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The Twilight Zone - (1957 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052520/
https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/the-twilight-zone-classic/

A collection of separate short stories of various styles.



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The Leftovers - (2014 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2699128/
https://www.hbo.com/the-leftovers

2% of the global population disappears and everything continues on as usual probably.

Mediocre at best. Maybe something will happen later, but they sure as shit don't get anywhere near to some point. It's just a drama that stretches a premise.



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Preacher - (2016 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/
https://uk.amc.com/series/preacher

A kickass preacher is infected with a power, and for some reason there's a vampire.

Maybe it has potential, but it's scatterbrained and kept sliding into slow moody boringness.



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Constantine (2014 - 2015) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3489184/
https://www.nbc.com/constantine

A man attains mystical powers originally for selfish reasons, but they taint with a life fraught with danger and demons.

Not a bad show, but the lead character's personality isn't attracting, and there's the old celestial stick-up-the-ass personality in another. The lead female is hot. Hotty hot hot.

This was cancelled after one season. Back in the 90s this show would have done well, but I'm guessing this genre has alternately been well-poisoned or saturated. This show has too much it has to be better than to catch enough attention to survive. I think that it's magic-fantasy was competing with an extraordinarily-strong superhero-fantasy genre.



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Atheism - A Rough History of Disbelief (2004) image

Entertainment, Intelligence > Atheism >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429323/
(on pbs.org)

These are old notes from earlier short videos, which were removed and which I don't have.

This will get updated if and when I re-watch the proper thing.



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