Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

Decided not to bother with unReal season 2 (or anything after). Am now giving Fargo season 3 a shot. First episode was good.

Watched the first ep of Lodge 49... who knew John From Cincinnati would be so influential?

lol I had the same thought

I'm 6 eps in and really enjoying it. It's managing a really tricky tonal balance. AMC hasn't announced another season yet and I'm just assuming it's a goner, cause who tf is this even for?!

also, points for the scene where a character has an offensively normal, not at all surreal dream where they're just...at work. I get quietly furious whenever this happens

I tried getting the AMC Premiere thing but they have some bug on Apple devices at the minute where it charges you but somehow fails to link your AMC account with the subscription so it just doesn't work :/

they did send me an email today stating that everyone who has encountered that bug is going to get $10 of iTunes credit, basically two months of the service free because of their fuck-up

tbh I just want to watch this Lodge 49 show!

my impression from the first episode is that it's a show with relatively lightweight stakes and an aspirational title referencing Pynchon, so I'm willing to give it a go

i watched the first episode of Random Acts of Flyness (HBO, Terence Nance) and thought it was incredibly good. an uncomfortable watch, as intended. anyone else watching?

i'm nearing the end of goliath S1 and Eric you are otm - Nina Arianda is outrageously good. so awesome to have her and billy bob in the same show, they both deliver wayyyy more than most actors would

I want to see a show starring Nina Arianda tbh

my friend wrote ep. 4 of Lodge 49. I'm going to have to catch up before it airs.

That's awesome. I really enjoyed the whole season and I hope AMC is dumb enough to renew it.

Season 2 of The Sinner has started and it’s SO good
Pullman awesome as always
and Carrie mfing Coons is <3

watched the first ep season 2. pullman is really magnetic in this show. excited to see what coons brings, she has so much more range than biel.

Watching Coon right now in Fargo season 3. Didn't even know she was in it when I started, just knew about Ewan McGregor as twins.

xpost true!
but i gained newfound respect for Biel for all the crying she had to do in S1. crying on cue is hard! and it always looked legit

Yah I think she did a really great job of being a sad mope. Overall a believable performance. But CC just has more to offer.

agree

JUst found out about Killing Eve tanks to an article on Phoebe Waller-bridge in yesterday's Guardian weekend magazine.
Just watched teh first episode which was great. Now on the 2nd one.
article also confirmed a 2nd season of Fleabag has been written possibly made.

Just finishes season 1 and 2 of Detroiters, and I'm shocked there hasn't been more love for it itt! So funny, every episode. It reminds me a lot of Broad City, in that the two leads seem genuinely like best friends. If you haven't watched it yet, check it out.

Really enjoyed that Killing Eve, got through the rest of it this afternoon so hope there is more coming by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/sep/08/phoebe-waller-bridge-fleabag-killing-eve-transgressive-women
says there is a season 2 of Fleabag coming.
But did enjoy her voice coming through in this, so want to see some other shows written by her in future. Think I've seen most of what she's done to date.

HAdn't realised when I saw it that it was something taht hadn't been shown in the UK yet and had only been shown on BBC America in August. Assumed i just hadn't been aware of it showing this side of the Atlantic.
butm, very worth catching if you haven't already.
I think the UK showing begins tomorrow night.

first episode of Killing Eve was on tv on saturday.

the rest of it is up on iplayer already.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p06jy6bc

(episode titles strike me as very PWB)

Bobcat Goldthwait Misfits and Monsters is quite fun. I'm just discovering it.

yeah i like it too

Enjoying the origianl Australian version of No Activity which is a bit of a cop procedural show though may also take its lead from Seinfeild in terms of being a show where nothing happens hence the title. It's being shown on late night BBC2 these days.
Just discovered on trying to download the series taht there is a less successful US version of it. It has Bob Odenkirk in a very incidental role in which means I assume it is a few years old. So the Australian one is older still?

Better Call Saul
Preacher
Killing Eve
Last Man On Earth

i am all in for goliath despite some really misjudged and off-putting attempts at breaking-bad style edginess, and despite it being a kind of mary-sue fantasy of a flawed but noble, super-intelligent man surrounded by cute and adoring women

the acting is just so goddamn good is the thing

I might be the only one of us watching The Circle but it's much better than it has any right to be.

finally binged all of Killing Eve this week (which luckily I'd recorded on my DVR last year). Very good, though it did go a tiny bit over the top there in the last episode.

big numbers watching Bodyguard on the *monday* night on iplayer apparently. which is odd as it went completely under my radar.

(oh, this isn't the thread where we are discussing the bodyguard...)

Did anyone else watch Future Man?

About 9 episodes in and whilst the humour is quite crude, it's very, very funny. (The James Cameron episode was superb).

Pls Like (online on BBC3) is quite fun! And short.

new season coming as well! unless it's already out

I might be the only one of us watching The Circle but it's much better than it has any right to be.

― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Monday, 24 September 2018 22:33 (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you are not, and it is

hell of a cliffhanger tonight. will the discerning viewer's choice kate survive to con another day? or will horrid kipper fraud ryan get his frankly overdue desserts? and then go and hash it out with freddie? (oh PLEASE)

Did anyone else watch Future Man?

About 9 episodes in and whilst the humour is quite crude, it's very, very funny. (The James Cameron episode was superb).

Anyone catch the first episode of 'The Cry' on bbc1 last night?

