u/pjhawksr

Every other service has its prestige tentpole. Prime keeps winning with stuff that looked like a hard pass on the thumbnail and then turned out great. The Boys was that for me, I ignored it for two seasons assuming it was edgy superhero stuff for the sake of it, and it turned out to be one of the sharpest shows on TV. Fallout too, video game show, zero expectations, one of the best things I watched that year. So what's yours, the Prime show you almost didn't click on that ended up being a favorite? Bonus points for the deep cuts nobody talks about, I keep hearing Patriot and I still haven't started it.

Everyone says "it gets good, just push through" but nobody ever tells you where. So let's actually name the episode. For me it was The Americans, season 2 episode 1. Season 1 was fine, competent spy stuff, and I nearly quit twice. Then season 2 opens and it turns into a show about a marriage that occasionally has spies in it, and I watched the rest in about a month. Also curious about the ones where you pushed through and it never clicked. I made it through the Battlestar Galactica miniseries and a handful of season 1 episodes and it never got its hooks in, and I still hear about it constantly.

For me it was Andor. A friend brought it up repeatedly for two years and I kept ignoring him because I assumed it was the same quality everything else with the Star Wars name on it had become. Finally watched it and wow. It's not even really a Star Wars show. It's just a great show that happens to be set there. Now I'm the one talking to people about it. Also curious about the reverse, the show someone swore by that did nothing for you when you finally got to it.

I see posts about how peak TV is over and everything's getting canceled. Maybe. But I remember when August meant reruns and whatever the networks were burning off before fall. Now it's one of the most stacked weeks of the year and nobody's even calling it unusual. What else are you watching right now that would've been a fall flagship ten years ago?