TV Shows You’re Currently Watching (NOT ANIME)

[oxyhime]

We have movie nights with our daughter(she's 8). She wanted to watch scary stuff, so we started with the Alien movies. I'd never seen them before either and was immediately hooked.

If anyone has recommendations for more scary movies please let me know. We're thinking of the original Evil Dead movies next.

First off, I wanna say it's so cool that you're sharing that with your kid. It reminded me of how the best memories I have with my mom are of us two watching horror movies together (my dad scares easy). You could pace out the classics (they always felt like mini-events to me) but there's plenty to go around.

• Evil Dead 1 hasn't aged particularly well, so I don't know that I would put it early in a "horror marathon" of sorts. I'd argue it gets more relevant when you get interested in the behind-the-scenes stuff: the movie is incredible for the shoestring budget it was shot on. On the more negative side, there's a pretty graphic scene of sexual violence and I'd rather mention that kind of stuff when recommending a movie to anyone.
• Evil Dead 2, more or less a retelling of Evil Dead 1, has another (albeit toned-down) version of that scene that I have to warn about, but it's otherwise a much more enjoyable movie. If you enjoy letting yourself get weirded out by a film and don't mind the horror-comedy angle, you're gonna have a great time.

For further recommendations, I'd love to have a more precise idea of what you're looking for! It's been almost a whole 46 years between the first and most recent Alien movies, after all.

 

[beatleboy2025]

i think 8 is too young to see the movie alien.

 

[DianeInsetinha]

(Note: This thread is meant exclusively for non-anime TV series — see the anime-focused equivalent here. Anyone found violating this rule will be given a paddling.)

TV. The idiot box. The boob tube. The electric simpleton. The cubic universe. That thing you used to watch. Let’s talk about it!

Post whatever shows you’re currently watching here, and tell me what you think of them. Because I’m an angel, I’ll also allow web originals and streaming-based shows, too. So sit back, relax (anyone who uses the preceding phrase in the introduction to their TV show should be executed by the state), and tune in!

I've been getting onto doctor who again!! Starting from the eccleston era onwards, I was 12 since the last time I watched seasons one and two, I'm trying to see if they're as good as I remember.

One thing I remember, tho, is getting extra traumatized when watching rise of the cyberman as an 8 year old, lolololollll

 

[GardeniaSky]

First off, I wanna say it's so cool that you're sharing that with your kid. It reminded me of how the best memories I have with my mom are of us two watching horror movies together (my dad scares easy). You could pace out the classics (they always felt like mini-events to me) but there's plenty to go around.

• Evil Dead 1 hasn't aged particularly well, so I don't know that I would put it early in a "horror marathon" of sorts. I'd argue it gets more relevant when you get interested in the behind-the-scenes stuff: the movie is incredible for the shoestring budget it was shot on. On the more negative side, there's a pretty graphic scene of sexual violence and I'd rather mention that kind of stuff when recommending a movie to anyone.
• Evil Dead 2, more or less a retelling of Evil Dead 1, has another (albeit toned-down) version of that scene that I have to warn about, but it's otherwise a much more enjoyable movie. If you enjoy letting yourself get weirded out by a film and don't mind the horror-comedy angle, you're gonna have a great time.

For further recommendations, I'd love to have a more precise idea of what you're looking for! It's been almost a whole 46 years between the first and most recent Alien movies, after all.

It's hard to say. She seems to like movies and shows where you can 'see' the scary thing, but that's been less of a complaint since we started watching more 'paranormal' style stuff.

Anything with like, hauntings/paranormal stuff. I started a playthrough of Resident Evil VII yesterday and she seemed to like watching that, too.

I try to avoid anything with gratuitous nudity or sexual violence. She has a high tolerance for horror and gore but that kind of stuff is probably too much. It's hard to gauge what she'd like or what might be too 'scary'. She has a good sense of it all being cinema so it's not real, idk if that helps.

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i think 8 is too young to see the movie alien.

I was worried about that too but we watched through to Resurrection and she liked them alot.

 

[DanCalibur]

I'm finishing the original Ultraman, next stop Ultraseven.

 

[faceless0man]

İm watching invincible with wife its quite nice

 

[Lee__Kanker]

I still have the whole thing on dvd, it comes with a board game!

 

[chxshire22]

invincible, daredevil, family guy, the rookie

 

[GuyZero32k4]

Invincible, Daredevil, Resident Alien, Legend of Vox Machnia, Shorsey.

 

[Ikagura]

I still have the whole thing on dvd, it comes with a board game!

I remember the "Asian pov" hat.


But are cartoons fine in this topic?

 

[Namakyan]

White Lotus, Severance, Solar Opposites

 

[Rylioli]

Been watching kamen raider gaim. Its peak, eat your fruits kids

 

[DanCalibur]

Today I watch nothing expect anime. Todays TV shows are ass mostly
Back in the day I there was many shows I liked.
Home Improvement
Married with children
Star trek
Xena
Young Hercules
Hercules
Dark matter
Tera nova
Lexx
Andromeda
Babylon 5

And more but I don´t wanna make the list to long. Sadly TV shows today are boring drama shit barely any sci-fi or fantasy.
They made star trek trash and preachy as frack honestly TV shows today are preachy cringe shit.
The shows I grew up watching would not be made today becuse it will offend the morons of today.

