Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

The direction of The Night Of has been disappointing, but the characters and performances keep me in it.

Looking forward to the return of You're The Worst soon.

Currently watching Humans on Amazon; it's pretty good, certainly better than Ex Machina.

Also watching season 2 of The Strain on Hulu, because sometimes I like to fill my brain with garbage.

Season 3 of The Strain starts this weekend!

I know; that's why I'm trying to catch up! I'm not sure what the delay period will be between new episodes airing on FX and showing up on Hulu - I think it's eight days, though.

Are they adding them during the season? afaik fx shows only appear as a complete season much later

ohh yay am looking forward to The Strain coming back
it's fun monster candy

i still like The Night Of but yeah the first few eps were very intriguing.

I caught up on season 2 of halt and catch fire a month or so ago, looking forward to season 3 starting... what, tonight?

The Night Of - good finale. Stone's speech was good, and the kitty on TV cracked me up.

I was so glad that they went for a low-key finale, it was looking dicey for a few weeks there.

I have finally settled into Braindead & am really enjoying it
It's v silly but I dig it.

just finished up the night of... not really sure what to say about it, enjoyed it on a whole i guess?

I really liked the night of, much more than most it seems. I was genuinely moved by the last episode, particularly by how the characters themselves were moved by the prospect of actual innocence.

(not knowing he's innocent, but somehow believing it)

agreed. the grayness of the plot and the legal and social limbo that the characters hang in is something that I feel it did well. too many crime/legal drama shows hang on the idea that there's some resolution, but with this show there's the acknowledgment that the nature of life is changing and nothing's resolved, no one is healed, and eventually all you can hope to do is to accept that everything is conflicted. the last scene is the closest we get to outright good and it's played against what could be a really cringe-worthy moment. (no spoilers)

it was really obvious what was going on with john turturro's character but the acknowledgment in the last episode was good

I even think the parts of the last two episodes that most commenters have disdained (no spoilers but if you've seen you know what I mean) weren't set up perfectly but they pointed to something rather poignant about the character and their lack of suitability for the system they are working in.

critics and commenters seem to have legitimate problems with pace and plotting and preferences about how things should be revealed and combine the two for the sake of creating one "why this show is bad" argument and it annoys me. this show is one case, but it's true of a lot of television.

"I don't like how they did scripted it" and "they didn't actually do this in the plot" are two different things

The Night Of followed the trajectory of immense highs followed by cringeworthy lows similar to Lost or Twin Peaks but was thanfully only limited to a single 8 episode run.

^ that's the most "i guess i WILL watch this then" recommendation i've heard for that show yet.

lol

Trayce I've just been watching s7 of Community. Didn't really feel it although it had some good lols

Community has 7 seasons???

anyone catch Gomorrah?

yeah i watched both seasons, very stylish and violent fun. An improvement on the overrated movie imo.

Watching on a weekly basis: Difficult People, You're the Worst (First ep of season three was excellent!), Eric Andre, PBS Newshour, reruns of Billy on the Street, Adam Ruins Everything, Inside Comedy, The Wire (finally finishing season 5; got through what I think is my fourth rewatch of the whole series this summer... gf's first time through)

Sorta kinda embarrassedly but still consistently watching if I'm being honest: Last Week Tonight, Hard Knocks, Vice Principals, Tonight Show, Late Show, Conan, Kimmel, Any Given Sunday

Accumulating/accumulated more or less a full current season and am beginning to wonder if I'm gonna get around to it once I finally finish rewatching season 5 of The Wire: Mr. Robot, The Night Of, The Great British Baking Show, Roots

Back on shortly and sure to be in regular rotation: Full Frontal, NFL, Jeopardy, Adventure Time, Frontline, Inside the NFL

Back on shortly and I suppose I'll watch an episode or two to see if it's any better: Masters of Sex

New shows (or shows I'm opting into this season) that i have added to season pass to be taped: Superstore, Gomorrah, Atlanta, Queen Sugar, Better Things, Loosely Exactly Nicole, Mary and Jane, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Quarry, Son of Zorn, High Maintenance, Legends of Chamberlain Heights, High Maintenance, The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show On Earth, The Good Place, Westworld No Tomorrow, Divorce, Insecure

Top twenty or so films/docs waiting to be watched: Fast Workers (Tod Browning), Sawdust and Tinsel (Bergman), In the Heart of the Sea, Contempt (Godard), Spirits of the Dead (Fellini), Brooklyn, King George, Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks, Meet the Donors, 5 episodes of American Experience on US Presidents, Three Extremes, 5 films from TCMs Pioneers of African-American Cinema series

