MGTOW Recommends: TV shows and movies

Longmire. After his wife died, he's been on his own and not settling down.

Breaking Bad.

Fight Club.

The Revenant.

The Martian.

Interstellar.

Which TV shows or movies would you recommend to fellow MGTOWs or related groups. I'm thinking stuff where there's not a romantic plot tumour or forced love triangle, where the main character isn't a simpering white knight who lets the world walk over him or all female characters aren't ultra competent Mary Sues with no weaknesses.

Well if you want THAT kind of thing, you really have to go for the older stuff.

And even then, it's likely to only be a smattering of movies, and a mixed bag when it comes to TV shows.

For whatever reason(s), the 1950's and 1960's had multiple TV shows* where there was a single father (usually widowed, sometimes divorced, otherwise "ambiguous") household with one or more kids (typically a foster/adopted son, but sometimes multiple sons, and mixture of biological and/or adopted boys) -- and where while there MIGHT be the occasional "girlfriend for dad" secondary storyline, said "romantic" narrative was seldom the primary plot, but usually just a pretense/setup for various "adventures" or "hijinks" -- among them:

• "Fury" -- 1950's TV series with a single dad running a ranch who takes in a "foster/adopted" miscreant son, and focuses on the pet animal and boy (ala "Lassie" but a horse instead of a dog)... and a whole array of oddball episodic adventures, etc.

• "Bonanza" -- late 1950's to mid-1970's show about single (widowed) rancher and his ADULT sons; various "romantic" plots, but since this was episodic TV, the "romance" wasn't usually the point or main plot (can't have the guys getting into LTR's much less married -- unless of course the chick promptly & conveniently dies in the same episode --else you're permanently altering the basis of the show & all of the future possible storylines).

• "The Andy Griffith Show" -- 1960's TV series about single (widowed) county Sheriff with bio son (and housekeeper, mother-figure "Aunt Bea"); mostly about small town stuff, occasionally romantic storylines, but generally speaking they were not the focus.

• "Flipper" -- 1960's TV series with a single dad and two sons (based on the original MOVIE where there was a single son and the father was married, although he's inexplicably been "widowed" by the second film and no one seems to be too broken up about her death; even wierder is that the {obviously teenage} boy is left living by himself) -- the series is yet another pet animal and boy (but dolphin, instead of dog/horse), and episodic stuff, occasionally "romantic/girlfriend stuff" but just as often or more often treasure hunts, terrorists, thieves and other mixed (but "fun") plots.

• "My Three Sons" -- 1960's TV series (which actually went through a couple of iterations of the "three sons" as the actors aged into adulthood and exited the house).

• "Family Affair" -- late 1960's to early 1970's TV show with bachelor dad (with English "gentleman's gentleman" valet/housekeeper) who is neither divorced nor widowed, but instead gets stuck with the 3 children of his deceased brother & wife (both dead in offscreen auto accident) -- focus was only occasionally on "romantic interests" and more often (especially as time passed) tended to focus on dad & kids.

• "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" -- late 1960's to early 1970's show about a single (widowed) dad and bio son (based on the 1963 film which WAS a "romantic flick" and actually about the dad "courting" women, and the kid being the chief mechanism of trying to find his dad a new wife, himself a new "mom", etc -- but weirdly the TV show while it started off with that same premise, was actually LESS about that as time went on, and became more of a Son-Dad show).

That's far from a complete list -- I mean hell I just realized I completely forgot "Gunsmoke" (which ran for almost 20 years on TV and a half dozen years before than on radio), and where the main actors were all single/bachelor men (with the notable exception of "Miss Kitty" who is a {ahem} "professional" woman -- barmaid & implied prostitute, then later saloon owner -- that Marshall Dillon just seems to need to "visit" occasionally/regularly but who is NOT exactly portrayed as his "girlfriend" or even "romantic" interest. {Never broadcast} rehearsal hijinks & sound effects are pretty hilarious.)

I mean obviously that was also the era of a lot of "intact" nuclear families on TV -- everything from "Ozzie & Harriet" to "Father Knows Best" and "Leave It To Beaver" to "Brady Bunch" etc -- but it's actually kind of surprising the number of "bachelor" shows that were not only aired but were long-running and VERY popular, and moreover how they often DIDN'T revolve entirely around "romantic" storylines.

* EDIT: Cf Other people have noted and compiled lists of this "odd" phenom http://www.tvdads.com/tvd1950.shtml

I Claudius.

A mini series from the 70's based on the events of the Roman emperor Claudius. Its story borrows heavily from Suetonius' "The Twelve Caesars" so I won't say its 100% historically accurate. The women (in power) are depicted as very conniving & scheming (so at least there's one thing based on an actual historical fact).

Hell on Wheels

Because Cullen Bohannon gives absolutely zero fucks.

Top gear, has one woman actually involved in the shows part on cars(I'm not counting stars in our reasonably priced car). Yeah to me its the shit no woman minuplating men and shit(sorry for my spelling, English is not my first language)

• Master and Commander

• Man from UNCLE

• MOON

• Gone Girl

• Filth

• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

• 12 Assasins

• Michael Clayton

• Four Lions

• The Road

• Castaway on The Moon

• Choke

• Bronson

• Heat

• Body of Lies

• Gran Torino

• In Bruges

• Man from Earth

• No Mercy for The Rude

• OldBoy

• Jack Reacher

• Collateral

• The Guest

• Memories of Murder

• 25th hour

• JSA Joint Security Area

• That one with Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman

• O Brother

• Snatch

• American Beauty

• The Last Samurai

• Strange Days

• Jackal

There aren't many tv shows.

I'd recommend

• The Black Donnellys

• in Treatment

• Supernatural (first 5 seasons)

• Stargate SG-1

• Mad Men

• BOSS

• Band of Brothers

• The Shadow Line

[removed]

movie 'The Hunt'

ID Channel. "I love you... but I lied". Season 2, Episode 1. Identity.

Perfect example of hypergamy at work, but the joke is on her! She is about to drop her "looser" boyfriend, until he "wins" the lottery. Suddenly she is all into him.

You have to listen to the characters commentary about how there was something new she saw in him. Yea, she sure did, 12 million reasons why she saw something new in him.

In the end karma is a bitch, and it bit this bitch HARD!

Star Trek TOS and TNG, both of those are pretty decent. Nothing though is 100% mgtow.

Justified

Peaky Blinders

Rectify

The Leftovers

[removed]

Chappelle Show Freakin' hilarious!

I just watched Ex Machina on Netflix. Its a good movie. You can totally consider it a MGTOW movie.

Gone Girl was said to be a MGTOW movie too. All i feel is rage when i watch it though.

Mr Robot. - highly recommended. Bosch. Person of Interest. The Last Ship.

I'm not a big manga fan but I loved "Lone Wolf and Cub".

It's a story of a masterless samurai who roams feudal Japan in a quest for vengence.

He's accompanied by his infant son who he wheels around in a baby cart. Nothing can veer him from his path. Not the prospect of a violent death. Not the stigma of social exclusion. Not the allure of women.

The story is rich in historical detail. The images are starkly drawn in black and white and strongly evoke the cinematography of Akira Kurosawa.

History.