Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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.

A friend got me to watch You're The Worst on FX - it's kind of terrible, but fairly entertaining.

Attack on Titan is a great comic, the animation is pretty much a shot for shot recreation

this entire conversation is making me want to bump The Middle off of my list for Attack on Titan

I'll never understand what people see in The Middle.

It's an oddly likable show, not one I'll go out of my way to watch, but I'll catch reruns.

I didn't like Malcolm in the Middle either fwiw and that's what it reminds me of the most.

dan do you have/would you like cbrs of the first ten books of AoT?

I do not have and I would like that very much

just hit ya.

dude you rule

I hadn't seen The Middle in a long time (couple of seasons I guess) and then I caught a new episode back around Memorial Day while at my parents' house and I was scandalized by Brick having a deep teenager voice.

xp np; they're virtually identical to the cartoon though i like the comic art better

the middle is such a waste of everybody's time

so i watched the first 5 eps of titan last night and holy shit that show is b-a-n-a-n-a-s

If I were going with "best TV on TV in 2014", the stuff I'm rushing to watch as soon as it airs:
Eagleheart
Louie
Nathan For You
Drunk History
Eric Andre
The Knick
Silicon Valley
Broad City
Getting On
True Detective
Hannibal
Adventure Time
Game of Thrones
Veep
The Americans
Fargo
Last Week Tonight
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Watched the first episode of Black Sails last night and though the sexposition was moronic and the gratuitous violence was cribbed right from GoT and apparently 60% of pirates are underwear models, it still has some fun acting and a coherent plotline and some trust in the viewer to stay ahead of the script and it's not bad at all.

prob add Inside Amy Schumer to that "must watch" list

and maybe Hard Knocks, I'm such a sucker for NFL propaganda

The first seven eps of Attack on Titan have been excellent. The episodes rush by so fast. The titans are actually pretty disturbing. They're like giant vicious children, gleefully tearing people up like insects.

The subbed version I'm watching has some baffling translations. One exchange went something like:

"Hey, don't mess with my clothes. What did you rub on me?"
"...my trust in others."

lol that was how it was dubbed too - i didn't really understand that scene either

the whole story of how Eren and Mikasa met is just completely mental

I'm hoping for more exploration of the politics of the society within the walls. For the human government to forcibly eject a fifth of the population in order to avert mass starvation, under a pretext of resettlement, should at least have been a cause for intense debate and disagreement, and only Armin has said anything about it so far.

Going Deep w/ David Rees.

"mikasa es su casa"

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there's just too much new shit on just now but in terms of what i'm watching plus what just ended i would give a current list of

transparent (i mentioned this in the thread i started for it but wow is this ever fucking great. worth the amazon prime sub)
the knick (probably the best show currently airing on a television channel)
Last week tonight (this feels like what the daily show used to be)
z nation (more fun than it looks! gleefully unapologetically stupid!)
married (great acting, great writing, grown up problems, plus naked jenny slate, i hope to god it gets renewed)
drunk history (somehow the conceit never gets old)
you're the worst (good acting and generally good writing, i would like it to be just a tad less self aware)
the roosevelts (14 hours of american history! finally finished last night)

i could see these getting pretty good: blackish, blacklist, outlander, the affair, gracepoint, worricker, makers, survivor's remorse, the missing, rectify (i kinda need to really have a running go at this)

yeah, i'll try it because i am a fucking media hound: gotham, constantine, the flash (and i guess i'll try arrow again though it sucked and agents of SHIELD just cause you guys say it got better), mulaney, marry me, the mccarthy's, the chair, intruders, red band society, leftovers (the first episode was such a fucking bummer and the "something STRANGE is happening here" lindelof vibes were a massive turn off but the acting was good)

i am very much looking forward to the return of: black sails (january?), broad city (january), hannibal( "Fuller stated in June 2014 after winning the Saturn Award for Best Network Television Series that they were told by David Bowie's management to ask again for his availability for the third season "), getting on (november; super hyped about this returning), sunny (january) and the eighty other things i love up thread

i guess i'm gonna keep watching these but in my heart i am sorta over you: doctor who, key and peele, masters of sex, modern family, attack on titan

continuing old people broccoli: moyers, nature, antiques roadshow, american masters, POV, jeopardy, frontline

plus the twenty other complete series just sitting waiting to be watched... i mean, i still haven't tried penny dreadful f'r crissakes... or homeland! or boardwalk empire!

I hope Bowie will be playing Agent Phillip Jeffries, back on the job after his series of mysterious disappearances.

We're watching Doctor Who and Agents of SHIELD and Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories and that's about it at the moment. Fun but nothing spectacular. Most of my favorites in the moment these days are shows which are no longer airing (e.g. currently rewatching the early seasons of Roseanne for the eleventeenth time, which amazingly never get any less fresh or amazing on subsequent viewings).

hypocritical coming from me but forks u watch too much tv

Actually, I would like to recommend the new Tim & Eric show at least inasmuch as it's worth checking out if you're on the fence about Tim & Eric. It's basically a darkly humorous and surreal anthology series. Still super absurd but way toned down from their usual schtick.