Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

re: Fosse/Verdon and What We Do in Shadows

ive tried both and the latter is fantastic, p much exactly what one would expect (with bonus Matt Berry!), and the former is good -- my gf loved it, and all that jazz is her fave movie

I'm loving WWDITS. I'm not necessarily sold on the location (although that was partially overcome last week with the story in Manhattan) but the cast is seriously strong and the addition of the new vampire types is inspired.

I Think You Should Leave on Netflix is excellent and just about 75 minutes for the whole season. These are not series! These are a special chopped up!

oh god the newest WWDITS guest stars

SO good

..and the baby!

Yeah. Didn't twig who Garrett was until he went on about stabbing.

Chernobyl is fucking crushing.

debating whether I need my existence destroyed this week by watching

I can’t see ever watching that, no matter how good it is.

cosigning WWDiTS, last week’s ep was so great

pushing Gentleman Jack on every thread i can still.

Anyone watching 1969 on ABC? It's a one hour news show that looks at events from that year in each episode. They've done Apollo 11, Manson, Ted Kennedy/Chappaquiddick, and last night the Black Panthers. Pretty watchable even though an hour still isn't enough to explore the themes.

Oh, is that an actual series? I flipped past the Manson one and the Chappaquiddick one and was wondering what the hell the deal was.

Seems to be, they've had 4 that I've seen now over the past month, and it may have started before that.

I have thought about I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson every single day since watching all six episodes in one sitting a month ago.

Is anyone else watching Fosse/Verdon? it is my favorite show right now, I love it so much.

I have thought about I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson every single day since watching all six episodes in one sitting a month ago.

― charlie brown from outta town (GM), Wednesday, May 15, 2019 8:18 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've been haunted by the realization that i have no good car ideas

who is the most popular now, paul?

a GREAT steering wheel that doesn't whiff out of the window while i'm driving

lol

TC TUGGERS

season 3 of Colony (usa / Netflix) is pretty good (best season so far), but the show's dead / been cancelled

Really enjoyed Colony. It got better with every season.

And talking of Colonies, I see that Fox has cancelled The Passage too after just one season which is a shame as the books are great.

some enterprising individual created a focus group man soundboard: http://www.mfrederickson.com/ithinkyoushouldleave/

I’ve just finished bingeing Better Things, Dietland, almost done with You’re the Worst and s2 of Fleabag is up next. What else should I add to my list? I don’t have a tv so I watch everything on Hulu/prime/Netflix.

imo: Ramy(h), Nathan For You (h), Patriot Act (n), Joe Pera Talks With You (h), Catastrophe (a), Happy Valley (n), Russian Doll (n), Killing Eve s1 (h), American Vandal s1 (n), The End of the Fucking World (n), Bob and David (n), pen15 (h), The Bisexual (h), Shrill (h), Big Mouth (n), Search Party (h), Chewing Gum (n), Tuca and Bertie (n), I Think You Should Leave(n) , Crashing (n)... in roughly that order.

plenty more too but i think that should keep you for a minute!

this is pretty great for a first episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO1Sfb-j9FU

haha yes

No offense but Chernobyl’s not that funny. Kind of don’t get the hype.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIxuIlYSjQ

totally sold on this idea; famous people seem to get a huge kick out of meeting other famous people who have no idea who they are and it's fun to watch

yes! it’s so delightful

the first ep w James Van Der Beek was great

I tried watching Euphoria but stopped watching ten minutes in when it reached the part with the clowny 5 year-old white boy drug dealer Who's Been Through Shit

don't know how anyone continued watching after that

I finally went back to The Tick (after I saw it was cancelled) & am loving it. Feel like an idiot for dismissing it after the pilot ep :( It’s really enjoyable.

New season of Endeavour started up on PBS this week, def one of my current favorites

Big Little Lies new season is great so far

keen to watch Stumptown when it starts up

Finally finished Season 1 of The Terror on Hulu. It was really good, except for everything involving the polar bear monster.

I dunno whether to post this here or in the gay thread but I am currently OBSESSED with this season of Are You The One on MTV. I've never seen this show before but the all-bi angle of the season piqued my interest and I gotta say, I'm beating myself up for not watching this show sooner. I dunno if it says more about me or Drag Race but when it comes to queer reality TV programming, this has so far given me more joy than the last few seasons of Drag Race combined. It's so good.

I tracked down the second season of The Sinner after hearing it pretty much unanimously praised as a step up from S1 and....I don't agree! I love Carrie Coon but I didn't find her or the cult especially interesting, and basically the entire reveal set was easily guessed less than halfway through the season.

I concur

It was ok and was a little less topsy-turvy compared to the first season where they threw in more intrigue as it went on, but it lacked in charm

yeah it took me like 6 months to get through. i really did not like the acting from the kid, it was pretty distracting for me.

pullman was good tho

Yes, though the sexual antics of s1 were more novel than the kiddie trauma of this one (yes I get that they're connected)

agree. i frame the show solely as a character study on Ambroze and that helps me enjoy it more.

Ya for sure. Pullman is good at the sputtering sad guy thing.

My other long train ride watch was the "No-End House" season of SyFy's horror anthology series Channel Zero, which didn't quite blow me away but did impress me enough to seek out the two following seasons. (I watched the first ep of the first season, starring Paul Schneider, some time back, and it didn't grab me,)

New season of Endeavour started up on PBS this week, def one of my current favorites

Agreed. I liked the overall arc of the season with the mixing of the old/new police forces and the resolution of "justice for George" plot. Was nice to see one character's relative redemption. Maybe a bit disappointed that the bad guys weren't of larger scope, given their impact on the Morse character to date. Thaw's Morse always struck me as having a tragic love in his past driving his bachelorhood, which they may or may not use Joan Thursday to explain. Was happy that she started a new career this season and was more independent, as that eases the "Joan in fridge" worry. Wouldn't be unhappy if they didn't directly connect the two versions' romantic sides.

The final note of Endeavour's new digs being recognizably Morse's apartment was cool. Surprising, too, how Bright has evolved into a favorite character.

I've only heralded The Sinner in the context of its genre (of which I've seen enough other examples at this point to say it's just not my thing). Outside of that context, yeah, it's a fairly boilerplate show which gives Pullman a chance to do that unbalanced shtick he does so well. More than anything, it made me wish he'd done a Daryl Zero series.

Having seen a fair amount of gritty murder mystery type series, I do think S1 was a cut above. S2 was a bit more standard-issue, and the plot really didn't hold up to even the slightest scrutiny. (Without spoiling anything, the Hannah Gross character's predicament could have been much more simply/easily solved, for example.)

Of course, S1 has the luxury of leaning so heavily on the absurd but well-acted conceit of almost total memory loss that gets "fixed" at a pace that suits an eight-episode season. S2 does the same with characters strategically withholding information, which *feels* more contrived even though it isn't, really.

Jessica Biel was surprisingly pretty good in the first season, too.