Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

I just got into Shark Tank, and now I wish there was way to watch old seasons; none of the streaming services I have offer them. Such an entertaining show, and it doesn't treat its audience like idiots.

great show

vikings yaaaay

I caught Empire for the first time this week and it is sudsy and OTT and pretty fun! I could see it growing on me; having Timbaland (and a posse of junior producers) do the music is a masterstroke. I also need to get more into Twelve Monkeys, SHIELD/Agent Carter and Gotham as all have rewarded initial or renewed interest.

Otherwise, currently airing at the moment:
The Americans
Broad City
Black Sails
Justified
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Looking
Last Week Tonight
Jinx
Better Call Saul
Adventure Time

and Jeopardy at #11. somehow I got hooked on Jeopardy again.

Wildly varying degrees of diminishing returns: Bob's Burgers, The Simpsons, Girls, blackish, Regular Show, Workaholics, Modern Family, Archer

Just finished, will be missed: How to Get Away with Murder, Eric Andre (still a real contender for best show on television imo)

A LOT of new stuff upcoming to start airing in the next two weeks: Dig, Secrets and Lies, American Crime, Last Man on Earth, Broadchurch, A&E's take on The Returned

blackish is up and down but overall i'm on board - the good stuff is very satisfying

Last Man on Earth rules

Top Ten of the Moment:
Daredevil s. 1 - Netflix
Adventure Time s. 6 - Cartoon Network
Justified s. 6 - FX
The Americans s. 3 - FX
Last Week Tonight s. 2 - HBO
Louie s. 5 - FX
Silicon Valley s. 2 - HBO
Game of Thrones s. 5 - HBO
Veep s. 4 - HBO
Jeopardy s. 31 - ABC

Other Stuff I'm Watching:
Mad Men s. 7B - AMC
Workaholics s. 5 - Comedy Central
The Comedians s.1 - FX
Cancer: Emperor of All Maladies s. 1 - PBS
The Simpsons s. 26 - Fox
Children’s Hospital s. 5 - Adult Swim
Weird Loners s. 1 - Fox

Currently Running / Saving on Tivo / Watching Intermittently:
Last Man on Earth s. 1 - Fox
Modern Family s. 6 - ABC
Wolf Hall s. 1 - PBS
Secrets and Lies s. 1 - ABC
American Crime s. 1 - ABC
The Messengers s. 1 - CW
Antiques Roadshow s. 19 - PBS
Nature s. 33 - PBS
Frontline s. 33 - PBS
Regular Show s. 6 - Cartoon Network
Real Sports s. 16 - HBO
30 for 30 2015 - ESPN
12 Monkeys s. 1 - SyFy
iZombie s. 1 - CW
Bloodline s. 1 - Netflix
American Odyssey s. 1 - NBC
The Messengers s. 1 - CW
Olympus s.1 - CW
Gotham s. 1 - Fox
Big Time in Hollywood, FL s. 1 - Adult Swim
Nurse Jackie s. 7 - Showtime

On Shortly:
Orphan Black s. 3 - BBC
Inside Amy Schumer s. 3 - Comedy Central

Upcoming Later This Year:
Transparent s. 2 - Amazon
The Knick s. 2 - Showtime
Married s. 2 - FX
Drunk History s. 3 - Comedy Central
You’re the Worst s. 2 - FXX
Homeland s. 5 - Showtime
The Affair s. 2 - Showtime
Hannibal s. 3 - NBC
Getting On s. 3 - HBO
Nathan for You s. 3 - Comedy Central
True Detective s. 2 - HBO
Fargo s. 2 - FX
Hard Knocks 2015 - HBO
The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail s.2 - Comedy Central
The Returned s. 2 - Sundance
Review s. 2 - Comedy Central
Inside Comedy s. 4 - Showtime
Happy Valley s. 2 - BBC
The Venture Brothers s. 6 - Adult Swim
The Strain s. 2 - FX
Survivors Remorse s. 2 - Starz
Masters of Sex s. 3 - Showtime
Key and Peele s. 5 - Comedy Central
Tim and Eric’s Bedtime Stories s. 2 - Adult Swim
Your Pretty Face is Going to hell s. 2 - Adult Swim
Almost Royal s. 2 - BBC
Rick and Morty s. 2 - Adult Swim

Eventually:
Wayward Pines s. 1 - Fox
The Whispers s. 1 - ABC

To catch up on:
Agent Carter s. 1 / s. 2 - ABC
Shield s.2 / s. 3 - ABC
The Librarians s. 1 / s. 2 - TNT
The Missing s. 1 - Starz
Penny Dreadful s. 1 / s. 2 - Showtime
Outlander s. 1 / s. 2 - Starz
Rectify s. 1 / s. 2 - Sundance
The Honorable Woman 2014 - BBC
The Fall s. 1 / s. 2 - BBC or Netflix
The Book of Negroes s. 1 - BET

