Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

I did not even know this show existed until I saw a commercial for it during The Good Place. 'Oh, hey! Tina Fey has a new sitcom! I had no idea! (internets for more details) And this show I would like to watch and have never heard of is in its second season! Congratulations once again on your complete incompetence, NBC!'

Fey didn't join the cast until this season, though. The first season it was a sitcom about a young news professional whose endearingly wacky mom comes to work at her job. It looked like pretty much the worst thing ever.

Fey's just finished a guest spot but was amazing.

I's a fun punchline machine, but the lead is the weakest link, and almost every character is a 30 Rock analogue. I like Andrea Martin but she's suuuuper broad. Overall it's improving but still has a while to go before it reaches Happy Endings levels of sucking-to-suddenly-being-awesome.

Ahhh, okay. Didn't notice it wasn't a Fey vehicle, but it is created and written by 30 Rock alumni so still potentially intersting.

hooray Dirk Gently is back

new mike judge cartoon is real good, cartoon depictions of some country legend's stories. two part tammy wynette/george jones episode was great. highly recommended

Girlfriend Experience is back - Seimetz and Kerrigan split directing duties and are telling two different stories, with one ep of each airing every week. A neat idea, and seeing them work apart really sharpens the difference in how they direct. The sequence that opened Kerrigan's segment was maybe harder to watch than anything in the first season.

the first half you mean? yeah, it led to a yelling argument in my house.

yes, that one. and I suspect it started a lot of arguments in a lot of houses.

liking that amy sedaris show which feels like it's spiritually akin to pee wee's playhouse on some level

most definitely.

dirk gently x 10

So y'all are saying The Girlfriend Experience should not be experienced with one's girlfriend? Duly noted.

The art direction in the Kerrigan episode is even more ludicrous than last season. So many sterile white rooms

Plus the ominous low level hum soundtracking every scene

yeah I'm hoping he tones it down a bit in the rest of the season, I like how he directs but it's verging on self parody

I'm mostly there for the creepy sterile hotels and the low level hum parts

yeah I'm not saying I don't get a kick out it

apple's version of a zipless fuck

Nirvanna The Band The Show season 2 is running now, it's pretty great so far!

after painstaking research into what i want to start next, i've settled on Billions, i'm not sure what this means

here's a surprise: SMILF on Showtime is really good
also the pilot to "Love You More" on Amazon is spectacular
the leads in both shows are women named Bridget who go topless so that's an odd coincidence

SWF had a topless Bridget Fonda. Makes you think

Dirk Gently is back? Need to track that down...season 1 was some funny weirdness.

s2 more of the same in the best way possible

huh, Amazon has a George Saunders pilot too

I watched the SMILF pilot and didn't like it as much as I'd hoped.

Currently watching The Leftovers, which is really good. Ann Dowd (Aunt Lydia from The Handmaid's Tale, a mean-ass cult leader in this) is amazing playing people you really want to punch in the throat.

Are you only on season 1 of The Leftovers? If so it hasn't even hit its stride yet!

Dirk Gently season 2 so far has been great, yeah. I really hope they are going where I think they are going with the interdimensional stuff.

No, I'm about two episodes from the end of season 2.

huh, Amazon has a George Saunders pilot too

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not amazing but i liked this, id watch more

also am finally for some reason watching crisis in 6 scenes, its p decent imo, interesting that woody lifts the main premise from american pastoral

difficult people cancelled
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/difficult-people-canceled-hulu-1202615140/

man the you're the worst recent episodes captured the truth of a reaction to someone spilling their trauma stories N' guts. People hear it and they dunno what to do with that info, as Edgar clearly has experienced.

Search party is back
Search party is good

oh shit!!!!! one of my favourite series ever. yes!!

is it retro? i can't remember. it feels retro. like 90s indie movie retro.

Damn shame about Difficult People, which I'll go as far to say is the best television comedy I've seen since The Larry Sanders Show.

i imagine eichner's schedule/ other commitments probably are the main reason for the lack of renewal. he got real popular real fast.

love Search Party fell like the only one that watches this show though . nobody i talk to knows what it is

everybody is cast so well in it. now that i think about it it actually anticipates American Vandal in some p key ways!

Portia is my favorite character ! the actress plays her perfectly

I am cautiously excited about Runaways

Anybody out there watching mike judges new show? It's good

I hated, hated the 1st season of Search Party - good performances but way too much lazy misanthropy in the script, and unearned smugness in its predictable "play with genre expectations". It was like Wet Hot American Summer if you replaced jokes with being yelled at by younger, better-looking people than you.

Anyway I'll try the second season, as I like the troupe and maybe now it's done trying to prove its smartness, it could settle into something more tolerable. OR NOT! But worth a shot.

aw man yikes. i thought it was kinda... sweet?

i guess the crew is mainly a bunch of dopey dickheads but there is something satisfying about seeing little flickers of humanity struggle to the surface

Chuck has a good point about season 1. Had to warm up to season 1 of search party but I'm glad I did!

Yeah I thought Alisa Shawkat and her nervous boyfriend totally brought it. And at least *blank* is dead now.

Alia! Autocorrect should know better.

The third set of True Detectives is now set: Carmen Ejogo and Mahershala Ali. I'm in.