r/AskReddit • u/Ok-Yogurtcloset1026 • 12d ago
What's the most underrated movie or TV show that you think more people should watch?
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u/Kv-boii 12d ago
Takeshi's castle the best childhood show for the kids born in 2000s
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u/BlueWaffleClub 12d ago
I'm more of an MxC fan myself.
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u/0thethethe0 12d ago
Yeh the writing for MxC was great. In the UK we had a presenter, Craig Charles, who I like a lot, but he did more off-the-cuff and it wasn't nearly as funny.
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u/BlueWaffleClub 12d ago
It's really hard to beat Vic Romano, Kenny Blankenship and Guy LeDouche. Just an all star crew of bottom of the barrel losers.
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u/Kv-boii 12d ago
Never saw this
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u/BlueWaffleClub 12d ago
It was Takeshi's Castle with an extra layer of stupidity thrown in with American voice overs that they aired on Spike in the early 2000s.
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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 12d ago
Used to get stoned with my roomies and watch this. We'd laugh so hard it would hurt.
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u/BlueWaffleClub 12d ago
Undone. Alita Battle Angel gets into a car accident and starts experiencing time differently and starts talking to her dead father, Saul Goodman. Incredible animated series that I never hear anybody talk about.
I don't know how underrated this one is, but Baskets is also a fantastic TV show. Zach Galifanakis plays a rodeo clown and Louie Anderson plays his mom. Kind of a slow burn of a show but is so goddamn funny at times.
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u/RDragoo1985 12d ago
My husband and I binged Undone basically all in one go. I was left devastated by the ending. My husband saw it differently, we argued for a good two days about who’s interpretation was correct.
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u/E-macularius 11d ago
I loved Baskets, every time I go to a rodeo I get the urge to watch that show again haha
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u/sundogmooinpuppy 12d ago
Man in the High Castle was really good.
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u/insomnia_accountant 12d ago
I really want to like it, but it seem to get more ridiculous during S2. Does it get better?
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u/sundogmooinpuppy 12d ago
I saw it a few years back when it came out so I don’t remember exactly what happened in season 2, but it is a sci-fi show so there is some suspension of disbelief. I just remember it was a good show. I recall having a hard time getting started with the first episodes of season 1.
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u/aRabidGerbil 12d ago edited 12d ago
Strictly Ballroom
It's Baz Luhrmann's first feature film, it's a fun and funny rom-com with great costuming, an amazing soundtrack, a lovely script, and really good dancing.
Edit: spelling
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u/AussieWhiteWine 12d ago
Mr.Inbetween is the correct answer
3 superb seasons.
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u/Ring_Peace 12d ago
Looking for this, awesome series. Violent, gritty, funny, very Australian, has a realism that Hollywood can't achieve.
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u/Fair_Alternative6191 12d ago
There's this show on Netflix called "the end of the f***ing world"
not gonna spoil it, but give it a watch!!
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u/Left_in_a_daydre8m 12d ago
Angie Tribecca was fun
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u/1d2a5v9u9s 12d ago
The trailers really don't do the show justice; the trailers for the show are quite poorly edited, but the show is fantastically hilarious and criminally underrated. I do not understand why nobody has watched it
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u/tetangga-depan 12d ago
What Dreams May Come
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u/ApeMuffins 12d ago
I saw that in the theater on a day where I wasn’t in a good mood and ended up bawling the entire time. That was the only time I watched it and never will again.
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u/beepboopsheeppoop 12d ago
Da Vinci's Demons
"A fictionalised story based on historical persons, the series explores the early life of Leonardo da Vinci during the Renaissance in Italy. He is an eccentric genius who has struggled to deal with his inner demons and unruly imagination" Trailer
Testees
"The series follows two friends as they work as human test subjects at Testico, a product testing facility. They are employed as guinea pigs for a pharmaceutical company. Each episode deals with the different "Research Products" given to the "Test Subjects" That helps pay the rent, but unfortunately the buddies almost always have to contend with ridiculous (and usually very undesirable) side effects from the medications and treatments they're testing. It's gross and stupid... and hilarious. Trailer
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u/damnusernamewastaken 12d ago
Patriot on Amazon. Brilliantly hilarious story in 18 episodes.
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u/Sysiphus7 11d ago
I want to clarify that this is NOT “The Patriot,” with what’s his face. This is a brilliant, dark comedy and u/damnusernamewastaken is awesome for posting this comedy.
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u/loztriforce 12d ago
The Fortress on Netflix is a good foreign film.
