Top 77 Television and Streaming Video Series of 2019

save us (again) forks

did anyone watch chernobyl? are all the voters out to lunch?

dying of cancer iirc

great show, I give it five bags of popcorn and maybe throw in a little Geiger counter because this show is so hot, it's practically radioactive

it had everything: action, drama, comedy, suspense and dancing

Bonus points for going full JFK in the last ep.

are we talking about the comedy show or Chernobyl?

yes

another jean claude van damme movie with golf lungrend

speaking of this has got to be the peak of the OC opening segments

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

whoops, i appear to have gotten #9 wrong.

https://i.imgur.com/pXGGHMH.jpg
#9 - I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (Netflix) - 130 points, 13 votes

i think you should leave with tim robinson

I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson on Netflix Website

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xS9Y_mjTjc

Top three on the way

too low

my #1

lol, A+ fakeout

did anyone watch chernobyl? are all the voters out to lunch?

― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Saturday, February 15, 2020 7:46 AM (eighteen minutes ago)

fuck this union-busting creep btw

On Cinema's prescience crosses over to Decker in that the alternating squinting / open-pursed lips acting range is exactly exactly Trump's childlike notion of performative toughness

definitely disagree with Mr America as a capsule summary of On Cinema for newbie btw, though it probably works fine as a tiny weird stand-alone


I lost interest in Killing Eve pretty early on in s1 and no one seemed to think s2 was an improvement

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Saturday, February 15, 2020 2:52 AM (four hours ago)

S2 of Killing Eve was pretty poor. Surprised to see it so high

― groovypanda, Saturday, February 15, 2020 3:09 AM (three hours ago)

groovypanda otm

How does this compare to the film (which I liked)

― imago, Saturday, February 15, 2020 6:14 AM (forty minutes ago)

it's astounding how well it compares to the film. it's not quite as great, but keeps the tone perfectly, doesn't exhaust the premises, invents loads of great new wrinkles to the set-up and even to modern vampirism, and even manages to preserve a touch of the charming parochialism of the original despite being set in NYC.

ulysses there, linking the only really great sketch from that tim robinson thing :P

also, good to know re: Shadows!

fuck this union-busting creep btw

settle down, bud

feels like a good time to mention that Tim Heidecker's appearance on this show is incredible

The way I Think You Should Leave was meme'd told me that Mr. Show would have been huge if social media had been around in the 90s. Also, too low.

maybe the Instagram sketch is so great it justifies the show's position here

I didn't really get much else as hard (with a few exceptions) - too much mudpie, too much pandering to basic crudeness idk. maybe it'll grow on me if i finish the season

The way I Think You Should Leave was meme'd told me that Mr. Show would have been huge if social media had been around in the 90s.

totally though I think this show was designed with that in mind, there's a pretty conscious overlap between it and a lot of weird twitter stuff

I watched it all. It was fine. Not a fan. People I like a lot love it.

ulysses there, linking the only really great sketch from that tim robinson thing :P

― imago, Friday, February 14, 2020 4:08 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://media.giphy.com/media/UQIASPdRVXUjeOP6XK/giphy.gif

its definitely hit and miss but one advantage of the show is that the sketches actually end pretty quickly

on the thread someone posted the "Roundball Rock" sketch from SNL which I think demonstrates exactly what's wrong the show...the premise of the sketch is hilarious but once its revealed there's nothing left to do and yet they make it go on for 7 minutes anyway. ITYSL doesn't have that problem

like all sketch shows it has peaks and valleys but the peaks (steering wheel, the worms are their money, turbo time, etc) stuck in my head since the first viewing

I didn't really get much else as hard (with a few exceptions) - too much mudpie, too much pandering to basic crudeness idk. maybe it'll grow on me if i finish the season

― imago, Friday, February 14, 2020 2:11 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the episodes are 15 minutes long ffs

also the show is fucking brilliant and eminently rewatchable

the instagram sketch is great but i think... several are better. especially "fully-loaded nachos"

instagram sketch is def very good, but also probably the most conventional thing in the series.

the hot dog suit one

laser spine specialists

your family hates you! only i love you!

the Fred Willard sketch may be my favorite. next to the game show with "The Chunky"

i mean, even the "conventional" instagram sketch features the line "Slurping down fish piss with these two wet chodes"

the Fred Willard sketch may be my favorite. next to the game show with "The Chunky"

― frogbs, Friday, February 14, 2020 2:22 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

this one's somber, so it's all right to cry. it's called "he layeth on high," and it's about a big baby duck who gets his head caught in a stewed tomato

my condolences!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uy3e_1t4bs

no matter who you are, you've met howie

oh lol never mind the video in that clip freezes :(

i guess you'll never know about jazz legends like roy donk and tiny boop squig shorterly

ey, my gazpacho soup is heah

the will forte airplane sketch is another favorite, but i'm a sucker for will forte

https://i.imgur.com/Fg4jzqF.jpg
#3 - Barry (HBO) - 160 points, 17 votes

Bill Hader in HBO's Barry

Barry on HBO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir1_hjemxNA

good show

I appreciated that the ronny/lily episode of Barry showed up the massively hyped GoT episode that aired directly before it.

lol yes, that was an excellent moment in programming synergy

I Think You Should Leave was the funniest show of the year, the only one that made me laugh in truly unexpected ways.

gonna wrap this up before 5. Any thoughts on your top two and margin of victory?

watched s1 of barry, thought it was ok but the HBO antihero bullshit was starting to make me feel queasy, so i didn't watch s2

LetterKenny #1 lets gooooo