Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

i love the serial narrative arc format

i watched ep 1 of baskets yesterday, it stressed me out and i didn't laugh, does it get better? i mean louis is a fun show and all but this brave new frontier of comedy that isn't funny and is sad is something i don't need a WHOLE lot of

it gets better but it will continue to stress you out and it's not at all funny. morbid humor at best. the worst thing about the show is zach galifianakis which is sad.

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

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yes there is a lot of anxiety but also a *ton* of 80s music montage sequences

including one set to a new Pete Townsend original that actually really works! truly it is a miracle show

Ugh Ive tried to get into Workaholics but theyre all such a bunch of punchable dinguses.

they are, that's definitely something that requires your consent or else it ain't gonna work for you.

right now loving

OJ
Gotham
Agents of Shield
Bobs Burgers
Rupaul's Drag Race
Full Frontal
The Flash

liking not loving atm
Face Off
Top Chef
Broad City
Vikings

Fargo
The Americans
Black Sails
Jessica Jones
Game of Thrones
Pointless
Better Call Saul
Narcos
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle

Too US skewed, must broaden horizons.

of what's airing atm:

Crazy Ex Girlfriend
Jane the Virgin
Limitless
The Americans
Better Call Saul
Carmichael Show
Full Frontal
Venture Bros

all I'm watching right now is Billions lol. TV show choice overload has incapacitated me

the Last Man ending was such a cheesy cliffhanger - c'mon, they're not going to kill either of them

wrong! (although I agree it was obvious they weren't gonna kill Sudeikis)

This show... it's a lot of squandered potential but occasionally it is incredible and unlike anything else. In particular, the debuts for each season stand apart in that so far they have all been explorations of desolate landscapes and the insanity of loneliness, and packed with great imagery. This last one just holy shit - airfields full of corpses, cruising around abandoned cities in hazmat suits, paddling across empty oceans. Ballard would surely see it as an homage (or at least some kind of pop culture validation of his obsessions and themes). Unfortunately, after these episodes the show more or less devolves into a much less interesting comedy of manners that only fitfully engages with the much more interesting ideas at its disposal. idk maybe it's a budget thing.

the most recent OJ 'jurors episode' had some classic bits.. the Seinfeld/Martin argument/vote, also the synth intro to 'Natural One' by Folk Implosion vibed well with the tone of the show. Dude playing Johnny Cochran is great, Travolta is terrifying

hearing 'natural one' in any context is p good tbh

togetherness got cancelled/not renewed. I watch it and like it ok but agree w this decision

Man the People VS OJ is the greatest thing going. Don't know what crime they're going to do for a second season but can't see them doing a better job.

that's too bad about togetherness, I like that show! wtf it's not like HBO has better things to put up really.

my 10:

People vs OJ
Better Call Saul
Walking Dead
The Flash
Supergirl
Togetherness
VEEP
Silicon Valley
Game of Thrones
not sure of #10

NCIS
NCIS: Los Angeles
NCIS: New Orleans
NCIS: Miami
NCIS: Little Rock
NCIS: Bedrock
Lego NCIS: New Orleans
NCIS: R'yleh
NCIS: Flavortown
Face-Off

very eclectic

Ppl vs OJ keeps getting better, i'm kinda blown away

Ten:

Better Call Saul
Broad City
Last Man on Earth
Love
Flaked
Les Revenants
Bob's Burgers
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Vanderpump Rules
Bold and the Beautiful

Not on right now:
The Great British Baking Show (S1 on Netflix)

there are like 13 different websites recapping the people vs oj simpson each week as a "fact checking" feature

dayumm tonight was good

Gonna try out this new Hulu series The Path. I love stories about cults.

i was 11 when the oj trial was going on and i remember a few details from then - i remember watching the bronco chase (though i didn't know anything about oj holding a gun to his head during it, or that the police pulled them over and then let them go again). i also remember the gloves, and that fuhrman was a terrible racist. most of the details of the case tho i wasn't really aware of, and that includes the fuhrman tapes where he speaks openly about framing and beating black ppl (of course he uses a different word to refer to them). it's hard for me to have any sympathy for the LAPD or prosecution based on the facts presented in this show. i believe OJ did the crime but holy shit - if you're going to employ openly racist psychos who admit on hours of tape footage to planting evidence and then use them as key witnesses then you deserve to lose your case. the consequence of running a vile incompetent organization is that even when you're right you don't get to ask for the benefit of the doubt. i believe OJ absolutely should've been acquitted just based on the incompetence of the DA + LAPD. sorry if this is all 'duh,' it's just new for me bc i wasn't really aware of any of this background while it was happening.

feeling really old here

i believe OJ absolutely should've been acquitted just based on the incompetence of the DA + LAPD

oof, really? release a homicidal maniac to the street as an admonishment?

it's not like karmically just, but it is legally just. you can't do that shit and then complain when you fail to indict someone i don't care how good the forensic evidence is. the guy who collected all the forensic evidence turned out to have tape footage saying that he believes in framing black ppl. if that's the kind of organization you're running you deserve whatever you get in the courtroom imo.

i hope that the case served as a wakeup call to the dept that they had become epic failures at any kind of prosecution of justice. if it did and led them to revamp and fix their shit then maybe it was even karmically just in the long run.