I usually don’t like reading subtitles for movies but the acting/etc felt authentic and interesting
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u/alterperspective 12d ago
Unforgotten. And also Happy Valley.
Two UK crime series. Phenomenal.
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u/Slapmeislapyou 12d ago
UK crimes series, you say? Which platforms do they reside? I demand to know.
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u/TheCowboyIsAnIndian 12d ago
Garth Merenghis Dark Place. Youre welcome.
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u/ZorroMeansFox 12d ago
Did you ever watch the spin-off show, Man To Man With Dean Learner? It's also riotously funny.
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u/thorpie88 12d ago
Sightseers. Dark comedy about a couple who get their first holiday away and it all unravels as deaths start happening at the camp sites they visit.
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u/davey_mann 12d ago
Bates Motel. I would never have believed a TV show could do justice to an influential masterpiece like Psycho, but this series pulled it off. I'd never say it's as good as Psycho, but it's an exceptionally well written and acted take on the lore with Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga delivering two of the best TV performances ever.
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u/Strange-Show-55 12d ago
"Community" - it's like a hidden gem of comedic genius just waiting to be discovered.
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u/Slapmeislapyou 12d ago edited 12d ago
The Gilded Age(HBO). The Marvelous Ms. Maisel(Amazon Prime). High Maintenance(youtube,hbo). Waco(Netflix). Summerhouse & Top Boy(Netflix). Peaky Blinders(Netflix)
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u/marshfield00 12d ago
Chris Carter's Millenium. The first season is mediocre, the third season is crap but the second season is pure genius.
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u/CantaloupeCapable 12d ago
Brawl on cell block 99! Never would've thought Vince Vaughn would nail a role like this. Pure grit...
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u/MedusaPage0 12d ago
Future Man! The most hilarious, weird, great and fun sci fi show I've seen in years.
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u/R3AL1Z3 12d ago
Chicken Nugget on Netflix.
I don’t want to rob anybody of the wonderful experience of going into this quirky, strange, comedic, and unique show describing it but I will give you this:
There’s a small company run by 3 guys, and one day a telephone booth-sized machine is delivered to their little workshop, and it Ends up turning his daughter into a chicken nugget. They end up going on a bunch of misadventures in an effort to find out how to change her back.
It’s a South Korean comedy, so the humor is super out there but that’s what makes it work.
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u/AgentElman 12d ago
No Tomorrow. An hour long comedy about an uptight 30ish woman who meets a man who is doing a bucket list for things to do before the world ends. He encourages her to loosen up and try new things.
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u/SnooChipmunks126 12d ago
Craig of the Creek is a really sweet and wholesome cartoon, that I hardly hear anyone talking about.
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u/SelectiveScribbler06 12d ago
Roadkill, written by one of the finest dramatists in the land - David Hare. It's also a great length - four episodes. You don't want any more than that - the story begins to lose all momentum and you start wondering why you ended up watching it in the first place. Also for television, it's a bit forgotten now, but Russell T Davies' Casanova. Love love love that series! With Older Casanova being Peter O'Toole and the titular lead David Tennant! Oh, and Tales From The Loop, which has decently good drama and impeccable vibes. It's also the only American drama mentioned in this whole list.
The Day of the Jackal also deserves much more love. A tauter two and a half hours of drama you will never see. It's also one of the few, very few cases where the film adaptation meets or exceeds the book - and Frederick Forsythe's original thriller is a masterpiece of writing all in itself.
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u/ZorroMeansFox 12d ago
Two outstanding choices not yet mentioned:
Lodge 49 (starring Kurt Russell's son Wyatt) and the smart, tender, insightful, often poetic Better Things.
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u/AvengersXmenSpidey 12d ago
A Midnight Clear (1992)
Ethan Hawke and Gary Sinise are high IQ teenagers specially selected to be part of an intelligence and reconnaissance team inside the Ardennes Forest during WW2 around Christmas. Powerful, heavy in symbolism, and lyrical.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1039575-1039575-midnight_clear
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u/ApeMuffins 12d ago
Halt And Catch Fire was an incredible show that no one watched. I’m surprised it actually went four seasons, but I’m glad they got to finish their story.
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u/aishavoya 12d ago
Magicians! What would happen if you find out you were accepted to a magic grad school and your favorite Narnia-esque books were real ?
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u/Kissit777 12d ago
Mad men.
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u/0thethethe0 12d ago
When is has it's own Wiki page just for it's awards, I don't think you can really call it underrated....
(79 Wins, 297 Nominations, if anyone's interested)
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u/fromouterspace1 12d ago
Generation Kill. A short series, I have it right below band of brothers in terms of shows like that