Thus far this year:

Very Special / Important / Wow
High Maintenance s.2 - Vimeo
Getting On s. 2 - HBO
The Eric Andre Show s. 3 - Adult Swim

Great Time
Broad City s. 2 - Comedy Central
Looking s. 2 - Showtime
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia s. 10 - FXX
Black Sails s. 2 - Starz
Better Call Saul s. 1 - AMC

Nice
How To Get Away with Murder s. 1 - ABC

Okay
Blacklist s. 2 - NBC
blackish s. 1 - ABC
Mike Tyson Mysteries s. 1 - Adult Swim
Archer s. 6 - FX

Oh dear
Man Seeking Woman s. 1 - FX
Togetherness s. 1 - HBO
The Nightly Show s. 1 - Comedy Central
Girls s. 4 - HBO

i have a problem.

i thought i watched a lot of tv shows

tbf, i'll likely only ultimately finish a third of that (i'm still on ep 3 of s1 of rectify for instance) but i like to at least try everything to get a sense of whether or not it blows me away or is instantly lousy.
on the other hand, i'm probably watching 25 series at any given time.
what can i say, i'm a tivo power user.

the idea of having a ten favourite shows of the moment is kind of baffling to me qua time investment

how is nurse jackie on seven seasons??

last season this year.
edie falco has been a lead character on a television series for fifteen years solid; she took a year off between sopranos/nurse jackie

forks i hate you because you make read these lists and i goddamn read them

I gave up on Mike Tyson after a few episodes. Feel like it should be up my alley but eh.
Last Man on Earth is pretty great. Super cringe-y, and he gets worse every episode!
Surprised Steven U's not on your list at all, /adult sadface
I gotta get to Daredevil ASAP. The entire season of Better Call Saul is also waiting for me, this summer maybe...
Is Weird Loners worth it? I was put it on the Happy Endings Diaspora Watch (along with that other terrible looking show where what's-her-face plays a lesbian)

i only watch cbs old people shows now

and law & order reruns stolen from the internet, when available

Mike Tyson is almost totally redeemed by getting to hear norm macdonald's voice. it's kinda proof that i'll watch anything with him in it. otherwise, it's not worthwhile in any way.
last man on earth is killing me with sitcom tropes... crazy harridan wife! knockout blonde! guileless fat sweetheart! i'm sorta watching it and i like all the actors and the concept is interesting but the execution is terrible imo.
I tried steven universe but, like foster's home and bee & puppycat and over the garden wall it's just too goddamn twee for me. i don't know what made adventure time click from garbage to genius, maybe someday it'll happen there.
Daredevil is in the early stages but it's pleasing. Better Call Saul is a home run.
Weird Loners had a solid pilot and not too many immediate sitcom tropes but i'm sure they'll soon show up to cliche it to death. I'll give it a shot till then.
one thing i'm trying not to do is keep a list of shows i've tried and don't like. it's too depressing.
i never got into police procedurals. It's why i was late to true detective and hannibal. by and large, the best of any genre is worth watching.

it's really shitty that last man on earth immediately devolved into "our hero will spend this half hour treating women like absolute garbage while trying to fuck them" and also nothing else happens on the show other than this.

mike tyson mysteries sounds like it has to be the nadir of the adult swim aesthetic

nurse jackie, jeez, the first season was so good and apparently they decided to mainly tread water a bunch? that's sad

We've mostly just been watching and enjoying superhero fluff lately (Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, Arrow, The Flash). Daredevil is next in the queue once we're caught up on the latter two.

Justified has been better this year if still a bit aimless. Still a few episodes behind. Parks and Recreation was uneven but it ended on a sweet note.

Looking forward to the return of Louie. Cool with (if not exactly excited about) the return of Orphan Black.

For me, Better Call Saul could've coasted on goodwill if it was only decent, so I was psyched beyond belief that it was pretty much excellent.

Eric Andre Show and Nathan For You and Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories are top shelf id food.

i kinda agree with u clay on Last Man. It had real potential but fell off more or less within the first episode.
i am okay being shamed for watching Mike Tyson Mysteries but tbrr it's hardly any more offensive or dumb than archer
i have honestly never seen more than two episodes of nurse jackie! but i kinda wanna see if they got anything worth looking at in the swan song as i love edie falco.
Daredevil has thus far (again just two eps) been notably less fluffy than the CW/ABC superhero roster... like notably so.
I'm of the opinion that Eric Andre is making art; dumb art yes, but art. at apex, it justifies the adult swim aesthetic.

yeah with last man it's like "hm cool a post-apocalyptic comedy about a guy alone in the world, what form could this possible take?" and i was excited about that. and then by episode two it's a show about a manchild being forgiven by the women in his life for being a disrespectful dirtbag. like it's so incredibly bad on this front i want to think there's some satire in there but i'm not finding it.