What? No Farscape?

 

[Lee__Kanker]

I remember the "Asian pov" hat.


But are cartoons fine in this topic?

He said western toons are a-ok!

 

[CardcaptorEd2019]

I've been watching Common Side Effects and someone on a different thread recommended Utopia so I've been watching that

 

[oxyhime]

Anything with like, hauntings/paranormal stuff. I started a playthrough of Resident Evil VII yesterday and she seemed to like watching that, too.

All of that helps a great deal!

Sadly, gratuity is kind of the name of the game if you're talking about slasher movies (which arguably Evil Dead 1 is), and generally a lot of horror movies from the 70/80s onwards up to now. Even the first Halloween is guilty of that for a scene, for how tame it is in terms of gore. Slashers as a genre really don't seem to fit your criteria much anyway, since it's 40 minutes of faffing about before A Guy in a Mask™ starts chain-killing.

(I swear I love slasher movies. I just don't sound like it.)

One classic I can recommend that has amazing creature effects is The Thing (1982). The plot is pretty straightforward ("there's an alien, but where?"), I can't praise the FX enough, and it's light on the other kind of adult stuff. It had a prequel of sorts in 2010, but I haven't seen it yet, so I can't vouch for it in any way.

Creature features is an avenue you could pursue more generally. Things like The Blob, the Jaws series (diminishing returns on quality I've heard), maybe going into kaiju movies; Cloverfield might even be a good introduction to found-footage after that, depending on if you appreciate that way of film-making.

I do recommend doesthedogdie.com if you don't mind spoilers for yourself, although you may already know about it (and then, to anyone reading). Very straight-forward way to vet media against all kinds of possibly troublesome content.

 

[Namakyan]

I've been watching Common Side Effects and someone on a different thread recommended Utopia so I've been watching that

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Oh, I've forgotted about this show, I'm watching it too. It's pretty good. It's an adult animation that isn't on the silly side of things.

 

[BlueShell]

Currently watching stuff like Batman TAS, Bojack Horseman (rewatch), Breaking bad (Catching up after a long while), Blue eyed samurai, Samurai Jack, ATHF, Game of thrones (Started recently after my cousin showed me an episode of the new series), Hysteria (Watching this one with my mom. Haven't heard many people talk about it online, but it's basically Superbad meets Stranger things), Futurama, that new Spider-man show and I also just finished Espartanos.

 

[skagskagskag]

I've been watching Lost and i'm so pissed, what the hell is this show. These characters make no damn sense. I'm obligated to watch all 91 hours (yes its that long) of the show cuz a pal told me I can make a list of media that's 91 hours long for them to watch if I finish it :'^(

wish me luck, yall

 

[Gorse]

I would absolutely love to hear anyone’s thoughts on this show, if they’re watching it. I’ve heard a lot of good things, but I’m not really crazy about Mike Judge’s TV work, so I’ll need some convincing to get into it.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

I would absolutely love to hear anyone’s thoughts on this show, if they’re watching it. I’ve heard a lot of good things, but I’m not really crazy about Mike Judge’s TV work, so I’ll need some convincing to get into it.

Not even king of the hill?

 

[AnonymousCookieMonster]

Not anime.... I guess MASH for the 6th time?

 

[CardcaptorEd2019]

I would absolutely love to hear anyone’s thoughts on this show, if they’re watching it. I’ve heard a lot of good things, but I’m not really crazy about Mike Judge’s TV work, so I’ll need some convincing to get into it.

I enjoy Mike Judge's other TV work, but this is definitely different from all of those. It is more of a drama compared to his usual comedies, yet still has plenty of moments sprinkled in that give me a good laugh, has characters that you care about who aren't one dimensional and the story keeps on making you wonder what will happen next. Also, the show visually looks really good.

 

[Gorse]

Not even king of the hill?

I respect KoTH a lot and understand why people like it, but I'm really not a fan and have never been in love with the show. I'm the farthest thing from an American southerner that's humanly possible, so I really have no connection or interest in the culture, and, while I do think the characters are quite funny and endearing, none of them ever really connected with me in the same way that, say, the Family Guy family does.

I've seen a smattering of both classic episodes and newer ones through the years, but I didn't grow up with the show and don't really enjoy watching it in my free time. I think I was a little too young for it.

It is more of a drama compared to his usual comedies, yet still has plenty of moments sprinkled in that give me a good laugh, has characters that you care about who aren't one dimensional and the story keeps on making you wonder what will happen next. Also, the show visually looks really good.

Very interesting! I'm surprised to hear that there's more of a drama bent – that's quite unique for an American adult cartoon! I can't say I'm in love with the character designs from what I've seen in promo stills, but it doesn't surprise me that a show about psychedelics (I think?) looks good. Consider my interest piqued!

 

[Yousef]

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