No second guesses about where the title comes from, that was *a lot* of babby crying. Still kind of interested to see where this goes though.

hell of a cliffhanger tonight. will the discerning viewer's choice kate survive to con another day? or will horrid kipper fraud ryan get his frankly overdue desserts? and then go and hash it out with freddie? (oh PLEASE)

Circle, please open chat with imago

I can't believe that he genuinely thought exposing himself as a kipper would be a good strategy, although I note from last night that Kathy appears to live in the bathroom so maybe she's actually Glycon?

Mairead is unbelievably cringeworthy and it appears there's no phrase she can't single entendre.

I don't actually like Alex very much and don't think Kate's fence sitting can ultimately win but Aidan going to visit her was so cute.

Freddie has been exposed this week as a reality show whore - he was on the Rylan Clarke dating show and was due to be on the final series of Big Brother; unfortunately he couldn't keep his gob shut about that and they cancelled his contract over the broken embargo. Plus he really is a fucking arse - keeps banging on about 'fakes' while catfishing himself, and his 'lad' persona is so tragic. Loved his 'flirting' with Hannah which was basically "OY OY! YOU'RE A SORT AINCHA!"

Fiji to win.

credit to tt (who really does exist, and hasn't been my sockpuppet the whole time) for getting me into this tbh

here are my own assorted responses

mairead could have been cool but yeah she is awful and SO guileless, her motivations and responses are so...well, basic. kate otm

aiden/alex meeting was lovely i agree (quite enjoyed aiden/mitchell as well, HOPE THEY DATE etc) - i quite like alex - he's nice, at least - although he keeps making completely avoidable mistakes, almost entirely through conservatism. DEVELOP SOME BANTER, KATE!

we've all been a shoo-in for big brother at some point. freddie really is something though. tt says 'he is pure aggression' and i really do wonder how he gets the energy for it. feels he's quadrupled-down on the essex camp common to all essex boys gay or straight, which has mutated it into some kind of unstoppable mad performance. i don't like him obv but i think it benefits the show that he's there

it's quite funny how dan has basically called everything bang-on EXCEPT kate. lol poor dan. nice guy for an estate agent. sort of hope he wins, except that as an estate agent he doesn't need the money

i vacillate between rooting for probable-favourite sian and...not. it mostly depends on whether she's flirting with human landfill* scotty (who, btw....HOW did he win the last ratings? have they all got goldfish memories?)

they all think they're in game of thrones but it's more lord of the flies tbh, they are utterly beholden to their instincts

*this show has been instructive about the different sorts of basic straight lad. mitchell was quite charming in a lame way and scotty is horror. BUT....given 15 years, will mitchell become scotty? hopefully he's happily married by then idk

i'll add: the worst thing alex/kate does is those statuses! my god will you cut out the 'so lucky to still be here' shit and start...idk, cracking a joke or two

Yeah, it could be editing but I think that's why I don't like Alex - all Kate seems to send out to the group is arse-covering stuff and Dan is calling it out as why she's not popular. I'm surprised he hasn't said it outright to her though.

There will be a day when Freddie sits down or wears some clothes but it will not be in 2018. It was hilarious when he dropped his trousers just to jump around and he's such an intrinsic part of what makes the show good, but you'd throttle him after 10 minutes beside him, wouldn't you. There was also a tweet somewhere pointing out he constantly uses facts are facts which is a drag race reference apparently and should be flagging him as a potential catfish?

Yes, very instructive on today's 'straight lad' but also on today's 'straight girl' if you do any of the hashtag following on twitter. After Hannah's confused pronouncement on sex in and out of relationships (which I actually agreed with once she explained, like everyone else in the house) the tide had already turned with girls attacking the female contestants for daring to slut shame Hannah.

yeah i was no fan of hannah but she certainly got the raw end of various deals. her pronouncement on sex in and out of relationships was still wrong - when you're starting to see someone, are you not, in some sense, in a relationship? tbh she was a depth-free libidinous basic and while slut-shaming isn't right her conduct left her open to...disdain, at least. her parting shot at scotty was dignified and suitably furious at least

sian and aiden are/were much more likeable as millennial straight girls go

there has been a pleasing lack of a personality type far worse than the fairly straightforward people we've seen - something that tt has coined, actually, the 'noun'. it's quite hard to explain but quirksters and quirkstrels who like cupcakes, pop culture and being random make up a large part of the contingent. the name comes from people whose usernames on the webforums she'd frequent were things like 'button' or 'apricot' or 'spoon' uh of course not everyone whose username is a singular noun is a 'noun' uh yeah totes

See I saw it as making some kind of distinction between when you start to see someone and when you're in a relationship that wasn't all that clear except in her mind. Kind of a 'when things get serious' moment.

I really liked Aiden, her bashfulness and simple pleasure when Mitchell was speaking to her was a joy ditto the little skips when she went into Kate's apartment.

I know what you mean about 'the noun' - feel like KimJoy on GBBO is a hyper-stylised and specialist version of that and not quite the more mainstream model you have in mind.

fwiw i am hoping that if kate gets knocked out, she'll be replaced by alex (as played by his girlfriend)

although that would deny us alex actually getting to meet someone (eg dan)

So no one here also watched the Cry? ;_;

or will horrid kipper fraud ryan get his frankly overdue desserts? and then go and hash it out with freddie? (oh PLEASE)

― imago, Sunday, 30 September 2018 23:43 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yassssss

Amazing that even once he'd met him Freddie still had to point out to Ryan he was gay.

A noun has entered the house!

lol

A "feminist"