Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

i loved season 1 of lodge 49 but it's sorta lightning in a bottle and the first ep of season two hit me cold.
succession is kinda the best thing on tv right now by far.
my gal is binging all of mindhunter right now but - unless it is innovative or utterly exemplary - I'm pretty tired of police procedurals and serial killer stuff.
I tried Steven Universe (i think i'm just too old) and GLOW (fond memories of the actual show but it didn't quite land for me)
i appreciate the recommendations though!

I'm pretty tired of police procedurals and serial killer stuff.

does not compute 🙃

i loved season 1 of lodge 49 but it's sorta lightning in a bottle and the first ep of season two hit me cold.

I thought this too at first but then this week's ep was the best one yet

fwiw mindhunter is utterly exemplary ymmv

well i DO love jonathan groff. Perhaps I'll join in the middle with her.
Can anyone rep for the Elena Ferrante HBO show?

surprisingly, the current (last?) season of Preacher has sped up and has had pretty consistently good episodes

I've fallen behind on The Terror s2 and it hasn't hooked me as the first season did, but it's pretty solid

couple of good AMC days between Lodge 49/Preacher/The Terror and then I've been slowly creeping through Rubicon while in the app

if i had the brain to handle it i'd love to see a year-end ilx "best of tv" poll of some sort. anyway aside from righteous gemstones (great) and south side (not bad) and good aug/sept premieres i should check out?

Succession is probably my favorite show that's on right now

tbh I revisited Rubicon recently and it hasn't held up as well as I hoped

Will M: I am kinda hopeful/looking forward to:
Stumptown
Unbelieveable
The Unicorn (Goggins!)

I would also be very glad to see an eoy TV poll on here.

This is kind of very repetitive of ulysses' list, but these have been my favourites of late:
Lodge 49
Terrace House
Stath Lets Flats
13 Reasons Why
Jane the Virgin
GLOW
Veep
Dead to Me
The Amazing Mrs.Maisel
The Good Place
Pose
I Think You Should Leave
PEN15
Dear White People
Good Omens
Russian Doll

interested in the new amazon rotoscope series by the creator of bojack horseman (undone), plus the new netflix show unbelievable

the mythology-heavy episode this week was, imo, incredible

Otm. I enjoy Blaze and Dud's sense of wonder so much.

Terrace House
Stath Lets Flats

also, this looks pretty good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w54yW2Ur50

I'm not so much looking forward to Stumptown as resigned to the fact that I'm gonna watch at least 2-3 episodes. But there's a Native actress in it who I really liked on Longmire, so there's that at least.

There's some new mystical-procedural show just called Evil coming to CBS with Mike Colter, so I'll check that out, too.

I fucking hate Succession. I don't understand how anyone who works in media would enjoy watching fictionalized versions of their evil masters, other than self-abnegating masochism. Of course, self-loathing is pretty much a prerequisite for working in media at this point, so that probably does explain a lot.

the funny thing about that new Colter CBS show is that they bought ads on the fronts of busses all over NYC, so no matter where I go at a crosswalk, I see a bus with EVIL written on its grill, bearing down on me

the thing with succession is that i hate everyone on it and i enjoy seeing them slowly destroy one another. it's cathartic.

was that alia shawkat??? xxp

yep with a shaved head apparently!

first i thought it looked like one of those gun control activist kids

uk only, yes? tell me more?

Stath Lets Flats is a deeply charming Channel 4 comedy (it's on their player if you can get it?) about an ineffectual estate agent and his family. It has a similar-ish vibe to the UK Office in its cringey realism, but with much more compassion for its characters. The first season is great, but the second season is fully hilarious.

Terrace House is on US Netflix I think? Low key high intensity Japanese reality TV. Its thread will give you a better sense of what it's like.

That Paul Rudd show looks promising.

can't get channel 4 in the states but i have methods. will take a peek.
terrace house is like actual reality reality eh?

I'm enjoying Fosse/Verdon (on BBC iPlayer) a lot. Michelle Williams is so great in it.

can't get channel 4 in the states but i have methods. will take a peek.

fwiw I'm in New Zealand and watch BBC & Channel 4 no problems thru an Android box with a VPN

Xps Heavily edited and with a prominent studio-based panel analysing everything (which is the best part), but realer than a lot of realities.

ooooh realer than real

interested in the new amazon rotoscope series by the creator of bojack horseman (undone)

Six episodes into this and it's excellent. Definitely recommended

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/sep/16/100-best-tv-shows-of-the-21st-century
any of my britishers itt want to weigh in on if any of these are worth the hunting down? None of them are readily available stateside that I know of.
Shadow Line
Fresh Meat
Inside #9
Utopia
Nathan Barley (oooh, Chris Morris? I should look into this.)
This is England
Nighty Night

nighty night definitely.

nathan barley i enjoyed at the time but was a total bust commercially (ratings dipped below the measurable threshold at some juncture i seem to remember) and is very fixated on its fairly hyper-specific milieu of early 00s london rich boy media wankers. written by charlie broker, the black mirror guy

Utopia was a wankfest imho

i'm very glad i saw that link though as i've never heard of the Brass Eye: Paedogeddon special and I'm watching it now.

I still quote Nathan Barley on occasion, guiltily

there are some definite precursors to the current influencer/edgy troll culture in the show

I liked Fresh Meat although I seem to remember the last series being a bit weak.

I loved Nathan Barley when it came out but I tried to rewatch it again somewhat recently and i just couldn't get through it.

Enjoyed Shadow Line at the time. But part of that may have been the Line of Duty type water cooler speculation each week.

Inside No 9 is generally great and a couple of episodes are fantastic.

Nathan Barley is amazing and 100% worth finding.

Nathan Barley is bfillinat aargh tt posted first

okay, I snagged a few eps each of everything listed there (excepting this is england, which looked kinda lame); will report back.

I still quote Nathan Barley on occasion, guiltily

there are some definite precursors to the current influencer/edgy troll culture in the show

― untuned mass damper (mh), Tuesday, September 17, 2019 1:36 PM (one hour ago)

toby you rimlicker!

nathan barley perhaps most noteworthy for its 'adult in the room' character also emerging as its antagonist, a theme which resonates nicely with the uk political and cultural scene nowadays

totally fucking mexico

“what are your top five supermarket wines?”

is something brilliant happening?

"It's Swift as 'Jackass'!"
"Or even faster!"

I hated Nathan Barley with a passion, what few eps I saw. I viscerally hated them all so much I couldnt watch it. WHich is odd because I love the other Morris stuff Ive seen like BrassEye and his turns in IT Crowd.

BTW I cant load the whole thread to check but anyone seen Dead Pixels? Cant work out if I liked it or the tropes were all really bloody lazy.

okay stath lets flats is very funny

Dead Pixels got about two appreciative posts on the uk comedy thread, me and someone else. i liked it, as a gaming outsider.

weirdly i just started watching that last night while looking around for something new to watch. 3 eps in and i am really not a fan, maybe that'll change. can't stand the writing for meg so far, it's probably the most heinous "dude writing a woman" writing i've seen in a long time. gonna give the season a chance, because everyone seems to enjoy it?