Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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.

i have watched first 3 eps of The Morning Show
tonally it’s weird & awkward & modern newsroom shows are not my favorite bc theyre so on the nose

but i am interested to see more episodes to see if it plays out the way i think/hope it might

but also i just want to see Reese Witherspoon & Jennifer Aniston have more screen time together, they are both p good in this!

To plug a show no one has yet mentioned on this thread: Cinemax's Jett is really fun, starring Carla Gugino in Elmore Leonard mode a la Karen Sisco.

i understand that Search Party S3 has been in the can for months

Evil (appropriately) deployed the term "Fleabagging" this week.

i still cant tell if i love or hate this show
it’s like the Kings have invented their own genre of that pretends so hard that it’s not cheese & then randomly is like SURPRISE! CHEESE!

the good wife was basically the same thing but stretched over longer

What really "impresses" me about it is how hard it swings, often in the same scene, from goofy wink-nudge shit to full-on serial child murder

yeah that’s def what keeps me watching

Binged both seasons of Jo Brand's 'Damned' over Thanksgiving. I was a massive fan of both the UK and US versions of 'Getting On,' so an edgy and well-written, excellently cast comedy about a children's protective service office that gets grittier in the second season couldn't have been more up my alley. Very sorry to see it didn't get renewed; I could watch another thirty of these.

Here's a pair of representative clips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDzTAhXV9UM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdtWJ7FCSDw

Bailed out on Money Heist; it was intermittently diverting and I really liked a few of the characters, but hated some others (the main robber inside the vault was like a Spanish Hank Azaria) and it was taking forfuckingever to get anywhere.

Bonusfamiljen is great, though. About to start season 3, and apparently there'll be a fourth season in 2020.

How far did you get?

I've been stuck on Season 3 for a couple of weeks now after racing through the first two.

I finished episode 10 of Season 1, but once I found out that they weren't even going to finish the fucking robbery at the end of that season, that it was going to extend into Season 2, I said fuck this.

You should see what happens in season 3. It's taken the ridiculousness to another level. (Which is probably why I'm struggling to finish it).

Bearing in mind that I'm almost certainly forgetting several programs and that there's STILL plenty of narratives of interest releasing in December, including Hala (apple), Reprisal (hulu) and JOE PERA TALKS TO YOU (adult swim) - truly it is the time of peak TV - it's still December so it must be End of the Year List Making Time!

I'm choosing to skip (most of) the shows that I watched that released earlier than 2019 as well as 2019 shows that I either didn't enjoy, was uninterested by or actively loathe... though I could easily be coaxed into tallying those up too. Anyways, all that aside, here's what I watched and enjoyed most from 2019.

Top 13:
Chernobyl (HBO)
Succession (HBO)
Ramy (Hulu)
Patriot Act (Netflix)
Gentleman Jack (HBO)
Barry (HBO)
Desus and Mero (Showtime)
Veep (HBO)
Fleabag (Amazon)
Unbelievable (Netflix)
High Maintenance (HBO)
Catastrophe (Amazon)
Pen15 (Hulu)

Top 29:
Russian Doll (Netflix)
Last Week Tonight (HBO)
Late Show with Colbert (CBS)
Shrill (Hulu)
I Think You Should Leave (Netflix)
The Other Two (Comedy Central)
Blown Away (Netflix)
Corporate (Comedy Central)
Undone (Amazon)
The Mandalorian (Disney +)
Mr In-Between (FX)
63 Up (ITV)
Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4)
Rick and Morty (Adult Swim)
Portrait Artist of the Year 2019 (Sky Arts)
Damned (Channel 4; from 2016 to ‘18 but new to me)

Occasionally Very Good, Sometimes Even Great:
The Good Place (NBC)
LetterKenny (Hulu)
Silicon Valley (HBO)
Toys That Made Us (Netflix)
What We Do in Shadows (FX)
Broad City (Comedy Central)
Tuca and Bertie (Netflix)
Great British Baking Show (Netflix)
This Way Up (Hulu)
Better Things (FX)
Ink Masters (Paramount)
Living With Yourself (Netflix)
Jeopardy (ABC)

Hey, I bet you still haven’t seen:
America to Me (Starz, from 2018 but worth hunting down in 2019 as one of the best shows of this generation)

Still Need to Watch* or Watch More Of**:
Country Music* (PBS)
Dark* (Netflix)
Kingdom* (Netflix)
Stumptown* (ABC)
Dickinson* (Apple)
Euphoria* (HBO; I am kinda assuming this is gonna be terrible tho)
His Dark Materials* (HBO
The Act** (Hulu)
Big Mouth** (Netflix)
Killing Eve** (BBC)
Doom Patrol** (DC Universe)
SMILF** (Showtime)
When They See Us** (Netflix)
Lodge 49** (AMC)
Leavenworth** (Starz)
Sorry For Your Loss** (Facebook)
Temple** (Sky One)
Dollface** (Hulu)

Also Immediately on Deck:
The Accident (Hulu)
For All Mankind (Apple)
Frayed (Sky One)
See (Apple)
Servant (Apple)
Total Control (ABC Australia)
Upright (Showcase)

Are there more than 20 of you who would like to do a 2019 TV poll?

we're watching watchmen and i like it

i find the decision to gank this from an unwilling moore to be more than a bit gross
i'll likely come back to it in a year or three if it resolves intelligently as lindelof's inability to connect al the dots drives me crazy

I thought I liked Nancy Drew but I decided i don’t
turns out that i dont really gaf about ghosts and treasure

The Expanse (still only at the end of S2 tho)
Schitt's Creek (only in S3)
Fleabag (finished)

Watchmen is solidly good and occasionally great. Its ambition and attempts at dealing w/very ugly and vv American issues are admirable.

I just keep forgetting I'm watching it and get confused when it doesn't have KJ APA and Cole Sprouse in it.

Nancy Drew xpost

the annoying thing about 2019 tv is that my favorite shows were divided among over 15 different networks. watching all of them required a cable plan AND separate subscriptions to eight different services AND the occasional torrent for international stuff. it's just not sustainable.

Stuff I Liked A Lot This Year:
Chernobyl (HBO)
Ramy (Hulu)
Fleabag (Amazon) (Season 2 only)
The Expanse (Amazon)
Bosch (Amazon)
Billions (Showtime)
Letterkenny (Hulu) (Seasons 1-4 only; I bailed eventually)
Killing Eve (Hulu) (Season 1 only)
Bonusfamiljen (Netflix)

Stuff That Was OK:
Stumptown (ABC/Hulu) (stopped watching when I let my Hulu subscription lapse)
Evil (CBS)

Stuff I Fucking Hated:
Succession (HBO)

oh yeah Bosch is tight, but i still haven't watched past S3.

i'm limited by my Amazon/Netflix/HBOGO access. i sometimes try to catch up to shows much later if they arrive on one of those options.

Are there more than 20 of you who would like to do a 2019 TV poll?

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, December 2, 2019 4:45 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i would definitely be down, gonna need to jog my memory about what i actually did watch this year

me too

id do

what the hell is Ramy

Oh, Ramy is fucking hilarious.

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