 episodes) - trailer here.
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This one gutted me. I'm saying this as a compliment. But it had to be said. Completely destroyed me. I just haven't been the same.
A love story between an Orchid Fairy and the leader of the Moon Tribe that starts out with her accidentally releasing him from millennia long imprisonment and then takes you through the caleidoscope of all possible human emotions (it's a body-swap comedy through the first part, then a romcom, then a dramatic romantic tale, and finally a tragic love story).
But it's such a satisfying slow burn.
And it carries this... humanity through the whole thing that makes it so visceral.
If you're a romantic who's very tired of instalove and characters dropping all their morals because 'ooh, attractive person' then you've got to watch this. Because this story does NOT take the easy road there.
(my more extensive rec for this series can be found here)
9. Star Wars: The Clone Wars - (containing 7 seasons, or 133 episodes) - fanmade trailer here (it was better than any of the official ones).
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This series did so much. Introduced Ahsoka Tano, and made us love her. Gave names and faces and souls to the Clone Troopers (okay, it's the same face but you know what I mean), to a point where their endings during Order 66 destroyed me just as much as the ending of the Jedi Order. And somehow made me both love Anakin AND be a million times more angry with him.
There are some arcs in this series that might be a bit weaker. But there were some... god, there's a reason I love Clone Wars more than any other series or trilogy in this universe. And I'm not even a little ashamed to say it.
Must watch for Disaster Lineage shenanigans; for the vod'e; AND for the Jedi (who did their best okay? They always did their best 馃槶馃挃).
(and on the subject of found family... do I even need to comment)
10. Nikita - (containing 4 seasons, or 73 episodes) - trailer here.
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A rogue assassin that escaped Division - covert government agency that takes recruits out of prison, fakes their deaths and then forces them to become spies and assassins - has come back to take it down. Brick by brick if she has to. With guns and explosives too when that works better.
Contains soooo many cool fight scenes. Is full of incredible characters you'll fall in love with (and hate with) very quickly. And most of all has an incredibly complex relationship of mentorship and friendship between two women that holds both great admiration and betrayal, real care and love as well as rage and hatred, forgiveness, mutual respect and an unbreakable kind of bond that so very rarely involves even one female character on TV, let alone two.
(as usual, found family tropes up the wazzoo).
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In conclusion. We all know there's going to be a large space between seasons of our favorite shows now (and some shows that aren't going to survive it). Let's fill that space with some excellent TV we haven't had a chance to see yet.
And direct the blame for the wait towards the right place (i.e. the studios).
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sestrahulk 6 months
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ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES 2024
Three genetically identical women must band together to unravel the mystery behind their origins. However, uniting human clones will prove to be as unpredictable as human nature.
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lgbtpopcult 2 years
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40 Sapphic TV Shows You Have to Watch or You're NOT Gay*
We've already established I make the rules 馃槍
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1. First Kill
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2. The Haunting of Bly Manor
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3. Harley Quinn animated series
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4. Derry Girls
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5. Yellowjackets
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6. Skam Espana
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7. Dickinson
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8. Atypical
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9. Killing Eve
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10. Wheel of Time
11. The 100
12. Vigil, BBC
13. The Wilds
14. Orphan Black
15. Invasion
16. The Owl House
17. NCIS: Hawaii
18. Motherland fort Salem
19. The Outlaws
20. Everything sucks
21. Shera and the princesses of power
22. Legends of Tomorrow
23. Adventure Time Obsidian
24. True love or true lies season 2
25. Welcome to Eden
26. Fantasy Island
27. Orange is the new black
28. Skins
29. Runaways
30. Feria The Darkest Light
31. In my Skin
32. Station 19
33. Hightown
34. Run the Burbs
35. Kevin Can Fuck Himself
36. The Haunting of Hill House
37. Home Economics
38. Eldorado KaDeWe
39. The Sex Lives of College Girls
40. Astrid & Lilly Save the World
*This is a joke, you're the gayest person ever, I said so and I'm the ultimate authority on this matter. Case closed.
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rhfffas 5 months
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eleanor and jules are SO shocked that their 20s-smth self are also into men lmaoooo
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luwe21 5 months
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My favorite TV Shows
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Black Mirror
Boku No Hero Academia/My Hero Academia
Criminal Minds
Doctor Who
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Good Omens
The Mandalorian
Merlin
Moon Knight
NCIS
Loki
Love Death + Robots
Naruto
One Piece
Orphan Black
Our Flag means Death
Spy X Family
Stranger Things
Supernatural
Travelers
The Umbrella Academy
The Witcher
Wynonna Earp
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princessfbi 8 months
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Do you have any tv recommendations that for underrated shows?
OHHHHHHHH Interesting!!!!! Let me see here...
Orphan Black
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Female Led and Tatiana Maslany is INSANE! Cool syfy kind of vibes.
Travelers
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Get through the first episode. If you don't like the twist at the end then you don't need to worry but just get through the first episode.
Graceland
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For all my whump lovers with found family vibes.
Sirens
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This is mine and @lucydonato 's agenda is to get everyone to watch this show.
Sense8
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It's not what I would call underrated but I miss it so there!
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lomapacks 5 months
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okay but.... kirsten ritter in oprhan black echoes is pure jessica jones and it made me fell in love all over again.
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spacepilotrowan 1 month
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Me too Sarah.
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madnanc 1 year
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basiliskonline 8 months
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The moment between Fucking Around and Finding Out:
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lottieurl 1 month
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why is yellowjackets the only tv show left
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sestrahulk 5 months
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Orphan Black: Echoes Season 1 Now streaming on Stan Australia
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lexavillanelle 5 months
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so i just watched episode 5 of orphan black echoes...
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rhfffas 5 months
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where are the orphan black fans馃槶 plz go watch orphan black echoes NOW it鈥檚 gay af!!!!
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kikithebooknerd 1 year
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Truly fighting the urge to rewatch Orphan Black.... But I know it will consume me and my uni assignments are looming 馃槱馃槱
But on the other hand... I really want to see my babies again and Cosine...
Yearning for sapphic material that CANNOT BE CANCELLED AND TAKEN AWAY FROM ME.
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