Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

detour def has some laughs, good joke abt holding a phone horizontally when shooting video that made me recall ilx

Wait, Full Frontal? I'm going to assume you DONT mean the terrible 90s australian comedy show.

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.

that's the one.

good to see I am the not the only person enjoying the totally OTT but fun Gotham show.

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)
Elementary
Scandal
Angie Tribeca
Billions

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.

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 Valley
Full Frontal
Kimmy Schmidt
Archer
Bob's Burgers
Amy Schumer

I really like Gotham this season

Limitless has def become top tier. v smart show. Just finished the double ep finale with the wife last weekend.

Also watching Black Sails due to forks thread, loving that. about halfway through the latest season.

Just wrapped up the latest season of iZombie which is pretty fun.

All caught up for the series finale of Banshee. This season def the worst but still good and gonna miss the show.

Finished the latest Rectify still a great slow show

Game of Thrones is still fun

Finished up The Good Wife which up through season 5 is one of my fav shows ever but really piddled out after that. glad it ended.

Lots to catch up on: Americans s4, Happy Vally s2, Daredevil (altho not hearing good things) s2, Hannibal s3, Leftovers s2

imo, fast track hannibal season 3 over everything else on your list

alright

glad black sails has been treating you well. I think they wrap up season three very well and have the table well set (literally in the final episode!) for A+ Game of Thrones shifting allegiances / internecine warfare for another year or two

seems like the kind of show that can sustain a good long run. there's been big reveals but you can always introduce more back story with other characters or bring in new villains and what not.

and they're willing to kill major characters and then have them back on irregularly as ghosts which i always think is the best way to handle fanservice vs. lowering the stakes
exhibit a: game of thrones. if you're gonna start resurrecting characters (and at least one more major one is likely on the way based on my understanding of the books, yes?) it becomes hard to give a shit about people being killed or not.

aye

I really like Gotham this season

its soo dark and nasty, and yet still hugely enjoyable.
i think it's much better than any of the other comic book spin offs that i have seen.
the bloke who play penguin is just fantastic to watch, and pee wee h as his dad was a stroke of casting genius.

they are really leaning into the ott character acting now, it's bonkers & fun

the guy who is the riddler is so great, and i freaking love bd wong as the crazy doctor

they are really leaning into the ott character acting now, it's bonkers & fun
the guy who is the riddler is so great, and i freaking love bd wong as the crazy doctor

agreed.
every week i watch it and think this has to start getting lighter with an indication of resolution to the chaos,
but no, they just ramp up the insanity more and more.
i properly love it.

this is not an original observation but the sheer volume is quality tv is staggering/ridiculous/certainly untenable

my shows atm are

gotham
agents of shield
full frontal w sam bee
w kamau bell's united shades of america
vikings
game of thrones
nashville
blacklist*
flash*
*hatewatching

am behind on almost everything because i am mainly just bingeing west wing on netflix and gunsmoke reruns on tivo

xp re 2 much tv

http://www.vulture.com/2016/05/peak-tv-business-c-v-r.html

i watched the first ep of limitless and it was terrible.
It's really improved? Somebody wanna sell me on it?

Limitless was great from the jump and continues to be great, I suspect the problem is that it doesn't fit your sensibilities and likely never will.

never saw the pilot tbh. My wife was watching it one night and I jumped on board. Probably a handful of episodes in. It's lightweight fun for the most part but the end of the season really picked up and even got kinda dark.

w kamau bell's united shades of america

Didn't know this existed until about a week ago. I don't get CNN anymore (and didn't watch it anyway), but glad to see he's back on tv. First three episodes have been very solid, particularly the prison one.

I suspect the problem is that it doesn't fit your sensibilities and likely never will.

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episode 4 on camden police is p good

it errs on the middle-ground a lot but its cnn so you take what you can get, but i really like kamau, love him hosting a show like this

klan episode was creepy as fuck

Not watching a lot at the moment but I should mention that, after feeling like I was just going through the motions while watching most of last season, this season of Orphan Black has been legitimately good + gripping + also very funny at times.

oh shit i forgot to put orphan black on my list

I never even watched the entirety of last season of Orphan Black ;_;

it wasnt my fave

new season is v dope tho

Couldn't ever finish the first season of that

GOT
Silicon Valley
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Halt and Catch Fire (just binge-watched the first 5 episodes of S1, love it)
Watch some of Flaked on Netflix, it was dreadful

i've tried to get several people into Halt and Catch Fire. I think it's great, especially season 2, but no takers so far.

Been wanting to try it

season 2 is phenomenal agreed

first episode was atrocious, would really need a tidal wave of interest to engage

I was a big fan of S1 but I lost interest in S2 toward the last third and never finished it.

Is no one watching Penny Dreadful anymore?

Wait also, what happened to the Knick? I watched a few of the new season.... is it still going?

To explain: we get fuckall of this stuff "properly" in aus (tho I'm sure sic will come and correct me and he may be right) so we just torrent all these shows.

Theres too many. Who has the time?

oh yeah halt and catch fire is great - i shotgunned the first two seasons in a few days recently. there's a bit too much mad men-style 'mystery man haunted by his past' in s1 but s2 is really good. the cast is fantastic.

Binged on bith seasons of The Hollow Crown. Ben Whishaw great great GREAT as Richard II and then somewhat diminishing returns in the leads moving forward ( Hiddleston as Henry V, Benedict Cumberbund as Richard III). Overall pretty excellent TV Shakespeare.

yeah Whishaw is really good in that

didn't know the new ones had been on yet

I've been torrenting since am in US and "Richard III" was up yesterday. Not sure when they will air in the US.

Cumberbatch does a fine job but he's a li'l bit hammier than I would've liked. The language, though... It's wonderful how these folks make it flow.

re: HaCF, s2 is really good. I actually started there and skipped s1 entirely.

anyone watch outlander? i was surprised how much i liked the first season, even though the last couple of episodes veered unexpectedly into torture porn

shows I intend to watch but have failed to keep up on:

Daredevil (second half of season 1, season 2)
The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (s2)
Orphan Black (last season, this season)
Game of Thrones

I am totally up to speed on Thomas & Friends, though! (please send help)