you mean like only 10?
(i've got about 20 active shows in my filter right now... i'm behind on everything, but still)
― yellow despackling power (Will M.), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
I have the patience and wherewithal and sometimes even the active desire, but time and focus are often lacking.
― My Whole Existence Is Flan (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
I'm probably actually watching ten-ish shows right now but at least half of them are no longer airing.
― My Whole Existence Is Flan (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
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)
― yellow despackling power (Will M.), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link
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.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:14 (seven years ago) link
I was going to list the shows I'm currently watching but, due to lol toddlers, my list ends up looking like:
Thomas and FriendsPeg + CatWild KrattsOdd SquadSesame StreetCurious GeorgeNature CatBlack-ishAmerican Dad!Super Why
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:48 (seven years ago) link
I think it's just Bojack Horseman and The Returned (french version obv.) for me, everything else is just OK
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
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!"
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link
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
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
(there is a special place in Hell reserved for everyone involved with Thomas and Friends, though)
these days it's
OctonautsWild KrattsZoboomafooSuper WhyMagic School BusCreative Galaxy
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link
Octonauts is the best of that bunch though they're all pretty damn solid kids' shows
oh and
Lily's Driftwood BayPuffin RockTumble Leaf
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
and then Game of Thrones I guess, I haven't been watching much TV for adults lately apparently.
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
I have substituted Diablo III for a lot of the time I was spending on television, apparently
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link
― 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.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
i work on thomas and friends ebooks once in a while and imo they're actively evil
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
sir topham hatt is a monster
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
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.
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
I have complained (only partly facetiously) about Thomas and Friends' monstrous pro-coal agenda on some other thread
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
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 like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
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
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
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
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:25 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah Blue Mountain Mystery
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link
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.
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link
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
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
there are occasionally some kind of sinister genocidal aspects to the Diesels' view of the Steamies imo
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
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.
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
Things I have on series link on my TV right now:
OJ Simpson thingLimitless Line of DutyThe MuppetsScandal (which I basically hate, but still watch)MasterchefElementaryBilly Connolly's Tracks Across AmericaHeroes RebornHoudini & 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.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
Oh, and Scott and Bailey is back tonight, for fans of Sally Wainwright telly.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
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
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
all those kids are awesome counterexamples to my preconceptions about child actors
― down and down we go (art), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
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
― down and down we go (art), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah when it comes to what my kids and I watch together it's Portlandia and Worst Cooks in America
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
― 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
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/article/unreals-season-2-teasers-crank-manufactured-drama-236227
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 02:27 (seven years ago) link
Game of thronesStar Trek: VoyagerThe AmericansVikings*Brooklyn Nine NineFear the Walking Dead*That OJ trial American Crime story thing
*these are shows Ive come to late that the bf watches so ive only seen like 2-3 recent episodes and am slightly lost.
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 04:52 (seven years ago) link
GothamGame of ThronesSilicon ValleyThe AmericansLovePerson of Interest (gets good apparently)
― AJD, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 11:36 (seven years ago) link
In order of quality:
The AmericansFull FrontalVeepThe DetourSilicon ValleyInside Amy Schumer (hit and miss but the hits are solid)Adventure Time (though it feels weaker than it has in years... not much good since the "Egress" episode really)
Also Jeopardy. Always Jeopardy.
Beyond that, Game of Thrones has been just okay to ridiculous and Last Week Tonight has had a month of really unfunny and self-referential episodes.
Dice, Archer and The Carmichael Show are all reasonably diverting but I can't quite get over Carmichael's studio audience laugh track, Dice's WHATTAYAWANT I'M WALKING HERE and Archer's sneering little boy humor.
Still need to watch: Fear of the Walking Dead / The Path / The Girlfriend Experience / Vikings
Upcoming of varying interest: Preacher, Lady Dynamite, Vice Principals, Outcast, The Night Of, Queen of the South, Feed the Beast
― ulysses, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 15:33 (seven years ago) link
also: Seasons 2 of Catastrophe (Amazon) and Happy Valley (Netflix) are excellent and Hulu has the original UK "Getting On" so I've been binge watching those as well.Still going through All in the Family, about two eps a night.
― ulysses, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
detour def has some laughs, good joke abt holding a phone horizontally when shooting video that made me recall ilx
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
Wait, Full Frontal? I'm going to assume you DONT mean the terrible 90s australian comedy show.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
full frontal with samantha bee. it's a weekly cable makin' fun of the news show starring a former longtime daily show correspondent. also i think it's the only american late night show whose host is a woman.
― Clay, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
that's the one.
― ulysses, Thursday, 19 May 2016 13:19 (seven years ago) link
good to see I am the not the only person enjoying the totally OTT but fun Gotham show.
― mark e, Thursday, 19 May 2016 13:27 (seven years ago) link
The final season of Scott and Bailey was rubbish.
Currently watching:
Limitless (probably my favourite show right now)Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (though agree it's losing its way atm)ElementaryScandalAngie TribecaBillions
New season of The Americans starts on UK telly tonight, so I'd better get on with season 3.
Only UK TV shows I watch now are panel shows, quiz shows and the increasingly-terrible Coronation Street.
― ailsa, Thursday, 19 May 2016 13:43 (seven years ago) link
Idk why I can't seem to dig into any hour-long dramas lately, once the NBA playoffs are over hopefully I'll catch up on The Americans, House of Cards, Night Manager, Last Panthers, and the last four or so episodes of Better Call Saul I missed. as of right now though all I'm watching are comdies:
Silicon ValleyFull FrontalKimmy SchmidtArcherBob's BurgersAmy Schumer
― evol j, Thursday, 19 May 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
I really like Gotham this season
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 May 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link