Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

been thinking about trying out friday night lights, but i'm worried i won't understand any of it, with the football and all

It's not a football show, really. It's a character-driven drama. The football is a backdrop that's incorporated in a way anyone anywhere could understand it.

alright i'm convinced. need something to fill the gap between new mad men eps.

You'll, of course, want to start at the beginning, but here's how I rank the seasons:

3 > 1 > 4 >>>>> 2

Breaking Bad
Louie
Mad Men
Daily Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Community
Parenthood
Archer
Children's Hospital
Late Late Show

You'll, of course, want to start at the beginning, but here's how I rank the seasons:

3 > 1 > 4 >>>>> 2

Concur, though I'm almost tempted to say that you can skip the entirety of season 2.

Louie
Doctor Who
Sherlock
Community
Parks and Recreation
The Office
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Big Love

not currently on, but the girl and I are LOVING Slings and Arrows and everyone with instant watch netflix should try the first season.
A few missteps, but on the whole, very good.

BB
NCIS
Simpsons
Mythbusters
IT Crowd
Go Girls
Neighbours (lol)
Burn Notice

.. that's kinda it now that i think about it, save for a couple of other aussie shows you guys don't give a shit about

Slings and Arrows rules, the second season is something of a dip in quality but the third season is really impressive as well.

Started Friday Night Lights and it's quite good but a bit soapy for us to finish a whole season at a go. Working through season one slowly.

New additions to my current top picks:
Mary Shelley's Frankenhole
Regular Show
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

The first two are ESPECIALLY good; I highly recommend any venture fans trying them. Frankenhole is from the same guy who did Moral Orel and it's as good as that show was at the end of its run and similarly nutso. The Ron Howard episode was a special level of batshit.
Regular Show is an odd duck; adult swim dada stylee for tweens. Surprisingly enjoyable!
And isn't there a thread for Todd Margaret yet?

I was kinda feeling Lone Star after two episodes; shame they canned it. Running Wilde is, unfortunately, not half as smart as it thinks it is; some zingers but they're far between the leaden gags.

Pick up Terriers. It's only 5 episodes deep right now.

metalocalypse is having a pretty great season so far as well.

i watched half of the pilot for terriers and it seemed lame... would be willing to try again.

If it didn't draw you in with its first 30 minutes, it probably never will.

yea i started watching todd margaret -- pilot was hugely funny & the 2nd was pretty meh

also agree abt running wilde - i canceled it off my dvr

i watched half of the pilot for terriers and it seemed lame... would be willing to try again.

― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:19 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

If it didn't draw you in with its first 30 minutes, it probably never will.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:28 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

I disagree with this. I wasn't too bothered after the first.

You could be right. I was hooked instantly, and don't think it's much different now than it was then, but ymmv.

Mad Men
Rubicon
No Reservations
30 Rock
Sons Of Anarchy
Warehouse 13
Being Human
Futurama
House M.D.
Terriers

30 rock
big bang theory
mad manz
project runway
glee
futurama
louis
snl
degrassi: the next generation
uhhh...tnt nba halftime show?

http://video.adultswim.com/mary-shelleys-frankenhole/hunger-of-the-vampire.html
^most recent full episode. Gandhi has an italian accent throughout for no particular reason.

Mad Men
Breaking Bad
Louie
Always Sunny
Top Chef
30 Rock
Project Runway
True Blood
Modern Family
Piece of Work

Breaking Bad
Mad Men
Community
Sons of Anarchy
Parks and Rec
Rubicon
30 Rock
FNL
Terriers
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Sons of Anarchy
Mad Men
Caprica
Community
Big Bang Theory
Project Runway
Fringe
Espn 30 for 30
Monday Night Football :D
Freaks & Geeks Friday night reruns

I finally got into Sons of Anarchy last weekend and hot damn I'm in love

Yeah I just got into it also. Its pretty embarrassing how quickly I caught up though.

how i met your mother
big bang theory
parenthood
hoarders
cougartown
modern family
hell's kitchen
30 rock
louie
american pickers

hah I forgot Louie!!! How quickly I forget

Oh man Hoarders.. that should really be on my list.

I'd only heard other people talk about Hoarders before, but I caught a few episodes during a marathon on A&E yesterday. It's equally enthralling and frustrating, but definitely good tv.

