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Especially if it’s only one movie or book.

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[-] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 2 days ago

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

[-] michaelalf@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Obvious one, but Firefly.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago
[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Lower decks

[-] Jela@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Some of mine have been adapted from books, so I specified the media:

Movie: Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Series

TV: Under the Dome

TV: Kim's Convenience

TV: The OA

TV: Ponies (maybe they renew for a second season 🤞🏼)

Bonus- Shows that lasted a little too long:

Orange is the New Black, Westworld

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

I'm a Pbs Passport subscriber and there's this show called Expedition with Steve Backshall where this guy ventures in to places where nobody has ever been before like long lava tubes and remote islands to find unique wildlife. Unfortunately, there are only 2 seasons

If like Expedition with Steve Backshall you’ve got check his other works on the BBC. He did several series of Deadly 60 for kids and several Land of the … specials where he travels to other exotic locations. I saw him live talking about his travels and he took questions from kids in the audience and he’s quite charismatic and charming.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Whatever Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Genre-wise, I'd call it dieselpunk.

[-] RacerX@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

Better Off Ted ended way too soon

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago

Space Westerns, more Space Westerns pls

[-] fierysparrow89@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Last time I tried to watch Firefly gave up @s1e4. The other one on Netflix, I gave that up in e1. Both cringe as hell.

[-] runiq@feddit.org 1 points 17 hours ago

Shut up, you can't take the sky from me

[-] Trent@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

More Culture books by Banks, more Discworld by Pratchett...

[-] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Another person of refinement and good taste, I see. Both gone way too early. I have been rationing Discworld since Pratchett died.

[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 6 days ago

You don't ration Discworld, you reread it every 5 years.

And maybe revisit a favourite or six every other year.

[-] runiq@feddit.org 2 points 17 hours ago

Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably priced Love! And a hard-boiled egg!

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

The Shepherds Crown will get you, but it's one of his best books

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Labyrinth. With more labyrinthing and less singing and dancing.

Tintin!

And Dredd. Those last 2 really deserved sequels.

[-] Isotretinoin@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Band of Brothers type of show but for ww1

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

They could use the same trench set for the entire season.

[-] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago
[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

The OA
Carnival
Constantine
Kaos

[-] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

I still think about OA a lot.

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

The Owl House

The Singularity Sky/Iron Sunrise series

The Prayer for the Crown Sky/Psalm for the Wild Built series

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Codex Borgia

[-] PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

Manly video games like gears of war. They are making everything woke, gay and bland now. Even GTA 6 is going in that direction, and I remember when vice city came out it became popular because of the media shitstorn it caused with even politicians talking about regulating that kind of content.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 points 6 days ago

Video games becoming woke and gay is a good thing, actually.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Barry Hughart's tales of Master Li Kao and Number Ten Ox. There are three books in the series, but he originally planned more. I believe he had some issues with his publisher and gave up on writing the follow-ups. Shame, because it's my favourite fantasy series.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Spellmonger.

I wish the author would stop writing side stories about characters no one cares about and focus on the MC and progressing the main story forwards.

[-] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

There were two Travis McGee movies, both pretty meh. I'd like to see the novels done as 6 hour series.

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