Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

also am finally for some reason watching crisis in 6 scenes, its p decent imo, interesting that woody lifts the main premise from american pastoral

difficult people cancelled
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/difficult-people-canceled-hulu-1202615140/

man the you're the worst recent episodes captured the truth of a reaction to someone spilling their trauma stories N' guts. People hear it and they dunno what to do with that info, as Edgar clearly has experienced.

Search party is back
Search party is good

oh shit!!!!! one of my favourite series ever. yes!!

is it retro? i can't remember. it feels retro. like 90s indie movie retro.

Damn shame about Difficult People, which I'll go as far to say is the best television comedy I've seen since The Larry Sanders Show.

i imagine eichner's schedule/ other commitments probably are the main reason for the lack of renewal. he got real popular real fast.

love Search Party fell like the only one that watches this show though . nobody i talk to knows what it is

everybody is cast so well in it. now that i think about it it actually anticipates American Vandal in some p key ways!

Portia is my favorite character ! the actress plays her perfectly

I am cautiously excited about Runaways

Anybody out there watching mike judges new show? It's good

I hated, hated the 1st season of Search Party - good performances but way too much lazy misanthropy in the script, and unearned smugness in its predictable "play with genre expectations". It was like Wet Hot American Summer if you replaced jokes with being yelled at by younger, better-looking people than you.

Anyway I'll try the second season, as I like the troupe and maybe now it's done trying to prove its smartness, it could settle into something more tolerable. OR NOT! But worth a shot.

aw man yikes. i thought it was kinda... sweet?

i guess the crew is mainly a bunch of dopey dickheads but there is something satisfying about seeing little flickers of humanity struggle to the surface

Chuck has a good point about season 1. Had to warm up to season 1 of search party but I'm glad I did!

Yeah I thought Alisa Shawkat and her nervous boyfriend totally brought it. And at least *blank* is dead now.

Alia! Autocorrect should know better.

The third set of True Detectives is now set: Carmen Ejogo and Mahershala Ali. I'm in.

@Ross
I think we talked about Tales From the Tour Bus up-thread. SO funny. Hope there's a season 2!

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Sign of the times: using your Oscar win as a springboard to a season on an HBO series.

DJI - yeah it's so good :) hope so too! Any country music fans owes it to themselves to check it out

search party is now next level imo

"dirty old motel" - ded

search party season 2 is good but man is the nihilism strong with this show. like watching people who don't know how to deal with life suffer, not really my bag, but it's some critique of the younger gen i guess...

tbf the scene where chantal's family embrace her was pretty amazing

IT'S TIME FOR WILL'S TV CORNER

i just mainlined all of YouTube Red's new(ish) show, Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television, which is basically a show that feels like it was built for me and almost nobody else (it is a super meta/4th wall cop procedural starring Ryan Hansen as himself, and for full enjoyment requires knowledge of who Ryan Hansen is (Veronica Mars and Party Down)). I bet there are a few ILXors out there who would enjoy it too, and the first two eps are free. The other two eps are on YouTube Red, so like, that's a thing, but give it a shot!

Also new Search Party is kinda almost TOO next-level for me now, like, i am really not having fun like i was before, which definitely feels like ~the point~, but also, fuck, that point ~sucks~

My Myself & I was a cute new sitcom that got canned almost immediately, too bad but also i had enough "cute wholesome sitcoms" to watch (fucking still watch modern family and fresh off the boat and blackish, among others, someone shoot me)

Looking forward to the dennis from Sunny/Patton Oswalt vehicle AP BIO but I think I just heard it's not out til March or something? Ok whatever

is high maintenance ever coming back? few things have touched the level that show hit, like, ever. between this and insecure and veep and silicon valley i honestly believe hbo is at an all-time high for quality shows, and i think game of thrones is a piece of shit (and new curb is a joke... but a watchable joke at least)

the orville and the new star trek are both very watchable and i don't care who knows that i think so

i like snl even when it's bad but this is has been DIFFICULT this year. heidi gardner has been a treasure tho, they better not waste her. and i look forward to more chris redd. also there's a guy named luke null who has had like 2 lines all season which is one of the saddest/most dickensian name situations of all time

halt & catch fire was a masterpiece and i am gonna be thinking about it for a long time. you're the worst kinda sucked this year but it's still great.

THANKS FOR READING WILL'S TV CORNER! PLZ LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE

oops, typo: other six* eps of Ryan Hansen on YT Red.

and clarification: new curb is /barely/ watchable

I thought the first ep of the new Curb was a little limp, but subsequent have been fine.

I'm also a dutiful Modern Family, Fresh Off the Boat and Blackish watcher (throw in Mom too) though I don't mind as much if I miss one now and then (esp FOtB).

the good place
zoo
ice fantasy
the walking dead
nikita
black-ish
bob's burgers
halt and catch fire
z nation
chef & my fridge

thank you will, keep em coming. deciding what's up next can be daunting and you lured me to high maintenance and it's juuuust riiiight

I'm almost ready to bail on the "Erica and Anna" half of Girlfriend Experience s2

yeah, the whole plot is kind of skeevy

oh wow rip van wanko if u haven't seen high maintenance yet, be sure to also watch the web series (in add'n to the hbo stuff)... it's SOOOOO good

search party really dropped the laughs this season. No longer a comedy or dark comedy, just bleak af...OK.

dunno, just feel like writers should care about their characters even if they're dirtbags, and this show doesn't really convince me the writers give a shit

Vikings is back.

Woo, and indeed, hoo.

Well shit

http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/bryan-fuller-and-michael-green-depart-american-gods.html

I’m only 3 eps in & I dont even care how this ends or where it goes- Marvelous Mrs Maisel is the most perfect thing Amy Sherman Palladino has created & I love it so much

I'm watching The Sinner on Netflix, it's very awful but cheesily watchable

Watching Midnight Sun on Hulu - it's a French-Swedish co-production about a French police detective (a woman of Arabic descent; don't know yet if this will matter, I'm only on episode 3 of 8) who travels to northern Sweden to investigate the ritual murder (he was lashed to a helicopter blade and when the rotors were turned on, his head came off) of a French citizen. So far, the investigation has led them into the Sami community, so you get a lot of information about how that group is treated in Sweden (hint: not well). Plus, it's fucking gorgeous - worth watching for the landscapes alone, and there's a lot of travel by helicopter. Highly recommended.

I should mention that while there are lots of sequences with dialogue in Swedish, French, and Sami, all subtitled, there are also lots of English-language scenes, because the French cop doesn't speak Swedish, and her Swedish counterpart doesn't speak French, but they both speak English.

The Mick is funnier than I expected

I’m only 3 eps in & I dont even care how this ends or where it goes- Marvelous Mrs Maisel is the most perfect thing Amy Sherman Palladino has created & I love it so much

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, December 2, 2017 1:17 AM

I made it part of the way through the pilot a couple weeks ago anticipating the rest of the series becoming available, but I started cringing too hard when he was doing Newhart's Lincoln routine during the open mic. I'll come back to it soon.

you’re supposed to cringe! he’s a schmuck!!

I don't weather cringey moments very well, though. I've never lasted an entire episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

It's also why I bailed on Enlightened, despite everyone telling me it was wonderful.

i feel you, enlightened was an almost-bail for me too early on!

re: The Leftovers:
* how disturbing/violent is it?
* how depressing is it?
want to watch it but trying to figure out if i'm up for it emotionally