Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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

i guess netflix-wise there's oitnb and daredevil (Though i'm only three eps in). Planning to watch better call saul and maybe get up to speed on arrow. a few seasons behind on scandal but i get the sense i might not actually bother all the way through this season. still gotta watch the last season of justified and the last uhhh four-ish seasons of p&r

last season of justified is recommended.

Last few seasons of Scandal not recommended.

yeah i'm psyched at the buzz! i just held off cuz i think i enjoy the show best in binge form, will hit it up on amazon prime eventually

re: justified, i mean. re: scandal, yeah...honestly while i'm enjoying it through s2 i don't think it's really built to last much longer

oh i guess there's also true detective. i WAS watching Girls but I think my wife decided she was tired of it and i can't be compelled to watch it without her

i just started Banshee - like it so far

also just dvr'd the first ep of Stitcher las night, looked kinda interesting idk

You could read the short Scandal thread on here. It's basically about three of us going "ugh this show is so awful, also Huck is the worst person on tv".

oh that thread is where i've gotten the sense later seasons are a disappointment

one of my favorite things on ILE is how you can gauge diminishing enjoyment of a show by the increasing intermittence of thread revives

"Bloodline and Between on Netflix"

i liked bloodline but i couldn't get through an entire episode of Between. if you are Canadian you might enjoy it.

i'm looking forward to the 3rd season of rectify but i guess i'll have to wait a while before it's on netflix.

i didn't know that black-ish was good. the ads were dumb. i'll watch some tonight on the hulu.

it's very traditional in ways - lot of "dad neurotically overreacts" plots and don't watch if you'll be mad there's an episode where the kids make a hole in the wall and try to hide it - but i love the ensemble

First two or three Blackish eps are shaky, but it gets really good really quickly after that.

yeah i got no problems with trad dads.

speaking of neurotic i didn't think i'd care that all of seinfeld is gonna be on hulu but i actually haven't seen an episode in years and i might binge watch.

Hah why would Canadians like Between? I haven't heard of it actually

apparently it's not even on Canadian Netflix bc they're trying to drive people to one of the cable company's streaming services ughhhhhhhhh94e2b2jrk

Other Space on Yahoo Screen was the shit

It's a weird in-between time for first run television but I've been mostly watching film noirs that I'm taping off TCM anyway and doing a little festival... watched sixteen so far and another forty or so at least on tap. but in between there's this:

*Hannibal s. 3 - NBC: Wackier, campier and more disconnected from reality than ever but so well filmed and satisfying to watch
*Unreal s.1 - Lifetime: Still hopeful it lives up to the promise of the first 2 eps and edges away from romance and soap opera and focuses on cynicism as a calling card
*Last Week Tonight s. 2 - HBO: Meme-ready and overly repetitive as it is, it's still the best fake news show on television
*Mr. Robot s.1 - USA: This is quite good and films in my neighborhood. Great casting (Christian Slater aside) and really awfully mean spirited. It's baby's first anarchist fiction but the script ain't too bad.
*Humans s. 1 - AMC: Wish it didn't have so many holes in the story but it sure does look good.
*Inside Amy Schumer s.3 - Comedy Central: I was afraid it would start to get more filler less killer and it sorta has but boy those first few eps were well done
*The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail s.2 - Comedy Central: Um, it's watchable generally? I like Kumail a lot.

Tried and Gave Up Quickly: Another Period, Zoo, The Whispers

Stockpiling for eventual testing: iZombie, Dark Matter, Ballers, The Brink, Killjoys, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell, Deutschland 83

Coming back in a week or so: Married, The Strain, Masters of Sex, Key and Peele, Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell

And of course there's also True Detective which...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ArZnKvbOxk

I got halfway through the first ep of Deutschland '83 and didn't feel compelled to go any further, I might be wrong but it looks a bit shit unfortunately.

Why? with Hannibal Burress is premiering soon; very hopeful that is as good as I want it to be.

Deutschland '83 has nice period detail but has dialogue like "this cold war is about to get hot". I can't take boring trash like this after the last cold war drama I watched was S3 of The Americans.

Was Catastrophe (Amazon Prime) discussed on ILX anywhere? It's not perfect but made me laugh a lot and gets at some scary truths about having kids/relationships. Biggest flaw was the overabundance of wacky supporting characters.

Anyways people should watch that, it's only three hours long overall.

will testrun

My wife loved it.

We talked about it on the UK Comedy thread when it was on C4.