Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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.

mordy, i tivo so basically i watch at the end of the day. i do watch a fairly surprising amount of tv no doubt, but it doesn't much seem disproportionate given the amount of media of all types that i digest and i try to keep it to stuff that's, you know, GOOD
i don't have much patience for "guilty pleasures" or deeply flawed and somewhat rewarding geek fare or shows that I once liked a lot and am now into solely out of nostalgia.

i'll put the tim+eric show in the mix but i think i kinda burnt out after seeing them live many years ago and suddenly being struck with embarrassment that i enjoyed these same bits on the teevee. maybe they evolved somewhat? i like the things they do with camerawork/direction/surrealism and i find myself singing this in my head when i look through any menu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Re6pZri8Gw

Yeah, the new show is basically just a series of 12-minute surrealist short films. Pretty well-done and way different than their sketch stuff.

deeply flawed and somewhat rewarding geek fare

(seriously though man that's way too many shows)

Yeah man you should take up pottery or something

all the comic book shows fall under the "well, I'll try it!" variety and i think i'm returning to arrow mostly just to see how it intersects with the flash... both those characters are pretty meaningful to me; the old flash tv show was like, my favorite thing ever as a kid and i still have a solid 70-issue run of mike grell's take on the Green Arrow character on the shelf. but yeah, if i was a betting man I would be surprised if i stay past either of those beyond the first two episodes. SHIELD put me off after a three episode go but everybody on the thread says it improves. Gotham is getting some unanimous advanced geek animus. Constantine is a real wild card; they're clearly not going for the warren ellis/alan moore thing. I am skeptical. but i'll try!

Blacklist is really my girlfriends thing so i watch while i send emails or ipad. It's also why i know more about greys anatomy and parenthood than i really want to. but blacklist is okay if you're only giving it about 60% of your attention.

i am also down to try 'how to get away with murder', never saw scandal and would like to know what the story is with this lady

i have a great many interests!

i'm gonna try to catch all these comic book shows on-demand that you mentioned but damn there's just too many
did the same as you with Agents of SHIELD, but the Capt. America sequel kinda got me jazzed about trying it again

blacklist just looks so ridiculous. spader looks hilarious on all the billboards i see. fedora bro going the full hannibal.

you basically just explained the series there and spader is fucking good at that character

a quick term search on ILX suggests there's only three of us who had a go at The Roosevelts; that shit was excellent and everyone should try it. Teddy's a complete sociopath and a legit killer! Franklin had a coterie of women who supported his need to be loved! Eleanor was the moral compass for the nation! Loads of amazing stories. My main complaint was that, even at fourteen hours, it wasn't comprehensive enough. I think the Japanese internment camps got about a minute and a half of screen time. There was no mention of the teddy bear. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN

xp it is, you just wish it was like 60 minutes of Spader rather than 15 minutes of him and 45 minutes of a bunch of random cop/fbi/cia jobbers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSYJ4haG1MQ
for those too young to remember. elfman music still kinda awesome if samey as hell with everything else of that time period.

After reading the first two Edmund Morris Teddy Roosevelt biographies, I can't imagine packing his life on its own into a single miniseries. He's a pretty fascinating dude.

I'd honestly rate Agents of SHIELD about as highly as at least half of the Marvel U movies thus far. Some of the acting is a little more low-rent (which is probably to be expected) but I don't get people's beef otherwise.

in my defense, this is what i'm planning on watching; it's pretty unlikely i'll get to all this nonsense until mid-2015 if then

on last watch, SHIELD just didn't seem interested in complete stories or anything other than standalone wackadoodle "he's got flying powers!" origin stories
don't get me started on origin stories

SHIELD was ultimately pretty good about drawing elements from all/most of the first season episodes into a single cohesive narrative while still keeping almost every episode self-contained. Given all of the plates they had in the air and the beats they were trying to hit in a timely fashion, I think it was really a pretty impressive first season.

well see that kinda thinking makes me believe i might be open to it in season two

off topic but i wonder who the last us president to hands on, actively one-on-one kill a person was. it's hard to imagine a modern president straight up killing someone with a gun they fired and then bragging about it. because apparently teddy did!

yup, total psycho. he's this impossible person

a surprisingly funny show is the ifc garfunkel & oates thing. ff'd thru songs if needed, i do sometimes

"the chair" isnt great but im enjoying it, only somewhat in the reality-show cringe-watch style. the 2 "directors" they picked are def a good contrast

"the knick (probably the best show currently airing on a television channel)"

I am surprised this doesn't get more fanfare because it has been a brilliant first season so far, best thing on tv by miles right now. I would have cried if this didn't get renewed.

i sorta hate watch Garfunkel and Oates; i'd like it to be better but i'm a sucker for the fred savage touch

the knick is getting lotsa salon type praise but mainstream overlooks it... it's such an auteuristic piece it doesn't really surprise me.

Oh yeah I meant on here, it will probably have it's own thread by season 2.