Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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.

I would just like to take this time to thank everyone who mentioned the Eric Andre Show in this thread. I had never heard of it before. I'm not usually a comedy guy, but it has truly changed my life for the better.

it'll do that

- I started watching Mr Robot too, its pretty fun but I kinda wish they could give as little screen time as possible to the space monkeys and as much possible time to the lead and the ppl at allsafe and the bonsoir dude. slaters squad is a little hokey, the other stuff is more compelling imo.
- Catastrophe was pretty great. agreed that the extended cast is a bit much, and also the two leads are often quite difficult to watch (in the intended way), but yeah it was solid.
- Eric Andre CHANGES LIVES Y'ALL. GET ON IT. JEFF GOT ON IT. YOU GUYS ARE WATCHING BIRD UP, THE WORST SHOW ON TELEVISION.
- I watched Big Time in Hollywood FL, not as bad as everyone here makes it sound, has some of that "next time on lonny" humor, cuba gooding jr is great (esp. in his first ep, less so later). Stephen Tobolowsky is always a treat.
- I started Dark Matter... it is palatable spacefaring sci-fi i guess, but just barely. the crew is p unlikeable, the three super misanthropic dudes in particular (one, three, and four (yes, their names are numbers)).
- TV is on a huge revival kick right now. I'm just going to leave this here... a list of things being brought to the small screen/restarted/etc in the next year or so: xfiles, wet hot american summer, coach, the muppets, minority report, rush hour, supergirl, luther, problem child, limitless, uncle buck. WTF.

Chris Rock in a greensuit brushing his teeth with a gun is one of the craziest fucking things I've ever seen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pRJsia5_A8

I loved the bit in Mr Robot where he lists all the cynical disappointments of botched heroes in the media and there's lance armstrong and bill cosby and.... tom brady, hyuk hyuk hyuk
agreed about the code monkey squad being hella lame; hot hacker rootkit babe with an attitude is a ridiculous cliche character

dark matter is based on a four issue comic miniseries that i read years ago; i wonder how they're gonna get a full season out of it.

is there seriously a coach reboot in the works?

all those revives, ugh

for future stuff, im all about this -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Crime_Story

Cuba Gooding Jr. as O. J. Simpson
Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clark
John Travolta as Robert Shapiro
David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian
Selma Blair as Kris Jenner
Billy Magnussen as Kato Kaelin
Connie Britton as Faye Resnick
Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Al Cowlings
Evan Handler as Alan Dershowitz
Cheryl Ladd as Linell Shapiro, Robert Shapiro's wife

good lord, Schwimmer?

that cast actually does make me want to give it a shot but i hate Ryan Murphy

not a coach reboot... a coach continuation. same characters 18 years later. insane.

also the uncle buck reboot is starring mike epps.

xxxp

oh god i wasn't interested in that american crime story but now that i have seen the cast list... this is going to be one of those "can't-miss" things that I hate but watch because everyone talks about it, right? ugh.

hopefully it is not just a re-enactment, like a weird alt-/imagined- 'fiction' of the oj trial could be p cool imo

It's really a shame that Adult Swim has apparently stopped putting their shows on DVD. I'd buy dozens of copies of The Eric Andre Show and distribute them like candy at a parade. For the good of humanity.

it's kinda like they want you to bootleg

or they just put all their crap up on netflix/az prime/on demand, that would just be fine

the adult swim app is pretty good and has a lot of their stuff for free.

I bought the Dr. Steve Brule Bag Boy special on iTunes and discovered I couldn't play it anywhere but in iTunes so I'm done ever buying a TV show on iTunes again.

I watch all the AS on Hulu.

i tivo and then never erase.

Watching Eric Andre for the first time, so great, LOL'd at the Chiquita Banana song.

Mr. Robot is really quite good
http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/mr-robot-usa-hacking-unusually-accurate.html

Kinda tempted to go into that and Humans; opinions?

The name + the Christian Slater made me disinterested in Mr. Robot from the moment I heard of it, but I've seen nothing but enthusiastic talk about it. May give it a go.

Based on one ep, Humans is pretty but unfortunately dumb

i've watched the first two mr robots, p great

looove that lead actor, he was so good in The Pacific, v intense dude

Just finished the pacific this week. Was pretty good! Back half espesh.

Yeah I was put off by James Badge Dale's writer character at first, but I ended up loving it

I've mentioned this in the mr. robot thread but there's a scene w rami malek in the pacific that's forever burned into my brain and just sickening but astounding, one of the most disturbing filmed portrayals of PTSD ever

The brain one?

that's the one

He does the weirdo thing really well.

otm

I guess there isn't a rolling 2015 TV thread. I am not claiming this as one of my ten favorite shows, but DIFFICULT PEOPLE on Hulu starring Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner is pretty funny.

the show ALONE on history channel is p good -- ten guys seperately competing as to who can stay in the wilderness of vancouver island the longest & winner gets 500k

i really like the editing and music used

last ep a dude carved a lute to occupy himself and sung an kindof amazing low-fi folk song and then was like "next week im going to look into BUILDING A SAUNA", you can watch full eps on history channel website but i prob wouldnt recommend it as the interface/their ads are 100% terrible

Top Tier TV of the Moment:
- Hannibal
- Last Week Tonight
- Mr. Robot
- Married
- Rick and Morty
- Hard Knocks

Secondaries:
- The Meltdown
- Key and Peele
- Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
- Review

Hannibal Buress' Why? is consistently and mystifyingly not funny or even entertaining but he's justified the show by creating the most interesting live music segment on television right now with Flying Lotus as his DJ/Music Director and guests thus far including Thundercat, Open Mike Eagle, Jean Grae and Two Fresh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tus4c3Mx_ps

Stalled on: Cancer - Emperor of All Maladies (deeply depressing watch tbh), Wolf Hall (great but I need full focus)

I need to set aside some time to get caught up on: UNReal, Humans

Still need to watch: Deutschland 83, Rectify, 12 Monkeys, iZombie, American Crime, Between, Bloodlines, Killjoys, Ballers, The Brink

watched the first two eps of s3 of Masters of Sex; hooboy that show has gotten dumb

UnReal went out strong fyi

glad to hear! i need time to binge on it.

Jordskott, Mr Robot, and Bojack Horseman are just about all I'm watching at present. I'm relieved that True Detective has finished - it means that I don't have to watch it anymore.

damn the first ep of Narcos was good, hope it holds up?

and I keep thinking about Rectify, the first season of which I liked a lot, and then it just totally lost me shortly into season 2. now it's being heralded again... anyone watching?

will update.

Yeah Rectify series 3 is pretty good so far.

yeah for me s1 > s3 > s2

Teddy Jr a quietly astonishing character/perf