Mattias, I don't remember... have you ever seen Farscape? Talk about disturbing (but also pretty funny) sci-fi- It's sort of like Guardians of the Galaxy but (1) with muppets, (2) with Aussies, (3) an actual series, and (4) way less frelling campy/nostalgia-train powered. Very "out there", especially as the seasons tick on. It actually achieves near total abstraction in some episodes with self-referencing, a little jostling of the fourth wall, and plenty of unexplainable things.
My other favorite "medium-dark" sci-fi is Babylon 5. It's a bit slow and clunky at first (rewatching the pilot, the acting was... pretty terribly 90's- I was waiting for a soliloquy or two), but the later seasons are really fascinating and there's plenty of mass murder and macabre plots of death and destruction to go around, but unlike Expanse, it's nicely tempered by cheesy pixely 90's CGI, so you never really get so far brought into the world that it feels fully real... it's more like watching an enormous stage play to be honest, from the sets to the acting to the dialogue.
My other favorite "medium-dark" sci-fi is Babylon 5. It's a bit slow and clunky at first (rewatching the pilot, the acting was... pretty terribly 90's- I was waiting for a soliloquy or two), but the later seasons are really fascinating and there's plenty of mass murder and macabre plots of death and destruction to go around, but unlike Expanse, it's nicely tempered by cheesy pixely 90's CGI, so you never really get so far brought into the world that it feels fully real... it's more like watching an enormous stage play to be honest, from the sets to the acting to the dialogue.
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