Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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?

Nine things I'll be watching new episodes of this week/next week:
Mr. In-Between
Stumptown
The Good Place
Undone
Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Evil
Stath Sells Flats
Sunnyside
The Unicorn

most heinous "dude writing a woman" writing i've seen in a long time

Christ was it ever. Her aggressive, "talk about my nubbin obsessively" attitude just did not land.

yeah! yeah! due wri-tin’ a lady

I just finished season 2 of Line of Duty and that was a GREAT season. first season was a bit too The Wire, a bit taking the blackmail idea too far. i gotta finish the show now.

I watched Bosch season 1 which was quite formulaic. But I like the lead actor (the "man in black" from lost) and people seem to like the other seasons better, so I'll try season 2.

i watched the last hour of the emmys. they were boring and predictable, just like every year. "what was popular a few years ago? let's give that an award." jason bateman twofer for his all-blue netflix algorithm show was ridic.

The end of Stath Lets Flats was very satisfying and, dare I say it, final.

it was perfect, but i can see s3 emerging from it, still plenty of loose ends and more mileage they can draw from the characters. glad you liked it!

and speaking of things we both watch, as one door closes, another circle opens :/

I'm not sure it'll catch the fire if the first time again but there's a good chance.

the lesson would appear to be 'lie about everything, profit'

Nathan Barley is hilarious and co

following up a bit:
Fresh Meat - pulled a random episode and found it totally impenetrable
Inside #9 - this is great! will be hunting down as many as i can
Utopia - like the thick of it, only not funny or particularly good

anthony stappan rentals

also nice to see barley love. ten years ahead of its time.

dan ashcrooooooooooft

you'll want to start with ep1 of Fresh Meat. I was a student at that uni so I'm very fond of it.

Utopia like The Thick Of It - ?! that's the "where is Jessica Hyde" one, yeah? not seeing the parallels

Nighty Night s1 is v good if you can stand to watch it, s2 is awful

xpost there's a UK Utopia and an aus Utopia

xpost there's a UK Utopia and an aus Utopia

knocked out "Undone" on Amazon in two sittings; it's awesome. Didn't quite stick the landing as it was predictable but maybe if they're planning on a second season? I'm hopeful.
https://www.amazon.com/Undone-Season-1/dp/B07SVHRY9L
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYGpWQ5iPMU
one of the few things i've ever seen where the form (cartoon) and function (trippy, dawg) worked so perfectly in tandem. Excellent excellent cast, very good writing. NB: I am not a huge fan of Bojack Horseman (though I love several isolated episodes), but this rules.

weird they are talking abt rotoscoping like it's some amazing new technology?

Tried Stumptown, won't be watching it again.
Tried Bob <3 Abishola, will probably watch again.
Accidentally saw a few seconds of that new Patricia Heaton doctor sitcom, wanted to stick lit matches in my eyes afterward.
Haven't seen Evil, but it looks mildly amusing.
Have lost interest in The Good Place.
Can't believe I have to wait till December for the next season of The Expanse.

I'm not yet totally sold on the tone of Undone, or rather, the protagonist is the sort of antihero I don't really want to invest in. That said, I was impressed enough and I'll definitely watch the whole thing, so my position may change. Making an entire rotoscoped show is crazy and wonderful, and it definitely creates a trippy vibe that live action couldn't have achieved. The dialogue sounds great too - sort of detached and internal.

I realise this will discredit my comments about Undone as I know people kind of loathe him, but I just watched the first episode of The Politician - the new Ryan Murphy show on Netflix, and it was so good. I don't think I can sell it to anyone who doesn't like him, but tonally this is the closest thing to Popular that he's made in ages and I love it. Is there a specific reason people don't like him that I don't know about, or is it just his gauche camp aesthetic and ambiguous morality?