Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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

i could watch will forte do p much anything so i am not out on LMOE. he's just so great and it's been so long since we've seen him and he's absolutely perfect at playing the whiny scummo that i'm fully in. yes the pilot was next-level and yes you need to manage your expectations after that but ffs there are some well-written goofs and some really inventive sets (the shitty door, cow friendly house, the park, the bar, the parking lot) and WILL FORTE.

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

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I thought it was going to be Ron Swanson tbh but this guy it ended up being is kind of a secret revelation? i haven't seen him in anything else but he is straight up HEART.

dare i ask is anyone watching sci-fi high-concept teen drama THE 100? the first season was shockingly WHOA but i kinda fell off during season 2 (still have a few eps to watch so hoping something neat happens in those).

my filter sez i am watching 65 active series and while i don't think 65 are actually active i do recognize I have a problem

my 10 atm are

Daredevil
Agents of Shield
Nashville
Wolf Hall
Mad Men
Vikings
Game of Thrones
Rupaul's Drag Race
The Flash
Blacklist

catching up on Gotham but idk how i feel abt it. it's all over the place. half the time it's corny & boring and then it gets cool & ott and then it gets boring again.

he's Jimmy's old running buddy from Better Call Saul

I loved season 1 of the 100. Haven't seen season 2 yet.

I didnt make past ep 1 of the 100

i saw those two posts without context and was despairing at the idea ppl were repping for a hundred-season long show

lol

100 certainly started slow, but I thought it got better as the season went along. It's hard to explain, but part of its appeal is I find very few of the characters annoying. And it's totally an obvious mash-up of lost, BSG, earth 2, battle royale, hunger games. Not original in the least, but still appealing.

forks re banshee: the easiest way to summarize it is a version of justified where the sheriff/lawman character is a thief/con man posing as a sheriff, like imagine the walton goggins character somehow stumbled his way into that profession instead of raylan. shades of

the violence is, ah, extreme. to say the least. theres a ton of sex/nudity. some will find it legitimately too lurid and OTT and I don't blame them but the actual storytelling behind all of it is far better than you'd expect from a series that on the surface appears to be solely about visceral thrills. the characters surrounding said sheriff are also such an intriguing blend of southern gothic grotesqueries (it's in rural/Dutch country PA but not much difference). frankie faison is in it! denis o'hare shows up! I don't know any of the lead women but they are all very good especially siobhan, one of the deputies

it also explores ethnic communities that are not at all examined on american TV (the Amish and an Indian nation called the Kinaho), in fascinating fashion

*shades of Elmore Leonard but v twisted

wow that was longer than expected. anyway andy greenwald of grantland has written two v good pieces about the show, one spoilerific the other m/l fine for ppl who don't know the show yet

http://grantland.com/features/banshee-cinemax-hbo

Currently watching:

Bloodline
Veep
Broad City
Mad Men
Thrones
Silicon Valley
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
House of Cards
Last Man on Earth
The Fall

you've convinced me; it may be a hassle to backlog though... you recommend watching from the start of the series?

yea it's prob best to start from the top, it gets better as it goes along (3rd and most recent season is def the best) but firmly establishes what it is early on so if you like it you'll know within a few eps, same if you don't

okeydoke. tivo will hoover up whenever it's on repeat so i should be able to start from the top in a month or two. I assume they play a lot of repeats?

oh, see i was getting banshee confused with strike back.

strike back I haven't watched, seems to have some similarities with banshee in terms of the rampant violence/sex but its pure military action bc it's about like an antiterrorist strike team or some such shit. not really sure I'll ever try it bc A. too many shows B. 24 and homeland may have broken my patience for that subject matter

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

If it makes you feel any better, HBO is doing a new series from the Eastbound and Down creator starring McBride and Walton Goggins.

Yeah i excited for that.

Finished LMOE last night and ugh yeah it's just sub-screwball at this point

1. Game of Thrones
2. Mad Men
3. Silicon Valley
4. Louie
5. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Is anyone watching Battle Creek? It's weird that I've heard absolutely nothing about it. Vince Gilligan and Dean Winters alone are enough to make me want to at least check it out.

where does it air? (or a non-rhyming version of that question)

CBS! See? No one knows anything about it!

Gilligan created it / wrote the pilot a long time ago. He has no actual involvement otherwise.

I took a flyer on Lifetime's UnReal tonight and whattayaknow: it's well filmed and smart and well acted and cynical and well written. Highly recommended!

It's slow moments on the currently airing teevee right now so I'd put that as number ten with this list:

Adventure Time s. 6 - Cartoon Network
Last Week Tonight s. 2 - HBO
Silicon Valley s. 2 - HBO
Game of Thrones s. 5 - HBO
Veep s. 4 - HBO
Inside Amy Schumer s. 3 - Comedy Central
Jeopardy s. 31 - ABC
Inside Comedy s. 4 - Showtime
The Comedians s.1 - FX (this one is more of a rounding error; it has moments)

Hannibal starts this week which should instantaneously be the best show on television once veep wraps.

i recently binged a pile of antiques roadshows and am slowly getting through Wolf Hall, which is great in the two eps so far. My girl is continuing watching Orphan Black and Blacklist but both shows have devolved dramatically into weird off-topic soap opera that barely seems coherent with the plots i remember.

Other backed up series waiting to be cracked include Olympus, The Librarians, The Missing, American Crime, Bloodline and Between on Netflix, American Odyssey, The Book of Negroes, Mr. Selfridge and iZombie. Still never got into Gotham, SHIELD, Penny Dreadful, Outlanders, Agent Carter, 12 Monkeys.

oh, and i tried episode 1 of Banshee and it's pretty good as OTT pulp fiction goes. My gf hated it unfortunately so that kinda means i'm unlikely to ever get a chance to binge. Unless we break up and i go into a tailspin of depression. Silver Lining!

Binged on The Flash - all caught up.
I love it but my god so much boneheadedness & egregious timetravel wtf-ery

Man, I gritted my teeth through the one episode I watched of The Comedians. I hate Billy Crystal now (I didn't used to). I have always hated Josh Gad.

My list basically consists of the shit I have my dvr programmed to record at this dire time of year:

Last Week Tonight
Orphan Black
Star Talk

I still need to watch the last two episodes of Black-ish, but that was def one of my favorite new shows of the past season.

can anyone explain to me why a large percentage of orphan black has now devolved into breaking bad: municipal zoning edition

Orphan black went downhill real fast.

You mean Alison's school board campaign? That's like probably the 2nd least meaningful plotline this season and they really haven't spent a lot of time on it.

what's the least meaningful plotline this season

I keep reading binged as past-tense Bing

It's finally tv catchup time! i might try this banshee show too, but also I need to finish the first season of true detective (I know, I know), the last 2 seasons of doctor who (goddamn it i just want to get to peter capaldi), possibly daredevil and bloodline (watched the pilot of each, not sold), manhattan, better call saul, and if i have time i guess i'll catch up on gotham and game of thrones and walking dead and leftovers and penny dreadful (even though I am not really that into any of these shows, i am a hopeless tv junkie)

Art the cop. Always Art the cop. xp

I think Flash, blackish, Brooklyn 99 and broad city are the only shows I am up to date on and are coming back next season. Ok I actually still have about 4 eps of b99 and blackish to watch