Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

ulysses otm

seems like they also forgot the jokes on this season too, the key bit was probably the funniest part

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Kinda hope they get to make a movie or something to tie up where the end of season 2 leaves the series, as I guess it is cancelled. Second season was good, but it had more sadness and less zany from some of the side characters like the Rowdy 3 and Bart.

getting caught up on better things, which i like a lot, but is exactly louie m/l btw (and im fine w/), & the eulogy ep is overrated imo

XP maybe the worst thing to never have appeared on screen tbj

Autocorrect - ever

johnny crunch otm

man, marvelous mrs. maisel is really good!

deems you’ve never been more wrong Dirk is gr8

Ya Ive only seen S1 but I loved it! But I can see why the Dirk actor/character could grate on some people.

s2 conceptually is even weirder than s1, v enjoyable!

I have been meaning to check it out but the involvement of the toxic writer kid has kind of poisoned me, now

yeah that is a large downside, no question

No ur wrong VG

U r

um no its gr8 yr wrong
it had to happen sooner or later deems

I am not starting a TV show/vg thread to mirror the tombot/movie one and I don't care what u attempt

Tell you what tho VG

Mindhunter is really clumsy and flawed but unabomber one is very good.

Don't @ me

I'm going in on Dark

deems did u just wake up rong today

actualol

Specifically asked u not to @ me iirc

Deems fell out of the challopian tube today

i mean it
i’m worried about u

You are not. If I started agreeing with all and sundry you might be tho.

Mindhunter and manhunt unabomber is def worth a compare/contrast tho.

manhunt unabomber = protagonist surrounded by a papers spread out on the floor every 20 minutes
it wasn’t BAD but it was v spoonfeeding & more mediocre than i wanted

I felt exactly that about the other. I think unabomber is more compelling and much more even in tone.

Mindhunter is like glee but for murderers

who hurt u

Hahaha

in other tv news i started This Is Us

i can’t decide if I like it or if my skeleton wants to leave my body

but I am here bcz of Sterling K Brown and here i will stay

I couldn’t take that show. And that’s coming from a Parenthood lover.

Mrs Maisel was indeed one of the best things on tv this year. The only iffy thing about it was having Lenny Bruce as a character.

Like, I wanted that show to just go on forever.

i really liked the Lenny Bruce character.

xp I'm with you. I thought the guy doing lenny bruce had the voice down and was a decent actor but his physicality seemed cartoonish. in any case, having saint lenny as a deus ex machina is fine with me.
Brilliant casting, great writing. I knew Borstein was a giant but Shaloub was a revelation. Occasionally too long on the Gilmore-y repartee but otherwise scripted perfectly. I only occasionally got in front of the plot. Would've been happy to binge another eight episodes tonight.

all of her shows i want to go on forever. rip bunheads

agree

Agree.

Yeah, the Lenny Bruce character just always jarred me. He was fine, but he could've just been a fictional character and nothing would be loss. The costumes...*swoon*.

otm. just outrageously, insensibly fabulous. you could have a museum exhibition dedicated to the clothing of S1.

my list of 2017 favs looks something like this (haven't seen deuce, halt 'n catch fire, or new twin peaks)

Leftovers
Bojack
Legion
Good Place
Better Call Saul
Rick & Morty
Master of None
Feud
American Gods
Mrs Maisel

other great shows that didn't quite reach that level include American Vandal, Lady Dynamite, Sneaky Pete, BLL, B99, Fargo

2017 12 best of the year for me
Always Sunny
Better Call Saul
Great British Baking Show
Rick and Morty
Insecure
Difficult People
One Mississippi
Nathan for You
SMILF
The Rundown with Robin Thede
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Billy on the Street

Runner ups
Love You More (bummed this ain't gonna get picked up)
Brockmire
Baroness Von Sketch
Better Things
The Good Place
At Home with Amy Sedaris
The President Show

Well prepared Broccoli
PBS Newshour
Jeopardy
Ken Burns Vietnam

Enjoyable trash watching
Top Chef
Ink Masters
Rosehaven
Desus and Mero
Colbert's Late Show

Flawed or broken but worth noting nevertheless
Adventure Time (spiraling down, needs to be put out of its misery)
I Love Dick (went kerflewey after the sixth episode but great until then)
Full Frontal (doesn't make good use of the cast, can't maintain a regular schedule, feeling less cutting)
Game of Thrones (not a great show anymore, kinda hatewatching like the last few seasons of mad men)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (how you say, "problematic")
Search Party (last three episodes were a horrible belly flop)
The Americans (had the feeling of half a season extended to a full season, hoping it bounces back next year)

OK so my best from this year a la Ulysses (btw RS just told me recentl ywho you are and it all makes sense now. I thought you were someone new! :) )

2017 Best

Fleabag
Chewing Gum
SMILF
Nathan for You
Difficult People
You're the Worst
Complicated
Love

Actual Trash but I love it anyway

90 Day Fiance
Before the 90 Days

Show I should like but hate so much because it's depressing as shit and not even a little bit funny

Easy

Oh and I love Shameless so that's on there too even though I think it definitely peaked years ago.

been rewatching key episodes of The Good Wife on Netflix and man when that show was at its peak it was so fucking good

Find it odd there's rumours for a 3rd season of search party. Seems utterly pointless based on how it ended

I have decided I’m not going to keep trying to watch This Is Us. I dont care if America loves it.

It’s like bad, corny Parenthood but it thinks it’s on some mindblowing Inception-level story construction.

And the big guy Toby. NO. everything about his character’s behaviour gives me hives. I feel this need leave the room or stand outside during his scenes, whatever grand gesture he’s making or whatever illadvised hat he’s wearing to a party.

Yeah, I'm out, too. I was hanging on for Randall and Beth, but everything else about that show blows dead dogs in the street. I might come back if they promised me that Kevin would get hit in the face with either a brick or a baseball bat every single episode, without fail. But if they ever skipped an episode, I'd be gone again.

I watched one episode of that schlock fest and nope octopussed the hell out of there.

Should I watch the Gilmore Girls? I know, I know but they just talk so fucking fast and unrealistically that it always put me off.

keep going but watch at 0.7x speed

Then watch Rectify at 1.3x speed

was there a new season of fleabag in 2017?

sadly there was not

Probably not but it was new to me in 2017 and it was great.