Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

I know it's a tired line, but this has been a ridiculously good year for television.

here's what i got for 2016.

Top 15 (and one episode)
The Americans
Black Sails
Happy Valley
Better Call Saul
The Girlfriend Experience
OJ: Made In America
Veep
Difficult People
The Detour
Atlanta
Insecure
Fleabag
Catastrophe
The Eric Andre Show
Full Frontal
Horace and Pete (Episode 3)

Great
NBA Basketball
Adventure Time
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Silicon Valley
Jeopardy
Billy on the Street
PBS NewsHour
High Maintenance
The Good Place
Search Party
One Mississippi
Better Things

Good to occasionally great
The Venture Brothers
Real Sports
Broad City
Inside Amy Schumer
Drunk History
You’re the Worst
State of Play
The Comedians
The Nightly Show
The Carmichael Show
Dream Corp LLC
People of Earth
Horace and Pete
All the Way
NFL Football

Watched for some reason or another
Dice
Antiques Roadshow
NFL Football
Game of Thrones
Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
The Simpsons
Last Week Tonight
The Meltdown
Baskets
Hard Knocks
Speechless
Top Chef
Black-ish
Workaholics
Idiotsitter
Off the Air
Archer

Disappointing
Westworld
Vice Principals
This Is Not Happening
Tracey Ullman’s Show
Divorce
Stan Against Evil

Unwatched (mostly or completely) and on tap
Mr. Robot
Adam Ruins Everything
Falling Water
Channel Zero
Black Mirror
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Undercover
Soundbreaking
Black America Since MLK
Gomorrah
Transparent
Queen Sugar
Luke Cage
Good Girls Revolt
The Man in the High Castle
Goliath
Rectify
The Night Of
Bojack Horseman
Casual
Lady Dynamite
Stranger Things
The Path
Daredevil
Crisis in Six Scenes
Last Chance U
Crashing

No (obviously, incomplete)
Halt and Catch Fire
American Crime
This Is Us
Billions
Graves
Braindead
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
UnReal
Survivor’s Remorse
How to Get Away With Murder
Preacher
Sweet/Vicious
Mary and Jane
Loosely Exactly Nicole
Son of Zorn
The Exorcist

there is way too much goddamn television out there now

kinda shocking to see The Girlfriend Experience in your top 15, i totally ignored that

based on yr excellent taste in everything else: don't bother w/ Mr. Robot s2

Also does No mean you watched it and hated it or that you're just not going to bother

Girlfriend Experience was surprisingly deep imo and very well acted. ultimately not particularly prurient and walked a complicated line.

I have been leaning toward skipping Mr. Robot s2; the feedback on this thread and by critics in general suggested it was a bellyflop.

No means I watched it and decided not to watch more because of time constraints, better options or I hated it. "Not bothering" would be a massive list all on its own! I also tape and skim all the nightly shows: Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers, Colbert... I can't handle Corden though I tried.

From that unwatched/unfinished list, I'll likely do Crashing, Queen Sugar (already five eps in but the corniness of the melodrama is beginning to wear), Transparent (four eps in), the last four eps of You're the Worst and the entirety of Stranger Things within the month.

Top shows on at the moment would likely be full frontal, NBA, NFL, Billy on the Street, PBS Newshour, Top Chef... um, Jeopardy? It's suddenly slow. Looking forward to the imminent return of Sunny in Philadelphia and Black Sails though!

I find this a useful tool: http://www.metacritic.com/feature/tv-premiere-dates

Anybody wanna rep for any of these?

Falling Water
Channel Zero
Undercover
Gomorrah
Good Girls Revolt
The Man in the High Castle
Casual
The Path
Crisis in Six Scenes
Last Chance U

I found The Path and High Castle pretty disappointing

Gomorrah was good as a movie, don't know if I see the appeal of a whole series

Girlfriend Experience was surprisingly deep imo and very well acted. ultimately not particularly prurient and walked a complicated line.

otm, I hope s2 is just as knotty and difficult (if not moreso, somehow)

Casual is pretty passable, v. Jason Reitman-y (he directed some of it)

I watched the Channel Zero pilot thinking it was an episode-anthology series a la Black Mirror; when I figured out it wasn't I lost interest quickly. That story just didn't seem remotely interesting enough to sustain a season, much as I love Paul Schneider.

First season of Gomorrah was A++ and better than the movie.

Yeah I keep hearing it's good, but the movie was pretty punishing. Is there any levity in the series?

the shallow appeal of the Gomorrah series is simply escalating stylish gangster ultra-violence, and it isn't shy of killing main characters. And the gritty Naples urban squalor is beautiful. It is completely ridiculous, but I'm up for S3.

Man In The High Castle is pretty good but it's v chill & easy to forget about if you have a bunch of other good shows to watch.

Like, my thing with Mad Men was that it was gorgeous to look at but it really didnt give a fuck if you watched or not. It's not trying too hard to grab you. High Castle is the same way. But it's pretty worthwhile if you hang with it

I liked High Castle Season 1; haven't started Season 2 yet.
Also liked The Path and am looking forward to Season 2 next month.

Just started S2 of High Castle. It's... fine.

