Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

Yeah, second episode airs in the US tonight. First episode was...ok.

it's a horrible show that's almost saved by going over the top in every plot

s2 was great, i liked it better than s1

it's ott and camp and silly and I am HERE for it

as much as i'd like to like better things it feels more like a loose sketch of an idea? married (which fx cancelled last year) was so much better.
i'm willing to be patient but three episodes in it has the worst tendencies of louie without much payoff

I like it a lot - actually, the sketchy, low-key vibe is part of the appeal for me, and Adlon is never not interesting to watch. Some bits are clearly Not Working At All but that was the case with 1st season of Louie too. I did notice it's very short (Lenny Kravitz ep was 18 mins), but maybe that's a benefit.

damn was that director character lenny kravitz? I honestly did not recognize him but I guess I see it now

I like how low-key and easygoing it is.

i love adlon and the kids are great; thought lenny was good too.
the pace, the triteness of the setups and the lack of any kind of stakes is kind of deadening to me tho'.

Have we talked about The Affair on ilx other than the couple of posts in this thread? Started watching now. Intrigued but annoyed at the same time.

got progressively sillier over the course of s1, didn't bother with s2

Is there any good writing on TV out there?

I love The Affair. It's super silly, but the acting's fun, sometimes the scripts are pretty sharp, and I dig hanging out in the character's stupid, glamorous lives, especially as it usually airs during the shitty, depressing late November period of British winter.

Season 2 was much better, mixed perspectives with some new characters, 'tho the cliffhanger ending was just as facile as the first. Stoked for season 3!

spottie, nyt does a "watching" newsletter that's good for heads up to set your recorder but they (and no one else i can find!) writes particularly intelligently about television. people seem to like emily nussbaum a lot and i find her kinda meh?

I'm at episode 6 of season 1 of the Affair right now, and it's starting to feel like Dawson's Creek for adults. There's a seaside, and hey, they even kept Pacey! It's not great but and has many flaws yet I want to keep on watching.

Season 1 of the Affair was great fun i thought! Two episodes into season two I let it go.

Oh I'm liking it a lot so far! Despite having had much higher expectations after the first two episodes or so, I'm perfectly comfy to sit out the ride.

i'm enjoying narcos well enough but damn i've never seen a show with such a transparently shoehorned-in audience surrogate lead character or one you could so easily remove from the narrative without losing a single thing that's interesting about the show. everything else is pretty great though, moura is on-point though not nearly what i imagine escobar was really like, pascal is great, etc etc.

Is there any good writing on TV out there?

If you mean writing about TV, no.

i mean emily nussbaum only won a pulitzer

what can i tell you

Thrusted Pelvis, some great moments throughout Affair S2, would def recommend. It gets better after the first two eps.

Thanks ill check out Nussbaum. Yeah meant 'about'

I was exaggerating for effect. Of course there are exceptions (Nussbaum, Mo Ryan usually) but the vast majority is trash, even moreso than with film because there's so much stifling consensus

is TV bad now

Literally watched the second episode of This Is Us just to see if they'd make the mistake of putting Mandy Moore in terrible old-age makeup. They did.

leafed thru the RS 100 list (US-UK-Canada, variety included) and absence of SCTV is disgusting.

sorry shoulda put that in alltime thread

Yeah I dunno about that list.

we should make a website that looks very official and just publish horrible lists of rankings that no one in their right mind would agree with

isn't that what pitchfork is

hard to say

isn't that what ilx polls is

boom

I watched the Lethal Weapon pilot expecting MacGyver level garbage & actually kinda dug it!

... I know! I'm as surprised as you are!

i like that guy from Rectify figured he'd at least be good in it

he's p great! and love him in Rectify

Yeah, enjoyed the pilot but my expectations were super low. There were some so bad they're good moments but on the whole was pretty decent for a pre-watershed police procedural. Not sure I'll watch a great many more though.

Final season of Rectify starts next month. *Excited face*

leafed thru the RS 100 list (US-UK-Canada, variety included) and absence of SCTV is disgusting.

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You expected that list to be anything but garbage? Your idealism truly knows no bounds.

Chuck OTM regarding Fleabag assessment. Still one of the most enjoyable series in recent memory though.

The Night Of is good.

I enjoyed the 3 episodes fo an Irish thing called can't cope, Won't Cope taht I caught on tv a few days ago.
A bad taste comedy drama about 2 20 somethings from cork living in a shared house in Dublin and still being out of control. One is an art student the other is an office worker who has to hob nob with clients which she does with no discretion or idea of privacy which rapidly gets her into trouble.

That is 3 epiosdes which were shown together out of I think 5 that have been shown so far.

That Logmire is a wholesome fella, a real straight shooter.

saw the first ep of the new MacGuyver yesterday. yeesh. it was horrible w lots of bad-funny cliches.

also saw the first Lethal Weapon, which was really really good. well cast!

That Logmire is a wholesome fella, a real straight shooter.

Watching Season 4 of Longmire on Amazon now. (Don't have Netflix, so Season 5 is out of reach for the moment.)

Probably not in my top 10 but love some Longmire

the last episode of Better Things (16 year old daughter doubts her future) finally broke through; I am suddenly much more interested.
Third episode of High Maintenance was a low point but still pretty dang good.
First episode of Queen Sugar was pretty good; probably gonna watch the other five in the next few days and will report back.

Night Of was great. i could have done without 90% of the eczema and cat 'plotlines' - we could have got the whole thing finished in 4 eps without that. and the prison stuff was just.... there. but anything Turturro and Dennis Box touched was gold.

First half of Night Of much better than second half. Turturro owned the whole thing, predictably.

A Fist Within Four Walls is well worth combing the dark.net for. 28-part martial arts set in Kowloon Walled City in the 60s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fist_Within_Four_Walls