Avenue 5: Starring Hugh Laurie. A space cruise ship gets knocked off course and whacky hijinks ensue. It's made more complicated since the billionaire moron on board who owns the company hired a bunch of actors/celebrities instead of an actual crew to steer the ship.
Silicon Valley: Juuuuust turned 10 this year. A group of programmers discover a new compression algorithm that quickly becomes the target of venture capitalists.
Crazy Ex Girlfriend: I would have recommended this years ago, but now say avoid it because Rachel Bloom is a zionist who's too chickenshit to say it. She has done charity events for Isreal even after October 7th. Some of the cast have come out in support of Palestine, but Bloom plays the main character and has the majority of screen time.
Community: A lawyer who lied about completing his undergraduate degree to get into law school has his secret discovered. He now has to attend community college to earn his bachelor's or else he will be disbarred. A lot of memes here on Hexbear are from this show.
Bojack Horseman: Washed-up actor Bojack Horseman tries to get his shit together after a lifetime of bad decisions and regrets. It's funny as hell while being completely soul crushing with plotlines about mental health, addiction, abuse, and love. Some absolutely banger lines and superb writing that will stick with you the rest of your life.
Hacks: Former comedy superstar Deborah Vance is now much older and doing the same routine every week at a Las Vegas casino. Her spot is now under threat as her shows aren't bringing in the numbers they used to decades ago. A young Zoomer gets fired from her writing job in LA after tweeting a joke in poor taste. She and Vance have the same agent who decides to pair them together so they can salvage their careers. Initially both women hate each other but realize they're the same person in two different bodies born in different time periods. It's The Devil Wears Prada with some Seinfeld.
The Other Two: Teenager Chase Dreams becomes an overnight YouTube pop music sensation. He's immediately signed to a record label and quickly goes platinum as his debut album climbs to the top of the charts. However, his brother and sister are about a decade older and both are struggling to have careers in anything. Even their mom has more public clout. The show follows these two millennial fuckups as the rest of their family is showered in praise and superstardom.
The Baby: An evil baby finds his way into Natasha's life and causes catastrophe everywhere he goes. She can't get rid of him because she's the only one he doesn't seem to curse. Now, poor Natasha is stuck looking after the Antichrist.
Avenue 5 would have become great if they got another season to figure it out. It also had some unusual class commentary iirc. It deliberately showed just enough that I thought it would become a major plot point or theme but it never did.
Ye it seemed like they had a lot of material to work with but I'm guessing production costs and lack of viewers sent it to an early grave. I think a lot of people didn't know it existed. There wasn't much marketing for it.
The HBO merger with what's it called didn't help, either. The current CEO hates fantasy and sci-fi, preferring stuff like reality TV or dramas like Succession and The Undoing.
Avenue 5: Starring Hugh Laurie. A space cruise ship gets knocked off course and whacky hijinks ensue. It's made more complicated since the billionaire moron on board who owns the company hired a bunch of actors/celebrities instead of an actual crew to steer the ship.
Silicon Valley: Juuuuust turned 10 this year. A group of programmers discover a new compression algorithm that quickly becomes the target of venture capitalists.
Crazy Ex Girlfriend: I would have recommended this years ago, but now say avoid it because Rachel Bloom is a zionist who's too chickenshit to say it. She has done charity events for Isreal even after October 7th. Some of the cast have come out in support of Palestine, but Bloom plays the main character and has the majority of screen time.
Community: A lawyer who lied about completing his undergraduate degree to get into law school has his secret discovered. He now has to attend community college to earn his bachelor's or else he will be disbarred. A lot of memes here on Hexbear are from this show.
Bojack Horseman: Washed-up actor Bojack Horseman tries to get his shit together after a lifetime of bad decisions and regrets. It's funny as hell while being completely soul crushing with plotlines about mental health, addiction, abuse, and love. Some absolutely banger lines and superb writing that will stick with you the rest of your life.
Hacks: Former comedy superstar Deborah Vance is now much older and doing the same routine every week at a Las Vegas casino. Her spot is now under threat as her shows aren't bringing in the numbers they used to decades ago. A young Zoomer gets fired from her writing job in LA after tweeting a joke in poor taste. She and Vance have the same agent who decides to pair them together so they can salvage their careers. Initially both women hate each other but realize they're the same person in two different bodies born in different time periods. It's The Devil Wears Prada with some Seinfeld.
The Other Two: Teenager Chase Dreams becomes an overnight YouTube pop music sensation. He's immediately signed to a record label and quickly goes platinum as his debut album climbs to the top of the charts. However, his brother and sister are about a decade older and both are struggling to have careers in anything. Even their mom has more public clout. The show follows these two millennial fuckups as the rest of their family is showered in praise and superstardom.
The Baby: An evil baby finds his way into Natasha's life and causes catastrophe everywhere he goes. She can't get rid of him because she's the only one he doesn't seem to curse. Now, poor Natasha is stuck looking after the Antichrist.
Avenue 5 would have become great if they got another season to figure it out. It also had some unusual class commentary iirc. It deliberately showed just enough that I thought it would become a major plot point or theme but it never did.
Ye it seemed like they had a lot of material to work with but I'm guessing production costs and lack of viewers sent it to an early grave. I think a lot of people didn't know it existed. There wasn't much marketing for it.
The HBO merger with what's it called didn't help, either. The current CEO hates fantasy and sci-fi, preferring stuff like reality TV or dramas like Succession and The Undoing.