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List of Best Rated TV Series as voted by the Fediverse
Cowboy bebop is awesome.
RWBY's OST has no business being as good as it is.
The Mandalorian OST is great too.
Also a mention for One Punch Man OST, specifically Genos's theme, my man looks like a total badass and his theme really complements the fights right up until he lets his guard down and gets flattened every fucking time.
Mr. ROBOT and Westworld have some amazing scores aside from the cover versions they provide.
The various versions of paint it black are fucking fantastic.
Mr Robot's soundtrack is awesome, I remember the agonizing years waiting for the final volume to come out through all the red tape
Absolutely worth it
Twin Peaks. Lots of mood. The revival had several musical guests, too.
Angelo Badalamenti is super talented 🎶
God knows I've had some rough fucking years!
I always listen through the Adventure Time ending. The only thing that ruins it is the production company messages at the end that cut the song off abrubtly.
You can find the complete version of adventure time's ending song. It's called island song :)
Scrubs
I liked the ukulele songs about all the states.
Battlestar Galactica! All of the themes for the various characters fit really well, and the taiko-style drums during space battles, which at first might seem stylistically a bit strange, work amazingly well to amp up the sense of urgency.
I loved their version of "All Along the Watchtower"
It’s old but for a long time The Wonder Years supposedly couldn’t be released on home video because there were so many music licenses to get clearance for.
I wish they kept doing shows like that. Every ten years, try to make a decent, smart, earnest show about teenagers living twenty years prior.
Freaks and Geeks
The Taskmaster intro always hypes me up for every episode
Also the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme could not fit any more perfectly. To this day every time I see the static noise before any HBO show I expect to hear "bum Bum BUM daaaaaaah..."
That's Alex Horne's band, "The Horne Section" in case you weren't aware
The theme itself is ‘Frolic’ by Luciano Michelini, composed in 1974 for the film ‘La bellissima estate’ and used since then in some advertisements, in which Larry David had heard it. ‘Curb’ generally uses several old ‘production music’ pieces, i.e. those from a music library for films, tv and such. ‘It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ also does this.
WKRP in Cincinnati
I really like the theme song and musical setting of Firefly. I'm not as hyped about the story now as I once was, but the music is still great.
Here’s what I think of that
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
FLCL season 1
Puella Magi Madoka Magicka
Severance was pretty solid
+1 for FLCL. The Pillows rock.
Ride on shooting star
Samurai Champloo has a good soundtrack.
Exactly
Cliff Martinez does pretty good soundtracks, they even play on ambient radio stations sometimes. I remember his name ever since Solaris.
Black Sails
Never skipping that intro.
I like shows that consequently and (almost) exclusively use actual songs made by real* artists. I remember Orange Is The New Black doing this. And The Wire. Russian Doll. Borat. The list is long.
I prefer shows that do not have a constant mood-setting musical soundtrack.
* a little debatable if their only known the track is the one from the show
The criminally underrated Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles had some absolutely gorgeous music. As an example, I think “Sarah Connor’s Theme” is achingly beautiful: https://youtu.be/sJk8BjEkmx0
Really fit the series, too which, while not being short of wit and action, always had a seriously melancholy undercurrent.
Probably Michael Giacchino's score for the show Lost. I felt like I was watching a movie. If we're talking about anime, then Evan Call's score for Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
Utopia (the original british series) has a fucking amazing score.
It wasn't a great show but the anime Kubikiri Cycle had a very interesting soundtrack, composed by Yuki Kajiura. Some examples:
Old-fashioned Fairy Tale (this one features her own language)
Kajiura Yuki always was one great compositor. I think she really nailer Tsubasa Chronicles.
Generally the only TV show I ever really think about the music for is Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Sick intro theme, and my all time favorite episode of anything is Once More, With Feeling, the musical episode.
White Lotus. The opening themes are all incredible, but all the background music perfectly sets the tone in every scene. Most of it is done by Cristobal, who apparently has had "creative differences" with the show's creator for the show's first three seasons. He's had enough arguing and won't be returning for the fourth season, which is honestly enough to make me skip it despite liking the show.
Max Richter and his score for The Leftovers is great.
Second someone else mention Westworld, which is the same composer as GoT: Ramin Djawadi
There's others I very much enjoy but these two are worth commenting
RWBY has an absolutely beastly original soundtrack