For instance, I watched Brave New World in 2020. It was on Peacock. One of their early releases. It was cancelled after one season. It wasn't bad, but I feel like it had Apple TV written all over it now.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

There are a number of network tv shows that could do a lot better if they were under a premium network and didn't have their hands tied, storywise.

Someone already mentioned Revolution, which was the first thing I thought of. So I'll go with another one that came out around the same time that seriously needed to be somewhere where it could be more mature; Under the Dome.

The one that sticks out to me the most is not a TV show, but the two adaptations of the "The Stand". That should never have been produced by a network. It needed the freedom to go dark when necessary.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 2 points 5 days ago

Under the Dome very nearly transcended its shittyness, but only with some outside context.

It wouldn't be any fun to re-watch I expect, but at the time it was live, the weekly Reddit discussion threads trying to predict the next atrociously dumb stunt the writers would pull (and then somehow still being surprised when they came up with something even worse) made it worthwhile.

It was for sure some hot garbage though, the ham-fisted Microsoft Surface product placement was a particular "highlight", but just bad in general.