This video made me realize that I don't want Firefly to come back in the current climate of modern TV shows...

Not to forget, modern TV produces 8-10 episodes, not even every year, while 1990s stuff pumped out up to 26 episodes per year. All the tech was supposed to save time!

“Anyone can be a writer, only a few are Story Tellers.” - some guy on the internet

The best-selling Blu-Ray and 4K UHD physical media are older movies and TV shows. Physical media has been making a comeback in the last few years.

The A-Team, Knight Rider, Cheers, Three's Company, M*A*S*H, Family Ties, my list of good TV shows goes on and on... But modern shows are woke crap!

There is no way any disney writer has the job based on merit.

Friendly reminder these were actual lines from Rings of Poower: >The Sea is always Right >There's a tempest in me >A stone looks up >Give me the meat and give it to me raw! So many more. Put them below.

The problem is that we need real writers. I'm not sure what happened to them. And for studios to stop forcing their ESG/DEI crap agenda down everyone's throats.

Shad, its called: *Amazon's 2nd fantasy show.* There is no adaptation of Robert Jordan's Wheel of time yet

seasons 1-3 of arrested development are some of the best TV i've ever seen. season 4 was alright, but missed out on the magic. season 5 was like "ok we get it. you came back onto the air to make fun of trump, the wall, and conservatives. please just end now so i can have closure and watch something else."

I used to think Game of Thrones was my favourite TV show, but after seing the last two seasons it is definately Spartacus. RIP Andy Whitfield.

I'm going through "The Goodies" DVD boxset now because today's TV is no good. When I ration DVD boxsets for Sundays and Wednesdays they last just as long as computer games. I've learnt the art of not binge watching.

US has been grooming the audience to not have to think for years. Did you know they changed title of the Harry Potter the Philosopher Stone to the Sorcorer's stone because they though the Philosopher stone sounded too boring.

Old show I keep going back to? FarScape. Bonus points for being from your neck of the woods.

My fiance and I have been making our through TNG. Halfway through the last season. I remember being a kid and watching it on BBC 2 in the evening. So it takes me back there when I watch it now, but it's also excellent writing which conveys nuance and deep, poignant ideas with minimal bias. I also enjoy Enterprise as well. Sunday afternoons with Enterprise and SG-1 on T4. Ace.

I've been rewatching SG1. It's staggering how smart the writing it's compared to anything out now.

You all need to read The Reacher books. You will be pleased.

Star Trek Enterprise and DS9 are one of those shows I rewatch constantly.

I'm stuck in the 90s at the moment, rewatched Home Improvements, Seinfeld and at the moment watching Lois and Clark Superman.

I’ve been rewatching that 70’s show and Smallville.

The expanse is the only modern sci fi I've ever give a crap about. Next time I go on a tv show binge I'm just gonna watch some classic british comedies like League of Gentlemen, Little Britain and Monkey Dust

Don't forget the fantastic Babylon 5....

I think callem encapsulated it perfectly when he said modern entertainment lacks dimension. They obviously look down on their audience, so are they making dumbed down stuff because they think we're dumb or are they dumb, and all they are capable of is dumb stuff?

Magnum PI was a fun rewatch

There are shows that start out good, but I'm always afraid they'll ruin them with further seasons.

I'm back at looking the X-files

Star trek the next generation is always a good watch.

Shocking! Next you'll tell us the world is round

When I watch cable TV in America it feels like 200 BET channels black entertainment. 20 hispanic channels and 3 white channels turner cla.ssic movies western channel and boomerang. Lol

People have enjoyed a wide variety of ideas, but they're exhausted of having messages restlessly shoved down their throats.

Babylon 5❤

Everyone is like "Remember when TV shows used to be good?"... "Yeah I remember that!"... "Lets go watch those good shows again! "

Disney has no shame. and for the life of me i cant understand why Riordan gave them the rights to his world to disney after what they did to Star Wars.

Gone is the age of Western Media, now is the dawn of Anime.

Supernatural is so good i need to go back and watch it again XD

For me the shows I always go back to are The Mentalist, House, Elementary, Numbers and Law and Order : Criminal Intent....all fantastic shows....

