Oh yes, Barney Miller was so deliciously dry it was hard to credit it as a USA production! All the main characters so dyspeptic and yet weirdly charming. (And speaking of weird charm, that's what won me over about Taxi - there was a sweetness even to Andy Kaufman's character Latka and to Christopher Lloyd's Reverend Jim, and it was also possibly Danny De Vito's finest hour.)
Since we neither have nor want access to broadcast telly (FTA, cable, or capture), the way we do suck-and-see is either via someone at the office ~cough~ whohasaforeignserver ~cough~ or via files-on-USB from a friend who suffers from a severe case of FTA, cable, and capture. And of course if teh interwebs say there's a new series or special programme that sounds promising. My Dearly Beloved, who is not known for an excess of discriminating taste (insert evil grin here), mostly brings home stuff that is either out-and-out rubbish (e.g. The Cape) or not-quite-worth-wasting-life-hours-on (e.g. Fringe); my friend has a good record, having brought Galactica As It Was Meant to Be, Heroes, and Arrow into our life. OTOH, said friend also tried to foist a season of The Vampire Diaries on me (eurrrgghh!), and DB sometimes hunts and collects gems of awesome awfulness...
Oh oh oh ohhhhhh! I forgot The Sarah Connor Chronicles! And Sanctuary! Both of which I own entire on DVD :-)
And on the subject of gems of awesome awfulness, 'twas my birthday last week, and DB bought me one of my most beloved early Attenboroughs, which he brought home along with a d/l'd film of such towering, eye-popping, brain-melting awfulness that it hardly bears thinking about. So that night we watched several episodes of the first, followed by as much of the second as we could get through without dying of violent groans plus hysterical laughter. And the event will forever more be remembered in our household as Life on Battlefield Earth :P
Re Lexx - I think I get what you mean, but my personal 'so awful it's brilliant' sci-fi will always be Cleopatra 2525!
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Since we neither have nor want access to broadcast telly (FTA, cable, or capture), the way we do suck-and-see is either via someone at the office ~cough~ whohasaforeignserver ~cough~ or via files-on-USB from a friend who suffers from a severe case of FTA, cable, and capture. And of course if teh interwebs say there's a new series or special programme that sounds promising. My Dearly Beloved, who is not known for an excess of discriminating taste (insert evil grin here), mostly brings home stuff that is either out-and-out rubbish (e.g. The Cape) or not-quite-worth-wasting-life-hours-on (e.g. Fringe); my friend has a good record, having brought Galactica As It Was Meant to Be, Heroes, and Arrow into our life. OTOH, said friend also tried to foist a season of The Vampire Diaries on me (eurrrgghh!), and DB sometimes hunts and collects gems of awesome awfulness...
Oh oh oh ohhhhhh! I forgot The Sarah Connor Chronicles! And Sanctuary! Both of which I own entire on DVD :-)
And on the subject of gems of awesome awfulness, 'twas my birthday last week, and DB bought me one of my most beloved early Attenboroughs, which he brought home along with a d/l'd film of such towering, eye-popping, brain-melting awfulness that it hardly bears thinking about. So that night we watched several episodes of the first, followed by as much of the second as we could get through without dying of violent groans plus hysterical laughter. And the event will forever more be remembered in our household as Life on Battlefield Earth :P
Re Lexx - I think I get what you mean, but my personal 'so awful it's brilliant' sci-fi will always be Cleopatra 2525!