I'm in a minority that would be more interested in the everyday workings of an occupied America than the romance and intrigue route they've gone.

forks u watch too much tv

― Mordy, Tuesday, September 30, 2014 3:48 PM (two years ago)

I don't watch quite as much, and mostly just genre TV, but here's how I'd rate the 2016 series I've seen:

GREAT
Better Call Saul
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
iZombie
Agent Carter (except for the season 2 finale, which fell inexplicably flat)

GOOD
Stranger Things
Trollhunters
Supergirl
The Crown
Brooklyn 99

GOOD BUT NOT AS GOOD AS PREVIOUS SEASON(S)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The Flash
Lovesick
Fresh Meat
Bojack Horseman
Doctor Who (based on the one episode that aired this year)
Archer

MEH
Legends of Tomorrow
Fuller House
Luke Cage
Daredevil

YAY!
Lethal Weapon
Braindead
Great American Baking Show
Dirk Gently Holistic Detective Agency
The Crown
Luke Cage
Atlanta
You're the Worst
Stranger Things
Orphan Black
Preacher
Game of Thrones
People vs OJ Simpson
Gilmore Girls
RuPaul's Drag Race

YEP
The Flash
Brooklyn 99
Agents of Shield
Top Chef
Endeavour
American Horror Story: Roanoke
Project Runway (edging towards BAH)

BAH
Pitch
Conviction
Mr Robot
Timeless
Designated Survivor
Lucifer

Top tier:
Fleabag
Atlanta
You're The Worst
Silicon Valley

Next tier, still really good:
High Maintenance
Dream Corp LLC
Catastrophe

Stopped watching after a few eps that I remember:
Game of Thrones
Billions (fucking awful)
Mr. Robot S2

Watched all of Black Mirror S3, only one good episode but I was compelled

Started Elementary on Hulu, perfect show for having on while working

Haven't caught up with
Halt and Catch Fire S3

knocked out Crashing... good, but not nearly as good as Fleabag

best of the yr for me is something like

atlanta
fleabag
lady dynamite

prob stuff im forgetting, id put gf experience just slightly below that group

Best of the year:

Fleabag
Atlanta
Search Party
Insecure
Lady Dynamite
Better Things
Horace and Pete
The OA
Stranger Things
High Maintenance
Eric Andre Show

YAY!
Lethal Weapon

This boggles my mind, even the ep that was basically a Terriers reunion was terrible

my top 10 is something like

The Americans
The Girlfriend Experience
Atlanta
Horace and Pete
Fleabag
Bojack Horseman
Made in America
Superstore
Catastrophe
The Good Place

I'll also rep for Lethal Weapon. It's obviously not The Wire but for a family type police procedural it's an awful lot of fun.

I really wanted to root for it because I love Clayne Crawford and his fabulous hair but it's just TOO dumb. Also would be majorly improved w/ the younger Wayans.

I'd never been a fan of Wayans previously but have warmed to him in this.

NO you're too dumb

:D

younger wayans? wtf. the whole POINT is that he's old

it scratches my Burn Notice itch perfectly

Also enjoying S2 of TMITHC but really wish Amazon/Netflix would put together some sort of 20 minute highlights of a show's previous season as I'm usually crap at remembering what happened a year ago.

the whole POINT is that he's old

yes but younger Wayans is actually funny sometimes, fair tradeoff imo

new Lethal Weapon is a pretty decent show

Oh yeah, Planet Earth is one of the best shows of 2016 for sure. Seems to be underrated.

The only things I really FOLLOWED this year that weren't Adult Swim rebroadcasts of previously-existing shows were Luke Cage and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, both of which were great.

just knocked out Chewing Gum, which I think came out this year on Netflix in the US? Really good.

Oh yeah, Planet Earth is one of the best shows of 2016 for sure. Seems to be underrated.

Assume that last bit is sarcasm?

it scratches my Burn Notice itch perfectly

Will definitely need to check this out then.

Hey groovypanda, I should have said "Seems to be underrated round these parts" cuz I haven't heard much discussion. Total fail on my part

Oh now I found the PE thread - oh jeez.

Just started Man in the High Castle season 2.

Finally catching up with Deadwood - I was all set to give up on it, then Ricky Jay showed up.

still my all-time fave tbh

finally catching up in Rectify, goddamn i love this show

I know opinions are divided, but The OA is probably the best new show I've seen since Enlightened.

everyone is talking about it but i can't figure out what it's about / what it's like?

about 10 episodes long, like a root canal

i'm going in on Search Party

just finished Atlanta, loved it

Caught up with most of Jon Glaser Loves Gear and it must be added to all 2016 lists. Did not realize it was going to get as weird as Delocated.

It's a good tide-over till Review gets back.

i'm about to start watching OG MacGuyver again, it's showing on MeTV at 5pm and 9pm weekdays.

been catching lots of classic sitcoms. saw an "I Love Lucy" where she dressed up as chiquita banana and lip and had a choreographed dance synced to an off-screen record, which of course gets switched to 2x speed and she has to perform in maddening doubletime.

also saw "The Love Boat". that show is pretty pervy w the 70s T&A, at one point they even had to blur something out.

Anyone watching "Alone"? A bunch of contestants are trying to survive in Patagonia while filming themselves in total isolation. Some wicked resourceful humans on this one.