There's a reason western audiences constantly go back to older shows they've alredy watched and know are good. Getting a genuinely good one nowadays, and it STAYING good, is like finding a 4 leaf clover. Its not like it doesn't happen tho (Lucifer, Sandman, Wednesday, House of the Dragon, One Piece live action suprisingly etc.) Its just, again, rare as hell

The whole thing with Hollywood and Filmmaking started to die once they started hiring people based on their "fitting ethnicity" rather than any kind of credit or Ability. Which is so ironic because they started doing this to prevent beeing called racist.....when hiring purely based on ethnicity is peak racist and i kinda love how they never even realized this. Tells you how completely out of touch these higher ups are.

The final season of Supernatural had woke stuff.

Yes the 80s and 90s was the best.

We canceled Disney+. Canceled Xfinity cable. We dont have to pay attention. Just because something happens now doesnt mean its good or relevant.

Almost as if the Hollywood cartel originally formed to protect the most qualified talent worked!!😂

Criminal Minds is a genius show.

There is nothing new about this. Go back to the '80s and every year they rolled out "the gay couple show" and the "feminism isn't self destructive show" and they were quickly canceled because no one watched them. Difference today is the absolute contempt for the marketplace of ideas. This is Stalinist in its aggressive anti-consumer attitude.

I'm running DS9 again at the moment too. Near the end of season 6 so almost finished it. It is so good. Even the campy filler episodes are better than most stuff that gets shat out in the modern day.

I've been sick a lot lately, so i'm looking for things to watch every now and then, and every time i just come back to watching old shows... Star trek, stargate, charmed, ncis et cetera... Because when i go and look for something new to watch it's just awfull stuf all around... Female empowerment movie, black people movie, c rang horror movie, bad remake, superhero movie 64 robins side kicks ex husbands dogwalker returns part 4... There is just so much crap...

Check out blue eye samurai, amazing female character.

I love watching old shows from the 60s-80s. Matlock, Mannix, MacGyver, Quince M.E., ADAM-!2. You can binge them and they're easy to watch.

Two of my favorite TV series are Mission Impossible ( not the movies) and Robin Hood with Richard Greene.

6:28 they hate truth and actual justice too

Literally the ONLY modern series I have ever watched is Cobra Kai. Everything else I watch is from the 70s to mid 2000s.

Better Call Saul, Peaky Blinders, Band of Brothers, Firefly, Buffy/Angel, ST/TNG, Reacher, all great. And currently Masters of the Air is brilliant. And the fact that current writers can't make a show over 6 to 10 episodes is pathetic.

I'm constantly watching Red Dwarf and Big Bang Theory. Some shows are just different. Maybe there are some classics in the making but we just don't know that?

I just finished rewatching the 1st season of Netflix Daredevil, and I gotta say, watching a show this good was a breath of fresh air from the smog of mediocrity that is the modern TV shows. The writing isn't the most inane bullcrap you've ever seen and things are actually happening. Every episode plot progresses, storylines get set up, previously set up storylines get resolved. Characters make sense and act like real adults. All of that happens in like a dozen 45-50 minute episodes, not 5-8 30-40 minute ones. And I have said nothing about acting or production quality. The show doesn't look cheap at all, unlike all the newest CGI "eh-screw-it-we-will-film-the-whole-thing-on-a-greenscreen-and-cobble-it-together-in-post" slopfest.

And maybe reading novels has become more populor since tv shows and movies have become so bad. That wouldnt be a bad thing in my opinion.

Pretty fucked how writers get paid more now to make fewer episodes.

When those French horns kick in on DS9. Back when new, everyone watched and you knew from that intro, it was going to be a good night. TOS, TNG, Babylon 5, Farscape, etc.... You knew from that intro. Over the years it went to 50% excitemnet because of, "what agenda this week," down to hearing it to turn off the tv/browser. Oh well, better to rewatch good shows of old than bologna of new age.

Season 1 and 2 of The Mandalorian showed promise...then came the heartbreaking derailment. It's hard to enjoy rewatching the "good" episodes when you know it's all going to crash and burn.

