The one hundred and ninety-second TV show: #412 Red Dwarf

Because I had to get to the best seasons before writing this up (or so I was told), I watched the first five seasons and started the sixth season of Red Dwarf before starting my write up. It's been worth the wait - the first season focused a bit too much around the antagonistic relationship between Lister and Rimmer, while being more of a workplace comedy in an odd, deserted setting. As the show progresses, our protagonists are more capable, they work together better and instead the series focusing on proper SF comedy. It's not hard to draw the comparison to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - if only because the same design lineage is clear with the BBC design department doing similarly good model work - but also because it starts to apply the sci fi conventions and takes it to its comedic extreme, while telling some interesting stories with them you couldn't quite do otherwise. Once it starts properly, around season three or so, it really seeks out its options and becomes a must watch a lot of the time. I've been waiting a long time to watch this, and it has been worth it.