Looking for dark sci-fi or fantasy TV suggestions

^ I like the look of that.

A little nudity, wouldn't be the worst I have seen from a children's show. ;)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1atuz

I watched Rainbow as a child. Mind you, unlike that, this was never intended to air.

wikipedia wrote: In 1979, the cast and crew of Rainbow made a special exclusive sketch for the Thames TV staff Christmas tape, sometimes referred to as the "Twangers" episode. This sketch featured plenty of deliberate sexual innuendo (beginning with Zippy peeling a banana, saying 'One skin, two skin, three skin, four...' before being interrupted), and was never shown at the time (as it was never intended to be screened to the general public.) It also included Geoffrey convincing the viewers to 'bounce' their balls, but if they did not have any balls, they could ask a friend if they could play with his. Jane also claimed that she was "blowing a lot with Rodger". Soon, Zippy asked them to stop, suggesting whether to play with a blowing tube and maracas, so they could start singing "The Plucking Song"....

Anyway, one of favourite sci-fi fantasy show that has a darkness to it is Chocky. I just love it.



Mentioned before methinks (or no, probably in British SF thread as with this one I was thinking more about newer series), but Blake's 7 is another sort of children's one one that can be really dark.




Edited by Logan - September 10 2017 at 17:01

Sorry if I now seem to be talking to myself. But there's a new SF series that I will be interested in seeing called Electric Dreams which is based on Philip K. Dick. I love Philip K. Dick, along with Kurt Vonnegut, he's a particular favourite author of mine in the "fantastic" genre. It seems that it's already showing in the UK, but in Canada we get it on Space starting on November 12.

I see it's titled Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, I first heard about it the other day in a space commercial (when watching the premiere of Star Trek's Discovery).



Steve Buscemi, yeah!

Looking forward to Stranger Things 2 and is there going to be a Westworld 2....?

So I marathoned Stranger Things season 2 with my daughter and son yesterday, anyone else finish watching it? I'm itching to do some spoilery talk....



EDIT: Mind you, for spoilery talk it would be better to have a thread on Stranger Things marked as a Stranger Things SPOILERS thread, but won't bother if there's not much interest in this forum.

Edited by Logan - October 28 2017 at 11:45

Still watching Stranger Things on Netflix.........

Stranger Things is the greatest sensation since well, most things, i objectivly love it and subjectivly is amazed by its scope, humor and story building.

Don't know Falling Water.

For a second I thought you were talking about The Invaders -- one of my faves from the 60s. Intruders looks great (I see it also features John Simm who played the Master in Doctor Who and was in the original British version of Life on Mars). Speaking of the Master, I'm looking forward to the Doctor Who Christmas special. While not the darkest thing out there, I feel that Capaldi's turn has been sufficiently dark to mention in this topic (especially in, as I'm sure I've said before, Heaven Sent).

Incidentally, I really love Black Mirror. There aren't that many episodes (13 so far and another six coming) so I found it less daunting to approach than something such as, say, Game of Thrones, which has lasted for 67 episodes and where I came late to the party (and GoT working as a serial and not an anthology series like Black Mirror). Well, when I discovered Black Mirror, they still only had six or seven episodes. White Bear and White Christmas are the two episodes I seem to return to the most, but I've watched all of them multiple times. I'm a fan of the show creator, Charlie Brooker, and really love his five episode zombie meets Big Brother miniseries, Dead Set (total runtime is only 141 minutes, so for those looking for a short series, it runs movie length).   I'm glad they added it to our Netflix though I'd already seen it. I know that I'm yakking on and on, but another British apocalyptic mini series I liked is The Last Train (here in Canada it was aired as Cruel Earth).

As for Westworld's season 2, I don't want to speculate too much and am avoiding reading speculation, but I do hope we might get considerably more of Anthony Hopkins' character either as the original or as a host (I suspected that Ford was building a copy of himself). He was so brilliant in the show, I thought. And I think it'll focus on the host uprising. It will be interesting as they explore notions of sapience and as more of the hosts become aware of their nature and if/ how much autonomy develops.

EDIT: Was just thinking about what I said about Hopkin's character (Ford). Doing so might cheapen his departure (rather like Clara coming back in Doctor Who, and then the situation with Bill from Doctor Who). Flashbacks/ memories of Ford would work though, and maybe a little more....

Edited by Logan - December 07 2017 at 15:10

I found this Stranger Things dub by Bad Lip Reading very amusing:



EDIT: Should mention that their other stuff such as the Star Wars dubs and songs are hilarious, imo, too.

Edited by Logan - December 11 2017 at 21:58

Atavachron wrote: I found Stranger Things a little Spielbergy but it is definitely watchable.  Much preferred WW.

It is quite a lot Spielbergy I would say as they referenced works by him quite a bit and were very inspired by him (E.T. obviously and Close Encounters of the Third Kind). They also make references to other films of the time, but the makers have mentioned the particular influence of Spielberg. That nostalgic homage factor is part of it charm. I love Stranger Things, but Westworld's season two has been the one I've been most excited about. I adore Westoworld. It's my favourite SF serial to come out since Channel 4's Utopia and is one of my "all-time" favourite shows.

EDIT: fixed broken link to Utopia trailer (it can be one helluva disturbing and violent show -- not everyone could stomach it).

Edited by Logan - December 11 2017 at 22:36