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I can't watch anything that gets sadistic so... Deadwood is right now. Also Dext by Noi Dau Don 09/27/2010, 6:13pm PDT
OTOH I quite liked Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

Some other shows I have liked recently (btw jeep we will never be good TV buddies v_v ):

Magerarenai Onna (j-drama) - tale of woman who refuses to compromise her principles, no matter how good the tradeoff. Whether or not she can ever become a lawyer, or find some sort of romantic happiness, etc. I don't wanna say man I been there but fuck it. Man, I been there. One must deal with j-drama tropes and aesthetics, but I found it impossible not to really feel this show.

The City Hall (k-drama) - lovable dramedy about South Korean bureaucracy and political maneuvering. Fun, funny, surprisingly informative.

K-drama feelin', like j-drama feelin', take a little while to get used to. Only their super high-gloss shows are as brand-name-lifestyle as US shows are. I don't mean that as a dig at our precious white shallow consumerist culture, it's just - these shows are short-run (Magerarenai Onna was only 12 eps for example), so the writers invest it with marketing potential energy by making the show about OMG WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT with characters in a familiar lifestyle, and not with the US expectation of seeing these characters day in, day out, and so tying the familiar character to the high-key lifestyle that should be emulated. It's weird, subtle. You have to get used to it. I'm still surprised every time about how poor a lot of the characters are in azn tv - not cute-poor but like... $50 til next paycheck, spacing out leftovers for several days, staying home with the lights out poor. In lightweight comedy shows! Bad Family shows good-guy characters living in housing in Seoul in an area that doesn't have roads through it - the semi-affluent slums. Bums and malcontents everywhere. Always surprising.

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - most of you should just drop everything that you're doing and watch this.



I guess this is on Adult Swim now so you have no excuse?

Bihada Ichizoku (animes, deal with it) - the Garth Marenghi's Darkplace of shoujo anime. Played so straight that unless you're well up on the source material, it doesn't even read like a parody. It took me three days to get the joke that the twin sisters who look nothing like each other also have ages several years apart :(

Kuroshitsuji II (animes, deal with it) - u-uguu~ I love Kuroshitsuji. Season II made all the manga purists so mad, but I just wanna be in a Claude/Hannah sammich. Is this so much to ask.

The general upshot: tidy young Victorian noblemen have butlers capable of anything, since the butlers are also demons. Demons who want to drink their souls. Pitched somewhere between Hellsing and Godchild, though not really as gritty as either. LESS STREET THAN GODCHILD, HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE.