Still haven't watched any Last Man On Earth but everything I've read made it seem like it was Forte in completely unsympathetic protagonist mode a la MacGruber. Is that not the case?

And yes, Eric Andre is next level. To the extent that I'm occasionally a little concerned about him. He puts all of himself into that thing.

yeah, the basis of the show is definitely cringing/laughing at how terrible and stupid he is, followed by a very brief moment of sympathy. i love it!

i just realized that description could be applied to any number of awful sitcoms with "rude" protagonists like Two and a Half Men or some such, but Forte is really excellent

Saw the first episode of Orphan Black a couple of nights ago. It's a great premise and definitely something I could get into.

1-9 empire
10 louie

Last Man On Earth works well for me as a horror show.

i gave empire a real chance and couldn't get past three episodes. When it works well it reminds me of Douglas Sirk but mostly i just get embarrassed watching it.

i get no sympathy for last man on earth except for the actors who generally deserve better than non-stop poop jokes / "men are dogs, m i rit" / check out this crazy bitch / january jones va va voom huh guys / fatuous four minute bits of will forte doing rubberfaced takes in service of no real punchline

i really don't get those vibes from the show! yeah, louise belcher comes off as crazy, but she and all the other cast members come off as largely reasonable, likeable people - forte is the only one who is an ass. it's not like "men are dogs", it's just forte

BUT HE IS THE LAST MAN ON EARTH

well, not really!
also he has clearly gone way more insane than everybody else

i dunno man

I mean Will Forte is pretty clearly insane...but I think him and Kristen Schaal make a pretty good apocalyptic couple or something.

i couldnt hang with last man on earth

forks i think u are addicted to lists more than tv watching lol

daredevil is great

ooh and i have a recommendation for detective show fans: bosch on Amazon Prime is formulaic but classy & nicely paced & has lots of LA-location stuff...and MARLO FROM THE WIRE <3

i like lists and tv, yes.
basically this was the year i made use of the notebook function on my mac and finally got around to journaling my media habits
i prob need to add bosch to the pile
gonna watch a pair of daredevils now

i've always liked titus welliver, dude seems like he has some secrets

obv its all in service of foiling forte but i really dig how genuinely nice & keep it posi todd is on 'last man on earth'

LMOE was one of the best pilots i've seen on network tv in a minute

...then it crashed and burned harder than pretty much anything ever

i'm reading a bosch book right now and now all i can see is the LOST dude.

Everyones otm on LMOE it had a promising start and kind of turned to crap

the americans has to be tops but we're in a pretty good season for TV rn, so after that in no particular order:

mad men
thrones
silicon valley
american crime (is anyone else watching this? I think it's fantastic. bit on the nose but the points it's making are smart enough that I don't mind. utterly brutal though & so rough a watch that i can't quite believe it's on prime time network TV)
louie
veep
banshee (finished its 3rd season a little while ago, utterly batshit, I must again ask plz is anyone watching)

i have been taping american crime and you are honestly the first person i've heard mention it AT ALL so i'll take that as a sign i should give it a shot
banshee always struck me as not my cup of tea. tell me more.

i am curious abt american crime

some thoughts
http://observer.com/2015/04/the-four-worst-types-of-tv-critics/

I have just gone 3 episodes into the original BBC House Of Cards series and have also been re-watching Wolf Hall. I am enjoying Wolf Hall a lot more on the 2nd viewing, it is that good it deserves a 2nd viewing.

Vikings is killing it right now and as ridiculous as it is I love how they have attempted a Norman origin story into this series, it is a load of bollocks but it is fun as hell.

I couldn't get into American Crime, it is quite frustrating in that it is admirable and depicting interesting stuff, but ultimately the end product is mediocre melodrama.

Really looking forward to the next The Americans ep'- Paige's Russian odyssey, that is going to be so good.

man you guys are hard on LMOE! although I agree it's gotten less entertaining the more it's turned into focusing on standard sitcom-relationship plots. I was kinda hoping that if they were gonna go with constantly introducing other survivors that they would go really nuts with it - wacky cults, former friends/acquaintances/nemeses popping up, survivalists, etc. but that obviously isn't happening.

also I was *really* disappointed when the second guy turned out to be the fat dude and not Danny McBride

xpost xelab I am glad there is someone else digging vikings, so ott i love it