Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

I am deep into the second season of Hannibal; this show is fucking awesome.

Married and You're the Worst were surprisingly well-written first episodes. Was expecting less, both are pretty solid!

Satisfaction was kinda stupid but at least equal opportunity stupid? More of a guilty pleasure. Rush, even less so and probably not worth watching the second episode. Welcome to Sweden is garbage unfortunately.

The Knick
Drunk History
You're the Worst
Married
This Week Tonight
Hard Knocks
Rectify (on Season 1 still)
Masters of Sex (maddeningly inconsistent but still very very good when it's good, they overextended themselves with guests and subplots and have left all sort of shit dangling in the wind)
Adventure Time
Nathan for You (just now ended)

I also am watching The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Doctor Who, Simon and Garfunkel, Regular Show, Attack on Titan, The Quest (lol), Real Sports

STILL need to crack Leftovers, The Strain, Outlanders, The Last Ship, Intruders, Tyrant, Black Sails, Homeland, Halt and Catch Fire, Crossbones, lots more.
Tivo makes it easy to get a whole series queued up and then hard to get around to watching it

i saw the first ep of the strain and thought it was terrible, nigh unwatchable

I like 'married' & 'youre the worst' ok too, tho the latter feels oddly like a constant advertisement for whiskey and trendy eyeglasses

married is good -- not wall to wall laughs but usually a good moment or two each ep. I really like Nat faxon.

Meltdown is fun.

A friend of mine begged me to try out Nathan for You, i watched a couple of eps including Dumb Starbucks but I just found myself totally nonplussed by the whole thing. And he sounds like Tina from Bob's Burgers which was super distracting.

HA! Wow you're right about that.

Though I love Nathan For You myself

dramas get the short cuz most i don't watch in real time and those i do have been burning me

The Mindy Project
Kroll Show
Community
Drunk History
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Bachelor/Bachelorette/Bachelors In Paradise
Key & Peele
House Hunters
Unsung
True Detective

Watching You're The Worst and hopeful they'll get past every episode climaxing with them saying "what are we? what's happening here?" after a misunderstanding. New Girl and Justified are breaking my heart. Loving Scandal through season 2 and Parks & Rec from halfway through season 2 to wherever I am now (3-4ish).

actually replace true detective on my list with girls, the former really being a mini-series

the strain is fun-bad, and has one legitimate excellent performance courtesy of David Bradley IMO. but if the occasional idiotic plot gymnastics to set up absurd (if fun) horror/action sequences aren't tolerable, stay away. the dialogue is also crappy. THAT SAID, it has what Walking Dead lacks - self-awareness about its genre absurdity.

counting things that finished airing earlier in the year and only traditional "series":

The Americans
Hannibal
Game of Thrones
The Leftovers
Veep
Silicon Valley
You're The Worst
Mad Men
The Bridge
Orange is the New Black

I love The Strain. For practical/special effects alone it's GREAT! I really liked the books -- took me an episode or two to get past the cornyness of the show but I really like it.

Doctor Who
Orphan Black
Game of Thrones
Big Bang Theory
Community
Parks and Recreation
Modern Family
The Middle
American Dad
Brooklyn Nine-Nine

honorable mention to Attack on Titan, Black Lagoon, The Goldbergs, Bob's Burgers and Archer

I really need to catch up on Veep. Completely missed last season.

couldn't find room for The Knick in the top 10 but it's also very good if not yet great. for miniseries, Fargo, Sherlock and True Detective were all great in various ways, though Fargo definitely exceeds them all and it was awesome to see it win the miniseries Emmy.

I still find thread title astonishing... 10 out of, what, the 30 you watch?

So Fargo is in the same universe as the movie? Are we supposed to believe that something else interesting happens in a place like that? What are the chances.

i DO watch like thirty shows a week.

No, all the characters in the Fargo miniseries are different (though some are modeled on chars. in the film), plus it's about 20 years in the future. Trust me. It's great, and it manages to be its own thing while honoring the source material.

I should give those anime shows a chance, haven't seen a good series in a while

Hannibal
Orange is the New Black
Adventure Time
Space Dandy
Stephen Universe
WWE Raw
The Hotwives of Orlando
The Knick

Nhex, I think Attack on Titan is incredible. So much bleakness, so much awesomeness.

My Fiance was roommates with the creator of Steven Universe back in college.

djp, how does it compare to deadman wonderland? similarly disturbing?

It's a very different beast from Deadman Wonderland; the dread/despair is of a wholly different flavor and the scale is much, much different. It's also a good bit more straightforward that Deadman Wonderland. I wouldn't go to Attack on Titan if you're looking for surreal headfucks, but if you dig bleak extinction stories with a flickering ray of hope in them, it's a good one.

I watched the first two episodes of Attack on Titan. One of the coolest animated series I've seen. I need to get back on that.

DJP, that description is somehow exactly what I wanted to hear, I'll definitely give it a shot.

watch in original language + subtitles, or is the dub good?

The first five episodes are flat-out incredible IMO. It remains good after that but it's really a show that rewards blind sequential watching.

I am enjoying the dub on Adult Swim; I'm sure it also rules with subtitles.

oh cool, looks like adult swim is gonna start rerunning them from the beginning on the 31st?

Set those DVRs, folks. It's a great show.

my niece is super into Titan, am curious

This looks really good. And it's on Canadian Netflix, unlike absolutely all other TV shows and movies.

I've also really been enjoying Black Lagoon, which is kind of an criminal buddy show in the same general vein of (but inferior to) Cowboy Bebop (only set on Earth among competing criminal factions, so without a lot of the gonzo imagination), but they just did an intentionally unpleasant storyline revolving around the kidnap and abuse of a female high school student that was really, REALLY difficult to watch and almost impossible to recommend to anyone else.

Black Lagoon is the result of Japan watching Tarantino. Titan is super popular, the 1st volume of the manga has been in the weekly US top 10 for the last year.

A friend got me to watch You're The Worst on FX - it's kind of terrible, but fairly entertaining.

Attack on Titan is a great comic, the animation is pretty much a shot for shot recreation

this entire conversation is making me want to bump The Middle off of my list for Attack on Titan

I'll never understand what people see in The Middle.

It's an oddly likable show, not one I'll go out of my way to watch, but I'll catch reruns.

I didn't like Malcolm in the Middle either fwiw and that's what it reminds me of the most.

dan do you have/would you like cbrs of the first ten books of AoT?

I do not have and I would like that very much

just hit ya.

dude you rule

I hadn't seen The Middle in a long time (couple of seasons I guess) and then I caught a new episode back around Memorial Day while at my parents' house and I was scandalized by Brick having a deep teenager voice.

xp np; they're virtually identical to the cartoon though i like the comic art better

the middle is such a waste of everybody's time

so i watched the first 5 eps of titan last night and holy shit that show is b-a-n-a-n-a-s

If I were going with "best TV on TV in 2014", the stuff I'm rushing to watch as soon as it airs:
Eagleheart
Louie
Nathan For You
Drunk History
Eric Andre
The Knick
Silicon Valley
Broad City
Getting On
True Detective
Hannibal
Adventure Time
Game of Thrones
Veep
The Americans
Fargo
Last Week Tonight
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Watched the first episode of Black Sails last night and though the sexposition was moronic and the gratuitous violence was cribbed right from GoT and apparently 60% of pirates are underwear models, it still has some fun acting and a coherent plotline and some trust in the viewer to stay ahead of the script and it's not bad at all.