Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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

haha okay we're halfway through the last episode of The Night Of and lol wtf is even happening

I actually thought the last episode was fine.

poor john turturro, poor unwanted cat! also this show is taking FOREVER

will somebody tell me if rizzoli and isles finally do it in the series finale

give 'er the ol' rizzoli, m i rit

(i have no idea what rizzoli and isles is about and a quick google suggests i should probably not hit submit but since when has that stopped me, #postsVMIcharacter #solitarypoststhatsumupilx #patriarchy)

last ep of The Night Of was my favorite of the series and, in some ways, redescribes the show as a whole as not about "justice" but the presumption of innocence (a "feeling" as Stone says) in a really moving way, i thought. kinda baffled why people think it shit the bed somehow.

single female lawyer losing her damn mind
retired cop chasing down one last lead
all so we can get to a ...hung jury
it wasn't bad per se but definitely sort of a "and all the details...don't actually matter" letdown after the incredibly well tuned first half of the series - and no bonus points for dragging it all way the fuck out

does the r+i romance ever go beyond subtext / fan shipping?

that seems to be an ontological question

lol, after the scene in Narcos when Escobar's henchman says "the wood is too wet to burn boss" you just know he is going to be burning a big stack of money next.

Watched the first two episodes of Narcos s2 last night after enjoying s1 a lot in a trashy way, but it seems to be literally more of the same and rather tired now. Though I did love Pablo's jumpers/sweaters.

has anyone watched "the kettering incident"? my friend just recommended it to me

Season 2 of Narcos gets very compelling from about ep 4 onwards, it is still basically trash - but an improvement on S1 imo.

the exploitative nature of that show makes it kind of unwatchable for me but i guess you could levy the same complaint at breaking bad

Amazon is showing the first episode of Better Things for free, so I checked it out. Won't be watching again. The actress stuff is really good, and they got a bunch of terrific people for one- or two-line cameos, but the mom stuff sinks it, mostly because the teenage daughter is unbearable.

First episode of Donald Glover's new show Atlanta is incredibly promising.

Yeah, I've seen the first two and thought it was excellent.

Quite enjoyed Better Things too, even though it could basically have been a Louis spin off

idk why I expected Quarry to be a serious crime drama - it's ott Jim Thompson pulp

on balance i enjoyed the series, but the lawyering in the Night Of was just so OTT ridiculous. Law & Order court scenes are more realistic.

Atlanta is fun as hell. looking forward to the rest of it.

For future ref, I already started an Atlanta thread: Donald Glover's FX dramedy ATLANTA

i binged all of One Mississippi. It's risky and interesting but somehow a bit underachieving. I love Tig but she's not got a lot of range as an actor.

haven't watched Atlanta. is it just me, or are the commercials really inspired by the old High Maintenance promos?

Guys why isn't there a "You're the Worst" thread?! IT IS REALLY FUCKING GOOD.

That said, I have not seen any of this season but watched the first two seasons in about a week and will absolutely watch all 3 new eps tonight.

I like it

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

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IMO it gets better as it goes on and there are certain things you just have to ignore (like how the lady who played Precious but whose real name I can't remember right now is awful in that role and how the little twink is unbearable).

x-post - I haven't liked a show that much in a lont time except for maybe broad city but obviously that's much lighter. You're the worst is just really smart and well written and feels very real to me. Hate Linzer's sister though. SHE is the worst.

I mean - I can't even stand her face. There's just something extremely irritating about her . . . everything.

imo her interactions with her husband redeem her

not as a person, but as a comedic character

hmmmmm

god he's a fucking tool

tbf he was born dead

but I will bear that in mind as I watch the next few eps and get back to you on this issue

he was addicted to being financially dominated lol

ok that WAS was pretty amusing

i love Youre The Worst so much