I thought this suggestion looked awfully familiar... :)
Oh, and FWIW, Friends is available on Netflix, at least in The US.
Yeah: for spoiler tags, the syntax can vary from subreddit to subreddit. It's different between /r/TheWire, /r/asoiaf, and /r/HomeworkHelp, for example.
For previewing text posts and comments, Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) can be invaluable. Unfortunately, it's not (yet) available on mobile platforms.
>I wish I could remember where I read this, but someone made the point that one of J.J. Abrams' biggest strengths as a producer is that he's very good at casting his TV shows.
At the risk of self-indulgence in replying to my own comment, I finally found the article that made this point:
>But if you nail the casting from day one? That often turns a promising show into a sensation. And the showrunners who are really good at casting also tend to be the showrunners who have the most commercial success. For example, Joss Whedon is good at finding actors within a very particular range, but that range doesn't tend to cross over into "big hit" status. J.J. Abrams, by contrast, is really great at letting his writing suit a wide variety of acting types, and he tends to assemble more obviously well-cast ensembles. I think the Firefly cast is phenomenal, but you only need compare them to the similarly sized cast of Alias to see which showrunner has a stronger handle on finding actors who will be compelling to the largest number of people possible, as quickly as possible.
The Abrams-specific point was a bit more nuanced than I had remembered. At a minimum, I'm reassured that I didn't simply imagine such an article in the first place.
It's unlikely, but not impossible, that someone else might also be aware of this ambiguity. I'd therefore recommend you edit your original comment to indicate precisely which series you're nominating.
Oh: and it might be different in The UK, but here in The US, New Amsterdam (2018) is not included as a free series via Amazon Prime Video. Here, the series does seem to be ~~including~~ included in Hulu's library, though.
Thanks for the very quick reply!
About spoilers: please tag spoilers, especially significant ones. This includes spoilers associated with any source material for series that have been adapted from another work, as well as related series. (In the case of You in particular, this includes references to the Caroline Kepnes novel of the same title.) See the "On spoilers" section of the sidebar for details about how to use spoiler tags in this subreddit.
Congratulations to /u/devperez for this successful nomination of <em>You</em> as /r/S01E01's latest Weekly Watch!
About spoilers: please tag spoilers, especially significant ones. This includes spoilers associated with any source material for series that have been adapted from another work, as well as related series. (In this week's case, that includes Vikram Chandra's novel of the same title.) See the "On spoilers" section of the sidebar for details about how to use spoiler tags in this subreddit.
Congratulations to /u/chirpingphoenix for this successful nomination of <em>Sacred Games</em> as /r/S01E01's latest Weekly Watch!
Psych
Shawn Spencer, a man with a photographic memory and amazing logic skills, pretends to be psychic to clear himself of a crime he didn't commit. He convinces the detectives so well that the Police Chief wants to hire him for a case. So Shawn, joined by his best friend Gus, ends up becoming a freelance detective, known as a psychic by the Santa Barbara Police Department.
Psych is an absolutely amazing show, one of my favorites of all time, and this is coming from someone who normally doesn't like crime shows. It has 121 episodes across 8 seasons, but in my opinion it never ever got stale, repetitive. The characters are all great, the pacing is perfect, and the crimes are far-fetched enough to be interesting, but not so much that it's laughable. It ended back in 2014, but it has a movie coming out soon, so I think it would be awesome to introduce it to the subreddit before then!
Just to add to this, Hannibal is available through Amazon Prime, as well as à la carte through several other services (iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu, etc.).