Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

I burned through the first 4 episodes of Legion this weekend because they had been bumped from my DVR and I wanted to catch them before they disappeared.

holy shit

:D

glad to have you with us on the Legion bus

I loved the pilot but never got around to watching the rest due to life etc, then jjj told me in a passing convo "hey did you know Legion is getting removed from streaming services this month" and I had my mission

I love LOVE but I feel like her character's dialogue was was lifted from the Big Brother 1. Gus is pretty great at diffusing it though.

I keep meaning the start a thread where I live blog BB1. What a pretentious bunch of assholes we all were.

Starting Brockmire, first minutes are encouraging.

Legion is on Hulu now. I'm...considering it, though I'm worried it's just gonna wind up being more superhero shit, arted up a little.

I don't really like Legion but it's definitely not that

The pilot is worth seeing, at least (as are the next three episodes; haven't made the leap to the rest of it yet)

oh my god this new season of Decker is incredible already

The pilot is worth seeing, at least (as are the next three episodes; haven't made the leap to the rest of it yet)

If you stop there you're missing out on two of the best episodes of television in recent years

Yeah, it's a really good show. I've only read four of the books, but the TV version of Bosch is a much more appealing character. The book version is a prick.

― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, May 17, 2017 3:37 PM (two weeks ago)

Book version is less of a prick than tv version. The tv version is way more speechifying and sanctimonious. Each season basically combines parts of 3 different books, though they've been emphasizing the mom angle more in the show than it comes up in the books. It is a bit odd seeing Marlo Stanfield playing the LA version of Bunk Moreland, which makes me wonder if that characterization is a bit based on the J. Edgar character from the books ...

like some variant of J Edgar in books ---> Wendell Pierce's portrayal of Bunk Moreland ---> Marlo's portrayal of J Edgar

I don't know why but I've always imagined Bosch as Jon Polito in Homicide.

I tried the Legion pilot. I lasted 13 minutes.

Currently watching Fortitude Season 1 on Amazon. It looks fantastic (it's shot in Iceland, I think), but they're introducing a different suspect in the central murder every episode (I'm four deep now) and it's getting a little old.

fuuuuuck S3 of bureau des légendes is on RIGHT NOW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZBj8UiMxN0

and i live in FRANCE yet i cannot watch it why cause canal+

s1 and 2 are all-time preposterously entertaining spy TV

haaaa i watched 8 episodes of s3 in two evenings, only two left. it is still v entertaining spy tv. this is basically the only show that all my friends watch.

not subscribing to c+ just for this

i am hoping for a quick DVD release basically :(

not gonna lie i may have been getting it through illegal means

i won't lie i looked! but came up empty at my usual places

french tv shows rarely show up online in the usual spots tbh, it's annoying. i had friends put it on a hard drive for me but i can give you the torrent website they used if you're interested (t411)

finally started s3 of Fargo; it's great. wish i had been watching this instead of the extended empty fart that The Americans became.

Brockmire and The Girlfriend Experience have turned out to be great. (The latter is much less softcore-porny than you'd expect from Starz, I promise.)

both are great, yeah.

I will take any chance I can to rave about The Girlfriend Experience. I'm excited for s2.

Is there particular seasons of Fargo that are worth watching? Started season 1 and it wasn't doing it for me

imo not really

if u dont like s1 youre prob not gonna like any of it

yup

Eh, that's not true. I vastly preferred s2 to s1. Still haven't started s3 tho.

You can prefer one to the other but the style of the show is the same throughout.

I watched season 2 and liked it a lot until the last two episodes, which shit the bed in a really garish way. Haven't seen 1 or 3 for precisely that reason.

I have a visceral dislike/distrust of Noah Hawley in general, extending even to Legion.

that nbc show good news is p funny, I finally watched a couple after saving them all on my dvr

lol my bad 'great news'

The Victorian Slums is enjoyable. Reality show; first episode sets the families in 1860s London in a replica of then times, with each family facing the abject poverty of the times.

Enjoyed that when it was on the BBC although it ran out of steam by the end.

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No love for Nirvanna the band the show?

i love it

Countess von sketch, now on ifc in the states, is pretty great. Feels like kids in the hall.

The only show I'm actively keeping up with right now is Hunter x Hunter

Anyone else watch Ozark? Kinda like it.

The timing could not be worse for an adaptation of Mr. Mercedes, but the show itself, or at least the pilot, rules.

watching the new season of difficult people pretty much solely for andrea martin and cole escola

Nothing for me right now but Twin Peaks, Difficult People, and Rick and Morty, but very stoked for the imminent returns of:

Bojack Horseman (rewatching has convinced me of its genius)
Nathan For You
The Girlfriend Experience

what's the deal with rick and morty
people who seem cool seem to like it
but it looks ... bad
i haven't actually watched it

Its fans are at least half obnoxious but it's maybe the only actually funny comedy on right now (beyond The Carmichael Show which I guess is over soon?)

but it's like another depressed cartoon show right

Watch it as soon as it's on:
- Baroness Von Sketch
- Great British Baking Show
- Rick and Morty
- Insecure
- Difficult People

Modern life demands:
- Full Frontal (when it's on and even then reality is too weird to keep up with just lately)
- Colbert's Late Show monologue (see above)

sorta watching with some degree of engagement but god knows why:
- Game of Thrones
- PBS News Hour
- Ink Masters

Given up:
- Adventure Time
- Last Week Tonight
- People of Earth
- Carmichael Show

Shit I tried watching that I'm not proud of:
- The Sinner
- The Guestbook
- The Chris Gethard Show
- Claws
- I'm Sorry
- Wrecked

Eventually i suppose since i'm paying for the goddamn streaming service:
- American Gods
- Hard Knocks
- Big Little Lies
- Twin Peaks
- Handmaid's Tale
- Black Sails
- Atypical
- Room 104
- The Night of
- The Tick

Upcoming of interest:
- Broad City
- Ken Burn's Vietnam
- The Deuce
- AHS: Cult (i mean, i could generally give a fuck but what a weird lineup and premise)
- You're the Worst (but goddamn, last season was bad)
- One Mississippi
- Top of the Lake
- Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
- Better Things
- Nathan For You
- Star Trek Discovery (i guess?)
- The Good Place
- The Girlfriend Experience
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- At Home with Amy Sedaris
- Stranger Things