Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

Boardwalk Empire
Pointless
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Eastbound and Down
Peep Show
Louie
Masterchef
Mad Men
Game of Thrones
South Park

Was debating whether to include Doctor Who, which I will always watch but I don't think is particularly good right now.

in no real order

Blacklist
Sleepy Hollow
Boardwalk Empire
Sons of Anarchy
Justified
American Horror Story (just started s1 last weekend)
30 for 30
Project Runway
Key & Peele
Broadchurch (it's finished now but I dug it)

oh shit bump out Justified since ut hasnt started and replace with NASHVILLE

gah i love it so much

9. Pointless (forgot this)
10. The Returned (its over now but season 2 is about to start in France I hear)

Fuck, I'm watching a lot of television lately.

Currently on:
Adventure Time
The Americans
Game of Thrones
Veep
Inside Amy Schumer
Fargo
Silicon Valley

Early Contender:
Last Week Tonight

Coming Soon:
Penny Dreadful, Leftovers, Dinner With Friends

Hate Watching:
Mad Men, Modern Family

Watching as a Couple (mostly kinda distractedly watching while playing MPQ):
Blacklist, The Bletchley Circle, Parenthood, Orphan Black, Call The Midwife,

Please Come Back Real Soon:
The Eric Andre Show, Louie, Broad City, True Detective, The Returned, Getting On, Masters of Sex, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Review, Workaholics, Sword Art Online, Inside Comedy, Children's Hospital, Unsupervised, Metalocalypse, Your Pretty Little Face Is Going to Hell

Please Come Back and Be Better:
Key and Peele, Venture Brothers, Justified, Rick and Morty

Piling Up on the Tivo/HBO Go/Netflix and Awaiting a Few Spare Hours to Test/Return to:
Those Who Kill, Girls, Archer, Real Sports, The Red Road, Rectify, Almost Human, Dracula, Turn, Steven Universe, Years of Living Dangerously, 30 for 30, Agents of SHIELDlol, Uncle Grampa, Hannibal, Chicagoland, Regular Show, Cosmos

Tried and True:
106 and Park, POV, Independent Lens, Antiques Roadshow, Nature, American Masters, America's Test Kitchen

Tried and Denied:
Bates Hotel, Teen Wolf, Reign, The Daily Show, Sleepy Hollow, Bob's Burgers, Sons of Anarchy, Face/Off

Oh and please come back Eagleheart too.

'tried and denied' is a good category. i was primed to love The 100 as stupid trash but it couldn't even fill that hole in my heart.

please come back real soon: Lucas Bros Moving Co. don't think i've seen it mentioned on this thread.
I've also been enjoying Building Wild. i've wanted a cabin for a while and tuffy is my dude.

New favorites: Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge, Vikings (though S2 just ended)

Old standbys that I'm really loving lately: Hannibal, Nashville, Blacklist

Loved but am now eternally denied forever why bcz cancelled: Almost Human

The last season of Vikings was so good, in common with Da Vinci's Demons, underrated.

ehhh...beginning and finale were GREAT, but middle section of that season had me on the fence, it was a real slog for at least 3 or 4 episodes in there for me

but overall, it's loads of fun

Vikings or Da Vinci?

I actually meant series 2 when I said the last series of Vikings.

vikings

also I'd like to send a note out to tv casting ppl -- moratorium on casting Donal Logue as a villain for a while. Just the very fact of him showing up in vikings told me right away that he was gonna betray someone somewhere solely based on his turn in Sons of Anarchy

also he telegraphs his 'I'm being nice but I'm actually menacing' way too much

he always seems like that one dude at a bar that drinks too much and gets mean

i liked him in Terriers, but not much else recently he is in that Gotham City thing next.

his Sons of Anarchy arc was dope tho

totally

i like adventure time, veep, game of thrones, hannibal, inside amy schumer

Donal Logue pretty cool on L&O SVU

I want to recommend Review. I'm only three episodes in but it's darkly hilarious stuff, and Andy Daly brings it. Tim & Eric's Abso-Lutely Productions are pretty reliably great (see also: Eric Andre, Nathan For You).

Rewatching Louie with my girlfriend, who's only seen the first season. I'd forgotten how amazing it is. And totally didn't realize until this morning that the new season started last night. And I guess Comedy Bang Bang and Maron both come back this week?

Also rewatched Orphan Black and Parks and Recreation, reaffirming the latter as my favorite sitcom currently airing and easily nestled among my favorite shows ever.

Oh, and Agents of SHIELD has gotten really great once it became clear that they were slowly building the show up just to break it apart post-Captain America 2. FUIUD, basically.

Great profile of Nathan Fielder: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/magazine/nathan-fielder.html?hpw&rref=magazine

very excited by the eminent return of nathan for you

imminent even

Currently greatly enjoying:
Drunk History
Nathan for You
S1 of Hannibal
Adventure Time
Almost Royal
Last Week Tonight
Regular Show
Attack on Titan
Jeopardy (i'm hooked again)
Real Sports

I'm sure Masters of Sex will join this list when it premieres this Sunday. All the PBS middlebrow stuff (Nature, Moyers, Frontline, POV, American Masters, etc) still gets a lot of watching time around here too.

Ray Donovan is kind of horrible; I got four episodes in and gave up midway through the fourth... admirable acting but just stupid blatant caricaturing of races and genders and ethnicity and terrible writing. Extant was hysterically dumb in every way; I am a little tempted to hatewatch.

