420 Weird Shows: 361-420

If something is unusual but a hit, TV will still chase after it and try to clone it. Whether it's Scooby-Doo or Black Mirror. It used to be everyone wanted to be The Twilight Zone. Even Black Mirror. Then you tweak the formula a bit and now you're the flavor of the month.

Except that for three and a half decades now there's been one name that keeps coming back. Twin Peaks. Or conversely, David Lynch. Describing something as Lynchian is a stand-in for “strange yet engaging, rather than off-putting.” Can't look away, purposefully artsy, quality. It describes a whole atmosphere, which is helpful when the mood can and does change very quickly. Gravity Falls' elevator pitch is Twin Peaks for kids. Wayward Pines gets called Twin Peaks lite. Donald Glover wanted Atlanta to be a black Twin Peaks. Eric Andre sums up his show as a public access talk show meets David Lynch.

Big movie directors have slowly started migrating to weird TV. Abrams, the Duplass brothers, Fincher, Fukunaga, Garland, Gondry, Miike, Refn, Ridley Scott, M. Night Shyamalan, Sonnenfeld, Sorrentino, Lars Von Trier, The Wachowskis...

But if there's a home for weird television, it's at Adult Swim. They obviously changed the entire game and opened up the doors on what's acceptable and allowed on TV, both for better and for worse.

420 Weird Shows: 361-420

Tales of the Unexpected (1979)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)

Téléchat (1983)

Teletubbies (1997)

The Terror (2018)

This is Jinsy (2010)

Three Busy Debras (2020)

The Tick (2001)

Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness (2020)

Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories (2013)

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (2007)

Toast of London (2013)

The Tom Green Show (1994)

Too Old to Die Young (2019)

TripTank (2014)

Tripping the Rift (2004)

True Blood (2008)

True Crime Story: Indefensible (2021)

Tuca & Bertie (2019)

The Twilight Zone (1959)

Twin Peaks (1990)

The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (1995)

The Umbrella Academy (2019)

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015)

Uncle Grandpa (2013)

undone (2019)

Unhappily Ever After (1995)

Upload (2020)

Utopia (2013)

The Venture Bros. (2003)

Very Important People (2023)

The Vince Staples Show (2024)

Walker, Texas Ranger (1993)

WandaVision (2021)

Wander Over Yonder (2013)

Warehouse 13 (2009)

Watchmen (2019)

Wayward Pines (2015)

Weinerville (1993)

The Weird Al Show (1997)

Westworld (2016)

What a Cartoon! (1995)

What We Do in the Shadows (2019)

The Whitest Kids U'Know (2007)

Who is America? (2018)

Wild Palms (1993)

Wildboyz (2003)

Wilfred (2011)

Wishfart (2017)

Wonder Showzen (2005)

Wonderfalls (2004)

The X-Files (1993)

Xavier: Renegade Angel (2007)

Yellowjackets (2021)

Yo Gabba Gabba! (2007)

YOLO (2020)

YooHoo & Friends (2012)

You Can't Do That on Television (1979)

The Young Ones (1982)

The Young Pope (2016)

Nobody is fully happy with lists and this one would surely change as more series come out, as I'm made aware of more, and as I continue to watch shows that are new to me. Just as 366 Weird Movies has. Also shoutout to Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz's TV: The Book (2016).

If you wanna see how many of these shows you've watched in total without having to manually count them all up yourself, you can check 'em off here, no login required.

Thanks, gotta go. It's time for September's new Fall line-up.