Oh, forgot the pile of netflix and amazon and hulu shows on the way as well, most prominently:
One Mississippi, Fleabag, Crisis in Six Scenes, Transparent, Luke Cage... and we gotta retry Jessica Jones and tackle s.2 of Daredevil yet

re netflix: just finished new bojack season, thought it was great. watched stranger things just like everyone else. watched 3rd season of magi and liked this enough to go back to first season which i've never seen. SHINDOBATTO!

re the other network i watch: catching up on all the steven universes i fell behind on (that show is great), eric andre, new brad neely is... ok, embarrassed to admit i've been watching MDE: WP.

bailed on UNREAL after the shooting ep. bailed on Mr. Robot after s02e01.

i finished the first season of bojack, still not sure what everyone's raving about. Amy Sedaris makes everything better of course. Is it notably better in season two?
Stranger Things is now deep backlog.

iirc i liked bojack from the beginning so if it hasn't clicked for you it might not - but that said the second and third seasons are substantial improvements

i was lured into it (after watching the first ep when it first aired and hating it) after the ridiculous cultural acclaim but i remain confused.
thus far it feels like a half-step up from American Dad and that's a hell of a low bar.

bailed on Mr. Robot after s02e01.

Excellent choice.

i was lured into it (after watching the first ep when it first aired and hating it) after the ridiculous cultural acclaim but i remain confused.
thus far it feels like a half-step up from American Dad and that's a hell of a low bar.

s2 is where the show really locks into place, the acclaim will seem way less dissonant when you finish that one imo

ctrl-f "last chance U"

although both it and you're the worst have made me permanently tired @ "this show nails depression" thinkpieces

(you're the worst does it better than bojack imo, bojack relies upon a lot of "oh this is what's happening to me mentally right now" exposition)

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genuinely surprised that difficult people is supposed to be good, one of the worst first episodes I've ever suffered through

i've seen a lot of the bojack is about depression think pieces but while i think that's present it's more about the malaise + vapidity of american culture and the numbing, alienating effect it produces in ppl horses

i like difficult people a lot! it should be noted that the humor that works for me with it is both nycentric and queer.... kinda the same as what the first / second seasons of Girls and Broad City did for me.

I will say that the bojack acid trip episode was surprisingly good. If the second season lives up to that promise, I could see wanting to continue.

You're the Worst is super good and super smart imo. I will probably try the mascot netflix show too.

it's more about the malaise + vapidity of american culture and the numbing, alienating effect it produces in ppl horses

this is a great obvservation

Masters of Sex season premiere is streaming online now, airs on TV in one week - just watched it and it's good in all the same ways the show's been good thus far, and bad in all the same ways it's been bad thus far (still waiting for Libby Masters to get run over by a garbage truck).

Looking forward to the season premiere of Shameless - binged that one this summer and was extremely pleasantly surprised by it.

Not at all sure I'll watch season 3 of Empire; might check in on the premiere just to see who died in the cliffhanger finale.

Want to see Pamela Adlon's new thing on FX, and Atlanta, and season 3 of You're The Worst, but not sure I want to pay for any/all of them (via Amazon).

I thought "The Night Of" had its own thread?

"Show Me A Hero" got one FFS - "It's essentially a six hour lecture on zoning regulations" - David Simon's Show Me A Hero

Braindead is fun but very obviously doomed, it's like the Kings got so bored from 7 years of making a hit show that they decided to make a really oddball one they knew would appeal to almost no one.

i love aaron tveit so much i would watch him eat cereal

The Night Of's implosion was epic

SIN BAD

Aside from The Wanderers, all the Richard Price novels I've read (Lush Life, Samaritan, The Whites) have had really unconvincing endings, so I guess that's a Price specialty. But they're terrific up until those points.

Yeah, it wasn't just about the ending though. It started losing the plot around episode 3

Agreed - once Omar turned up, the prison stuff got theatrical and silly quite fast. Still - I super enjoyed it! Just dialled my expectations down a bit. In retrospect the whole show was pretty trope-y from the moment the girl gets into the cab.

And I like that Price is unfraid to try daft things (the undertaker, the itching, the cat stuff) and seeing where they lead (if not always to successful places)

Yeah, there's generally at least one bizarre character trait/subplot in his books