I made my wife watch Battlestar Galactica from the beginning (recent one, not the one from the '80s) because she'd never seen it.
She loves Sci-Fi and she'd been watching Halo (so bad) and she watches all the Star Wars crap shows. Mando's okay, I haven't seen Andor, everything else blows.
It's been a long time since I'd seen BSG, but I really wasn't prepared for just how much better it is than current sci-fi shows - the writing, the acting, the pacing. They developed characters and they let scenes breathe. They used subtext, and character reactions rather than exposition (basic show don't tell). The only thing it didn't have is special effects.
BSG really belongs up there as one of the best shows of all time, I would say top 10 IMO. Yeah I know, it ended terribly because of the writer's strike.
Oh, and also the fact that they took care to have the military comms sound like a real military would. That was a nice touch.