Television

Better Off Ted

Haven't seen these mentioned yet:

Fringe

Killjoys

Patriot. On Amazon prime. Dark comedy. CIA and government ineptitude.

4400, but it was a wierd hybrid of superpower humans and dystopian future+ time travelling of mankind, basically in the future the wealthy/aristocratic were living in prisitne cities while everything was a version madmax and judge dredd future. threshold was another one. the "rich people" found out about the scientist going back in tiem to prevent this future, so they sent thier own agents to the past to stop it.

• Odyssey 5 (Only lasted a season, but damn...)

• Boardwalk Empire (for some reason the least talked about and most forgotten HBO show)

• Into the Badlands (Deserved a longer life. Great martial arts action in a post-apocalypse)

• First Wave (Nostrodamus, Conspiracy theories and the first wave of an secret Alien invasion)

• Seven Days (The younger lapaglia brother jumps back in time 7 days to prevent various threats)

• Sense8 (strangers from all over the world find themselves linked mentally for some reason)

Being Erica

Forever Knight

La femme Nikita (Peta Wilson version)

Space above and Beyond

Sliders

Doraleus and Associates (web series)

Dr Horribles Singalong Blog (is this okay for this list?)

Due South

Celebrity Deathmatch

Ask a Ninja (early YouTube channel)

If you like Severence, you really need to see Dollhouse. Only 2 seasons, complete story. Slow start, but it doesn't go where you expect, it's a complete story, and Dichen Lachman (Gemma Scout) plays basically the same role.

Danger 5. Greatest Australian comedy of all time. https://youtu.be/0Z09bNgSeMI

The Leftovers - 2% of the worlds population just vanishes. Enough to freak people out but not cause the complete collapse of civilization.

The Endgame - High class criminal commits crimes by way of getting herself arrested. There's only 1 season. Ignore the last ~10 minutes of the last episode and the story wraps up fine.

Counterpart - Mid-level bureaucrat finds out there's a doorway to a parallel dimension with whom the world's been in a secret cold war

Raised by Wolves. It was killed by HBO around the time of the discovery merger thing, but was a fully written (creator originally wrote it as a book, and then made it into a screenplay) and unique show. Produced by and has some directing from Ridley Scott.

The show follows two androids, Mother and Father, raising a human child alone on a desolate planet after fleeing a dying earth controlled by hi-tech zealots. This new home might be far more related to them than they realize, and maybe not always so desolate. It blends mysticism and sci-fi in a really fun way, and I will never not be angry I don't get to see how it ends.

Kim's Convenience

Halt and Catch Fire

Galavant

Mighty boosh

Red dwarf

Misfits

I guess in this case obscure differs a lot geographically, but I definitely know places where they are almost completely unknown.

The Patriot on amazon is one of my favourite tv shows of all time. Tragically cancelled but each episode is outstanding. Nobody's seen it!

These don’t seem obscure to me but most folks I know have never heard of them:

What We Do in the Shadows

Sealab 2021

Parks and Rec

Party Down

Freaks and Geeks

Venture Bros

I always mention this one, but The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

It's got Bruce Campbell in it (Army of darkness) And he plays a cowboy as the lead character where he goes on wacky steampunk-filled hijinks and adventures through the Old West.

it came out in the early 90s and you can watch it for free on tubiTV.

Fun fact, a lot of the old timey western movies used a particular set and the Adventures of Brisco County Jr. was the last show to use that set.

When they finished it was torn down.

Another fun fact, you've heard the theme song.

It's now used in the Olympics when America plays.

It's a fucking amazing show.

Mr Inbetween

Because I've never met anyone else who ever watched it and I haven't been able to pirate it:

Special Unit 2

An action/comedy police procedural about a unit of the Chicago PD that manages cryptids (called "Links" in the show). A little bit like a terrestrial MIB.

Reaper was a really brilliant, easy-watching action/comedy show akin to Chuck. It's centered around a young man whose family has sold his soul to the devil, and now he must fulfill the contract by hunting down souls that have escaped from hell.

It features the typical "monster of the week" premise, along with a longer story arc across the seasons and has a rather fun mythology and world building. Ray Wise puts in a phenomenal performance as the devil, and I remember the show having a pretty genuine and surprisingly wholesome sense of humour.

Sadly its momentum got interrupted by the writers strike, and its second season was shortened and then cancelled. I still highly recommend it.

• Garth Marenghi's Dark Place
• The Armando Iannucci Shows
• The Adam & Joe Show

Lexx, a show about a giant dragonfly spaceship that destroys planets and the creepy cowardly idiot who somehow lucked into becoming the single person in the two universes that it obeys. And an undead assassin-warrior-poet. And a woman who survived a botched "love slave" transformation. And a weird robot head.

It's outrageously strange and strangely horny and hornily gross. Highly recommend if you like weird TV.

Corner Gas, brilliant comedy about a tiny Saskatchewan town set around a gas station that is connected to a diner and the oddball people that live there.

You'll come for the quaint setting, stay for the Jackass screaming Oscar.

Pushing Daisies

Wonderfalls

You're The Worst

-- A dark comedy / romantic comedy that centers on two toxic, self-destructive people who fall in love and attempt a relationship. --

Absolutely amazing TV show by Stephen Falk. Criminally underrated. It is my favorite show of all time. It should be available to stream on Hulu, otherwise pirating it may be the only way to watch it.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3228420/

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

-- A bright, wonderful and adorable show (animated by Dreamworks) that follows 13-year-old Kipo navigating a post-apocalyptic world full of evolved animals with human-level intelligence, and making friends along the way. --

This is a family-friendly show that took me about 7 episodes to get hooked. I am so glad I stuck with it! Made by Radford Sechrist and Bill Wolkoff. It's on Netflix. It also had a small DVD release that may be difficult to find.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10482560/

Dead Like Me

It was pretty much all over the place but I liked the tone and premise. IMO, I really doubt anyone would've been able to make that kind of story work any more than the original folks did but yeah. I don't think the writing was that good but I liked the cast. That alone would've sold me. Also maybe throw in the fact that I found the show while I was kind of starting out on my own during college and so in ways, I related to the main person. Yada yada yada.

Comrade Detective

Fictional 1980s Romanian buddy-cop propaganda tv show promoting Soviet communism - filmed in 2017. Dubbed into English with voices including:

Channing Tatum Joseph Gordon-Levitt Nick Offerman Jenny Slate Jason Mantzoukas John DiMaggio

It’s fucking amazing