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What are the "un-missable" episodes?

posted 10 years ago by GuyOnTheLeft
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We truly live in a Golden Age of Great TV, as the critics keep telling us. But this has a downside: the dreaded #FOMO, and just not enough time for everything. Now that I have HBO Now and all that network's shows to catch up on, along with my Netflix and Amazon subscriptions, it's just too much (given that I have four kids and also like to play tennis and poker and watch movies).

So I'm trying to triage here. Instead of putting series like this one on the back burner and thinking "someday I'll watch the whole thing", I'm hoping to be clued into what are the very best episodes that have aired thus far (and if and when I get through those, I'll definitely watch the last couple episodes of the series to finish it out).

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer! I really appreciate it.

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[–] scott-269-715736 10 years ago

Farscape for me is one of those series where you suffer the good with the bad, and my opinion of which category each episode fits into might not match your opinion. Even the ones I rate lower often have some key elements that carry over into the series as a whole. I think it would be better to accept how long it will take to finish the entire series than to speed things up by watching only the exceptional episodes. Plus when you absolutely need a sci-fi fix, you'll have Farscape to turn to.

[–] execproducer22 10 years ago

Unfortunately Farscape has a very interwoven and complicated storyline...

Becuase of this, its nearly impossible to skip alot of the episodes as there are alot of story arcs and small things that come up in every episode that relate to a previous episode.

A new viewer would be very confused even skipping one or two episodes a season.

Unlike shows lIke say Dexter or Burn notice where they recap previous episodes and each season is a new story and villain which usually dont realte too much to the previous season....

If you are looking for a list of episodes to skip check the post in this board about worst episodes....

"What color is the boathouse at Hereford!?" 

-Sam

[–] GuyOnTheLeft 10 years ago

Hmmm. Well, thanks for your honest opinion.

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