I was just reminded of the 90's TV series "Picket Fences", which had 88 episodes, won 30 Emmy's, had an insane cast, and I'm not sure has any lasting cultural relevance whatsoever.

What are some other shows that were the top shows of their time but were forgotten not long after their finale?

It is a morality play w very clear religious undertones of good and evil. And the evil is completely in line w the comic that inspired it. It's evil because it just is. Brother's slightly inconvenience you? Murder them and relish in it. Other boss got you down? Cover his son in gasoline (that for some inexplicable reason his mother can't smell, despite being absolutely drenched in it) and them set them both on fire. Wow! Such violence!

The other villain is just as stupid. Oh I'm crazy because I've been locked up. Talk to a teenager for 2 seconds, blow his head off. Turn on the gas in the house, and for some reason it kills EVERYONE with no explanation, no head aches, no confusion, just oops all dead. I guess every one of the 30+ people has the exact same schedule. Other boss got you down? Get him to call on all his favors to build back an army, then immediately shoot him in the head. All of the people he hired are just like, sweet?

The amount of convenient plot devices is also cartoonishly bad. Captured a guy that will out you and ruin your plans? Don't worry he's completely unguarded and you can just walk up and stab him. Failed to plant a bag in the 2nd most powerful person in the family's car? Use run jutsu in an ultra fortified compound w assault guns and escape unharmed. Then camp on the property in your super secret tree forest. No problem! We didn't even need to because we can just plant the knife in the most cliche manner possible! The boss lady is crazy so she'll immediately kill, or sorry her uncle, will immediately hill her most loyal subject! Hooray!

Why is the lad so ready to just jump to murder? Well he drove a Maserati once and saw his girlfriend boarding a bus, DUH! Oh he also has PTSD whose ground is never even broken. Here we go loud noises! Remember those explosions that killed your family? We're going to flash them once and say nothing else about it. Oh by the way we were super going to not kill the kid you knew we'd kill the entire show, but we'll do it in the stupidest way you can imagine, right outside of a hospital where you were just seen in his company. Surely they can't perform autopsies. Why'd you kill him? Oh I'm just evil and a psychopath, even though this person proved immensely useful to me, now because I trust him he has to die. City swallowed him... I guess the fact that I just lost my entire army doesn't matter cuz I can do it all alone! No word about how tf the distribution was affected by a literal bomb going off in the middle of a city, nope, just got fixed and I'm rich now. Btw I want to f&@$ my mother, the end. dunananana BATMAN

Common thread running through TS' shows: Michelob Ultra.

Lioness S02E07 -- they grab a couple of MUs from the fridge. Then gang shows up with a case of MUs!

Landman -- main character says he's take a beer only if it's Michelob Ultra

I wonder how much they're paying him for these promo spots?

#Dune: Prophecy

Season 1 Episode 3: Sisterhood Above All

What are some examples of TV shows that feel just a but behind the times they were made in retrospect? I was thinking of the sitcom Wings, which aired from 1990-7 and yet feels very '80s.

I am halfway into Season 2 now (I know Season 1 is considered the low point of the show), but there's just something "off" about the acting and I mean this for virtually every character, besides maybe the ones playing the aliens. I know it's a early 90's show, but compared to TNG and DS9 which were airing at the same time I don't like the performances.

Every person on this show has this weird "overacting" with their expressions, it's hard for me to describe, but it's stuff you would see on old 80's/90's soap operas. Like you see one character say something, and the other constantly moves their eyebrows up and down and makes these huge gaping expressions with their mouths or when they're smiling. There's also weird cuts with the camera when it shifts from person to person (as well as during the action/fight scenes), that feels awkward to me. Also when the blonde psychic woman is sensing something that frightens her/scares her reactions and acting is so poorly done.

I don't know, I've watched Star Trek all my life and even in the worst episodes of Trek, the main cast still gave good performances.

After struggling with insomnia post-trip, I stumbled upon a TV series recommendation. At first, it seemed promising—cute actors and an intriguing premise—but wow, what a painful watch. The plot is riddled with so many loopholes it’s maddening.