Originally a manga, the anime is a Square-Enix/Sony joint venture and has the excessive budget to prove it. A shocking amount of fetish fuel is stuffed into each episode - not really a show for kids, but wayyyyyy too just-as-purandu for an adult show. The audience must be - childish perverts? Gothic lolis? Something like that. The first show in a long time that I breathlessly downloaded each week as soon as it was fansubbed.
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Review Request: current TV shows. by Zsenitan 05/04/2009, 10:52am PDT NEW
    house, and ummmmmmm rifftrax? NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 05/04/2009, 11:01am PDT NEW
    Fringe meets all but one criteria by up with pod people 05/04/2009, 11:02am PDT NEW
    You want Farscape NT by Fortinbras 05/04/2009, 11:59am PDT NEW
        Wait, it's not currently running anymore. It's still closest to what you descri NT by Fortinbras 05/04/2009, 12:54pm PDT NEW
            Psychic plant mindrape (literal rape) NT by Entropy Stew 05/04/2009, 4:46pm PDT NEW
                Like in Gaylo 3, the most annoying part of the whole game. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/04/2009, 4:47pm PDT NEW
                    Is there anything they didn't have sex with in Farscape? Besides the muppets. NT by Fortinbras 05/05/2009, 9:34am PDT NEW
                        She got fucked by the sun so....no NT by Entropy Stew 06/01/2009, 9:24pm PDT NEW
            Incidentally this was correct and I am enjoying it much more than fringe. by Zsenitan 05/13/2009, 4:21am PDT NEW
                It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is "Seinfeld" on crack. by Jerry Whorebach 05/13/2009, 5:21am PDT NEW
                    Literally on crack because a couple of them become crack addicts. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/13/2009, 7:12am PDT NEW
                        Just a couple? Psh, what is this, <i>Mister Belvedere?</i> NT by Jerry Whorebach 05/13/2009, 7:23am PDT NEW
                            Is........ is that cash? ~_~ by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/13/2009, 7:30am PDT NEW
                            The same characters get addicted to eating human flesh also. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/13/2009, 7:31am PDT NEW
                                ^SPOILERS DNR DNR (DO NOT READ DO NOT READ) NT by Jerry Whorebach 05/13/2009, 8:09am PDT NEW
                    Suddenly Durham Region is a county? Whatever, TV. NT by Fussbett 05/13/2009, 7:38am PDT NEW
                        HOLD THE PHONE, THESE SUBWAY STOPS ARE ALL WRONG!! NT by Jerry Whorebach 05/13/2009, 10:47am PDT NEW
                    so hard core, they had to get the guy from hard core logo to star in it NT by gruman 05/20/2009, 8:22pm PDT NEW
                I especially loved Farscape when I was stoned. by bink 05/13/2009, 5:43am PDT NEW
                I am only semi-patiently waiting for Olivia to have any flaws, ever NT by up with pod people 05/13/2009, 8:21am PDT NEW
                    Scully was flawless and she did alright. by Jerry Whorebach 05/13/2009, 11:27am PDT NEW
                Zseni are you still watching Farscape? by Fortinbras 09/26/2010, 11:39am PDT NEW
                Hahaha it IS Denethor! by laudablepuss 09/27/2010, 1:14pm PDT NEW
    I would say Law & Order: Criminal Intent, but that might be too cerebral for you NT by Jerry Whorebach 05/04/2009, 3:42pm PDT NEW
        How horrible is Jeff Goldblum? I've been afraid to find out. :( NT by laudablepuss 05/04/2009, 3:55pm PDT NEW
            his attache case is a different design than D'Onr'fri'o's, and he smiles a lot by bombMexico 05/05/2009, 12:08am PDT NEW
        wow huge slam on znsni out of nowhere NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 05/04/2009, 4:09pm PDT NEW
    Now that BSG is over. :( NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/04/2009, 4:11pm PDT NEW
        yeah I was almost like "Olivia is no Roslin" because that's the standard now NT by up with pod people 05/04/2009, 4:50pm PDT NEW
            Laura Roslin smokes only the stickiest of the icky. NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 05/04/2009, 4:58pm PDT NEW
                and airlocks the most richly deserving NT by up with pod people 05/04/2009, 5:00pm PDT NEW
                    i.e. anyone she wants. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/04/2009, 6:22pm PDT NEW
                Laura Roslin was the hottest woman on that show. NT by Orbitor 1 05/04/2009, 7:06pm PDT NEW
    Thanks for the reqs everyone but Jerry by Zsenitan 05/05/2009, 7:02am PDT NEW
        Curb Your Enthusiasm - 1 part funny, 2 parts uncomfortable by Last 05/05/2009, 8:23am PDT NEW
        People are always forgetting to thank me :( NT by Jerry Whorebach 05/05/2009, 9:52am PDT NEW
        Here's your list! by Gutsby 05/05/2009, 11:01am PDT NEW
        Re: Thanks for the reqs everyone but Jerry by Bananadine 05/05/2009, 1:29pm PDT NEW
    I like Medium and Psych by Worm 05/05/2009, 9:51am PDT NEW
        I too enjoy Medium. by Jerry Whorebach 05/05/2009, 10:15am PDT NEW
            Cancelled :( by Jerry Whorebach 05/20/2009, 8:19pm PDT NEW
                CBS picked it up. NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 05/30/2009, 12:32am PDT NEW
                    Now all NBC has to do is pick up The Unit and we're back where we started. by Jerry Whorebach 05/30/2009, 1:39am PDT NEW
    30 Rock NT by FABIO 05/05/2009, 1:00pm PDT NEW
    how could I forget Mad Men? definitely Mad Men, s3 starting July NT by up with pod people 05/05/2009, 8:53pm PDT NEW
    I'm a social vampire if there ever was one. Good call NT by House M.D. 05/06/2009, 3:00am PDT NEW
    Welfare Queens, heed my call: Is Krod Mandoon ANY good? by Last 05/06/2009, 11:04am PDT NEW
        Mocking a genre that was already tounge in cheek ridiculous is not a good sign NT by FABIO 05/08/2009, 9:18pm PDT NEW
    I just found out they're making a second season of Durham County. by Jerry Whorebach 05/08/2009, 8:27pm PDT NEW
    the goode family, off to a somewhat decent start I suppose I guess maybe by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/07/2009, 4:33pm PDT NEW
    I'm ignoring your criteria and substituting my own by jeep 09/27/2010, 4:18pm PDT NEW
        I can't watch anything that gets sadistic so... Deadwood is right now. Also Dext by Noi Dau Don 09/27/2010, 6:13pm PDT NEW
            yeah by jeep 09/28/2010, 9:41pm PDT NEW
    Always Sunny Season 6: by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/08/2010, 4:33pm PDT NEW
 
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