Trying to think of 10 that are actually all current not just things that i'm watching on d/lded files.

I did really enjoy The Night Manager and want to read the original book its been heauily morphed from. Interesting cos the tv series seems to rely on day to day technology that I doubt was around when the book was written.

Also Happy Valley, I really like Sally Wainwright's writing. I went through a binge of watching a lot of the tv stuff last year. Noticed taht when Wainwright left the Manchester police series she began the writing standard became really cliched.
Enjoyed Last Tango In Halifax even if it is a rom-com. The backstory is well done or make taht plural since there is a bunch of stuff going on at any given time. I'm just watching the Lecturer husband of Sarah lancaster in that in Fresh meat and wonder if he's in danger of becoming typecast.

Walking Dead. I watched teh first series of taht then didn't watch it for several years until around teh time I read the book World War z and started watching a couple of zombie things. This was by far the more intelligent.

Gotham
QI which just stopped recently i think and i think that must mean that Stephen fry has left without there being a very large fanfare about it, unless I missed an episode.

Fresh Meat which I think has just come to the end. Unless Josie continues with her new housemates. But I'm watching it through from the beginning and realising taht I don't think I've seen any of the first series before or the first couple of episodes of teh 2nd.

Better Call Saul which may well be an improvement on the series it spun off, good that that was.

Marvel's Agents of Shield is still good. As was Agent carter.

& I'm still watching Grimm.

Flash
Blindspot
Just watched through Man In the hIgh castle and really want to read the book. Look forward to the 2nd season.
Daredevil was great too.

Lucifer is enjoyable trash.

trying to think of other stuff I've really got into recently.
Watched all of the Gordon ramsay makeover shows in a bing that extended either side of Xmas. Meant to do taht with most of David Attenborough which i d/lded around the same time but not got as far as I'd like. Still may just get further into that.

I just checked out Broad city thanks to this thread and the episode I watched was quite good. So will probably look further into that.
Watched through the Unbreakable kimmy Schmidt over the last couple of weeks thanks to mention elsewhere on here.
Need to finish off the most recent series of Ripper Street.

First two episodes of Happy Valley are great; it's basically "bad things happen to bad people / bad things happen to good people: the show"

^season 2 natch

ended up watching an episode of The Carmichael Show out of curiosity... it's somehow pretty good? How did that happen?

I caught most of an episode of that too and found it pretty strange. It felt like everyone else in the cast besides Carmichael was in a normal family sitcom while he was just this guy kind of wandering through the scenes commenting on what he was seeing. I suppose that could be an interesting dynamic if carried further out, but in this case I think it's just a function of him being a really bad actor.

i hope that the case served as a wakeup call to the dept that they had become epic failures at any kind of prosecution of justice. if it did and led them to revamp and fix their shit then maybe it was even karmically just in the long run.

I'll give you two guesses as to what actually happened, and the first one doesn't count

enjoying:

60 days in
naked and afraid
girls
fuck that's delicious
catfish
broad city
new girl
vinyl
last man on earth

returning soon & expect to enjoy - veep, catastrophe

new stuff that looks interesting & will check out - girlfriend experience, the detour

WTF is Fuck That's Delicious and how is that real

action bronson's eating show on vice

how could anyone regularly watch ten television shows?

you mean like only 10?

(i've got about 20 active shows in my filter right now... i'm behind on everything, but still)

I have the patience and wherewithal and sometimes even the active desire, but time and focus are often lacking.

I'm probably actually watching ten-ish shows right now but at least half of them are no longer airing.

oh if we're coutning shows not currently airing my list is at like 80. it's fucking bad

(i am going to have to cull A LOT bc i was already behind before i got a new job and a gf... yeesh)

2nd season of iZombie was a blast, and the finale was great. Not sure where they're gonna go with Blaine and also after the first episode of Liv being estranged from her little brother and mom because of her refusal to donate blood for a transfusion nothing else is mentioned about it for the rest of the season which seems a little odd.

Ravi is the best and Steven Weber was gold throughout.

I was going to list the shows I'm currently watching but, due to lol toddlers, my list ends up looking like:

Thomas and Friends
Peg + Cat
Wild Kratts
Odd Squad
Sesame Street
Curious George
Nature Cat
Black-ish
American Dad!
Super Why

I think it's just Bojack Horseman and The Returned (french version obv.) for me, everything else is just OK

due to lol toddlers, my list ends up looking like

The first 10 seconds of the trailer for last week's Peg+Cat special episode was the greatest thing I've seen on TV in a while.

"Space . . . vast, peaceful, silent . . . except for the gigantic singing pig heading towards earth!"

oh don't get me wrong, Peg + Cat and Odd Squad are actually both flat-out awesome and I'd recommend either to anyone, almost regardless of whether they have kids or not

(there is a special place in Hell reserved for everyone involved with Thomas and Friends, though)

these days it's

Octonauts
Wild Kratts
Zoboomafoo
Super Why
Magic School Bus
Creative Galaxy

Octonauts is the best of that bunch though they're all pretty damn solid kids' shows

oh and

Lily's Driftwood Bay
Puffin Rock
Tumble Leaf