Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

I'm gonna have a go at Catastrophe shortly.

Previously.tv said some good things abt Quantico, has anyone watched it?

Catastrophe is great!

Andrea Martin is really really funny in Difficult People.

she will always be the best thing in anything.

has the guy in difficult people been in anything? he has a weird eye.

also, precious isn't funny.

he was in parks & rec and he has his own show called billy on the street which is p funny

also, is there a thread for people behaving badly shows? so damn many of them. i keep wanting to blame christine baranski for everything but ab fab really did come first.

wow, i must have have missed him on parks & rec. i didn't see later seasons.

Just got to the ape episode of Masters of Sex last night. I'm sticking with it, but ugh.

Just started watching You're the Worst recently, which is really funny.

wait

Andrea Martin is really really funny in Difficult People.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, September 29, 2015 12:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Please tell me this is the mom because she is the best part imo. I'm from Long Island and she completely nails Jewish Long Island mom. So good.

The Player is super ridiculous and stupid.

I plan to watch it for the next month at least.

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also, precious isn't funny.

― scott seward, Tuesday, September 29, 2015 12:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agreed! I do not like her in this at all. Billy does have a weird eye and it bugs me. I think some times I just want them to tone it down a couple notches - esp Julie K. Any show that can just drop a line about shopping for a M'lynn wig is going to be something I'm going to enjoy.

I do kind of feel terrible for Arthur because he's so nice to her and she's just so mean to him.

I watched part of The Player out of residual loyalty to show creator John Rogers (I liked Leverage, and his Kung Fu Monkey blog used to be pretty great) but didn't make it through the pilot. Felt like the lead was the guy you hire when you can't get Nathan Fillion and you can't afford Mark Valley, and Snipes looked like he was wearing (and trying to act through) a Wesley Snipes mask.

Yeah Andrea Martin plays Julie's mom. She was on SCTV.
I don't love everything about Difficult People but I think Billy Eichner is great in it, he does some impressive actual acting in a few episodes.

I enjoyed You're the Worst but it's pretty retrograde in a lot of ways for a supposedly edgy show. Lindsay is the best character in that show and has a great moment in the S1 finale.

Lindsay is pretty great, but the show is all about Edgar IMO.

already quickly starting 2 dislike project greenlight, for a reality show it seems v formulaic + boring idk, not as good as the starz director-wannabe show "the chair" a few yrs ago

Some of the retrograde stuff is the point of the show - these people who think of themselves as being outcasts and edgy end up desiring a traditional romantic relationship - but also I feel a little weird that the female lead is supposedly constantly eating junk food and doing drugs and drinking but she's still always put-together and attractive. Is that weird? Maybe I'm the one being retrograde.

xps lol how much does Mark Valley cost nowadays? he's one of those kiss-of-death TV character actors

project greenlight just needs to stip pretending it's about ~filmmaking~ & admit it's a human chemistry set :D

I enjoyed You're the Worst but it's pretty retrograde in a lot of ways for a supposedly edgy show. Lindsay is the best character in that show and has a great moment in the S1 finale.

I strongly suspect the entire viewing audience has a crush on Kether Donohue. She's great.

I do kind of feel terrible for Arthur because he's so nice to her and she's just so mean to him.

btwn that and his incredible villainry on Review, Urbaniak is unusually visible this year.

Anyone into Narcos? A reasonably familiar story with its fair share of macho gangster movie cliches, but really well told, well acted and really addictive.

Rick and Morty elevated its game considerably and the second season, when it was trying, was almost Adventure Time good.

Married was excellent throughout, mostly carried by A+ acting by what has to be the best supporting cast on television: Paul Reiser, Jenny Slate, Brett Gelman, Sarah Burns, John Hodgman, Rob Huebel, Amy Landecker, Kimiko Glenn... Judy Greer and Nat Faxon always on point too. Never seen Faxon in anything else but he's tailored for this. Dude's got an Oscar!

I enjoyed Review (and the last two episodes were brutal) but the show just wore me down with its sadism. Three stars.

Moonbeam City, Benders and Gigi Does It are hot garbage.

