Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

i watched the first ep of search party last night what is up w/ that sex scene

lol. reminded me a little of a similar sex scene in s1e1 of breaking bad

Doesn't really feel like a 'show' that I'd put on a 'favorite shows' list but the Leah Remini Scientology thing has been pretty brutal viewing and is highly recommended. It's going much deeper than the Going Clear documentary (still haven't gotten around to the book) wrt showing both the extent to which people's lives are torn apart by Scientology (never heard about the Sea Org forced abortions before) and the extent to which David Miscarriage is a complete abomination of a human being.

i finished You're the Worst, very disappointing season. it cratered.

i think i hit some saturation pt where i now just ignore all scientology content but that does sound p good

agree re: youre the worst, i stopped watching midway thru this season

the last few episodes got very shitty and explicitly dudebro. all the characters plots are disorganized and pointless.

i really liked Search Party.

i thought you're the worst was good - not as great as the previous season but not "cratering" idk

I agree w that, not as good but still v v good

Completely freaked at the season closing music cue

i was pissed off at the "my body my choice" gags, the disposal of a lead character because she "wasn't good enough" and the definite feeling that they lost the thread of the story.

Search Party was great fun.

right?? it was like a great 90s indie movie.

Good enough that I'm still watching about halfway through weird af tho but a much better imo document of millennial malaise/life than Girls.

Anyone else watch Colony?

Great Season 2 opener

first episode of sneaky pete is promising; i'm mostly in it for the justified class reunion

Watched the first two, didn't grab me. For the folks involved, it should be loads better.

Enjoyed No Offence from the start last week.
Hadn't watched it before.
Shady goings on in a Manchester police squad by a writer who did Cracker among others.

xp to Simon: two reviews I've read suggested it warms up after the first few episodes, if that matters to you. I'll eventually report back.

Alone
Humans
Curb your Enthusiasm
It's Always Sunny

re: Search Party, looking forward to season 2!

first episode of sneaky pete is promising; i'm mostly in it for the justified class reunion

who aside from martindale is from justified? I watched a few episodes over the weekend, not sure if I'm gonna stick with it

Graham Yost is the exec producer; several of the episodes are written by justified writers as well

Jacob Pitts (Tim) and Brad William Henke (Coover) have significant roles, plus other actors show up in smaller roles.

Anyone watching 'Search Party'? It's on all4 online for UK ppl. It's got Alia Shawkat and is like a weird Girls crossed with a missing persons drama. Titles music is Purity Ring.

oh hang on everyone was talking about it 3 weeks ago. anyway that ummmm former flatmate of the missing girl is/was amazing (I'm only up to that episode)

Started it last night
The lead is great. The supporting cast...kinda touch and go

Watched Search Party till the end, and it started to feel like torture porn with moneyed assholes instead of rusty spikes

Also too many scenes of people shouting at each other, which gave me dark fringe theatre flashbacks

Shawkat is great though, deserved better

555 is a pay-to-watch vimeo series starring Kate Berlant and John Early and both of them are pretty great.
4 bucks for 5 11 minute episodes; it's basically High Maintenance pricing. On sale end of the month.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/fivefivefive

Currently on network/non-streaming stuff I like:
Full Frontal
Always Sunny
Adventure Time
Billy on the Street
Top Chef
PBS Newshour
Jeopardy

Garbage TV i am watching and shouldn't be watching:
Workaholics
Jeff and Some Aliens
Baskets

Stuff I'll try out soon enough:
Face Off
Taboo
Mercy Street
Riverdale
Powerless
Superior Donuts
Detroiters
Legion
People Just Do Nothing
Nirvana
Imposters

i couldn't get into search party but iirc and the reason I tried it was cuz one of the creators made the movie 'fort tilden' which I really liked. its v comparable to a long-er form broad city. its on prime. I may have said this all before when search party was 1st discussed idk

Face Off rules fyi

As does Baskets!

Finished Goliath on Amazon - better than I thought it was gonna be. Two episodes into Sneaky Pete and so far it's OK. Ribisi is less annoying than usual.

And The Path is back on Hulu, which I'm happy about. I liked the first season.

Goliath is sort of terrible but also incredibly entertaining, the supporting female cast makes it

Yeah, the female cast was uniformly great, even the small roles like the file-clerk lady Thornton hires.

for those curious about Girlfriend Experience s2, this sounds pretty dope:
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/the-girlfriend-experience-3-1201970846/

Kind of disappointed it won't pick up where S1 left off but will def watch anyway

Watched the pilot of Colony, interest piqued. Anyone seen it and know whether it's worth the slog? Enjoying the combination of dystopia + hot middle-aged actors.

And it seems like it's serious without being fucking miserable like the Walking Dead.

I really enjoyed the pilot for Powerless. Danny Pudi appears to be a walking charisma generator.

Legion looks pretty good, I'm intrigued by Detroiters, the comedy central developed by and starring the dude who plays Richard in Veep and Tim Robinson, formerly of SNL

*comedy central show

Watched the pilot of Colony, interest piqued. Anyone seen it and know whether it's worth the slog? Enjoying the combination of dystopia + hot middle-aged actors.

Yes, it's really good.

Takes a little while to get going but was probably my favourite sci-fi show last year (along with The Expanse) and second season has (so far) taken it up another notch again

I really enjoyed the pilot for Powerless. Danny Pudi appears to be a walking charisma generator.

I feel the exact opposite about both of these things.

Top Chef is good again, I'm happy about that.

otm

Legion looks good, Impostors doesnt look bad either

Legion has the potential to be good tv, given the producer, and batshit crazy, given the source material

mr veg read the rundown to me & i got p confused p fast lol

things that don't matter they'll probably drop: he's Charles Xavier's kid with an Israeli diplomat

what they'll keep: he's a mutant with dissociative identity disorder. each identity has its own powers, and they don't get along

Legion looks pretty good, I'm intrigued by Detroiters, the comedy central developed by and starring the dude who plays Richard in Veep and Tim Robinson, formerly of SNL

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