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SB Recommends Things to Watch
We at selectbutton watch videos, sometimes. These pages collect the videos we find particularly worth watching, with comments from various members of the SB community on why exactly one might want to watch them.
This could become a very busy page.
Select Movies
Alien
Drive
Heat
Repo Man
RoboCop
The Thing
Select Shows
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Æon Flux
Battlestar Galactica
Better Off Ted
Black Mirror
Brass Eye
Bruiser
Catfish: The TV Show
Deadwood
Deal or No Deal
Empire
Fargo
I enjoyed the first season of Fargo a bunch because its just good detective thriller. The whole Cohen Brothers Thing they try to pull off is mostly regarded to fragrances of triviality in the air, but definitely not in the movie's level.
Fargo is weird, it's like watching somebody's obsessive Cohen bros tropes remix fanfiction thing. And they're a little too into the idea of Anton Chigur being a literal supernatural entity. But Martin Freeman = psychopath is a good thing to be getting across to the viewing public. I got a huge crush on the Season 1 cop lady though, hate when that shit happens, why I'm never watching the X-Files. I don't got time for that nonsense.
True. I forgot how some of the villain's demonstrations of control are indeed borderline-supernatural. It's pretty nuts. But in the end it comes across as being its own thing to me, with an own personality of sorts, so I'm cool with it.
Frisky Dingo
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Hannibal
Invader Zim
a much, much better show than its legions of insufferable teen fangirls and Hot Topic products might lead you to believe.
The fact that Jhonen Vasquez (aided by TV's Frank Coniff, among others) had a kid's cartoon show on nickelodeon still boggles my mind (JTHM was both cathartic and soothing during my early, lonely high school years).
it's no rocko's modern life but I remember it being OK
Kids in the Hall
Lexx
Lois and Clark
Majisuka Gakuen
Master of None
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Mr. Robot
Mr. Show
One Punch Man
Police Squad
Sapphire and Steel
Silicon Valley
Spaced
Stella
Sukeban Deka (Delinquent Girl Detective)
Twin Peaks
That Mitchell and Webb Look
The Avengers
The Kingdom
The Knick
The Prisoner
The Sorpranos
The Tribe
The Wire
The X-Files
VR.5
Wander Over Yonder
Select Backwoods Canadiana
Fishing with John
Trailer Park Boys
The Red Green Show
Williams Street / Ghost Planet
PFFR
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