Editing Approved Television (section)

==Fantasy==
*'''Beforeigners''': He's an old cop with a drug problem. She's a Norse shieldmaiden straight out of the academy. Together, they fight crime! A Norwegian series dealing with involuntary time travel, written as a police procedural. Borderline comedy series, spoofing variety of time travel cliches, while treating itself serious enough to not turn into a shallow parody.

*'''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]:''' The story of an average teenage girl who deals with all the average teenage girl things such as school, boyfriends and, eventually, college and adult life. She's also the chosen one, whose duty it is to defend the earth from demons, monsters, vampires, and whatever other nasty shit's out there. At times, the show is pretty cheesy (especially season one), at times it crosses into grimderp (like season 6), but all-in-all, it's a well-written urban fantasy show that redefined what television could be at the time it came out, and your [[World of Darkness|OWoD]] campaign will thank you for taking inspiration. Theme song simply rocks. Has its own RPG running under [[Unisystem]].
**'''Angel:''' Buffy's edgy, noir-inspired brother. Slightly darker tone with a similar style of story-telling. Like most spin-offs it's not quite as good as it's predecessor, and you can't really watch it without the original, but if you loved Buffy, but wanted a more urban flavour, this is where you go, when season four starts.

*'''Carnivale:''' A group of depression era carnies are caught up in a Manichean struggle between the forces of light and darkness. One of HBO's first experiments with high concept, high budget fantasy. Died ignominiously after two seasons due to scripting problems, audience apathy, and [[grimdark]] overload; but paved the way for those who would follow.

*'''[[A Song of Ice and Fire|Game of Thrones]]:''' [[George R. R. Martin|GRRM]]'s pet project finally made it to the small screen. Combines the epic swords and sorcery of high fantasy with the nihilistic hopelessness of quasi-medieval life. Thanks to Martin's <s>amazing</s> <s>horrible</s> [[skub]]tastic writing and HBO's massive budget, this show has gone a long way towards making fantasy "respectable". It's known for containing gratuitous amounts of sex and violence even by the standards of the source material, and got progressively chunkier after the show writers made some [[C.S. Goto|questionable characterization calls]] and also ran out of Martin's books to cannibalise, but it's not like you'll find any other fantasy show on TV that was as well-funded as this one.

*'''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys:''' Concentrated nostalgia from back in the days when fantasy shows were relegated to [[Friday]] night time slots where they couldn't harm the general public. If you're a neckbeard in your thirties, this show probably had something to do with it. It operated on a knowingly anachronistic premise and has fun with it. Kind of embarrassing by today's standards, but it pioneered everything from CGI monsters to filming in New Zealand. Resulted in its much more famous spin-off series...
**<nowiki></nowiki>'''Xena: Warrior Princess:''' Before you knew her as an uppity Cylon or an insane Roman housewife, Lucy Lawless was ''the'' leather clad, god slaying, Amazon OG. If you're a neckbeard in your thirties (or a ca/tg/irl who liked Gabrielle a ''little'' too much), you probably fapped to it. The cultural cachet of this show is so great that even underage B& that never could have seen it will recognize the character.

*'''JourneyQuest''': A no-budget series about the adventures of your typical party in the most generic campaign imaginable. Done by the same people who did ''The Gamers'' movies (and before they sold-out), so it doesn't even pretend to be serious. Unlike the podcast bullshit of the modern era, this one also doesn't pretend to be anyone playing the game, instead just fully embracing the silliness of the tabletop conventions as part of the plot - which is why it's also so relatable and never feels forced. If ''Order of the Stick'' were ever to have a life-action adaptation, this is it.

*'''Kingdom Hospital''': As a TV series, this is an inferior remake of the Danish ''Riget''. However, it makes that up with being far more applicable for /tg/ purposes. A cast of quirky characters - doctors, nurses and patients - are facing progressively weirder and weirder things going in the titular hospital, slowly coming to realisation it is a haunted place. And the forces of evil are doing their very best to get free, now that they have been noticed. If you ever needed to know how a session of ''Call of Cthulhu'' with fully random party would look like - this is it.

*'''Masters of Horror''': An anthology resembling more a collection of short films than your typical TV series. Each story is directed by some legend in horror business, and by general rule those fantasy-themed stories are better than the sci-fi ones. Special mention goes to "Deer Woman", "Cigarette Burns" and "Fair Haired Child". '''Warning!''' Certain episodes require hefty dose of brain bleach to forget what you've just saw (not kidding), while other are more black comedy than actual horror.

*'''Pierścień i róża''' ["The Rose and the Ring"]: An adaptation of a fantastical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray... done by Poles... as a musical comedy miniseries... in the 80s. Despite sounding like a recipe for a disaster, it's a solid watch, with vibrant, well-defined characters and multi-layered plot distilled enough for kids to still follow, but also poking fun out of variety of fantasy and fairy tale cliches and, well, [[promotions|fanservice galore]]. If you ever needed an inspiration for a tongue-in-cheek, but not completely crazy game, look no further. Important note! While there is a film version, it's just an abridged variant of the series, so it's best ignored.

*'''西遊記 (Saiyuki, or "Monkey" if you're a filthy gaijin)''': A 1978 Japanese adaptation of Journey to the West. While this is far from being the best adaptation, it is probably one of the most widely known outside of Asia (with the exception of Dragonball), thanks in part to the BBC buying the rights and producing a cheesy and hilarious dub for it. This is probably from where your [[Weeaboo]] GM got his most insane ideas.

*'''Supernatural''': Started out as a horror series, but didn't stay there for long. A duo of ridiculously handsome brothers on their weekly hunt after all sort of supernatural creatures, with ever-growing library of lore. [[skub|Skubtastic]] doesn't even describe any sort of discussions on the series, and it should have ended a decade before it eventually did. But it's still an open pit mine of ideas and entire plots to rip off for your own occult investigation. First three or five seasons, depending on your tolerance for multi-episode arcs (although season 5 does introduce Lucifer), everything after that at your own peril.

*'''[[The Witcher|Witcher]]''': A shoe-string budget fantasy series (still one of the most expensive productions in native Poland) about - well, who else - [[Geralt of Rivia|Geralt the Witcher]], made by Poles in 2001. The quality of episodes varies greatly, while the special effects aged like milk, but it's still a fun ride to take. This is how fantasy became for a while mainstream in Poland. Absolutely '''great''' music, which can be repurposed as a background for combat-heavy games. If you happen to get a DVD release and not just bootleg from TV, then the cinematography will be gorgeous too. Also, warning - the show was marketed abroad under "Hexer" title, as the term "Witcher" wasn't coined yet.
**'''The Witcher: America''': Netflix' own take on the now bestselling book series. Tries to be Game of Thrones, but focuses on a handful of main characters instead of the massive ensemble cast that GoT had. Has problems communicating own chronology and just like Hexer, quality of episodes varies wildly, but overall, it's fun, with Henry Cavill being surprisingly good, able to pull off the manly, yet emotionally stunted vibe. Also, lots of [[promotions|tits]].

*'''Wizards and Warriors''': A short-lived fantasy series from early 80s, mostly memorable due to being so heavily borrowing ideas and imaginery from early [[Dungeons and Dragons]] it almost ended with a lawsuit. Amazingly tacky, but still mineable in case of running old-school D&D games. And remember - those costumes won an Emmy. For real.