Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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)

Yerman diesel is some prick

Diesel is terrible; this is mitigated by all of the other engines also being terrible

almost makes u sympathize w/ sir topham hatt

You can definitely see why he decided to brick one of them up in a tunnel

I didn't realise The Fat Controller had been renamed Sir Topham Hatt, political correctness gone mad blah blah

Skarloey ftw

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

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no no no stop it. anything but thomas

is hollow crown on netflix/amazon yet?

Damien Lewis is britishes?? Just found out. Always trips me out when this happens and I feel dumb for never picking up on the accent which has to have broken thru at some point.

Anyway Billions is back and I'll probably watch and no I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Just discovered seasons 2 and 3 of Silicon Valley are available, so been binge-watching. It is such a treat! s1 wasn't this good iirc, although decent...?

it took s1 almost the whole season to get cooking

I can't get over how the main guy is a Dreamworks character come to life

Limitless has been cancelled
:/

Boo :-(

BOO

little spurpised they couldnt get one of the netflix/amazons to pick it up. seems like it had a bit of ground swell idk. i guess the DVR numbers were good but live numbers weren't. couldnt compete with the snoozefest NCISs and all those types

Yeah, I'm surprised that a smart little show like that couldn't get picked up, yet Blue Bloods still trundles on, clicheing away.

i guess the DVR numbers were good but live numbers weren't.

Did the people who run the networks pay, like, zero attention when the music industry was ravaged by falling out of step with evolving methods of content delivery?