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.
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
Doctor WhoOrphan BlackGame of ThronesBig Bang TheoryCommunityParks and RecreationModern FamilyThe MiddleAmerican DadBrooklyn Nine-Nine
honorable mention to Attack on Titan, Black Lagoon, The Goldbergs, Bob's Burgers and Archer
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
I really need to catch up on Veep. Completely missed last season.
― Evan, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
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.
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
I still find thread title astonishing... 10 out of, what, the 30 you watch?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
i DO watch like thirty shows a week.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
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.
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
I should give those anime shows a chance, haven't seen a good series in a while
― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
HannibalOrange is the New BlackAdventure TimeSpace DandyStephen UniverseWWE RawThe Hotwives of OrlandoThe Knick
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
Nhex, I think Attack on Titan is incredible. So much bleakness, so much awesomeness.
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
My Fiance was roommates with the creator of Steven Universe back in college.
― Evan, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
djp, how does it compare to deadman wonderland? similarly disturbing?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
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.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
DJP, that description is somehow exactly what I wanted to hear, I'll definitely give it a shot.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
watch in original language + subtitles, or is the dub good?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
oh cool, looks like adult swim is gonna start rerunning them from the beginning on the 31st?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
Set those DVRs, folks. It's a great show.
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
my niece is super into Titan, am curious
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
This looks really good. And it's on Canadian Netflix, unlike absolutely all other TV shows and movies.
― jmm, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
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.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
A friend got me to watch You're The Worst on FX - it's kind of terrible, but fairly entertaining.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
Attack on Titan is a great comic, the animation is pretty much a shot for shot recreation
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
this entire conversation is making me want to bump The Middle off of my list for Attack on Titan
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
I'll never understand what people see in The Middle.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
It's an oddly likable show, not one I'll go out of my way to watch, but I'll catch reruns.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
I didn't like Malcolm in the Middle either fwiw and that's what it reminds me of the most.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
dan do you have/would you like cbrs of the first ten books of AoT?
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
I do not have and I would like that very much
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
just hit ya.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
dude you rule
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
xp np; they're virtually identical to the cartoon though i like the comic art better
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
the middle is such a waste of everybody's time
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
so i watched the first 5 eps of titan last night and holy shit that show is b-a-n-a-n-a-s
― Mordy, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
If I were going with "best TV on TV in 2014", the stuff I'm rushing to watch as soon as it airs:EagleheartLouieNathan For YouDrunk HistoryEric AndreThe KnickSilicon ValleyBroad CityGetting OnTrue DetectiveHannibalAdventure TimeGame of ThronesVeepThe AmericansFargoLast Week TonightIt'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.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
prob add Inside Amy Schumer to that "must watch" list
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
and maybe Hard Knocks, I'm such a sucker for NFL propaganda
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
The first seven eps of Attack on Titan have been excellent. The episodes rush by so fast. The titans are actually pretty disturbing. They're like giant vicious children, gleefully tearing people up like insects.
The subbed version I'm watching has some baffling translations. One exchange went something like:
"Hey, don't mess with my clothes. What did you rub on me?""...my trust in others."
― jmm, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
lol that was how it was dubbed too - i didn't really understand that scene either
― Mordy, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
the whole story of how Eren and Mikasa met is just completely mental
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
I'm hoping for more exploration of the politics of the society within the walls. For the human government to forcibly eject a fifth of the population in order to avert mass starvation, under a pretext of resettlement, should at least have been a cause for intense debate and disagreement, and only Armin has said anything about it so far.
― jmm, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
Going Deep w/ David Rees.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
"mikasa es su casa"
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― jmm, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
there's just too much new shit on just now but in terms of what i'm watching plus what just ended i would give a current list of
transparent (i mentioned this in the thread i started for it but wow is this ever fucking great. worth the amazon prime sub)the knick (probably the best show currently airing on a television channel)Last week tonight (this feels like what the daily show used to be)z nation (more fun than it looks! gleefully unapologetically stupid!)married (great acting, great writing, grown up problems, plus naked jenny slate, i hope to god it gets renewed)drunk history (somehow the conceit never gets old)you're the worst (good acting and generally good writing, i would like it to be just a tad less self aware)the roosevelts (14 hours of american history! finally finished last night)
i could see these getting pretty good: blackish, blacklist, outlander, the affair, gracepoint, worricker, makers, survivor's remorse, the missing, rectify (i kinda need to really have a running go at this)
yeah, i'll try it because i am a fucking media hound: gotham, constantine, the flash (and i guess i'll try arrow again though it sucked and agents of SHIELD just cause you guys say it got better), mulaney, marry me, the mccarthy's, the chair, intruders, red band society, leftovers (the first episode was such a fucking bummer and the "something STRANGE is happening here" lindelof vibes were a massive turn off but the acting was good)
i am very much looking forward to the return of: black sails (january?), broad city (january), hannibal( "Fuller stated in June 2014 after winning the Saturn Award for Best Network Television Series that they were told by David Bowie's management to ask again for his availability for the third season "), getting on (november; super hyped about this returning), sunny (january) and the eighty other things i love up thread
i guess i'm gonna keep watching these but in my heart i am sorta over you: doctor who, key and peele, masters of sex, modern family, attack on titan
continuing old people broccoli: moyers, nature, antiques roadshow, american masters, POV, jeopardy, frontline
plus the twenty other complete series just sitting waiting to be watched... i mean, i still haven't tried penny dreadful f'r crissakes... or homeland! or boardwalk empire!
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
I hope Bowie will be playing Agent Phillip Jeffries, back on the job after his series of mysterious disappearances.
We're watching Doctor Who and Agents of SHIELD and Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories and that's about it at the moment. Fun but nothing spectacular. Most of my favorites in the moment these days are shows which are no longer airing (e.g. currently rewatching the early seasons of Roseanne for the eleventeenth time, which amazingly never get any less fresh or amazing on subsequent viewings).
― Portly Backgammon (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
hypocritical coming from me but forks u watch too much tv
― Mordy, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link