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I am dismayed to find that many older Hulu series are stripped down - Taxi is missing about a third of its episodes, including most of the highly-regarded ones. (No, that won't make me go buy the DVDs, guys.)
I am squee to find that Hill Street Blues is finally available - we watched the first season on DVD and then poor sales meant no more were being issued. I only do this search for new material every year or so, so I missed the full release on Hulu whenever it happened. And, of course, both Netflix and Hulu stopped being useful to browse several years ago. You know enough to make specific searches, or you go Oh Look Squirrels at what they choose to present you.
If you can find it, I would recommend Sports Night. It's not about sports, that's the show they worked on within the show. One of the best comedies ever done but couldn't find a solid time slot. It is quite fast and cerebral. Very witty.
If you can find it, I would recommend Sports Night. It's not about sports, that's the show they worked on within the show. One of the best comedies ever done but couldn't find a solid time slot. It is quite fast and cerebral. Very witty.
Sports Night is my favorite half-hour show of all time (I don't call it a comedy). My intro to Peter Krause, Josh Charles, and Felicity Huffman.
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Sports Night is my favorite half-hour show of all time (I don't call it a comedy). My intro to Peter Krause, Josh Charles, and Felicity Huffman.
It was also Aaron Sorkin's entree into television, where he went on to develop The West Wing and The Newsroom, for starters. Brilliant guy.
Factoid: After Sports Night was dropped by ABC (who had no clue how to market a show that smart), several cable networks stepped forward to pick it up. Sorkin turned them all down, as he wanted to concentrate on his new project, The West Wing.
It was also Aaron Sorkin's entree into television, where he went on to develop The West Wing and The Newsroom, for starters. Brilliant guy.
Factoid: After Sports Night was dropped by ABC (who had no clue how to market a show that smart), several cable networks stepped forward to pick it up. Sorkin turned them all down, as he wanted to concentrate on his new project, The West Wing.
They should have made Sports Night an hour long. It really wasn't a sitcom.
No, it really wasn't a sitcom. At least, not the way we generally think of one. They listed it as a comedy but I considered it more of a dramedy. Funny but thought provoking at the same time.
I know the general question is asked often, but I'm just looking for a few quick jogs of memory and hoping to find another series worth binging. I am very selective in what new TV I watch and in the last couple of years it's been nice to have something lightweight and familiar and short to watch in the late evenings. I've run out of shows I am familiar with.
I just finished MASH, after Cheers and Frasier. (Those long-runs took me almost two years.) Another half-hour show of reasonably intelligent adult comedy would be nice. I don't do most sitcom, family comedies, animated or stupidity-as-humor. A lot of the shows I would move on to aren't on open streaming (Night Court, John Larroquette Show, a couple others I am forgetting at the moment.) It would take something truly exceptional for me to pay for it on Vudu or Amazon.
The only other thing I binge is sf - regularly rewatch Babylon 5, and have watched through all the Treks except TNG, which I found tedious in the day and is now tedious and dated. Watched the BSG remake (watched the story line go off the rails, mostly). Hour-long stuff is nice but I prefer smaller bites for my late evening watching.
So:
a half hour show
with a reasonable number of seasons
in a general adult/comedy/dramedy vein
that's on open streaming (NF, Hulu, Prime etc.)
that I've missed?
Thanks.
Have you seen "Blackadder" or "The Thick of It"?
Both are half-hour British comedies with several seasons.
"The Thick of It' is available on Hulu, "Blackadder" is on BritBox.
Related to "The Thick of It" is "Veep" originally on HBO, still available on HBO Now, and also streaming on Prime.
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