Television

Life After People. One of the last amazing productions of the History Channel as-was, before it became all Ice-Road Truckers, Ancient Aliens and fucking Pawn Stars.

It's just the speculative history of all of what humanity would leave behind if, for some reason, every human disappeared in a single day. With experts in preservation, ecology, geosciences, history and infrastructural engineering, it asks: What are the cascading effects of a worldwide technological civilisation? And how long would it take for everything we have built to be buried in the dusts of time? Look on, ye mighty, and despair.

Danger 5

South Australian tv show that is a “what if Charlie’s angels tried to kill hitler” presented as a bad Spanish soap opera from the 70’s in the first season and a shitty action drama from the 80’s in the second.

Deliciously bizarre, infinitely quotable, phenomenal soundtrack, very hard to explain. Think power rangers levels of drama with tastefully absurd offensive elements (blackface, misogyny, nazis) played for perfect comedic effect. Seriously one of a kind show.

Both seasons are posted as one 6hr video on YouTube. - https://youtu.be/vFzCQcHglFA

Utopia (2020)

Technically a remake of the 2013 UK show of the same name, but I had never seen or heard of it - so I went into the US version blind and I absolutely loved it.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016)

Similar to the above, a UK TV show preceded this one; both based on a Douglas Adam’s (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) novel series.

Snuff Box. Only 6 episodes but infinitely quotable. The theme song also fucking slaps. It’s the only show's theme song I actually occasionally listen to.

Obscure because it comes from my country but

Kim’s convenience is an amazing show. Like fucking incredible! Netflix had a the diffusion right for a time but I don’t know if they have it anymore, exactly like the next suggestion (this one is in French)

Série Noire where two writers tried to write a crime story and get embroiled with the … gay mafia. Personally I prefer Les invincibles

Not obsucure (still consider one of the pioneers in New Waves documentaries) but I cannot help myself, Pierre Perrault’s Shimmering Beast and Pour la Suite du Monde (for the next world, the link have English subtitles) where he investigates what it is to be Québécois, to be human in the modernity

Monkey Dust (2003). It was a very dark animated comedy series on BBC3.

It isn't easy to find as it was very dark (joking about terrorism etc.) and isn't in streaming services. But it was great satire and had many memorable characters.

The producer died in a car crash which did for the show.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Dust

Man Seeking Woman, Sureal Romantic Comedy with eric andre and jay baruchel, hitlers still alive, cupid is real, and other weird sht is just super casually accepted

Review, Andy Daly Comedy Central show, starts with a man reviewing normal things, goes off the rails and breaks the 4th wall with the reviewers life going to sht because he keeps reviewing fked up things, its one of the funniest shows I've seen, hard to explain, it just spirals

Animals, Animated Show about animals with humans issues, gets really dark, has some funny ass moments, has an asap ferg and rocky cameo as a bodega cat music video, it like makes me uncomfortable in a good way

Metalocalypse which has probably one of the best first episodes of all time.

And Corporate

The line 'I think I lost some weight because my belt doesn't fit around my neck like it used to' had me rolling.

Corner Gas is a pretty good Canadian sitcom. It's got a number of seasons and then a animated continuation that was made during covid.

Its not the best sitcom, but has good dry humor and a somewhat unique setting for a sitcom.

The Patriot on prime. It's the greatest show nobody's watched, no bad episodes. Acting, script and production values are top notch. Cancelled after 2 seasons...

Mr Robot. It did well but I don't know anyone that's seen it.

Damn this thread about to make my "Watch Later" list twice as long

Farscape is a classic

I think my top pick has to be Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot. I gather it's pretty well known in Germany, but in the US pretty much no one has heard of it.

It's a sci-fi comedy, based loosely on The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem, who is one of my favorite authors. The first season was all web episodes made on a shoestring budget; the spaceship is just the main actor's apartment for the interior, and a coffee press for the exterior. There's also a lot of use of puppets and amusing costumes. It's just incredibly creative. The stories involve things like Tichy's navigation system malfunctioning, so he accelerates out of control around a gravitational anomaly and starts experiencing time slips. Which could be kind of convenient, because fixing the navigation is a two-person task, but the first time his future self asks for his help he thinks it's a dream, and the second time he knows it's real but won't help because if they actually got it fixed then obviously his future self wouldn't still be coming back in time to get his help, so what's the point? etc. I know Lem isn't the best-known sci fi writer these days, but it's criminal that this show hasn't gotten more attention.

nobody has probably heard of it but capitol critters was awesome :(

Mission Hill. It was 90s era animated sitcom that was taken off the air before the first season finished, resulting in the last few episodes never getting animated.

Today it stands as a really engaging period piece, and if you ever wanted to see Spongebob (Tom Kenny) as a flamboyant gay man or a violent teenage ne'er-do-well it's well worth the seven or so episodes.

Maybe not super obscure and more my wife’s suggestion than mine (though I also enjoyed it), but Merlin (2008) was a great show that unfortunately had a low budget for the first couple seasons and got cut short with very little warning to the directors at the end, but it’s still a great family friendly fantasy show. It’s my wife’s all-time favourite TV show, and while it’s not mine (I’d probably say Doctor Who for me), I totally get it. It’s very entertaining.

Whites

Mr Show with Bob and David

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Show_with_Bob_and_David

Lexx is one of the best science fiction shows. Season 2 is peak.

The Magicians (2016): It often gets pitched as "Hogwarts for adults" because it features a magic college/university, but honestly that is just the initial backdrop and a massive undersell.

It is the rare show where the creators were seemingly handed a blank cheque to be as creative as they want to be, and they make full use of that in more ways than I can list here (but which definitely includes both the magic system itself, and the hilarious nonchalance towards the consequences of magic being a reality); yet all the while, they stay true and fiercely loyal to their characters, who are all deeply flawed, but which you can't help but want to see succeed; plus they managed to write genuinely great humor.

The best summary of the show comes from one of the characters themselves: "Magic doesn't come from talent. It comes from pain."

Be warned: the first few episodes, and possibly the first season, are the weakest and roughest of the bunch, which probably really hampered viewership. They do still manage to find their own tone, but it's nothing compared to seasons 3-5.