For me, its Xena.

Few years back, height of covid epidemic, was living in homeless shelters. Overcrowded slums, everyone miserable, yelling, screaming, fights, abuse, rage. At one point, could feel the anger building in me. Powerless, a victim, desire for retribution. What good was trying to be better person, when all it meant was people walking over me.

Started rewatching xena, hadn’t in years. Big message of the show: when surrounded by hate, violence, it’s tempting to give in, to not be a victim. But you have a choice, to not continue the cycle, to make a better world. I so needed to hear that message at that time in my life.

What tv show helped you?

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The Good Place.

That show is so good! But the ending fucked me up for like a week.

Also, how are you watching Xena? I used to love that show when I was a kid!

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One of the best-written series finales I’ve seen in a long time, but I know, that scene with the wave in the ocean, so bittersweet.

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Have an external hard drive filled with tv shows, been collecting for years. Most via torrents.

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The way to go these days. Arrr!

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That is my answer too! The ending is the only media I’ve ever seen that comes close to my own philosophy/beliefs about the afterlife. I think about the different philosophies the show presented all the time, and especially wonder “how many points would I get/lose if I do this” lol

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Oddly enough the good place and Bojack horseman were ending around the same week, so I watched both finales back to back and I assumed I’d be sad after Bojack but the good place is what really made me an emotional mess. It was so good. Also I suggest the podcast. Host by marc Evan jackson(he plays Shawn) he is so good as a podcast host that I feel like he needs to do so more often.

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With Bojack, the last episode was a nice ending that wasn’t a full ending for the characters, rather a catharsis. The second-to-last episode gave me existential dread I haven’t felt before or since.

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Yeah, I ugly cried for a good 30 minutes from the end of The Good Place. It was excellent but it hit me really hard.

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Currently rewatching the Good Place (mid season 2). So good.

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The Bermaga-Era Star Treks (TNG-ENT). For better or worse, they were some of the best television made in that time, and a guiding light for morality, ethics, and hope for what the best of humanity can be. Eventually…

Ya know, after we nearly annihilate ourselves in a few decades in WWIII, then invent warp drive, get visited by aliens, and decide to form a democratic socialist world government that puts the worst mistakes of humanity behind us so that we can finally begin exploring the stars.

It doesn’t get mentioned much outside that one movie, but all that has to happen first before humanity gets over its collective bullshit. I’ll probably be dead by then, though.

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All of the Star Trek show, especially TNG, Voyager and Emterprise, because I’ve watched them so many times when I was a kid at my grandparent’s house.

I was fascinated by the various captains. They were always so smart, capable, full of resources, curious, charismatic and generally great leaders, mostly coherent with their morals. They were basically badass scientist explorers and I identified so much with them without even realizing it.

Now whenever I find myself in any leadership position, I ask myself what they would do. I could choose to be logical and intellectual like Picard, empathetic like Janeway or brave like Archer. This shaped me more than I could ever imagine.

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That’s weird, I think of Janeway as the least empathetic captain. She denied the doctor’s humanity against his will, and gave 7/9 humanity by force without trying to understand its own perspective.

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Stargate SG-1

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Indeed.

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Same. This show had such a massive impact on the way I think and feel that I can still see the effects 20 years later.

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Stargate reminds us that we are all just bumbling, falliable humans just trying to survive, learn, and grow in a mysterious and sometimes frightning universe full of evil parasitic aliens.

Also that the very young do not always do as they are told.

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Dark really sucks me into a dark damp place that is just really calming when I’m feeling down.

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Dark really sucks me into a dark damp place

Very few places are darker or damper than Winden!

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Hands down, best show on Netflix.

If I had to pick three things in my life to experience for the first time again Dark would be in the top three.

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Yea, I love rain movies and on the second episode of dark I was like, oh is this whole place just raining all the time? I love it. Just started it this week, coincidentally, I’m only on episode 5

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You’re in for quite a ride.

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