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The discussion on Utopia made me think. There must have been loads of other mini-series over the years that were well regarded but passed me by. Anyone have any recommendations?
I'll start the ball rolling with a couple:
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Room ]The Lost Room[/url]. Great little slice of contemporary weirdness.
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_%28TV_serial%29 ]Ultraviolet[/url]. Late 90s vampire romp, I remember loving it at the time though TBH I've not seen it in forever. I should revisit it really.
What have you got?
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I thought you lot just closed them....
Generation kill - best mini-series out there. Marines in Afghan sing avril lavine
I still think Spaced is the best mini-series ever.....
+1 Generation Kill.
Can Mods start threads?I thought you lot just closed them....
We can delete posts too. And accounts, come to that. Yell if you want a demo.
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_Above_and_Beyond ]Space Above and Beyond[/url]
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_Storeys_High ]15 Stories High[/url]
I enjoyed Torchwood miracle day. BARROWMAN!
I still think Spaced is the best mini-series ever.....
Not really a 'mini-series,' so much as the British idea of a series; there's two of them. Could argue that Red Dwarf was a mini-series, for instance. I really should have defined my terms better, I'm talking about things that were only ever intended to be a self-contained handful of episodes.
Pedantry aside though, agreed, Spaced is amazeballs.
I really enjoyed Awake and The Confession was alright for a mini mini series - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Confession_(TV_series)
Blimey, give 'em a uniform.... 😉
Our friends in the North was good.
Secret State was ace
I am looking forward to Black MIrror
Hatfields and mccoys
The fear
This is England '86
Do these count?
Also The Trip and Dead Set.
Might watch generation kill again, we'll reminded.
Band of brothers? Can I count that as it was ace.
Hooked on The Dir****er Dynasty many many years ago.
The Last Train.
If you're a Frank Herbert fan the two mini series (Dune and Children of Dune) made were pretty good, fairly true to the books as well. Shame they never made any more (also start James McAvoy before he got all famous n'that).
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Darkness ]Edge of Darkness.[/url]
One of the best things on the telly, ever.
Out on DVD, well worth picking up.
Bit of a push to call Band of Brothers or Generation Kill underrated tbh!
I'm quite fond of Studio 60 - and of course there's Wild Palms.
Red Riding was pretty good.
Red Velvet-- set in a decrepit Bristol nightclub .... have not been able to track it down 🙁
Edge of Darkness +1
a BBC3 one called The Fades - caught the eye a while back
FireFly/Serenity
Good point about BoB or the pacific, hardly underrated but generation kill isn't so
Deadhead was weird and interesting, cant remember too much else about it tho and I dont think it was ever repeated
Taken (the Alien one, Speilbergs mini series)
first series of misfits.
it went downhill after that.
I enjoyed Shadow Line aired on the Beeb last year I think.
An Aussie series called Blue Murder in the 90s (maybe early 2000s) was amazing. Still got it all on VHS.
+1 for Generation Kill
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362192/ ]State of Play[/url]
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374463/ ]The Pacific[/url]
I agree with the OP. Ultraviolet was fantastic.
Bought the box set a couple of years back. Still great watching second time round.
Oooh yeah Taken was fab 🙂
More votes for Generation Kill and Firefly/Serenity. Some of my favourite tv.
The State Within (Political thriller mini-series)
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Shogun. Not really underrated, but quite old and easy to overlook.
And is also a mighty fine book.
The original Edge of Darkness +1, memorable to this day. Must rewatch.
the BBC Comedy "Outlaws" was only 1 short series, but it's a cracking little show.
Southland.
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Heroics ]No Heroics Wiki[/url]
No Heroics, genuinely funny and on ITV2, who'd have thought. Didn't get recommissioned though.
To be fair Edge of Darkness was very well rated in its day, so probably doesn't qualify in this thread.
+1 for State of Play and Shadow Line.
I'm enjoying Utopia and The Following atm
15 Stories High
I remember this from when I was younger, and have recently been rewatching it on Netflix. Fantastic series.
I'd probably also add in 'The Street'.
I bought Underbelly on boxset cos I missed a lot of episodes on FX the cable channel a few years back, it an Aussie drug crime family thing.
I have secret state on my V+ box (might watch that as I'm laid up With broken ankle)
A lot of them BBC northern dramas are good, playing the field, the street, etc etc, always a similar group of actors but the stories are always quite real.
Traffik was excellent, also enjoyed Murder One
The Corner - stunning and includes added Cool Lester Smooth.
Generation Kill is pretty fine, but it is also the work of David Simon that's to be expected.
Lillyhammer
Generation kill - best mini-series out there. Marines in Afghan sing avril lavine
+1. It's awesome.
"Is the news true, sir?"
"yes, we are going into action in Iraq"
"No, I mean about J-Lo being killed?"
Yes Generation Kill was fab. But, as stated by someone on the previous page...
IT'S NOT UNDERRATED!!
want to see The Corner
Pretty good series, but much slower than the wire. Treme was from the same makers, I couldn't even make it all the way through that. Nothing really happened.
Generation kill - best mini-series out there. Marines in Afghan sing avril lavine
Iraq. You can't have watched very closely.
Lillyhammer
Mini-series?
(S2 in production I believe).
Warriors.
Set in Bosnia; a brilliant cast but I don't know of anyone else who watched it.
Edge of Darkness should be the end of this thread, though. Untouchable.
another +1 for Firefly
Rome Series 1 (even if you did know how it was going to end)
Green Wing.
the booth at the end
Green Wing.
Nice. Series 1 and 3 though; series 2 just wasn't as funny.
Is Spaced a step too far?!
Not so much a mini series but, The Larry Sanders Show.
I'd like to see something along the lines of the first series of This Life again.
Shadow Line
Shooting the Past (don't know whether this counts as under-rated)
Mongrels on BBC3 was ace.
Again another owner of the ultraviolet series (some brilliant vampire idea's, way ahead of the current crop of pap), loved the short lost room too, lots of other great suggestions too, was about to suggest Mongrels, but have been beaten to it 😀
Very funny, but no BBC renewal for series 3, Boooo