Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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?

CBS always gonna play it safe

daaamn, that sucks

The Night Manager was pretty good, but I thought the pacing was masterful. It was positively laconic for a good stretch and I was like, oh maybe I was mistaken in my belief that this was a spy/intrigue/action thing. Little did I realize I was like the frog in that slowly-heating pot of water.

OK, I got pulled into Lady Dynamite

“But you have a Jaguar!” “Thank you! Actually, I have two. Three, if you count the third one.”

I turned the pilot episode of Lady Dynamite off after 8 minutes. Maybe ill give it a go again cos i like some of maria bamford's stand up

The pilot felt a little unpenetrable for me because it was so, so different than what I was expecting, but I got into the groove by the second episode.

50% of the time it's hilarious and 50% of the time it is unbearably awkward

it's going everywhere all at once. i don't know if i love it or not.

the diane voice ep i couldn't even finish it was so painful to watch

Anyone who drifted away from Maron is highly encouraged to take another look. I've always liked the show but they made a great decision last season to start veering away from the loose autobio angle. Marc fell hard off the wagon at the end of last season and has been in rehab for most of this season (after a stint of homelessness), and it's been brilliant. Also seek out the last couple from season 3 if you can find them (his talk show meltdown with Ken Marino was horrifying and hilarious).

Knocked out the first two hours of "OJ: Made In America" last night and it's excellent.
Samantha Bee / Jason Jones are straight up killing it right now; The Detour ended great and Full Frontal has become necessary viewing.
Watched the first episode of The Girlfriend Experience and was pleasantly surprised by how solid and non prurient it is. Kinda excited and hopeful.
I appear to have taped 85% of All in the Family. I've watched about three seasons. I may have burnt myself out.
Still good: Amy Schumer, Veep, Silicon Valley, Adventure Time
Still need to have a go at: UnREAL, Outcast, nu-Roots, Casual, The Path, Vikings, Fear the Walking Dead
Coming soon: Mr Robot, Queen of the South
Not that good these days: Last Week Tonight, Game of Thrones

I watched the first few episodes of veep - is it worth revisiting? Or is that indicative of the show as a whole?

veep just gets better and better. this season is the best one yet.

I haven't loved this season of veep tbh; also think amy schumer show may be past its expiration date

i'm finding veep pretty consistent from season to season. schumer, as I'm prone to repeatedly saying, is extremely hit and miss but her hits are super solid and she has about a 50% signal to noise ratio so i'm willing to sit through some stinkers.

Currently streaming Season 1 of unREAL and Season 2 of Banshee; winding down Person of Interest; gonna check out Animal Kingdom.

Veep is a weird show. It's often extremely funny, like I LOL more often during an average episode than maybe anything else on TV. Yet watching it is not an altogether pleasant experience because roughly 80% of the characters are basically complete unrepentant assholes. So basically individual lines and moments are often so great yet it kind of wears you down to watch certain characters just shit on other ones relentlessly, episode after episode. And I don't mean Jonah, because he's a dick himself (I'm about five episodes behind but I hear he has an unexpected renaissance coming). But like Mike and Gary and Catherine and Amy (though she can dish it out too) and the nice young guy with the glasses who's basically that Furlong's constant bitchboy.

the ability to find relentlessly unrepentant assholes' lives interesting is more or less necessary to enjoy the current golden age of teevee... see also breaking bad, better call saul, unreal, silicon valley, the americans, black sails, basically almost every highly acclaimed scripted show on right now!