Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), dimanche 29 septembre 2019 00:08 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

subtracting Darroussin would be difficult for any show. i'm about 3 eps in and I like it a lot, though i can't help thinking they've put Phenomene into a very similar plotline. i also can't help thinking that she and Malotru are going to run into each other! aren't they both in Moscow? and if his 'assignment' is to recruit a cybersecurity expert, well.... couldn't she help him?? she hangs out with them all the time! surely Marie-Jeanne could point him in the right direction! but maybe as usual there's something i'm totally not seeing. i'm completely in love with the same woman Malotru's fallen in love with but it's hard to see how that's going to end any way but badly.

i'm not going to say too much about s4 cause i don't want to spoil anything by mistake as i can't remember what was in the first 3 episodes and what was in later ones
phenomene always gets put in the same kind of plots yeah, at some point it feels like maybe they shouldn't still be using a spy whose cover was blown with both iranian secret services and the mossad

"just another random French seismologist, why do you ask?"

haha exactly... "mais je suis sismologue" in a tiny voice has become a running joke at home

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gah

maybe xpost to trenchant commentary

Lodge 49 finale was fantastic, and the season was mostly very strong. I hope it comes back.

Is there a Lodge 49 thread?

nah, I don't think enough of us watch it to really justify it, plus in all likelihood it just ended for good

just started watching it a couple weeks ago due to the simon h love for it. couple episodes in, hasnt really gone anywhere yet but im intrigued.

i will jump into season 2 soon enough (got distracted after the second episode but have the rest on hand) and would encourage a thread

The reason why I ask is because I just spent a week and a half in LA and 5 different people recommended it to me. I've only watched the premiere and loved it. Yesterday I mentioned the show by name (not by @) to 2 people (an ex-ilxor & a semi-famous musician) who sang it's praises and within hours, two of the major actors liked and retweeted my tweet.

Anyways, I'll watch some more and try to come up with some thread worthy discussion unless any of you want to beat me to the punch. I'm way behind so I'll try to keep my spoiler binders on.

fine, my arm's good and twisted

signs and symbols: AMC's LODGE 49

here to recommend new Nancy Drew based on first episode. The production style is very Riverdaleian (dark & foggy) and she kinda gives a goody-two-shoes Veronica Mars vibe which I like. Scott Wolf is her Dad tho which is weird bc he looks the same age as her lol

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/sunnyside-pulled-from-nbc-schedule-will-finish-season-as-digital-only-series/ar-AAIPLRE
this sucks, show was touch and go but in the right direction

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this has got to be one of the ugliest-looking shows ever broadcast on tv right

ugh

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I'll admit I found Bob's Burgers ugly when I first watched it (grown to love it, of course). I've kind of half-watched this one a few times and it doesn't bother me.

I thought I'd be done with Evil by now, but this week's episode went much darker than I expected, so I'm even more on board now than I was at first.

i tried watching Bratz of the Hill for one episode; it's horrible.

xpost ooh good to know
I was getting kind of mad at how they kept cheesing it out

Evil is a weird show. The Kings really lucked out by getting Mike Colter to be Actually Hot Priest.

they are so facepalm about technology, v corny & DO U SEE. like black mirror but even worse.

I’m working through Good Wife & am up to s4 and still find it maddeningly uneven, like there’s 1 great ep for every 3 average & then 1 super-stupid technology episode that makes me want to rage-quit

Evil is like that rollercoaster now distilled into every episode. It feels like it’s going to be great at the start, then dips to average 2/3 of the way through & goes super-stupid at the end.

I think the best thing they have done was the Braindead tv series (that crazy show where politicians got alien bugs in their ears & went mad) it was so broad that it was ok for them to go super stupid because the whole thing was silly fun.

made it through one episode of The Morning Show with its ripped-from-the-headlines plot, indulgent acting and terrible script; that was enough.

tried, really tried, for Ms. Fletcher because Kathryn Hahn is a fucking treasure but this thing is tonally a disaster, poorly written and mostly seems like an excuse to show stills an video of penetrative porn and naked hahn. a waste of a great cast and a promising concept.

Swapped Hulu for Netflix and am now watching Bonus Family (Swedish "comedy" about a couple, their kids, and their exes) and La Casa de Papel (Spanish crime show about a team of thieves who take over a mint; called Money Heist in English for some reason even though The House of Paper is a much better title). Tried one episode of Mindhunter, not sure if I'll go back for more.

how do you get apple tv+? do you have to have apple tv?

I was similar after one ep of Mindhunter but it's worth it imo. (Just finished the book it's based on, too)

Money Heist is so much fun.

you need to get apple tv+ via any smart device shop. they have a free week warm up, then it's five bucks a month. also, piracy.

huh! i can get it for PS4?

hm, apparently not:

Apart from Apple devices, the Apple TV app is slowly making its way to popular smart TVs and streaming devices. On launch day, you can find it on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and recent televisions from Samsung. It’s also set to arrive on TVs from LG, Vizio, and Sony. Some of those TVs already support AirPlay 2, so you can send Apple TV Plus from your iPhone to the TV screen even if the app isn’t yet available.

The downside of streaming Apple TV Plus through some of these platforms is that they lack features like Dolby Vision and Atmos (though basic HDR10 should be there).

piracy it is then

the truth is out there

Is anything good on Apple TV+? A couple things look interesting, like Dickinson, but I haven't bothered watching

I got my free year with a new phone, or so I am led to believe by the roughly dozen push notifications I received

i am going in over the next week or two but Morning Show was so predictable and bad and slick that i'm a bit wary. Gonna try See, For All Mankind and Dickinson next.

I have heard absolutely nothing good about See.

tried, really tried, for Ms. Fletcher because Kathryn Hahn is a fucking treasure but this thing is tonally a disaster, poorly written and mostly seems like an excuse to show stills an video of penetrative porn and naked hahn. a waste of a great cast and a promising concept.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, November 4, 2019 11:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yeah this show is v bad

I am duty bound to check it out bcz of Tom Perotta but it doesn't look great.

splitting the story between hahn and her explicitly terrible son was a horrible idea. everything is telegraphed. the sex and nudity is unnecessary and not erotic. the music cues are atrocious. the dialogue is stilted and dumb. hard pass.

I watched the first episode and thought maybe it was off to a bumpy start, but apparently not. I do not care about the horrible son and figured he'd be mostly out of the picture :(

that's how i approached the second episode. it got much worse.

also the "she's totally gonna fuck the kid who her son bullied" subplot is just rancid stuff.

Hahn is SO GOOD though, even in this, and it's such a bummer that she's being used as a pass-through for this pseudo-empowering horseshit.

this is spoilerish but gives you a sense of how risible and dumb the show gets: second ep ends with her preemptively breaking up a date and going back to the senior home to swim naked in their pool where she meets and embraces jerk off grampa. it somehow plays even stupider than it sounds.