10 Overlooked TV Shows You Should Watch
Ignore the countless repeated recommendations and check out these little known offerings instead.
It would be an understatement to say that there's plenty of TV about these days and it seems that every fifteen minutes there's another pal, coworker, or long lost relative popping up with a recommendation for your next 'must watch' show. In this deluge of television, it is easy for quality work to get a little lost and for some more mediocre offerings to present themselves for your delectation.
With so many titles to choose from, whether contemporary or classic, it can often be a daunting task when you near the end of your current favourite series - what next!? There's a pang of panic in the tone; desperately, friends are interrogated for information on the next decent season to indulge in. Well, relax - breathe: WhatCulture has you sorted. There are innumerable overlooked shows just waiting to be watched.
Despite being overlooked programmes, the entries on this list can easily be obtained on streaming or disc. And anyone, from horror fans to comedy connoisseurs, will be more than happy if they do so, unearthing some true televisual gems.
And so rather than duly submit to the badgering to watch just whatever, here is a list of 10 shows that are often lost in the rabble.
10. Jam
Chris Morris' incredibly dark and surrealistic sketch comedy series is an audio-visual experience you are unlikely ever to forget. Television is seldom experimental, even in its more avant garde inclined moments. Institutionally, TV has been a more of a corporate affair, whether publicly funded or privately so, and as such truly daring experiments are rare. Jam is one of those rare moments.
A series of disconnected, surrealistic, and deeply disturbing sketches, sonic soundscapes, and audio-visual manipulation, Jam is frankly baffling. It just so happens also to be deeply funny and regularly more profound than you would expect. Jam began life as an experimental radio programme before transitioning to television. Lesser known than Morris's other outings, it is a truly unique series.
Despite airing on Channel 4, Jam had no commercial breaks, maintaining its strange moods. Controversial then and now, Jam rubs people up the wrong way, but for those who give it a chance, they can expect to find a truly unforgettable experience. Suffice to say, this is strong material; one infamous sketch shows a bereaved mother hiring a plumber to fix her dead child just as he would a plumber. Horror and surrealist fans absolutely must seek out Jam.