The show had some of the best character arcs I've ever seen.

Flint's arc was something else I've ever seen on the screen and portrayed brilliantly.

I love the X-Files... there are great "creature of the week" episodes, there tons of great mytharc episodes. But man this show wanted to have its cake and eat it too. It wanted to be a never-ending serial drama, but it also built itself around the strange strange occurrence of Mulder’s sister’s abduction that demanded some satisfying answer. If it had limited itself to 5 or 6 seasons with an actual conclusion, it would be perfect. But as evidence by this thread, it just tapered off towards the end. It just kept feeding mystery boxes and never giving satisfying answers, just adding more and more.

Other good ones:

Friends

Big Bang Theory - I love that Kaley Cuoco knows all the words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2oIhEIco2c

Scribble down what episode you are up to and watch it later on. I forget all the time when I watch too many things.

Also, those shows that have recaps are fantastic sometimes!

I see! Don’t have any history with them other than that song so I didn’t dig too deep!

Perfect fit for the show though.

Once Reynolds learned to lean into being typecast his popularity sky rocketed.

I love the opening song for Ted Lasso. Apparently Jason Sudeikis and Marcus Mumford are friends IRL.

It didn't really click for me until Season 2. But now it's one of my favourite shows ever.

I never liked Seinfeld and especially disliked Costanza, but I do have to admit that Jason Alexander is a genuinely talented actor. He has been superb in everything else I have seen him in.

Fringe is fantastic and John Noble was horribly under-recognized for awards for that show.

Plus: Anna Torv.

MITTENS!

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> Does his character improve throughout?

Hell yeah he does, I didn't like him in the beginning either. But by the end, he was my favourite.

The first season of The Expanse is difficult for many people and even though I only needed a couple episode, I can understand why.
As someone else already said, seasons 2 & 3 are absolutely phenomenal though. Some of the best TV I've ever seen.

Season 4 is not bad either, but not as great as the previous two. Seasons 5/6 are still good compared to other shows, but overall a bit disappointing I would say.

Ryan Reynolds? Typecasted!?

Noooooo...

Gay lover ending?

Bro, where were you from S2 onward?

He’s not a psychopath, he just has a “ferocious temper.”

I kind of agree- Luke Arnold was great, but absolutely all his best scenes were opposite Flint, whereas Flint got a lot of great scenes without Silver.

Ryan Reynolds was offered the role of Xander on Buffy. He turned it down because he didn’t want to get typecast. I think things turned out okay for him though.

In a filthy cardboard box with a hole cut out so he could watch a TV blaring at full blast, just like his father made him live in as a child. Loved this show for the month it was on.

Gordon Ramsey?

I did rewatch the series recently, and I'd say a lot of it holds up really well.

This seems to be an unpopular opinion, but I really enjoyed the spooky government covering up aliens main arc of the story, up to a point. Right up until the movie comes out actually. After that it starts to trundle badly and doesn't really go anywhere interesting.

That would be my recommendation in fact. Watch straight through up to (and including) the movie. From that point on, just pick and choose the good stand alone episodes, of which there are still many.

One of my favorite shows of all time. Only the first four episodes were aired during it's original run. The final four weren't aired until six years later, on a network nobody watched.

> Does his character improve throughout?

Yes, everything about the Expanse gets better through the first season. Season 2 and 3 is where it peaked.

The show went to shit when it moved to Amazon (s4,5 and 6).

Yeah, he was hired for his muscles. Not his acting skills.