Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

I'm still watching The Strain

it's good popcorn television

I'm not the only one then.

This season definitely better than the last one (and the execrable Season 2)

Watched the first episode of Ozark and haven't felt compelled to watch more. It seems wilfully dour.

― chap, Tuesday, September 5, 2017 11:41 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I made it through two and not even my love for Jason Bateman could compel me to go further. SPOILER: I think I'd have been more willing to stick with it if they didn't immediately set up Bateman as a cuckold. The idea of a family that actually likes each other navigating drug cartels and meth heads sounds way more appealing, like it could have had some Justified vibes potentially. instead we get basically a sad carbon copy of Breaking Bad.

lol cuckold
Yeah would be good if they liked each other from the off and stayed liking each other and that didn't change. Character development sucks.

it *is* bleak though and with some 'oh god they're not going to go there are they' fake-outs which are getting a bit wearing.

I'm just saying, I've seen enough shitty marriages on prestige TV to last me 10,000 lifetimes.

you're the worst premiere tonight

:D

Would have been totally okay with the show completely switching to Jimmy's Desert Stories and not going back to LA.

scruff Jimmy is kinda hott. way more-so than normal shitty Jimmy

Casual has a pretty strong run in the second season, less broadly comedic than most of the first season. Almost gets too dark near the end.

That desert ep was v pretty visually

yeah it had a nice yellowy warmth

good place is hilar

s2 starts 09/20!

:D

My wife and I just finished s1 of good place. Had some good lols.

Just finished s1 of preacher too and what a weird fun mess it is. Finale has me intrigued to watch s2.

yeah Preacher is so weird i love it

I've heard s2 is an improvement?

i'm surprised by how little i liked the first episode of The Deuce. all the corniest elements of the wire.

I liked it idk

I hope it's good but writers always always ALWAYS get the porn business wrong so I'm going in extremely skeptical.

I didn't love the first episode either. Hoping it gets better. I don't know if I want to watch a(nother) show loaded up with casual violence against women.

Pelecanos was on The Watch podcast, and mentioned that each season is going to jump forward quite a bit. Next season will be in the eighties.

first ep felt like what it was: two white male television writers in their sixties trying to explain the impact of pornography on american culture
dunno if i, or anyone, needs that right now

well they're not unaware of that

“Our intentions are good, but we’re still a couple of middle-aged white, straight guys,” Pelecanos explained. “And no matter what we did, it was going to come out being the boys’ version of pornography, you know? Unless we preempted that and brought in some different voices.” Writers Megan Abbott and Lisa Lutz, among others including a gay writer and a transgender writer, joined the staff. Half of the show’s directors were women, including Michelle MacLaren of “Breaking Bad.”

“We were trying to really get as much argument in the room as we can, because that’s when we do our best work ― when there’s a lot of argument and difference of opinions,” Pelecanos added. The show employed a full-time researcher, and solicited input from former sex workers, porn actors, directors, police officers and journalists. Gyllenhaal’s script notes were some of the most valuable of all ― providing an added depth to her character beyond what the creators had initially imagined.

we are digging iZombie's Buffy/Bones mashup style, very entertaining with some snappy dialogue

"they did mountaineering, skydiving, all the -ings"

Izombie is great!

xp, maybe it'll get more interesting once they get away from the pilot. i don't much trust gyllenhaal tbh.

or franco honestly! he's pretty distracting, as is the parade of wire actors who i'm happy to see getting paid but otherwise mostly pulled me out of the narrative thread by me continually going "oh hey it's slim charles!"

This show has a lot of strikes against it, two of them played by James fucking Franco. I'd say the chances of me watching the second episode are about 20% at this point.

So happy to have broad city back but my number one rn is difficult people. Fav quote from last week went something like:

'Julie, there's pubes in the nook and the swiffer just ain't doing it. I've got to go.'
'No, wait! Let me describe my butt some more.'

Anyone watch/watching the French TV show Le Bureau? (it is avail to stream for free on SundanceTV). I don't normally go for spy thriller/espionage but it's very well done, gripping and well-written. Definitely more of a slower paced, cerebral LeCarre vibe than a high octane action one. There hasn't been much attention given to it (at least in the English speaking press - to be fair it's not on a major network or anything), but it's a very solid show and I'm halfway through a binge of season 2.

Here's an article on it from earlier this year. Curious if anyone else is into it.

http://www.vulture.com/2017/06/the-bureau-sundance-tv-how-to-watch.html

finally catching up with you're the worst season three, no idea why the writing fell off a cliff in the second half

i'm guessing they ran out of ideas? anyway the paul/whatever the name of the other horrible guy is camping episode was insufferable

i like difficult people but julie klausner (who i like as a "personality") is the worst thing about it. billy eichner is good, cole escola and andrea martin are amazing

basically everything else has been at least entertaining but everyone keeps falling into arbitrary epiphanies (my dad's dead so i'm gonna....build a treehouse!..which is gonna cause me to...reevaluate all of my relationships!)

xp

tbh the aimlessness of a lot of the back half was redeemed by the season-ending music cue cause I'm just that much of a sucker

oh i'm guessing the finale is a knockout, haven't gotten there yet

also how annoying was the wedding episode with the caterers... hiding cocaine???

far cry from the second half of season two, especially "lcd soundsystem"

yeah the Edgar-centric ep was the high point of s3 iirc

Is anyone else watching the last season of Halt and Catch Fire aka the show with the coolest music supervision on tv

Wedding episode was okay because of the Odd Future crew

yeah the Edgar-centric ep was the high point of s3 iirc

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, September 15, 2017 8:44 AM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that one is real good

bureau des legendes is AWESOME.

S3 just finished on french tv this summer and is already out on DVD

I an watching h+cf! But I’m a few episodes behind so don’t have much to say rn.

late pass but gravity falls a+++++

Gravity Falls ruled but the ending was super abrupt, didn't feel that universe was anywhere near exhausted yet

was thinking last night that an ilx serialized animation old school poll would be fun. we haven't done that before right?

Gotta agree with the bureau des légendes love, its great

Xpost to NA:
I've never taken the time to see who writes the show but Julie has some great lines. I do agree she's the least interesting character though.