Sopranos is definitely a show worth going back to, i had never seen it before but it might just be the best show ever made. They really don't make entertainment like that anymore

In one of Disney's 2023 earnings calls Bob Iger referenced Bluey as an example of successful Disney+ programming. None of Disney in house productions come anywhere near Bluey's ratings. During the 2023 actor and writer strikes Iger said Disney could always get outside content, and that' exactly what they are doing in 2024, because Disney can no longer produce watchable content in-house.

Superman is an excellent example.

Stargate SG1......thanks for reminding me, guys. Haven't watched through those episodes in a while!

Obiwan can blow me! Thanks for the show, guys👍

On top of the ideologies being bad in new shows, I think it was Sanderson when watching the last episode of WoT in season 2, who said the issue is they keep going for "cool" scenes instead of story. People don't really remember cool scenes, they remember the story, and it's what keeps them coming BACK to the show. When the actual story DRIVES you to that cool scene, it becomes memorable because of the pay off. But if it's just "cool" scenes without that drive, it's forgettable, and people aren't going to want to actually watch anymore.

My little girl (7) loves bluey

I can suggest "Pantheon", its a very well made animation series with only 2 seasons, that has an awesome story arc, its kinda AI related.

Along with the FNT crew and the drinker you guys have helped me to see WHY the good old shows worked

Stargate, Buffy, Old Star Trek, Farscape, Firefly, etc, i came back to all of them once in a while. New shit i don't.even try anymore

Yes, good old series, dvd boxes full. Good times, good times. Hell the movienight club I am part off loves to watch 20 year old movies, I wonder why!

One thing I've noticed in modern TV and movies: Talent is optional for the roles. I've been terribly disappointed with modern Sci-Fi's because the characters are only as intelligent as the writers. Actors don't need to be geniuses, but writers and directors at least need intelligence and actual reference material to whatever they're trying to represent. Most Sci-Fi's get renamed at my house to "Stupid People in Space", "Stupid People After the Apocalypse", etc. and fantasies like the Willow TV series renamed to things like "Angsty, Horny Teenagers LARPing". That Lost in Space remake on Netflix is a perfect example of really stupid people writing "geniuses". Mr. Navy Seal is a pushover with no sense of survival, tactics, leadership, discipline, or anything else that a proper one would embody. Mrs. Top Scientist/Engineer/Whatever she's supposed to be is an unhinged, emotional wreck. Their kids have all been dropped on their heads as babies, or adopted from drug-addicts. The people picked to carry humanity into space are all idiots, and it's because the writers are idiots. By the end of the show, I was hoping the one cool thing - the Mass Effect Geth robot - would go berserk and just end the entire roster of characters.

I switched off after they guy said he likes BIG BANG

2:40 may I add this? Super Dimensional Fortress Macross is one old show I rewatch. There's a lot of animation error here and there but the action, romance and song is so good that I really love it over current Gundam series

Exactly! My kids love Bluey. My 3 year old had a Bluey birthday party. My wife watches Gilmore girls for the sass, Psych, Parks and Rec, and old crime shows. That's the stuff we return too, none of the new stuff. Just good, fun, old shows with a lot of episodes each season just keep delivering. Also, any interest in reviewing the latest season of Bad Batch?

I bought the book I believe that new season of Reacher was based on.

Modern TV pushed me back to DVDs lol. No more streaming services. I don't pay company's that make things I hate. Even if they previously made good things, I know they would use my money for current bad things. So I buy DVDs second hand or sail the high seas for the old stuff I do like.

Bluey is the only thing that keeps Disney+ afloat. Lol

My kid is obsessed with Bluey

My family enjoys pretty much everything out of Studio Ghibli.

I am currently watching Bones and NCIS(they had good 10-11 seasons before they went completely far woke and all good characters left). I have 5 other shows on my watch list, "freshest" among them concluded 5 years ago. I absolutely loved Big Bang Theory. Up to season 9, when they also went completely off the rails, had to outright force myself to watch that season, so bad it was and never came back to it.

