Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

will try endeavour and house through time based on these recs

Oh and add the new HBO Perry Mason to my list of good detective shows. 1 episode in and I am deeply onboard

Endeavour is the Morse thing? It's available on Amazon Prime here, so maybe I'll check it out.

Currently watching the third season of Better Things on Hulu, which is amazing - easily the best season.

Summer Camp Island on HBO Max is frightfully good.

I May Destroy You is absolutely devastating, brilliant but one of those where you couldn't binge it all without it fucking you up for a while.

mentioned it on the female showrunners thread... I'm on ep 4, it's in the middle of a sort of showcase of consent scenarios at the moment, curious as to where it will go. It's really effective.

Thanks for "House Through Time," what a good find! Consistently interesting when it has no reason to be, but the depth of research and a compassionate, story-minded narrator turn it into a genuine potboiler. Real detective story shit.

I thought Chewing Gum was outrageously good so I'm all in for I May Destroy You; just need to find the right moment (timewise and emotionally) to crack it.

I'm kind of curious about that one but I'm concerned it will mainly be Worthy / Important and not actually enjoyable

I did watch the Perry Mason premiere - not bad, not earthshattering, will mainly rely on your appetite for watching Matthew Rhys be sad and drunk. Tatiana Maslany should show up in a major role shortly. It does feature an unusually funny sex scene and an unusually gnarly opening.

Glad you enjoyed it too! If you've seen the most recent one (the Bristol house), this was the third season, so there's two more to track down if you like.

xxp to Forks

LBI: I started with season 1 of HTT and will finish the last ep of that run tonight but i have s2 and s3 on deck.

A brief sniff around on the british press surrounding it suggests that some critics got hung up on Olusoga's "social justice" perspective of the individual biographies, which mostly seemed to me to boil down to "slavery was evil and anyone participating or profiting from slavery was also evil," so... i guess go kick rocks, UK press?

Def kick rocks UK press, yeah. He's done a great job w/ these series imo, and I've yet to encounter any criticism from "more trustworthy sources". His cv puts anyone else to shame really.

If anything, without spoiling things, you'll see w/ season 3 how he was ahead of the times, and has been fighting the fight way before a lot of other people did.

cool, looking forward to it. Learning a lot about victorian society!

here's probably not the right place for it, but could i get a primer on the political stances of the major Brit papers? Googling for info on a UK only topic sometimes lands me in the lap of a hundred unreliable narrators.
I believe the Guardian is a rough analog to NYT and Daily Mail to the NY Post; can you fill in some of the gaps?

You're halfway there I think. A UK poster should fill in all the gaps, but in terms of big papers: all tabloids are scum (Sun, DM, Daily Star: all NY Post style or worse; Daily Mirror is Labour but a shitty tabloid as well) but the DM acts as if they are above other tabloids pretending to be thee Tory newspaper. The Times is probably LibDem (more of a Washington Times I'd say). The Guardian is the most left of the bunch, but not without its problems as you'll encounter on this forum.

thankye

(more of a Washington Times I'd say)

You mean Washington Post, I think. The Washington Times is a right-wing rag.

Olusoga is a must follow Twitter. Every day wingnuts and racists pile in on him, but he‘s unfailingly calm and simply smashes their arguments to pieces.

xp Yeah meant the Post, soz

The Times is probably LibDem

...eh?

Yeah my bad, shouldve let the q open for a britisher

The Times is hecka Tory but they’re barely a paper at all anymore as far ad I can tell

in a completely and highly unlikely turn of events, the new HBO Max Looney Tunes Cartoons are... really good! Or at least the first ep is. Diggin in now.
Those of you with comic knowledge will be surprised to hear that the story editor and lead writer is Johnny "Prison Planet" Ryan.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBgYJ6yDM2U/

Okay, this is amaaaaaazing
“I been vacuuming th’ whiiiiiino...”
“Street gum! My favorite fruit!”

Anyone see the first episode of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark? I confess watched it just to hear Aimee Mann’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Avalanche” (which serves as the theme song), which I couldn’t find anywhere to hear online, and ended up getting into it. I like that it is nearly as much about Michelle McNamara’s relationship to a) her subject matter, and b) Patton Oswalt as it is about the actual case, and I’m really hoping it retains this balance as the series goes on. I also know very little about this case (as it seems was the case with most people before her book got out there), so I have the added bonus of not completely knowing where the “plot” is going.

I havent watched yet - I plan to though.

