Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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

and then Game of Thrones I guess, I haven't been watching much TV for adults lately apparently.

I have substituted Diablo III for a lot of the time I was spending on television, apparently

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

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, April 13, 2016 4:56 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've got to watch the 2nd season of the Returned tv series yet. I picked up the novel and hadn't previously realised it was by a black american author so not sure what that's going to mean.

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

i work on thomas and friends ebooks once in a while and imo they're actively evil

sir topham hatt is a monster

if i'm remembering right there was an episode where Henry didn't want to come out of a tunnel or something and Topham Hatt decided to wall him up inside the tunnel, 'cask of amontillado' style, as punishment.

I have complained (only partly facetiously) about Thomas and Friends' monstrous pro-coal agenda on some other thread

oh its only a coincidence that the cleaner-burning diesel fuel engines are typically the "bad" engines, you say?

xp: oh my god I saw reference to that in an episode we were watching over the weekend; I think I was so startled that I was momentarily paralyzed

i have deeply confused british friends of mine by referring to him as "sir topham hatt" instead of "the fat controller." anyway yes literally everybody in thomas and friends is a horrible asshole and he's the worst

it was in the episode/movie that introduced Luke, who was harboring a TERRIBLE SECRET, and Thomas was asking all of the other engines what the worst thing they'd ever done was and Henry's was "get walled into a tomb by The Fat Controller"

although tbf if I was running a system full of talking trains and they all called me "The Fat Controller", I'd be walling up some motherfuckers too

oh yeah Blue Mountain Mystery

also if you watch that show long enough you'll realize every single plot is set into motion by a train chugging away from another train two seconds too early and not hearing an important bit of information that would have avoided the whole bloody mess. usually it's like "thomas don't go down that abandoned track" and then thomas merrily steaming away to certain doom.

usually exacerbated by Diesel telling another "steamie" that thomas intends to take his job or something.

I found Day of the Diesels very confusing because I'd seen a bunch of stories with Mavis, Paxton, Dart and Den portrayed as friendly allies to the steam engines so I had no idea why any of them would actively participate in Diesel 10's plan

there are occasionally some kind of sinister genocidal aspects to the Diesels' view of the Steamies imo

when Luke was all excited to go to Sodor you want someone to warn him, it's an island full of whisper campaigns and punishment levied by a single dictatorial figure with a short fuse.

Things I have on series link on my TV right now:

OJ Simpson thing
Limitless
Line of Duty
The Muppets
Scandal (which I basically hate, but still watch)
Masterchef
Elementary
Billy Connolly's Tracks Across America
Heroes Reborn
Houdini & Doyle

That, plus all the quiz shows (well, The Chase, Pointless, University Challenge and Fifteen to One), Coronation Street and Have I Got News for You and Graham Norton are pretty much it.

And we're still only halfway through season 3 of The Americans, so I need to get back to up to date with that ASAP.

Oh, and Scott and Bailey is back tonight, for fans of Sally Wainwright telly.

http://www.vulture.com/2016/04/abc-comedy-child-actor-roundtable.html?mid=twitter_vulture

possibly not the right thread for it but a bunch of my favorite current child actors participated in an awesome interview

all those kids are awesome counterexamples to my preconceptions about child actors

like i used to absolutely despise children acting in film/television and these kids are all really good at their jobs so now i don't so much. thanks, child actors, for this

oh yeah when it comes to what my kids and I watch together it's Portlandia and Worst Cooks in America

Oh, and Scott and Bailey is back tonight, for fans of Sally Wainwright telly.

― ailsa, Wednesday, April 13, 2016 7:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That was the series that went really downhill after she stopped doing the writing.
I think there's 4 seasons where she's in charge, one of which has other people coming in and doing the writing. I think it's season 5 she's stopped altogether and it just seems like a soap or something and not a very good one

http://www.avclub.com/article/unreals-season-2-teasers-crank-manufactured-drama-236227