When Shad mentioned his kids enjoying the new Percy Jackson series, I couldn't help but think from my perspective how lucky those kids are to have a dad like him. I inherited my love of books and reading from my dad and he's the reason that I'm so deep into Science Fiction, Fantasy, and history like I am today. Boxes and boxes of books all over the house and stored elsewhere when I was growing up. That said, I can't imagine being the child of someone like shad, who not only loves that stuff but lives and breathes it and uses it as a part of making his living.

Stargate SG-1 is the best show ever put on television and the biggest tragedy in television history is the cancelation of Stargate Universe. And Firefly

When do you get the time to watch all these shows? After work, there's so much great KZfaq videos, shows and anime that there's no time for anything else.

I always laughed at the Golden age of television claim that hack influencer/ journos would push when describing what was really the declining quality of tv shows in the 2010s. Breaking Bad was solid (but had a predictable ending), Walking Dead went woke as its source material did and went on too long and Better Call Saul was a snoozefest.Game of Thrones was always boring d&d neck-beard bait. I look back at old shows and films from the 80s, 90s and 2000s, and man they were so much better. Once dvd rentals went under, streaming became the norm and now that they started trying to phase out physical releases, things turned to sh*t. Movies and shows being woke "current thing" nonsense since 2015 has seen things tank dramatically.

If you want to know what happened to TV shows, games and movies, basically this: WEF companies like BlackRock funded ESG initiatives. Parent companies took the investment money then forced DEI on every studio under them. DEI guidelines (I highly recommend you go look up the ones for a. studios for example) outright not only mandate what is on camera with strict quotas, but staff at all levels of a production (including show runners, directors, and head writers) and actively encourages you to hire people with no experience (direct quotes!) that meet the requirements to find 'fresh talent.' Thus if you compare older shows like Daredevil to newer shows like Secret Invasion, the experience drops from 50+ minimum to 0-4 student films.

i think it's hilarious that a show like "it's always sunny..." has used the n word no less than 3 times, used the f slur often, and brutally made fun of gay and trans people is now trying to teach me lessons about tolerance.

Rewatching Babylon 5. Such an underrated show. Also I am a trekie lol

I watch Hey Arnold to this day, and I'm approaching 40. I feel bad for children today. They'll never know what good cartoons are.

I have been rewatching Golden Girls and Family Matters.

Where can i fine the list at

The numbers don't lie! And they spell disaster for you at sacrifice

I was so excited for the wheel of time having a show and then I dropped the series in disgust halfway through the first episode. I couldn’t see how they could stay true to main themes of what made the series good with the changes they made.

At this point, whenever I see a new series or movie in which the poster considers of the protagonist doing the dramatic "im constipated" look directly at the camera, I expect the worst, and faux galadriel's constipated look is easily the worst I've seen.

Rrings of power is not Tolkien content. He never supported woke polocies and no REAL tolkien work is anything but excellent. The storytelling is high quality. Rings of power is not tolkien

Speaking of *Star Trek* , Remember when Data got kidnapped by the Collector? And the Collector was acting JAIL BASED CREEPY to Data??😂😂😂

I'm a big couch potato, been watching since I can remember, was born in '84, but growing up I watched not just current entertainment, but a lot of stuff from before I was born, no cable so I had to get whatever I could find and did, it didn't matter if it was black and white or the technology, clothes and way of talking was old fashioned I still enjoyed it and seeing how things used to be, I was following several network shows everyday six days a week all the way up to around the mid 2000's, now I follow 4 total. Older shows had messages and tackled some big topics, but it was subtle and done within the confines of the show, you had to actually figure it out for yourself what it was talking about, even when they discussed things like alcohol, smoking, drugs, and abuse they warned you before and usually came out at the end to talk about the seriousness of the topic and how to get help, it wasn't all the time and then they'd go back to entertaining .

My last show that I marathoned was Warehouse 13 (which I picked up on blu ray a month or so ago). My next marathon will be Alias (on DVD). I rejected streaming services years ago.

Reading fiction is my main source of creative nourishment now.

In order to have smart, witty, and intellectual tv shows, you must have writers that have those traits.

From a quick glance at the thumbnail, I thought you were doing a late retrospective review of the LOST series and declared it woke lol

I have a feeling that Shad will cry to season 2 of arcane, but we’ll see.