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What's the antithesis of Arrested Development, Firefly or The Big Lebowski? Those may never have 'found their audience' but over time seemed to recognised by everyone. What are the deep cuts that you liked but it feels like everyone has completely forgotten they even existed.

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[โ€“] Zoop@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

The Mick! I'm not good at explaining why shows are great, why people should watch them, or why they should have been more popular, unfortunately..but I had to link this anyway since I didn't see it mentioned. It ended with a seriously heavy cliffhanger that comes out of nowhere and then...Fox cancelled the next season that the writers were told they would have. So it just kind of...ended. They did a shit job at properly advertising it and totally dicked it around. This show was way better than I thought it would be and I even tried to watch it and ended up abandoning it because it didn't grab me, but I gave it another chance and stuck it out and I'm so glad I did. It deserved so much better.

[โ€“] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'm confused by the prompt. The Big Lebowski was an amazing movie with great social commentary, but it was poorly received and mostly only had a cult following.

Arrested Development was just okay, nothing special, but is talked about by everyone and absolutely overrated. It's social commentary is nothing compared to Big Lebowski.

The two are antithesis of each other.

And then Firefly I have no idea what that even is. Is that a YA novel?

So your question is what's the antithesis of all these unrelated things? Also what's not underrated but has inadequate social impact, as if Big Lebowski or Arrested Development did have adequate social impact??

Firefly is an excellent space western. Made by Josh Whedon, it lasted one season and got the movie Serenity as a "wrap up"

Fox intentionally killed the show. There's all sorts of drama that surrounded the series, but despite tons of fan support they couldn't save the show.

[โ€“] Kahlenar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefly is the okiest space western ever, but it got cancelled by fox around 2000 and people started sacrificing their left testicles to try to bring about it's return.

[โ€“] Gregorech@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Firefly had an great cast the stories were Okay, they were made better by the cast.

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[โ€“] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub -4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

More people need to watch Wheel of Time. Go. Watch it now. Season two comes out in less than a week.

[โ€“] AAA@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

That show should come with the disclaimer to avoid the season finale at all costs. Just terrible.

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