My thing is that I wasn’t a huge fan of the book. The selling point that so much of it is about her as well as the case turned out to be not really my thing, even though I knew what I was getting when I went in. It’s weird. I was a fan of her blog when she was writing it, she is a great writer .... but once GSK was caught, and I was reading her book, her obsession narrative felt almost ~too~ self-involved. idk. I feel that with so many of the survivors still out in the world & so much attention on the case now, it turns out that I would much rather hear their stories than hers.

Also it always bugged me that she renamed him. Dunno why.

fun conversation with Harvey Guillén, Guillermo on WWDitShadows and the casting crew
https://www.vulture.com/article/guillermo-what-we-do-in-the-shadows-harvey-guillen.html

guillermo buillermo

and here's what's on a month later:

I May Destroy You (HBO) - two eps in and it is excellent. partner is really triggered by it tho'; may have to watch on my own.
Looney Tunes Cartoons (HBO)
Desus and Mero (Showtime)
Close Enough (HBO)
House Through Time (BBC 2)
Film Review (BBC)
Rosehaven (ABC aussie)
Patriot Act (Netflix)

on deck: Salisbury Poisonings, P-Valley, Endeavor, Portrait Artist of the Year

I May Destroy You is v v good

I'm really enjoying I'll Be Gone in the Dark, but it's often really, really rough going - especially the photos of original crime scenes and survivor interviews. I'm actually glad to be watching these week by week, I fear a binge watch would depress me completely. It's weird to read the scathing reviews I see on places like IMDB, I guess a lot of folks expected it to be a straight EAR/ONS doc? Given the source material, I think it's done really well.

I don't mind that Michelle "renamed" him, to be honest. EAR/ONS is super clunky and I think GSK has two advantages - 1) it underscores the fact that the guy evolved to a full blown serial killer and, 2) eliminates the implication of EAR and ONS being two distinct entities.

I'm still liking it as well. A chunk of this latest episode was devoted to Michelle's escalating anxiety as she scrambles to finish the book, which mirrors my current reality a little too closely for comfort. That said, in addition to everything else it is, this show is as perceptive about the writing process as any fiction or documentary I've ever seen.

the third and final season of Corporate (best comedy on TV) is out next week

oh shit!!!! like, all at once?

seems a waste they didn't get to do a COVID season

i've been binging through several series just lately.

Search Party - s3 is by far the dumbest but this is fine, if stupid, low stakes television
The Salisbury Poisonings - Chernobyl-lite
Escape at Dannemora - one of the best filmed and written and acted series I've seen in years; unabashedly stanning this
Corporate - binged the first two seasons and it holds up well; first episode of season three is high-quality
Watchmen - Gave up after four episodes: Damon Lindelof's Watchmen
TJ and Dave: The Series - Fucking awesome and highly recommended even if you hate improv - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tjanddave/164310287

I May Destroy You is vital television but i'm limiting myself to only two episodes a night

Mrs America is really good so far but I’m too lazy to start a thread. The cast is fantastic and Blanchett is genuinely chilling as Schlafly and her singlemindedness. I wouldn’t say it was a sympathetic portrayal of Schlafly, per se, but the show is very honest about the qualities and flaws of these historic people. Oh and Steinem otm in her conversation with Friedan at the end of the 4th episode. On a purely shallow note, the costumes are gorgeous.

Dannemora is really good, and almost exactly the right length. still shocked that Stiller directed it.

Arquette, Dano, del Toro and the husband (don't have his name handy) all great in it.

Anybody watching Lovecraft Country? The trailers look exciting, but I haven't had anyone recommend it to me.

It doesn't premiere for two more weeks. I liked the book a lot but am wary of the show.

I've been watching season 1 of Hannibal and enjoying it - kinda - but I think I might be done. I'm nine episodes deep now and having read summaries on Wikipedia, I'm definitely not watching seasons 2 or 3.

hannibal s2 is like....one of the best things ever

agreed completely

oh youve got to finish hannibal

yeah i can't think of a show that would be served worse by wiki plot summaries than hannibal.

Hannibal is top ten all time, full stop.

Search Party - s3 is by far the dumbest but this is fine, if stupid, low stakes television

aw man, worse even than s2? I was really disappointed by s2 (s1 was so good!) but was debating giving s3 a shot anyway...

i loved s2 though it was very different. a much darker show than s1.

yeah, search party has unfortunately chosen to chuck all the larger and more interesting existential themes from s1 out the window. I think it's still worth watching for casting (cole escola!) and just for shits and giggles but keep your expectations low.

Everyone is Dannemora is impossibly good but Patricia Arquette as Tilly and Eric Lange as Lyle were painfully effective. The weight and the jaw prosthetics!
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