Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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?

I love the cast of Stumptown but the first ep was, as expected, ABC-pilot-y in the worst ways. I will keep watching bc they’re adding Donal Logue & hope that soon they are allowed to stop explaining every damn thing

Did anyone watch Euphoria on HBO? I more or less loved it; well, I loved the acting in it anyway. It was a bit grim as a parent of a teenager.

I watched it and liked it. They laid it on pretty thick, but I guess that's the point. Hunter Schafer is quite a find.

yeah, I thought it was brilliant at times. Finale was a bit of a mess though...

I hated the long "lyrical interlude" at the end with Zendaya.

I will keep watching bc they’re adding Donal Logue

OK, yeah, I'll stick around for that, too.

I will keep watching bc they’re adding Donal Logue & hope that soon they are allowed to stop explaining every damn thing

I get the feeling this will just make me miss Terriers more

err meant to do italics there lol

Just watched the premiere of Evil. It's kinda dumb, like Millennium with the half-kidding-on-the-square tone of The Good Wife (whose creative team is behind it). I like Mike Colter and Aasif Mandvi and Michael Emerson, though, so I’m in for at least a couple of episodes. Also, there was a demon played by Marti Matulis (an actor I’m not familiar with) using a voice that was hilariously similar to that of the Clark Nova in Naked Lunch, which made me laugh.

oh lol I didn't know that was a Kings joint

Never heard of this show nor that cast, but Clark Nova voice? I'm downloading an episode.

hey Jibe did you watch S4 of Bureau Des Legendes? i am uh, 'getting' it as we speak.

its IMDB page lists S5 in 2020 :D

for the life of me i can't understand why it's not as big overseas as Spiral or The Killing or any one of a million shows. and the names involved, i guess people don't know them because they're French actors but they are giants in their field. I guess the closest thing to it in modern English TV is something like The Night Manager.

I just started watching an 8-episode Danish series called Beneath the Surface on Hulu. Terrorists take a subway full of people (apparently only about 15 people ride the Danish subway on a given day?) hostage and it appears that the ringleader is a guy who once held the lead cop prisoner. It's pretty good, in that lots-of-blue-filter cop-show way.

The second series of that, set on a ferry, has just been on bbc4.

I watch all those bbc4 Saturday night foreign series and you end up with the impression that there are only 4 actors in Denmark.

oh, I like "on becoming a god in central florida"

I just watched the first ep of Emergence (ABC) - i am surprised as anyone but it’s pretty fucking good. XFilesy/Firestartery kinda vibe, hooked me right away.

quite liked Evil, will def keep watching

I just binged Undone last night. Riveting, IMO.

I will say, though, there is a plot point in the middle of the series that is 100% bullshit and, while it does subtly feed into the dreamy ambiguity of the second half, it came very close to making me write off the show. I'm glad I didn't because the end was crazy good.

Finally got to watch the first season of What We Do in the Shadows (because it's on regular Hulu), and it is simply the best.

hey Jibe did you watch S4 of Bureau Des Legendes? i am uh, 'getting' it as we speak.

its IMDB page lists S5 in 2020 :D

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yeqh i watched it when it came out 'getting' it through the same means you seem to be. i was just looking up the expected date for seson 5 last night ! apparently shooting began this summer.
season 4 was good though i didn't enjoy it as much as the previous ones. it ends in a way that really really made me want to watch season 5 (and on which we have a disagreement with my friends)
hope you enjoyed it/are enjoying it