Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

Brockmire's back tonight

Watching Trapped on Amazon - an Icelandic murder mystery set in a small coastal town that's inaccessible due to a freak snowstorm. I'm 4 episodes in with 6 to go; when I'm done, I'll give The Handmaid's Tale season 2 a try.

I don't think I can deal with any more shows involving murder, mystery, or small towns. I had to bail on Dark pretty much immediately.

I made it through 8 minutes of Dark.

Which one is Dark? Is it a Netflix thing?

yeah, murder mystery in a small town plus time travel shenanigans. mainly my issue is the intense humorlessness

lol germans, right? :)

I did enjoy the first episode of Killing Eve, though slightly less than expected given it's a Phoebe Waller-Bridge joint

i thought dark was about as good as a small town child murder time travel mystery could be, although keeping track of who's who in one time period was a struggle, near impossible across three.

yea killing eve is good, nearly too stylish/winking for me but ill keep watching def

my main issue w/ Dark besides the tone was trying to tell all the stone-faced sad men apart from each other. just seemed tiring

Dark was fine even if there were no interesting characters and the final episode was nonsense.

Trapped is one of the best Scandis though

Ugh only the first ep of killing eve is free on the website :(

Trapped is SO good

Does anyone else watch the Handmaid's Tale? I kind of want to start a dedicated thread but I have a feeling I'll be the only one porting in it.

there is a thread with "handmaid's tale" in the name that it's being discussed in

personally I tried the first couple episodes and couldn't shake the feeling it was persecution porn for #resistance libs

Yeah I see your point and a lot of first season is like that but second season moves away from the novel and so far its really great.

I might give it a shot once The Americans is over and my grim drama slot opens up

Episodes of The City And The City are stockpiling up here but I haven't peeked. Anyone here watching?

The best thing I can say about The Looming Tower is that Tahar Rahim is an incredible actor.

Three Fox shows cancelled. Would have liked one more season of LMOE, Brooklyn 99 is still funny, and stopped watching The Mick, though I liked it OK.

http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/the-last-man-on-earth-the-mick-brooklyn-nine-nine-canceled-fox-1202800397/

The Expanse also cancelled and, if rumours are true, not looking good for Lethal Weapon.

LMOE can't have been helped by its bizarre scheduling but it seemed noticeable that the best episodes of recent seasons have been ones where the regular cast members are absent.

I’m mad about the Mick and LMOE for sure. Word is that a final season of LMOE will be shopped to Hulu at some point.

One other problem with LMOE was that Forte's character was frequently very annoying, which was his deal, but made the show hard to watch at times.

show got really stale and the characters are all very inconsistent.

for some reason I kept assuming that show lasted maybe two seasons and am confused when confronted with anything that contradicts that

I like the actors and everything, I just didn't get why it'd be an ongoing thing

heck of a cliffhanger to go out on tho.

yup

Lucifer is gone too, which I really enjoyed.

damn shows are getting axed left and right

things got pretty heated on set at Lethal Weapon apparently so I’m not surprised they cancelled. bummer tho, i liked Crawford & Wayans together & enjoy the show

;_; the Expanse tho ;_;

I am confused by what happened on the LW set but I hope Crawford gets good/better work more in line w/ Rectify

readimg btw the lines of the Deadline story it sounded like Crawford in one incident had a Christian Bale-flip-out-over-the-tiniest-thing reaction to noise nearby; and then got Wayans in the firing line of shrapnel while directing bcz he wasn’t paying enough attention? The crux tho is that the show is hampered by not having a laser-focused executive producer who can mediate the situation & run a tight ship to avoid dumb things like that. Stupid shit has been allowed to escalate & it’s hard to run a show that way. A shame, imo

Sorry for sounding like an Access Hollywood subreddit there, yeesh

Brooklyn 99 picked up by NBC!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/brooklyn-nine-nine-officially-revived-at-nbc-1111306

:D

*Crosses fingers for The Expanse*

Seems like Crawford was a complete ass then. Shame, as he's a great actor

http://www.vulture.com/2018/05/damon-wayans-tweets-about-on-set-injury-clayne-crawford.html

maybe he didn't get that he was supposed to be like the mel gibson on the set of the original lethal weapon, not like the mel gibson getting pulled over by a cop in real life

both involve cops, maybe easy to confuse

wow that is disappointing

Although the hysterical replies to those tweets are quite amusing/depressing #NoClayneNoWatch

Although I remember being devastated as a kid when I found out Ponch & Jon from Chips hated each other in real life

I remember hearing that Jon thought he was going to be the star/heartthrob with a Latino sidekick, but the more charismatic (and better looking) Ponch got most of the attention. My sisters got teen mags back then and Ponch had much more coverage.

Talk about self-delusion; Jon looked like a thumb in a blond wig.

otm

I'm dying up here, and Atlanta. these are the only two shows i can bear to watch nowadays

I just finished Atlanta S2, goddamn so good

i’m way behind on Expanse but loving it.
dragging it out now that its cancelled 😫

i’m still behind on Westworld. But less motivated to catch up. the blurry timeline thing is driving me fucking nuts. its so disorienting it makes me kinda angry

have we talked about Barry already? I was sort of on the fence bc storylines about acting have never been that interesting to me. then in ep3 Winkler had the line 'gum is at the REGISTER, Barry' and now I properly love it.

Can anyone remember the name of a french series that lasted two seasons where a bunch of kids die in a bus accident then come back to life and the dam they went off breaks?

les revenants

ah yes. thanks!