For example, The Americans being marketed as a cold-war era spy drama/thriller but actually being more of a character study or Buffy the Vampire Slayer being reduced to a cheesy teen drama but actually being full of metaphors.
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Not sure how the Good Place was marketed but I found it one of the best ruminations in pop culture on what it means to live well.
Bojack Horseman
Adventure Time. It’s packaged like a kids show but gets into all sorts of philosophy on death and parallel dimension shenanigans.
Fringe. It seems like a monster-of-the-week show but has two deep and ongoing long burn plots, and both get to reach their end, if a bit rushed.
Serial Experiments Lain and Ergo Proxy.
Both shows pretty much require a degree in psychology and philosophy to really get them. Or you can just watch a bunch of youtube analysis videos to break them down. But both shows left me utterly lost and confused on my first watch.
DS9 - a deep study of war and chaos
Babylon 5 - a tale fit for Rome
I am really looking forward to watching all of B5 but I keep kinda hoping someone will redo those mid 90s effects. I remember watching as a kid when it came out and the effects were rough then.
I doubt that’ll happen anytime soon tbh, but there is a very crisp 4:3 HD release out there somewhere which made it much easier to watch for me (none of that fake 16:9 stretch/crop). The effects are rough, but easy to ignore. Most of the important bits are character-driven anyway, which is why the show still holds up so well.
Yeah the 4:3 works better for the live action as well. It was shot in 16:9 but framed for 4:3 tv broadcast so everything looks so packed into the center on widescreen.
