#show recommendations

[tears-of-acid-and-sluts]

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[ginawankenobi]

The new show featuring the Terf property is not worth your time, nor does the creator of it deserve a single cent more. Might I recommend (literally anything else, but the following in particular):

Critical Role - campaign 2 is great, I started with that and it works and there are HUNDREDS of hours of media to consume if you’re ravenous. There are also plenty of shorter series and one shots and other content apart from the main campaigns.

The Legend of Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein animated series! It’s Critical Role campaigns 1 & 2 but animated and way shorter!

Dimension 20 - many shorter series if you don’t want to invest quite as much time but still want to have a good amount of content to sink your teeth into. They even have a series that’s basically the Terf property but NOT awful and terfy (Misfits & Magic)! And Escape from the Bloodkeep is one of the best things ever.

Watch Lord of the Rings if you haven’t (extended editions only, let’s be so real), or rewatch them if you have.

The Chronicles of Narnia movies, especially The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Season 1 (& maybe season 2) of The Witcher.

Avatar: the Last Airbender, obviously.

Adventure Time! Animation ain’t just for kids, folks.

The 10th Kingdom - it has everything: camp, romance, adventure, fairy tales…what more could you want?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Again, obviously.

Galavant! It’s actually criminal that this series was canceled waaay too soon.

Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (and the 1982 film also, of course), another one canceled WAY too soon.

I would recommend the Willow series, if Disney+ hadn’t REMOVED IT 😑 but watch the 1988 film.

[elilovesstars]

El’s Agere Show Recs!

(obviously regressors of any age can watch from either category, and you don’t have to be regressed to enjoy these shows!!)

baby & toddler-re

⭐️ Blues Clues

⭐️ Bluey

⭐️ Bubble Guppies

⭐️ Carl the Collector

⭐️ Clifford the Big Red Dog

⭐️ Curious George

⭐️ Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood

⭐️ Dinosaur Train

⭐️ Doc McStuffins

⭐️ Jake and the Neverland Pirates

⭐️ My Little Pony

⭐️ Octonauts

⭐️ Peep and the Big Wide World

⭐️ Pocoyo

⭐️ Sofia the First

kiddo-re & middle-re

⭐️ Adventure Time

⭐️ Amphibia

⭐️ Big City Greens

⭐️ Craig of the Creek

⭐️ Gooosebumps

⭐️ Gravity Falls

⭐️ Hilda

⭐️ Monster High

⭐️ My Little Pony

⭐️ Odd Squad

⭐️ Spongebob

⭐️ Steven Universe

⭐️ The Magic School Bus

⭐️ The Owl House

[vikboni9]

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[thealexandriaarchives]

Disney+ Just Dropped a New Hidden Gem after Sitting on it for 2 Years

I have a little bit of a rep for getting in the know about good tv shows before they really pick up steam. Mostly because I have just about every streaming service except for Netflix, and watch too much scripted television, especially when it's a new show that's not based on an existing franchise and looks like it's going to do something interesting with genre conventions. Earlier this summer I got the beat on Widow's Bay back when it was just 'coming next week' trailers, and six weeks later it was the surprise Emmy darling of the season.

So when I saw a new animated TV series on Disney+ that had received no buzz, had an eye-catchingly dark and gorgeous art style, and had dropped 22 full episodes along with special features all in one day at the end of June? My spidey-senses started tingling. Because this felt like the kind of thing they've pulled to hide The Owl House or other shows that they don't really want to promote.

So I watched the first episode without any trailers or googling.

And it's a fucking masterpiece.

The whole story is filled with love letters to classic horror movies and pastiches, set in a tiny town in France that is bursting with as much of its own personality as the Pacific Northwest had in Gravity Falls. Which makes sense. This show was written and animated by a French-American team, which is part of why we've never heard of the people working on it, and why there's so little crossover buzz. Please. Please help the buzz.

The writing is clever, filled with jokes that work culturally in French but translate well, and the story is compelling from the very first episode. The characters are nuanced and you want to know more about the family situation the 13 year olds have going on than the demonic portal in the woods by the end of the first episode, and if that isn't good writing I don't know what is.

It's Funny. It's Dark. The soundtrack Slaps. Did I mention how Colorful and Gorgeous it is? And there are 22 episodes up right now on Disney+. This feels like a show they are trying to bury with minimal fanfare, that they've sat on for 2 years and released in full at the end of pride month with every episode and special feature dumped all at once.

This show is going to get sold to you as a Gravity Falls spiritual successor in what little print media you can find, and I get why. But please, don't let that be the thing that defines it. It is So unique and its own thing I could cry. And yet the elements of 2010s Cartoons like Steven Universe and Gumball and a dozen others are so obvious even to someone like me who didn't watch those shows regularly.

I've only gotten through half a dozen episodes. I only needed one. I have no idea if they'll respond to a sudden outpouring of fans for a second season if it's popular, but I would like it to at least, be popular.

If you want new comfort media, something easy to pick up and consume, even more so than Widow's Bay but in a similar vein this summer? Try This Show.

Treat yourself. Go watch the first episode of The Doomies. Trust me.

[jhoca]

18th century shows, movies, and games

A list of shows, movies, and games set in the 18th century that I would personally recommend! This is an ongoing list that I'll add to as I find them. *Anything listed with 'History' for its genre means historical events take place, historical figures make an appearance, and/or historical event(s) or figure(s) are referred to in that piece of media.

Shows

TURN: Washington's Spies (Drama, History, War)

George Washington (Biography, History, War)

John Adams (Biography, Drama, History)

Garrow's Law (Biography, Legal Drama, History)

Black Sails (Drama, Action, Adventure)

The Great (Dark Comedy, Drama, History, Satire)

Harlots (Drama)

The Rose of Versailles (Anime, Shojo, History, Drama, Romance)

Our Flag Means Death (Comedy, Romance, History, Adventure)

Movies

Hamilton: the Musical (Biography, History, Drama, Musical)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Action, Adventure)

Sleepy Hollow (Dark Fantasy, Folk Horror, Mystery)

Barry Lyndon (Drama, History)

Games

Ambition: A Minuet in Power (Dating Sim, Visual Novel, History)

Assassin's Creed III (Action, Stealth, History)

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag (Action, Stealth, History)

Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry (Action, Stealth, History)

Assassin's Creed: Liberation (Action, Stealth, History)

Assassin's Creed: Rogue (Action, Stealth, History)

Assassin's Creed: Unity (Action, Stealth, History)

*If you can't play these games, I would recommend watching them too (I don't have AC: Unity, so I watched it; I also watched someone else play Ambition: A Minuet in Power before picking it up for myself).

Feel free to give recommendations! I'm always looking for more media set in the 18th century, and I'm sure there are plenty that I haven't even heard of yet.

[hexiflexi]

animated TV shows I think more people should watch:

Infinity Train - indulgent anthology series about misunderstandings, growing up, redemption and lack thereof, and trauma wrapped up in humor and devastation

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts - post-apocalyptic perfection explored by a cheery pink girl, reskinned Finn and Jake, and a familial trauma survivor with a beautiful, intricately world-built backdrop

Scavengers Reign - story of survival, the deterioration of morals under stress, and the horror of nature told without much dialogue and the eventual message that community and regrowth are our most powerful tools

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur - satisfying autistic genius lead, her best friend, and a dinosaur become superheroes to fight monsters of the week and gentrification

feel free to recommend more in the notes!