Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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

the strain is fun-bad, and has one legitimate excellent performance courtesy of David Bradley IMO. but if the occasional idiotic plot gymnastics to set up absurd (if fun) horror/action sequences aren't tolerable, stay away. the dialogue is also crappy. THAT SAID, it has what Walking Dead lacks - self-awareness about its genre absurdity.

counting things that finished airing earlier in the year and only traditional "series":

The Americans
Hannibal
Game of Thrones
The Leftovers
Veep
Silicon Valley
You're The Worst
Mad Men
The Bridge
Orange is the New Black

I love The Strain. For practical/special effects alone it's GREAT! I really liked the books -- took me an episode or two to get past the cornyness of the show but I really like it.

Doctor Who
Orphan Black
Game of Thrones
Big Bang Theory
Community
Parks and Recreation
Modern Family
The Middle
American Dad
Brooklyn Nine-Nine

honorable mention to Attack on Titan, Black Lagoon, The Goldbergs, Bob's Burgers and Archer

I really need to catch up on Veep. Completely missed last season.

couldn't find room for The Knick in the top 10 but it's also very good if not yet great. for miniseries, Fargo, Sherlock and True Detective were all great in various ways, though Fargo definitely exceeds them all and it was awesome to see it win the miniseries Emmy.

I still find thread title astonishing... 10 out of, what, the 30 you watch?

So Fargo is in the same universe as the movie? Are we supposed to believe that something else interesting happens in a place like that? What are the chances.

i DO watch like thirty shows a week.

No, all the characters in the Fargo miniseries are different (though some are modeled on chars. in the film), plus it's about 20 years in the future. Trust me. It's great, and it manages to be its own thing while honoring the source material.

I should give those anime shows a chance, haven't seen a good series in a while

Hannibal
Orange is the New Black
Adventure Time
Space Dandy
Stephen Universe
WWE Raw
The Hotwives of Orlando
The Knick

Nhex, I think Attack on Titan is incredible. So much bleakness, so much awesomeness.

My Fiance was roommates with the creator of Steven Universe back in college.

djp, how does it compare to deadman wonderland? similarly disturbing?

It's a very different beast from Deadman Wonderland; the dread/despair is of a wholly different flavor and the scale is much, much different. It's also a good bit more straightforward that Deadman Wonderland. I wouldn't go to Attack on Titan if you're looking for surreal headfucks, but if you dig bleak extinction stories with a flickering ray of hope in them, it's a good one.

I watched the first two episodes of Attack on Titan. One of the coolest animated series I've seen. I need to get back on that.

DJP, that description is somehow exactly what I wanted to hear, I'll definitely give it a shot.

watch in original language + subtitles, or is the dub good?

The first five episodes are flat-out incredible IMO. It remains good after that but it's really a show that rewards blind sequential watching.

I am enjoying the dub on Adult Swim; I'm sure it also rules with subtitles.

oh cool, looks like adult swim is gonna start rerunning them from the beginning on the 31st?

Set those DVRs, folks. It's a great show.

my niece is super into Titan, am curious

This looks really good. And it's on Canadian Netflix, unlike absolutely all other TV shows and movies.

I've also really been enjoying Black Lagoon, which is kind of an criminal buddy show in the same general vein of (but inferior to) Cowboy Bebop (only set on Earth among competing criminal factions, so without a lot of the gonzo imagination), but they just did an intentionally unpleasant storyline revolving around the kidnap and abuse of a female high school student that was really, REALLY difficult to watch and almost impossible to recommend to anyone else.

Black Lagoon is the result of Japan watching Tarantino. Titan is super popular, the 1st volume of the manga has been in the weekly US top 10 for the last year.