1. Breaking Bad
2. Jersey Shore
3. Life and Times of Tim
4. Parks and Recreation
5. Pawn Stars
6. Curb Your Enthusiasm
7. NFL Gameday Final
8. American Pickers
9. Real World Road Rules Challenge
10. American Idol (usually give up by week 8)

unranked

Breaking Bad
Dexter
Fringe
Louie
Venture Brothers
Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Archer
IT Crowd
Life and Times of Tim
Ghost Hunters (yeah I know, whatever, this show is like crack to me)

warming on parks and rec and psyche courtesty of netflix instant. todd margaret pilot was awesome but havent caught more of it yet

1. FNL
2. Sons of Anarchy
3. Mad Men
4. 30 Rock
5. Eastbound and Down
6. Nurse Jackie
7. the Office
8. Parks and Rec
9. Rubicon
10. Deadliest Catch

Re-done
1. FNL
2. Sons of Anarchy
3. Mad Men
4. 30 Rock
5. Eastbound and Down
6. Dexter
7. the Office
8. Parks and Rec
9. Rubicon
10. Deadliest Catch

11. Nurse Jackie

12. louie
13. breaking bad
14. dual survival
15. man vs. wild
16. curb
17. entourage

i watch too much tv

Mad Men
Eastbound and Down
Hardy Bucks
Ideal
Breaking Bad
Match of The Day
South Park
The Inbetweeners
Entourage
Black Books re-runs

Shows airing in 2010 of which I have watched every or nearly every episode:

Mad Men
30 Rock
The Office [haven't watched any of the new season]
Glee
Top Chef
Saturday Night Live

The show I have watched the most after those:

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

1. ... uh, never mind

Have never heard of:
Hardy Bucks
Ideal
Black Books
Life and Times of Tim

Hardy Bucks - http://www.rte.ie/storyland/finalists/hardybucks.html

Ideal - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_(TV_series)

Black Books - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Books

Black Books is fantastic. LOVE it

10 that I either make time for or catch up on via hulu/netflix/amazon/whatever:

Breaking Bad
Mad Men
30 Rock
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Colbert Report
Daily Show
Eastbound and Down (have not seen any of new season though)
The Soup
Family Guy
Tosh.0

a few that I like a lot but you know whatevs:
Curb
Parks & Rec
Community
How I met Your Mother
Archer

a few I would like to watch but haven't gotten around to:
Modern Fam
Louie
Sons of Anarchy
Terriers
Bored to Death

The fourth hour of the Today show
Wendy Williams
Bay Area Quiz Kids
California Gold
This show on community access featuring a paraplegic man who gets topless hippie lapdances
Question Time - British House of Commons
Eastbound and Down
Jack Van Impe Presents
Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Mad Men

Community
30 Rock
The Venture Bros.
How I Met Your Mother
The Daily Show
Sons of Anarchy
The Soup
Parenthood
True Blood
Terriers

Breaking Bad
Eastbound and Down
Mad Men
Parks and Recreation
Louie
Sons of Anarchy
30 Rock
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Peep Show
Gossip Girl

lemme add Peep Show to my list.

Mad Men
30 Rock
Bored to Death
Friday Night Lights
America's Next Top Model
Parenthood
Modern Family
Chopped
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Entourage

1. Friday Night Lights
2. Mad Men
3. Breaking Bad
4. Rescue Me
5. Army Wives
6. Hung
7. Weeds
8. Modern Family
9. Sons Of Anarchy
10. The IT Crowd

Honorable Mentions: Big Love, Parks And Recreation, Big Bang Theory

Expect to like less as my Netflix-only watching catches up to alleged jumped sharks: Big Love, maybe Weeds

Might be lower on the list if I didn't grow up in West Bloomfield: Hung

Have never seen but expect to like when Netflix gets it: Treme

Would be an honorable mention if it didn't get cancelled: Ugly Betty

Also, Big Bang Theory probably isn't even good enough to be an Honorable Mention. But I haven't totally given up on it yet.

Monday Night Football
Hell's Kitchen
Top Chef
No Reservations
Rules of Engagement
Big Bang Theory
That Metal Show (Trunk, Florentine, some dude with sideburns)

i have trouble filling out my list after that. Mostly watch sports

I’ll check that one out — I’ve been watching Stranger, which is another K-drama, a slowly unfolding thriller set inside the world of the Seoul judicial system.

Thanks for the rec omar! Digging this

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, December 29, 2022 12:57 AM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

belated you're welcome, Elvis - i'm gonna start in on season 2 this week. S1 really worked for me as a slow-burn, and it was just very sharp and intelligent in terms of how it told its story. it was very atmospheric as well, without being falsely gloomy and foreboding, violent but not gratuitous, and quite refreshingly moving in the corridors of money and power without glamorizing them, more like corporatizing them. Cho Seung-woo and especially Bae Doona were incredibly good, too.

it achieves a righteous balance in how it trickily portrays flawed characters, and how it handles some of the final revelations. pretty superb and thoughtful stuff, an antidote to less placidly-paced modern TV.

There was a “The Simpsons is good again” article in NYmag a few months ago - it’s actually kind of true, maybe? I’ve watched a bunch from the last two seasons and they’re not Monorail-level-great, but it’s certainly way better than I remember it being since the late 90s. More heart and less shit jokes.

More heart and less shit jokes.

This is one of the times when the difference between "less" and "fewer" really makes all the difference, because I don't remember The Simpsons having any shit jokes.

Don't you remember the episode where Bart dared Milhouse to eat a shit sandwich?

Can I Borrow a Fece?

Short Poppies was a delight