So the current watching list is:
Last Week Tonight s. 2 - HBO
Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell s. 2 - Adult Swim
Jeopardy s. 32 - ABC
Fear the Walking Dead s.1 - AMC
Drunk History s. 3 - Comedy Central
How to Get Away with Murder s. 2 - ABC
You’re the Worst s. 2 - FXX
American Experience - PBS
POV - PBS
Nature - PBS
The Affair s. 2 - Showtime
Inside the NFL - Showtime
The Simpsons s. 27 - Fox

... with these upcoming in the next two weeks:
The Knick s. 2 - Showtime
Homeland s. 5 - Showtime
Nathan for You s. 3 - Comedy Central
Fargo s. 2 - FX

... and this stuff waiting to be tried:
The Bastard Executioner s.1 - FX
Limitless s. 1 - CBS
Minority Report s.1 - Fox
Undrafted s.2 - NFL Network

First ep of The Affair offers the Maura Tierney perspective which is great and long overdue but JEEEEEZUS what happened to the writing on this show
there's a bit where, at the dinner table with her four estranged children and apropos of nothing, she tries to get their attention by saying "Look! There's Justin Bieber!"
And they all look up! AND ONE KID SAYS "WHERE?"
I mean what the fuck is going on here

you're the worst is sorta stalled out but it's okay. i wish it was weirder; it's better when it's weirder.
i love kether donohue (always think of her as the "high maintenance'' wife) but they need to chill out on her ability to cry on cue.
I saw Desmin Borges in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity some years back and he was fucking great. It's good to see him on teevee on a regular basis.
I have a definite crush on Aya Cash. I think Chris Greere is being underutilized and falling back on stereotypes..

one ep in, How to Get Away with Murder is in a too-predictable Shondaland UP THE STAKES! WE MUST UP THE STAKES! death spiral. I loved Viola last year but she's teetering on the edge of cartoonish now. I'm in for another four soapy episodes but I really want them to calm the fuck down and tell a coherent story.

The Grinder was hilarious. It exceeded all my expectations. I think this one's a keeper! I wish I could say the same about Grandfathered.

BTW, I am highly recommending Catastrophe on Amazon. It's great!

If you were wondering which show this season would have elaborate musical numbers, jokes about abortion and suicide, and scenes with Nipsey Hussle (as himself) bemoaning patriarchy and recommending Simone de Beauvoir, it's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

I watched 5 minutes of that and realized I wouldn't be able to take it

i may have taped that
you know what's surprisingly watchable? Adam Ruins Everything

i watched 4 eps of You're the Worst and liked it quite a bit

and I finally caught up on Review, Andy Daly is the best. Imaginary friend was so good

watched the first couple eps of s2 of the Last Man on Earth and once again the first episode shows promise of dealing with a novel premise and then they pull back in all the extra characters and it becomes much less interesting. still a basically funny character tho

with much shame i will admit i still really enjoy the show. Will Forte can do no wrong!
i actually like most of the other characters, but did feel the disappointment when they brought the rest of the cast in. lol @ getting Will Forte to show up for 30 seconds and die.

oh they'll bring Ferrell back

it has enough good bits in it (his coterie of imaginary friend balls, the central "romance", the casual destruction) that I'll keep watching but yeah I find the soap-opera aspects of the extended cast p snoozeworthy

The Flash
The Grinder
Fresh off the Boat
Scream Queens
Marvel’s Agents of Shield
Mindy Project
Black-ish
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Bob’s Burgers
Last Man on Earth

I wound up liking You're the Worst quite a bit and wanted to watch Season 2, but Hulu's fucked up deal with FX means I have to have a cable subscription to see the episodes online. Once again, IF I HAD CABLE I WOULDN'T HAVE GOTTEN A (PAID) HULU SUBSCRIPTION.

I couldn't watch much of anything if I didn't have HULU. I have like 6 channels and no digital recording technology

The 'Paper Planes' joke made me forgive everything I don't like about Last man On Earth.

"I'm like Reese Witherspoon in that commercial for backpacks!"

<3 YTW, as always

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwaOoWo0UOo

The new muppets show is like the good episodes of The Office.

Even though it's not a laugh-a-minute show, the muppets has me non-stop smiling for just the way they blend seamlessly into the normal world. The characters don't even feel fake and cartoony like the series-end versions of Office and Seinfeld characters.

Weird, I thought it was like the average/bad episodes of 30 Rock rather than The Office. There are even a lot of direct parallels with 30 Rock - production of a tv show within a tv show is arguably the main one but Kermit = Liz Lemon, Piggy = Jenna Moroney, Scooter = Kenneth The Page.

fuck that show

Any show featuring the Muppets that fits a "it's like _____ but with a _____!" is an instant fail.

That fits that template, I mean.

Like, it shouldn't just be another sitcom that reshuffles elements from previous sitcoms. If you don't have a solid idea for a Muppet show that would only work as a Muppet show, leave it alone.

The more I think about it, maybe 30 Rock hijacked the general plot of The Muppet Showin the first place. Although maybe that makes The Muppets going for the writing style these days even more depressing.

i got through three episodes and that felt like more than enough.

It reminds me of that Kukla, Fran & Ollie revival from the '80s where they played punked-out veejays on a fictional music station.