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    These are all contemporary turn-of-the-century comedy TV series where each pairing shares at least one cast member:

    • Spaced - You’d probably want to be reasonably familiar with UK pop culture of the time to truly appreciate it, but it’s still somewhat entertaining even without that.

    • Black Books - Sister series to Spaced. Probably not in the same universe, but shares some of the same cast. A bit more surreal and doesn’t require so much pop culture knowledge.

    • Green Wing - Turn the surrealism up yet another notch, add in a teaspoon of darkness, then set it in a hospital.

    • JAM - Turn the surrealism dial fully around to the black setting, to the point of being outright disturbing and wrong.

    • Big Train - Turn that dial back into silly and relatively light hearted… though you can tell there’s something a bit troubling going on at the same time.

    Outside that stable, but you may have watched:

    • Babylon 5 - Top rated sci-fi. Some episodes can be a bit meh, but the ones that aren’t are amazing.

    • The Animatrix - Apocryphal short animations of various stories set in the universe of The Matrix, which you might want to rewatch first.

    Yes, I have been under a rock since the turn of the century. I like it under here.