Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

it has been getting better but watching gretchen completely come apart when her dream was dashed was really brutal

what a difference a week makes:

Last Week Tonight s. 2 - HBO
Adventure Time s. 7 - Cartoon Network
Getting On s. 3 - HBO
Jeopardy s. 32 - ABC
You’re the Worst s. 2 - FXX
The Knick s. 2 - Showtime
Nathan for You s. 3 - Comedy Central
Fargo s. 2 - FX
Adam Ruins Everything s.1 - TruTV
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend s. 1 - CW

i may be proven totally wrong after a third episode of crazy exgirlfriend but it seems surprisingly good at jump and i like the politics
Adam Ruins everything is surprisingly fun! Worth a peek.

The only shows I'm watching at this point:

The Affair
You're The Worst (loved Season 1, finally broke down and bought Season 2 from Amazon this weekend)
Sleepy Hollow
Empire
The Good Wife (literally only sticking around because this is the final season)
Mom
Have given up on Fresh Off the Boat, Blackish, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine

It makes me sad that nobody else appreciates Gotham. İt's a good cast and has the campy feel of the 60s Batman show.

i'm enjoying it. benjamin mckenzie really is great as the perpetually scowly gordon, and everyone else plays bigger nicely with him. donal logue is always a treat and sometimes i pretend to myself that i'm watching SuperTerriers. nigma reminds me SO much of a dude i went to high school with also. and penguin is FANTASTIC. if the canon would allow it, i would want this show to jsut go 45 minutes a week of "gordon and penguin vs. the universe"

Hi TV ppl.

I'm going to have a lot of TV-viewing time on my hands for the next few weeks while recovering from surgery. I need a plan. I was thinking trying Show from My Youth that I missed (including Buffy, Gilmore Girls), but maybe Good Wife? I dunno, something that there are A LOT of so I can binge watch and then binge watch some more.

I considered re-watching The Sopranos but I think I need something different.

Oh, and I don't actually have cable or on-demand or anything like that, so I need a show I can watch online. Netflix, Amazon Prime preferred, but I could be talked into purchase.

What would you choose???

Breaking Bad or The Wire are good base level, inarguably worth watching shows if you haven't seen either of them.
Battlestar?

Buffy doesn't hold up that well, I think Angel may be a better rewatch.

Or the X-Files. Pretty sure they're on Netflix still.

they are and i didn't know that!

good wife!

there is so much good wife

top binge-watching recs from me (minus the Sopranos) would be Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Eastbound and Down, Freaks and Geeks, Twin Peaks

Battlestar gets so bad I would say only do that if you are prepared to stop at the end of season 3

I've seen (and loved) Breaking Bad and The Wire. Hung with Battlestar for a bit, but not really my thing and fell off of it. I tried to start Gilmore Girls but it didn't stick, probably because I was drunk I mean tired and fell asleep.

X-Files is a great suggestion. And I have probably only seen a few episodes of 30 Rock.

xpost So Much Good Wife sounds like a good thing. Is it an hour? I was kind of leaning half hour since I'll be on opioids I mean resting, any quick hits you'd recommend?

xp oh for sure. you'll know when you're done with battlestar, the signs are everywhere.

do you have hbo go?

Twin Peaks on opioids uuuuuuuuuuh

Hmmm I don't have HBO to go atm, but maybe I can get it through the Roku for not too much $$$? I will look into it.

I've seen maybe 1.5 seasons of Mad Men. That may be good to pick up again?

Gilmore Girls is a solid pick imo

My mom is a huge GG stan, as is Stevie D and I mean I trust that man.

I'm glad I wasn't the only who got to a point in Battlestar where I kept going "why am I watching this? Why was I EVER watching this?"

GG is awful garbage. I loved Mad Men start to finish (peak is around s3 and 4 imo)

you want easy 30-minute digestible chunks 30 Rock is not a bad way to go, it's p solid for its entire run

Pssh. You're awful garbage. GG is wonderful garbage.

that style of dialogue is like nails-on-a-chalkboard to me, sorry

Binging is probably the best way to vibe with that show. It's what worked for me.

xxxp good wife is 45min

Can you compare GG to something else I may have seen? Style of dialogue is in the vein of what?

everybody speaking in rapid-fire "witticisms" that aren't really that witty but are spoken as fast as possible so as to create the impression of wit

literally makes me want to smash things, it's so irritating

I made it through 1 and a half episodes

yup. utterly unbearable

the cult mystifies me

Maybe try Friday Night Lights?

Sounds like I need to watch GG.

buffy holds up incredibly well, wtf

and angel totally does not. and GG is indeed unbearable garbage

The Knick S2 and Fargo S2 are both totally ace right now. The latest Walking Dead is very pedestrian right now, boring as fuck.

I really liked Friday Night Lights, especially after living in Texass. May give that a second go, but I really should use the opportunity to watch something new (to me).

gilmore girls sounds like parenthood to me if that means anything to you.

my contemporary votes are High Maintenance (easy and cheap and fast), the Americans, Veep, Hannibal, Rick and Morty and Getting On

Is Veronica Mars streaming anywhere?

i watched it on amazon, i think it's still available there

Gilmore Girls is great BUT

patter is like Dawson's Creek x Buffy, loads of pop culture references & you have to really be in the mood for everyone talking that way. It makes mr veg visibly recoil, closed doors, the works lol

but the relationships are endearing & it's v funny & moving & MADE for rainy day watching & lots of great actors & fun cameos & the first 3 or 4 seasons are <3

I wish ER was on Netflix or Amazon Prime, I'd binge hard on that. In my mind the first 4-5 seasons were really good but that was in the middle of my teens so what the hell did I know?

Dramatic series that I own on DVD (all of which I would recommend for binge watching): Buffy, Angel, Breaking Bad, Twin Peaks, Gilmore Girls.

Okay, and Dallas. Okay? Is that okay with you? Geez.

I would also like to add ST:TNG and Homicide and the DC animated shows to that list.

I know I already raved about the music on Limitless, but tonight they had a high-speed montage set to Babymetal and I freaked the fuck out. Props!

yeah its pretty fun!

Must see Limitless.

It's CBS though, right? WHich means I'll probably never see it.

can stream on the website no?

You're the Worst got MUCH better and MUCH darker

Getting only a bit more of a handle on my Good Wife appreciation. Maybe I do enjoy the non-Elsbeth characters as much as the writing and acting and milieu? Then again maybe I just like watching Chris Noth.

Enjoying Crazy Ex-GF more than I'd imagine I would something CW - the thing it leads into is panicked-search-for-the-remote unwatchable - but have a hard time shaking the sense that it's just Mindy with a white girl, plus songs. Why isn't she on anymore?

Have also been hooked by Quantico, which is ok, because I went to school with the showrunner. It is soooo his product. I preferred the one from the other showrunner I went to school with.