Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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.

can anyone vouch for peaky blinders? Was thinking about starting it.

there was a joke on You're the Worst where as a revenge move one of the characters erases the other's netflix queue and his anguished cry is "All I can remember is Peaky Blinders!" and that's basically how I think of that show.

haha ok

i gotta admit i am enjoying watching moonbeam city even if it's 70% due to the a e s t h e t i c

i tried it for one episode, it involved the main character falling in love with a dolphin through his Avatar-inspired mecha-dolphin suit. ehhhhhhhhhhh. it does look pretty though.

cor... its the bleedin pleaky blinders... and theyve come to knick our shit

― AIDS (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:32 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is there a general 2015-2016 season tv thread? I need to express some hate for a tv show.

go for it, hate is welcome here.

theres so many shows now i don't know what to do any more.

i've said it before and i'll say it again: tivo solves a lot of watching problems

thats not my fave episode of the five so far. i think my faves are 5, 2 and 3 in that order, 1 and 4 not so much. i really hope they keep playing up the police department's rivalry with the fire department because shirtless studs with fire-hose jetpacks making hip hop air horn sounds is precisely as funny as it should be.

erm thats xp to nhex re: moonbeam city

go for it, hate is welcome here.

― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, October 27, 2015 4:10 PM

OK, I just wanted to say that the dialogue and acting in the Supergirl pilot was so bad I wanted to break my tv.

haha i couldn't even stomach the previews for that show.

I saw a couple of enthusiastic reviews and gave it a shot. One of the worst hours of tv I've ever watched.

I was planning on watching but have seen some terrible reviews from ppl I trust & yeahhhh might have to pass

I'll always have Helen Slater

really not interested in the Berlantiverse but it keeps the comics nerds happy and creatives I actually care about working on non-superhero shit

CBS isn't on Hulu, so I generally don't watch anything on that network anyway

TVs current drama/action/suspense shows are tedious. If someone watches 5 or more of these shows each week they would be worried.

You're The Worst has been weaker but holy shit the last episode was A+.

I quite enjoyed Supergirl, although it suffered a lot from being overly busy. The acting isn't brilliant, nor the scripting, but there are worse shows and actors out there. (Robbie Amell for example, or any of his other Tomorrow People alumni - Peyton List, Luke Mitchell - popping up in hero shows everywhere.)

I'm hoping it will embrace Silver Age goofiness but because of the power levels of Supergirl I suspect it'll be her vs the Kryptonians all the way through.