Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

Anyone else watching Counterpart? Thinking of starting a separate thread if there's interest...

I saw JK Rowling and parallel universes and sexy assassins as was like... maybe? Tell me more

Uh I mean JK Simmons

it’s a bit of a slow burn plot-wise but the character work is pretty decent. kind of sparse.

so far Barry seems like it might be ok, need more eps to decide

What’s with the legion hate? Sheesh

idk just wasnt for me. pretty sick of superhero stuff in general.

even superhero stuff by way of david lynch?

I thought Legion was interesting, but generally I find Noah Hawley's work a bit tropey and self-consciously "prestige", and it seemed like too much effort.

Although I also liked Westworld, so my opinion is meaningless.

Legion’s my favorite show in forever

my hatred of Legion and all things Hawley has been noted here before

right now I'm enjoying

Atlanta (easily the best thing on TV, by an embarrassing margin)
Magicians
Adventure Time (ending shortly!)
Superstore

tried to get into Counterpart, wasn't really working for me

my current faves that are running or recently ended:

Atlanta
High Maintenance
American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Counterpart

Not great, but guilty pleasures:
The Blacklist
Agents of SHIELD
The Mick

Starting soon and looking forward to it:
Legion
??

Enjoying:
AP Bio
Alienist
Lethal Weapon
Atlanta
Riverdale
Gotham
Assassination of Gianni Versace
Love

Like but only watching sporadically
Black Lightning
Flash
Agents of Shield (I hate the current offworld storyline)

Bored but will keep watching
Jessica Jones
Instinct

Nope
Good Girls

VG: spoilers, but that Shield storyline is no longer offworld!

I'm hoping Riverdale gains some momentum, I'm still watching it sporadically but nothing interesting is really going on

Riverdale is picking up again now imo

xpost thank fuck
i’m waaaay behind

my thing is that i get embarrassed when shows do offworld stuff that looks kinda cheap, it takes me out of the story so easily!

Didn't enjoy the Assassination of Versace much at all.

Yeah, Agents of SHIELD is really building towards the conclusion (given it's almost certainly not being renewed and the writers have said as much).

Riverdale went through a weak period but is picking up the pace again an did worth sticking with.

Hate Black Lightning, quite a lot.

i enjoyed versace just fine, especially the spotlight episodes on madson and trail and the final two episodes, but i thought that each episode was about 20% too bloated. we get it, andrew was fucked up.

wait wait wait i'm in the uk so forgive me but there's a second season of atlanta????

*checks imdb*

gaaaaaah there's a second season of atlanta

anyway, here's my list:

just finished:
gianni versace

really enjoying:
Brooklyn 99
Atlanta
Barry
Silicon Valley

watching halfheartedly, bout to finish:
Mindhunter

Bout to start:
Wild Wild Country
The Terror

Coming back:
Legion

Desperately need to catch up so i don't fall too far behind in the new season:
The Americans

I love Versace. I can’t put my finger on why exactly but I definitely enjoyed the mundane pathetic beats of Cunanan’s story

I think some of those moments might have connected better for me without the chronological trickery.

Overall, I thought it was really good and an important story to tell

I think it is good to remind people of how many people he murdered. People forget just how violent he was

On the cosy end of the spectrum, I'm enjoying Strike, the JK Rowling murder mystery hour. It's a bit like a cheesy indie-rock Midsomer Murders, but the two leads are agreeably dreamy and there's - unusually, for a BBC show - a lot of exterior London scenes, so it's fun to play guess-the-location. I wouldn't call it good, but it's v. v. watchable, like a Canadian show that's accidentally been filmed in the UK.

The Expanse back very soon too.

And Fear The Walking Dead but not sure anyone else watches that. It started very badly but the last season or two has been quite enjoyable and so much better than its parent show.

Also looking forward to the new Lemony Snicket as watch that with my kids who both loved the first season.

idk where to watch Atlanta s2 in the UK - anyone?

oh yeah, forgot that Lemony Snicket was coming back. I loved the first season, really captured the humor and macabre of the books

xp It's starting on Fox in the next month or two.

I couldn't wait that long so have been watching it elsewhere.

ah ok, you can get that on Now t.v., along with Silicon Valley I think.

I don't think Love is as good this season. :(

Yeah the only storyline I really liked was Bertie & Chris. Everything else felt kinda aimless & lowstakes for most of the season

I really loved this season of Love! But I think because the stakes were relatively low. And also I like that the show threatens cringiness, but then pulls back from it and redeems its characters. I also like that the characters learn and move on - v anti-sitcom in that regard.

I think it is good to remind people of how many people he murdered. People forget just how violent he was

apparently it still doesn't include his probable early victim, the publisher of Rock & Roll Comics (and subject of the seminal op-ed "Lying Sack Of Shit, Or Sack Of Lying Shit?")

One episode into S3 of Better Call Saul and the Mike scenes driving me nuts. That show is so original and genius, whenever it focuses on Jimmy and his world. But the Mike plots often feel like they're piped in from an entirely separate, really generic show. I'm sure their storylines will begin to intertwine again but sometimes it feels like the Breaking Bad producers couldn't decide which character to give the spinoff to, so they split the difference.

I agree that the Mike scenes feel like they're teleported in from a different show, but since that show is Breaking Bad, I don't mind so much.

As someone posted upthread somewhere, I could happily watch a full episode that's just Mike cleaning his kitchen.

I like the character. But "Insanely savvy guy who is wiser than everybody else and always figures things out" isn't interesting dramatically or narratively. Jimmy's conflicts, even though they're usually just job or family related, have so much more tension. That's what I associate with Breaking Bad, more than the seedy crime stuff.

yeah, but come on, it's not as if the hyper-stylized crime stuff wasn't part of the original BB formula. I agree that the original integrated that stuff much better into the overall storyline.

xxxpost - they were mainly using Orth’s book as their source material for the show & she doesn’t cover Laren’s death. From what little I know, I don’t think they officially started investigating Cunanan’s links to Laren’s murder until the early 00’s? Orth’s book came out in 1999, so I think that might explain the lapse. It is a shame though, there seem to be some pretty solid connections.
Maybe renewed interest in the Cunanan case overall will help get Laren’s cold case solved.

OK, the last couple eps of Love made me like it a little more. Will finish the season tonight and report back.

I'm interested to know what you think!

The last one I watched was where they were in N Dakota with his parents (ED!) and Mickey is now all pissed at Gus.

(covers mouth with both hands, muffled shouting)

keep me posted :D

This is the last season of Love! I think it might've been lacking a bit because they were trying to wrap up things well enough. I still envy the female leads' wardrobe and Mickey's apt.

*Mickey's house.

now that I've finished it I'm kind of annoyed that THAT's how they finish up but I'm not *super* mad so idk

It did seem a bit lazy but same^^^

I may be the last one, but I think I am finally ready to give up on the Walking Dead. I gave up on Fear like right after they got off the boat. I hated all the characters. I think I keep watching Walking Dead in hopes that Daryl and Rick finally hook up.

I quit WD a few seasons ago. I picked it up again when I saw what went down with Neegan and Abraham and Glenn etc but I only lasted a couple more episodes, I just could not be bothered with anyone anymore. :(