Come back soon please: The Americans, Game of Thrones, Veep, Inside Amy Schumer, Eagleheart, Fargo, Silicon Valley, Orphan Black, The Eric Andre Show, Louie, Broad City, True Detective, The Returned, Getting On, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Review, Workaholics, Sword Art Online, Inside Comedy, Children's Hospital, Family Tree, Unsupervised, Blacklist, Metalocalypse, Your Pretty Little Face Is Going to Hell, High Maintenance.

Please come back better: Key and Peele, Venture Brothers, Justified, Mad Men, Modern Family, Rick and Morty, Girls, Doctor Who, Agents of Shield, Archer

Coming Up Shortly and Likely to be Finished Equally Quickly: The Strain, Rush, Satisfaction, Married and You're The Worst

Sadly on both counts, I have given up completely on Comedy Bang Bang and The Daily Show.
Orange is the New Black and House of Cards both leave me cold but I am somewhat curious about Lilyhammer, Knights of Sidonia and Hemlock Grove. I will likely try out the Marvel programming when it airs.

I currently have season-to-now backlogs of Tyrant, Leftovers, Crossbones, Time of Death, Halt and Catch Fire, The Last Ship, Penny Dreadful, Nurse Jackie, Rectify, Years of Living Dangerously, Turn, Rosemary's Baby, Red Road and Chicagoland. With Ray Donovan out of the way, which of the above do y'all suggest I crack open?

btw, i recommend people who never watched Frankenhole give it a shot as the full series is apparently watchable online now:
http://video.adultswim.com/mary-shelleys-frankenhole/index.html

which of the above do y'all suggest I crack open?

Rectfy without a doubt

we're watching The Last Ship but it's gone from stupid fun to boring, so i dunno how highly i'd recommend it

Leftovers is worthwhile imo

I was genuinely lolling at that ep of The Last Ship where they take out the evil Taleban henchmen without breaking sweat, but it is the lowest type of military hardware worshipping dreck. Turn is a very decent series and Penny Dreadful blows hot and cold but is definitely worth sticking with for the decent episodes. Catch Fire is ridiculous and suffers from too many gratuitous scenes of characters blasting out music, but it is still fun. It took me a couple of ep's to recognise Lee Pace as the dude who was very good in spielberg's Lincoln movie.

You're the first person I've seen say anything complimentary about Turn. Then again I've barely seen anyone talking about it

I have heard good things about Turn

It probably suffered from starting while some of the big guns were still running and not really flying out of the traps in the first few episodes.

The worst thing about The Last Ship is that that fucking thing is irl equipped with almost every possible weapon like ie HELLO GUIDED MISSILE

The show should should be like
"The Russians say they want-"
***KABLAM!!!****
"Nevermind"

It's the end of the world & theyre acting like it's a carrier & oh well guess we should go to shore & shoot at things in person with our guns wtf

And the Captain is doing his worst community theater interpretation of Kurt Russell. There's a line where 'steely-eyed squinting' crosses over to 'chronic myopia'

He says "Put 'em in the drink" and big fucking cannon sends non-deadly arsenal that topples dingy with millimetre precision accuracy from miles away. I bet that happens all the time!

And blasting a choral reef with a torpedo is not cool!

fucking hell, red wine spelling.

first ep of last ship is so fucking stupid but pretty fun, jingoistic nonsense and all.
"badass sir..."
[me from my couch] "....BADASS!"
".... BADASS!"

the lowest type of military hardware worshipping dreck

I am deep into the second season of Hannibal; this show is fucking awesome.

Married and You're the Worst were surprisingly well-written first episodes. Was expecting less, both are pretty solid!

Satisfaction was kinda stupid but at least equal opportunity stupid? More of a guilty pleasure. Rush, even less so and probably not worth watching the second episode. Welcome to Sweden is garbage unfortunately.

The Knick
Drunk History
You're the Worst
Married
This Week Tonight
Hard Knocks
Rectify (on Season 1 still)
Masters of Sex (maddeningly inconsistent but still very very good when it's good, they overextended themselves with guests and subplots and have left all sort of shit dangling in the wind)
Adventure Time
Nathan for You (just now ended)

I also am watching The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Doctor Who, Simon and Garfunkel, Regular Show, Attack on Titan, The Quest (lol), Real Sports

STILL need to crack Leftovers, The Strain, Outlanders, The Last Ship, Intruders, Tyrant, Black Sails, Homeland, Halt and Catch Fire, Crossbones, lots more.
Tivo makes it easy to get a whole series queued up and then hard to get around to watching it

i saw the first ep of the strain and thought it was terrible, nigh unwatchable

I like 'married' & 'youre the worst' ok too, tho the latter feels oddly like a constant advertisement for whiskey and trendy eyeglasses

married is good -- not wall to wall laughs but usually a good moment or two each ep. I really like Nat faxon.

Meltdown is fun.

A friend of mine begged me to try out Nathan for You, i watched a couple of eps including Dumb Starbucks but I just found myself totally nonplussed by the whole thing. And he sounds like Tina from Bob's Burgers which was super distracting.

HA! Wow you're right about that.

Though I love Nathan For You myself

dramas get the short cuz most i don't watch in real time and those i do have been burning me

The Mindy Project
Kroll Show
Community
Drunk History
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Bachelor/Bachelorette/Bachelors In Paradise
Key & Peele
House Hunters
Unsung
True Detective

Watching You're The Worst and hopeful they'll get past every episode climaxing with them saying "what are we? what's happening here?" after a misunderstanding. New Girl and Justified are breaking my heart. Loving Scandal through season 2 and Parks & Rec from halfway through season 2 to wherever I am now (3-4ish).

actually replace true detective on my list with girls, the former really being a mini-series