Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

I tried watching some of the recent season premiere and I made it about five minutes

My kids started crying right about when not-Cece's-mom tried to get out of Nick's car and I was cringing so hard that I didn't rewind to watch the end

1) Red Oaks (Amazon)

bcz it's the only show i'm watching, unless 2001 Sopranos counts.

how is red oaks?

i started watching nurse jackie on netflix. also battle creek starring ryan o'reily aka dennis duffy aka dean winters. it's fun.

it's an easy watch w/ some good actors, a few too many characters mimicking Fast Times at Ridgemont High or Caddyshack

xp

Man Seeking Woman has gotten pretty funny. Best ep so far, as with last season, makes Liz (the sister) the main character.

suttin foster is in younger

it's not great but: sutton foster!

X-Files
Adventure Time
The Magicians
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Steven Universe
Lucha Underground
Children's Hospital
Venture Bros
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Workaholics
NXT

Looking for recommendations re: Idiotsitter, Baskets, Horace and Pete
Excited/Hopeful for: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Horace and Pete is really odd. More like a stab at 80s social-realist teleplays than anything current. Some really strong perfs (Alda, Wright, Falco) and some not so great ones (CK, quelle surprise), some interesting writing and some horribly didactic/clumsy stuff as well. Curious to see what happens with it but not bowled over.

Catching up on and digging The Expanse.

NYT described Horace and Pete as the lost Eugene O'Neill written episode of Cheers which is not a terrible way to put it. It's not gripping me but Louis tends to have a 50/50 hit miss ratio and the hits justify the misses. I'll buy at least the first five episodes.

Idiotsitter is basically workaholics ethos, so if you dig that you'll dig this. Jillian Bell is hysterical, her delivery in the entire Channing Tatum episode was flawless. Charlotte Newhouse is really good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WVYe0dpvu4

Baskets is... messy. I don't know if I want to keep watching it? It has some strong redeeming points (primarily Martha Kelly who is a revelation and Louie Anderson as Zach's mom) but it's kind of a nothing show. Feels like it needs another season to get its footing.

the next two episodes of Baskets are written by this guy. I'm sufficiently intrigued to check 'em out.

wow, had no idea. I like the whale a lot.

War & Peace miniseries on Lifetime was pretty dope imo

The first episode of Horace and Pete was fine but definitely felt like something that had been filmed and released within a week. Several good performances as noted (took me almost no time at all to transition from 'Alan Alda as a cantankerous racist? Really?' to just totally buying his character). Louis needs to stop with the "I AM UNCOMFORTABLE" mugging. Buscemi seems oddly off.

anyone here watching the uk show Crashing? it is often funny and often quite emotionally devastating if the first 4 eps are anything to go by

Limitless music watch: Royal Headache's "My Own Fantasy," an Early Man poster, a discography quiz on Sabbath, Skeletonwitch, and Goatwhore, and a closing montage set to Artificial Brain

oh shit Limitless is back

thank god for the DVR

Lately been watching:

The Man in the High Castle
The Great British Baking Show
Transparent
Better Call Saul
The Late Show with Seth Meyers (very underrated!)
The Americans
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Fargo
Jessica Jones
Master of None

The Americans is back next month!!!

^just starting Season 2. Is this 4?

yes. just finished 3 a couple weeks back. good stuff.

is anyone watching the people vs. o.j. simpson? it's surprisingly good. little to no detectable ryan murphy camp horseshit despite his exec producer credit.

too busy watching Banshee

oh wait did the new season of that start? i love banshee

4th and final season starts april 1. i just started on season 3

nice. yr in for a treat re: season 3 - that's the best one, imo

show is so ott ridiculous i love it.

spotted some chobani in the background during the oj show, cmon u jokers that shit wasnt around in the 90s

Just finished up with Mr Robot, loved it. Also Legends of Tomorrow, X-Files (ehhh), Brooklyn 99, and hanging out for the new Americans season.