For instance, a policewoman investigating murders and disappearances… alone? Really? And then there’s this guy who could have easily left the awful place but stayed for money. Who in their right mind stays in a place with a shared shower, a dirty tiny apartment, and, most importantly, a dangerous environment?

He has a girlfriend and a friend in Seoul but they couldn’t help him - he couldn’t just leave Seoul?🙄 The whole thing is exasperating, nonsensical rubbish. 2/10.

So my wife is going back and binging some older TV shows. She's binged Criminal Minds, Leverage, House, Law & Order, Castle, Bones, and several others.

I swear I can tell you which network a show aired on, by "Feel".

"Castle" feels like an ABC show.
"Friends" feels like an NBC show.
"King of Queens" feels like a CBS show.
"Glee" feels like a Fox show.

You can usually tell a show was on The WB or The CW, like Dawson's Creek or Felicity.

Am I nuts? Or is it just advertising ("Watch Friends on NBC!") that I didn't realize was being embedded in my mind?

EDIT: I just realized that the sets or backlots could have something to do with it. The same "fake town made in a backlot" for Gilmore Girls (for example) was probably reused for other shows. The same "fake city street" used in Friends may have been used for other shows.

Braindead came out in 2016, just as the presidential primary was wrapping up. The premise is that an alien bug climbs in to people's brains, eats part of the brain, and changes how they think. It takes place in Washington, D.C., so it alters our government.

The alien bugs make it a pod person, horror sci-fi show, but that is played campy, instead of terrifying. Some people's brains explode, but in a cartoonish way.

The show doesn't have a political agenda. The politicians are trying to win, and not so interested in principles. Many of the higher ranking politicians are infected, so just want to shut down the government.

BrainDead has a great cast, and the politics and Sci-Fi are kind of plausible, but not serious. I found it to be a great show to watch now, because everybody is so into the recent election.

Ever since Taylor Sheridan came into the actual writing/creating/directing role over the last number of years It seems every single series he has put out has been absolute gold. I have watched them all at this point and have not been let down by a single one of them. With all of the crappy television out there these days how can one creator/writer literally be batting 1,000? What do you guys think? What is his magic sauce that makes everything he creates so good? If you aren't familiar with his shows, here are a number of them currently airing to give you an idea. Yellowstone, 1883, 1923, Tulsa King, Mayor of Kingstown, Lioness, Landman.

It's been spinning its wheels for 7 episodes.

Want to start watching but have questions It feels like everybody and their dog is continually recommending this show to me.

I've watched S1E1 3 times throughout the years and other than wanting to know what happens to the boy that gets shoved out of the window at the end, it's never made me want to continue watching.

At one point, I did try to watch episode 2 because I was really curious about the boy but all I remember is being bored and the boy never even being mentioned?

I'm no prude to nudity and sex scenes but the scenes in the first ever episode felt excessive to me.

Would you describe this show as being similar to any other shows or movies?

Everybody always says how good this show is and how great the storyline is so I feel like I'm missing out.

Would you push through and continue with the show if you were me or would you continue to write off the show as not for me?

Mine would be the hero has been framed for murder or treason. Or in a cop show when they have the main character’s most trusted friend, usually a war buddy, ends up being the bad guy.

I just got a Roku to try over my Firestick because I thought it would have the feature mentioned in the title. All I want to do is to be able to pin my favorite shows right there on the homescreen for 1-click access. So far I cannot find this function anywhere. It's pretty maddening as you'd think it would be a basic feature.

So wanted to check with you lovely reddit chaps to see if anyone knew of a streaming technology, service, or stick that had that feature. Appreciate any support in this endeavor.

I have been enjoying the show pretty much from the beginning. Then I heard it was canceled abruptly. Supposedly there was some kind of backlash from this to the point that CBS gave it a final shortened season.

But now I’m hearing the show is getting another season entirely?

I didn’t follow the behind the scenes or online discussion very closely. This seems incredibly unusual for a network to do. Often they cancel it and that’s the end of that.

So what happened?