Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

Stuff I Liked A Lot This Year:
Chernobyl (HBO)
Ramy (Hulu)
Fleabag (Amazon) (Season 2 only)
The Expanse (Amazon)
Bosch (Amazon)
Billions (Showtime)
Letterkenny (Hulu) (Seasons 1-4 only; I bailed eventually)
Killing Eve (Hulu) (Season 1 only)
Bonusfamiljen (Netflix)

Stuff That Was OK:
Stumptown (ABC/Hulu) (stopped watching when I let my Hulu subscription lapse)
Evil (CBS)

Stuff I Fucking Hated:
Succession (HBO)

oh yeah Bosch is tight, but i still haven't watched past S3.

i'm limited by my Amazon/Netflix/HBOGO access. i sometimes try to catch up to shows much later if they arrive on one of those options.

Are there more than 20 of you who would like to do a 2019 TV poll?

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, December 2, 2019 4:45 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i would definitely be down, gonna need to jog my memory about what i actually did watch this year

me too

id do

what the hell is Ramy

Oh, Ramy is fucking hilarious.

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

i am down for a poll!

I'd definitely vote in a poll

Looking forward to the new Expanse next week to provide some relief on the day the UK likely shoots itself in the head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DemM7UGmIg

^ interesting for the periods where it changes a lot, and for the periods where it doesn't change.

also has a few things that didn't really make it to uk.

i had to look up a bunch of these. I had no clue what NCIS, Cold Case or Chasing Amy are.

Judging Amy.

first ep of Goliath S3 is tremendous

lmao I chronicled this earlier but I thought it was so bad it made me quit the show on the spot

oh man i loved it. quaid so deliciously evil. they've always had these cartoonishly malevolent villains.

and... ileana douglas!!!! this show has always had such incredible women in it.

"looks like the nut business is swingin..."

There's so much about this that reminds me of Breaking Bad. The southwest desert locations, the inventive camerawork, the mile-wide surreal streak, the cartoonish villains, the selfishness and venality, the beating pulpy noir heart. It's got better/stronger/more interesting women in it. I guess the big difference is that it's good guys/bad guys rather than a 'conflicted' lead and I have to say it's fucking refreshing. I love Billy Bob so much. 'I'm going to sue your ass in Blackwood County, you bet your ass I will'. GO OFF KING

mrs fletcher is good, the porn stuff is a lil reductive but otherwise all the characters are really strong in their own way imo idk im digging it a lot

okay, let's do this.
Best TV/Web/Streaming Series of 2019 - Poll Nominations Closing January 5

using a Showtime trial and I’m getting into On Becoming a God in Central Florida

not everything is clicking for me a couple episodes in, but the deeply cynical turn that happens early in the series is amazing and Kirsten Dunst is killing it

Started the end of the fucking world.

I don’t know. Why would he want to kill this girl who likes him?

Obvs thats kind of a dumb question. But he seems less plausible psychologically than the girl. Her performance is honestly quite good.

Work in Progress on Showtime's first episode was really good. Like really really good! I'm kind of excited by how good it is out the gate.

they should probably change the title

probably; it appears to refer to the hero's journey but it comes off sounding confused.
it's very sharp.

Just started the BBC 2 show "Mum"
Expect I'll knock out all three seasons before Monday.
Why didn't anyone tell me about this? It's very well written and beautifully acted; perfect domestic dramedy theater.

oh and the second episode of work in progress cements it as a wonder for me; love what it's doing in every way.

(or is Mum considered uncool in the uk for some reason)

I haven't seen Mum but it's on my list. Annoyingly the pan-BBC search that powers iPlayer won't find it so i have to use the A-Z listing.

Tonight I watched the first episodes of both Shrill and Work in Progress and both were fucking excellent, and both weirdly had small parts for Julia Sweeney, looking exactly the same in each one.

i knocked out all three seasons of mum pretty quick; if you like Shrill and Work in Progress, you'll love mum

All three are great!

I can't be bothered to google, so what's Work In Progress, and where can I watch Shrill?

Work in Progress is a dark comedy on Showtime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai8TD3aFn8M

Shrill is on Hulu

Shrill also on iPlayer

Ooh thanks

re: julia sweeney and the legacy of Pat
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/arts/television/julia-sweeney-pat-snl.html

It’s also on the BBC tv app thing!

Shrill, that is.

Just started The Witcher and it's extremely entertaining so far

^^^ we loved it

I can't watch The Witcher because a) the name sounds like a thrash metal band from South America and b) Henry Cavill looks like one of those rubber human-shaped sparring dummies come to life.

I couldn’t deal with that stringy video game hair.

y’all missing the r-rated Xena, Warrior Princess you never knew you needed

Yeah, that's a thing I definitely don't need.

I need to pick The Witcher back up. I watched one episode and had to look up what was going on.

and then I fell down a rabbithole of how action dudes do a several day course of dehydration to look really ripped for big scenes.

guys, motherfucking POTTERY THROW DOWN is back on!

I read in the NYT yesterday that there were 532 scripted series on TV in the USA last year.

Fuck off, television.

First episode of Avenue 5 was generally good. Not as many jokes as an episode of Veep but will definitely keep watching.