<3 The Grinder <3
just a good basic goofy sitcom

Got a hold of first 2 seasons of "Ripper Street". Enjoying it immensely.

Aching for Les Revenants season 2. I thought Netflix was streaming it as of Feb 1 but I guess its going to be available sometime between the 16th - 29th. poo. It has afforded me the opportunity to finally watch Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia from the start, though. I'm up to season 5 and just loving it. Charlie Day is some kind of wonderful genius.

The Americans season 4 on FX and season 2 of Happy Valley on Netflix tonight; daredevil season 2 on netflix on friday

not sure which i'm more excited about. well, obviously the americans but still.

People vs OJ in my top 10 right now - so much better than I expected

i love People vs OJ too and it gets better every episode. I'm also watching 1st seasons of narcos, latest season of better call saul and fresh meat. although im kinda exasperated with it at this point, im watching the latest season of girls too.

PEOPLE VS. OJ SIMPSON
IZOMBIE
CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND
BOB'S BURGERS
THE BLACKLIST
RIZZOLI & ISLES
TOP CHEF
various WWE offerings

things i am excited about that are returning soon-ish: ARCHER, UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT, SILICON VALLEY, ORPHAN BLACK, ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, REVIEW, NATHAN FOR YOU, UNREAL, JESSICA JONES
things that i put on the dvr so i can have background noise: CATFISH, TRUE LIFE, BAR RESCUE
things that are unbelievably bad this go-round: BROAD CITY

better call saul

that's it, though maybe i should finally watch the third season of orphan black

agree broad city has declined since this seasons prem

the cartoon hbo show animals is p funny

ppl v oj is only ok

new girl is still v funny even megan fox couldnt ruin it

new girl is still v funny even megan fox couldnt ruin it

oh wow maybe i should start watching again

it's just sort of hard to care about it now ever since they jettisoned the emotional core of the show for zaniness (this was my general impression of season four, maybe that has changed)

they kinda shifted the emotions to schimdt and cece but yea they def toned down the zaniness from last season which i agree was a bad look

Current favorites -
Current top
The Magicians (liking it a lot, even read the Wikipedia book summaries to get an idea of future plots)
The Walking Dead (unfortunately, being up on the trades, this Negan season half makes every episode a tense view)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Venture Brothers (and soon, Archer!)
The Flash
Sleepy Hollow (enjoying it recently, after zoning out during much of last season)

All shows I look forward to seeing on the DVR vs. comfort shows (NCIS or Chopped) or invested but not 100% enjoying shows (Castle, Grimm).

brad are you watching the Americans

because if not you really really should be

i caught up on americans and am hooked now. didn't think it would get better but it has.

the americans really sounds like exactly my kind of show but also something that would give me anxiety attacks all the time?

Started watching 11.22.66 or whatever its called (ugh really clunky title). Ive never read the book so I'm not biased by that: its not too bad, time travel always has its problematic logic tho of course.

my ten tv now is probably:

Black Sails
Better Call Saul
Jeopardy
Adventure TIme
Full Frontal
Last Week Tonight
Venture Bros
Broad City
Parasyte
All in the Family <-I've become obsessed with this show and have been watching two episodes a night, starting with season five. It's probably the best thing on now. Still.

There's about to be a number of gate crashers: Americans, Daredevil, Happy Valley, The Path among them
Then Nathan for You, Game of Thrones, Eric Andre (?), Silicon Valley, Veep (please still be good)

I recently got hooked on the PBS News Hour as good dinner music

I can also handle Workaholics, Baskets, Idiotsitter and Modern Family as teevee for when i don't want teevee

I need to start Vikings, I need to finish Crazy Ex Girlfriend (stalled out after three episodes, much the same as UNReal), I need to get past the first (somewhat disappointing) ep of Jessica Jones

It should be noted that Always Sunny in Philadelphia just finished one of their best seasons

this venture bros season has been fantastic

i love the serial narrative arc format