Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

I'm at episode 6 of season 1 of the Affair right now, and it's starting to feel like Dawson's Creek for adults. There's a seaside, and hey, they even kept Pacey! It's not great but and has many flaws yet I want to keep on watching.

Season 1 of the Affair was great fun i thought! Two episodes into season two I let it go.

Oh I'm liking it a lot so far! Despite having had much higher expectations after the first two episodes or so, I'm perfectly comfy to sit out the ride.

i'm enjoying narcos well enough but damn i've never seen a show with such a transparently shoehorned-in audience surrogate lead character or one you could so easily remove from the narrative without losing a single thing that's interesting about the show. everything else is pretty great though, moura is on-point though not nearly what i imagine escobar was really like, pascal is great, etc etc.

Is there any good writing on TV out there?

If you mean writing about TV, no.

i mean emily nussbaum only won a pulitzer

what can i tell you

Thrusted Pelvis, some great moments throughout Affair S2, would def recommend. It gets better after the first two eps.

Thanks ill check out Nussbaum. Yeah meant 'about'

I was exaggerating for effect. Of course there are exceptions (Nussbaum, Mo Ryan usually) but the vast majority is trash, even moreso than with film because there's so much stifling consensus

is TV bad now

Literally watched the second episode of This Is Us just to see if they'd make the mistake of putting Mandy Moore in terrible old-age makeup. They did.

leafed thru the RS 100 list (US-UK-Canada, variety included) and absence of SCTV is disgusting.

sorry shoulda put that in alltime thread

Yeah I dunno about that list.

we should make a website that looks very official and just publish horrible lists of rankings that no one in their right mind would agree with

isn't that what pitchfork is

hard to say

isn't that what ilx polls is

boom

I watched the Lethal Weapon pilot expecting MacGyver level garbage & actually kinda dug it!

... I know! I'm as surprised as you are!

i like that guy from Rectify figured he'd at least be good in it

he's p great! and love him in Rectify

Yeah, enjoyed the pilot but my expectations were super low. There were some so bad they're good moments but on the whole was pretty decent for a pre-watershed police procedural. Not sure I'll watch a great many more though.

Final season of Rectify starts next month. *Excited face*

leafed thru the RS 100 list (US-UK-Canada, variety included) and absence of SCTV is disgusting.

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, September 28, 2016 8:50 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You expected that list to be anything but garbage? Your idealism truly knows no bounds.

Chuck OTM regarding Fleabag assessment. Still one of the most enjoyable series in recent memory though.

The Night Of is good.

I enjoyed the 3 episodes fo an Irish thing called can't cope, Won't Cope taht I caught on tv a few days ago.
A bad taste comedy drama about 2 20 somethings from cork living in a shared house in Dublin and still being out of control. One is an art student the other is an office worker who has to hob nob with clients which she does with no discretion or idea of privacy which rapidly gets her into trouble.

That is 3 epiosdes which were shown together out of I think 5 that have been shown so far.

That Logmire is a wholesome fella, a real straight shooter.

saw the first ep of the new MacGuyver yesterday. yeesh. it was horrible w lots of bad-funny cliches.

also saw the first Lethal Weapon, which was really really good. well cast!

That Logmire is a wholesome fella, a real straight shooter.

Watching Season 4 of Longmire on Amazon now. (Don't have Netflix, so Season 5 is out of reach for the moment.)

Probably not in my top 10 but love some Longmire

the last episode of Better Things (16 year old daughter doubts her future) finally broke through; I am suddenly much more interested.
Third episode of High Maintenance was a low point but still pretty dang good.
First episode of Queen Sugar was pretty good; probably gonna watch the other five in the next few days and will report back.

Night Of was great. i could have done without 90% of the eczema and cat 'plotlines' - we could have got the whole thing finished in 4 eps without that. and the prison stuff was just.... there. but anything Turturro and Dennis Box touched was gold.

First half of Night Of much better than second half. Turturro owned the whole thing, predictably.

A Fist Within Four Walls is well worth combing the dark.net for. 28-part martial arts set in Kowloon Walled City in the 60s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fist_Within_Four_Walls

i want to watch bureau des legendes but i can't find it even in the "usual places"

I think Season 1 is available on Amazon play, but I'm waiting for it to hit the t0rrentz myself.

Everything's coming back after summer breaks. So new seasons of all the long term shows.

Just binge watched through a load of last Week Tonight so up to date. Finding some of Jon Olver's quirks might be grating, especially if they are the bits taht would be picked up by anybody mimicking him. But am finding a lot of the rest pretty funny.

Also Full Frontal with Samantha bee. Really funny but keep getting reminded of Trevor and Simon by her polishing the fronts of her trousers.

Has Blackish lost a lot of its popularity? Seems to be being shared by only a couple of people and normally in a way that won't play on my memory stick.

Currently watching Deutschland 83 on Hulu. It's really good; I find it particularly interesting when they're discussing events that were also incorporated into The Americans.

my wife and i are watching blackish. love it

Amazon's Goliath is complete garbage and I am totally going to watch the whole thing purely because the cast is incredible

Atlanta is fucking great btw

I wish Atlanta was aired two eps at a time though, like that Louis season that went to the 20 min format.

i watched the first episode and then just binged the next five back-to-back-to-back and I agree with you wholeheartedly.

Also wanna give a shout out to Queen Sugar; two eps in and it's my fave hour long drama of the moment.

I watched four eps of that I think, I really wanted to like it but it's just so damned corny and the scoring/soundtracking is insufferable

oh yah? I don't mind the corny as most of the acting is very solid (not so much "ralph-angel") and the soundtrack is solid I thought! Meshell Ndegeocello doing the music I believe.

the scoring is fine, it's the extremely on-the-nose needle drops I take offense to. that and the underlying, constantly nagging moral of "hey they'd all just be alright if they stuck together as a family"

I like that it makes basically zero concessions to white audiences, tho, and the kid is v cute