OMG! We've joined the 21st century

[mumsisdaughter]

D'you know that old phrase: 'The cobblers children haven't got shoes' ?? Well, my other half repairs TVs etc for a living and though we've had a smart TV (HD and 3D) for a while, we've just never got round to actually linking it to the internet. Well, no more! I bought a Fire TV stick the other day and he fixed it to the set in a matter of moments and now there's sooooo much to choose from I'm bewildered and shell-shocked by it all.

I've been a member of Amazon Prime for years, in order to get next-day delivery, but now the price has gone up because they've added in what used to be LoveFilm so that's why I bought the Fire stick so I can get my money's worth.

So what I'm getting round to asking is, particularly if you are resident in US (or even if you're not and you know US TV series), what would you recommend I start with? Bearing in mind that we've never had SkyTV, I know I'm a long way behind in what series are good to watch.

I tend to watch horror/spooky things like 'The Walking Dead', 'Vampire Diaries' or serious cop shows like 'Happy Valley', 'Longmire' though I'm not beyond witty comedy. Please no romcom or shows with canned laughter.

Really open to anything that makes me think :D

Awaiting your recs with bated breath...

Comments

[bee]

1. You'll love Penny Dreadful. It just started so there's not a lot to catch up with. There's some Native American racism and the standard Victorian trope of asylum horror, but from what I hear it's a really feminist show and is a lot of fun and very positive.

2. SkyTV did a really good adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal as well as The Hogfather. Highly recommend Going Postal (and then read it! It's a good book too, and the book is different while not being different at all, if that makes sense). Also I recommend reading Discworld just generally. Start with Carpe Jugulum maybe.

3. If you haven't checked it out, Supernatural is wonderful trash. Join me in my garbage fandom. Join me. You're a fellow Anne Rice fan you understand enjoyable trash I'm sure. XD IT IS SO TRASH I LOVE IT??? WHY.

4. I hear good things about the cartoon Gravity Falls. No canned laughter. Very occult/cryptozoology/urban legend based. Also has a great young female character (Mabel).

[mumsisdaughter]

1. Penny Dreadful does look good from the trailers being shown but it's on Sky, which we don't subscribe to (Mr Murdoch is not getting any of my hard-earned pension!)

2. I have been a TP fan since The Colour of Magic was read on radio back in 1984, I think. I have bought each book as it has been published and have reread most of them, also his other books written before Discworld and alongside that series eg Truckers trilogy, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Dodger etc and of course that brilliant collaboration, Good Omens (BBC did an excellent dramatisation for radio over 6 parts, recently).

3. Lost track of how many series of Supernatural I've seen or which series I've missed. I kind of dip into that.

4. Thanks for the Gravity Falls rec, I hadn't heard of that.

Followed another rec and now I'm following The Following! Intense stuff but I'm sure it's very triggery for some folk.

[bee]

I HAD NO IDEA YOU WERE A DISC FAN. *flails* *whispers* Ohmygod we share another fandom.

*gives you some lilac bc of what today is*

Well Sky did both the really good adaptions but I was able to er, acquire them. They fell off the back of a lorry. You know. That kind of acquisition. Same with penny dreadful! Do you have any techies in y'all's family? Everything I recc'd to you is easy to find in the usual places. And hey—doing it that way sticks it to the Man.

ahahaha I was like that with SPN don't worry. Netflix is great for keeping track for you, that's the only reason I didn't lose my spot.