Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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Best TV/Web/Streaming Series of 2019 - Poll Nominations Closing January 5

using a Showtime trial and I’m getting into On Becoming a God in Central Florida

not everything is clicking for me a couple episodes in, but the deeply cynical turn that happens early in the series is amazing and Kirsten Dunst is killing it

Started the end of the fucking world.

I don’t know. Why would he want to kill this girl who likes him?

Obvs thats kind of a dumb question. But he seems less plausible psychologically than the girl. Her performance is honestly quite good.

Work in Progress on Showtime's first episode was really good. Like really really good! I'm kind of excited by how good it is out the gate.

they should probably change the title

probably; it appears to refer to the hero's journey but it comes off sounding confused.
it's very sharp.

Just started the BBC 2 show "Mum"
Expect I'll knock out all three seasons before Monday.
Why didn't anyone tell me about this? It's very well written and beautifully acted; perfect domestic dramedy theater.

oh and the second episode of work in progress cements it as a wonder for me; love what it's doing in every way.

(or is Mum considered uncool in the uk for some reason)

I haven't seen Mum but it's on my list. Annoyingly the pan-BBC search that powers iPlayer won't find it so i have to use the A-Z listing.

Tonight I watched the first episodes of both Shrill and Work in Progress and both were fucking excellent, and both weirdly had small parts for Julia Sweeney, looking exactly the same in each one.

i knocked out all three seasons of mum pretty quick; if you like Shrill and Work in Progress, you'll love mum

All three are great!

I can't be bothered to google, so what's Work In Progress, and where can I watch Shrill?

Work in Progress is a dark comedy on Showtime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai8TD3aFn8M

Shrill is on Hulu

Shrill also on iPlayer

Ooh thanks

re: julia sweeney and the legacy of Pat
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/arts/television/julia-sweeney-pat-snl.html

It’s also on the BBC tv app thing!

Shrill, that is.

Just started The Witcher and it's extremely entertaining so far

^^^ we loved it

I can't watch The Witcher because a) the name sounds like a thrash metal band from South America and b) Henry Cavill looks like one of those rubber human-shaped sparring dummies come to life.

I couldn’t deal with that stringy video game hair.

y’all missing the r-rated Xena, Warrior Princess you never knew you needed

Yeah, that's a thing I definitely don't need.

I need to pick The Witcher back up. I watched one episode and had to look up what was going on.

and then I fell down a rabbithole of how action dudes do a several day course of dehydration to look really ripped for big scenes.

guys, motherfucking POTTERY THROW DOWN is back on!

I read in the NYT yesterday that there were 532 scripted series on TV in the USA last year.

Fuck off, television.

First episode of Avenue 5 was generally good. Not as many jokes as an episode of Veep but will definitely keep watching.

I'm only two episodes into Work in Progress (mentioned upthread) but I'm really enjoying it. Took me until halfway through the first episode for it to click; the dead therapist and some of the "awkward" humour established a tone that I thought I would find off-putting, but by the time Abby goes on her date with Chris (and especially when they run into Julia Sweeney), I was relieved to see that the show wasn't just going to be a parade of humiliations. I think I'm already developing a bit of a crush on Theo Germaine, though I'm not sure if its the actor or the character (they left little impression on me in The Politician).

Great musical cues as well. I noticed that Phosphoresent song that that was big a few years back, and I liked whichever song it was that played earlier in the first episode as well. Why don't TV shows list songs in their credits?!

crowdsourced, but:
https://www.tunefind.com/show/work-in-progress/season-1/94556

Watched the first episode of little america and it was VERY good; looking forward to more.
Currently on deck: I Don't Want to Get Hurt So I'll Max Out My Defense, Hands off Eizuken ep 2, Picard, Nora from Queens, 68 whiskey
i also started watching an aussie show called The Other Guy that is very much in the vein of You're the Worst and is, so far, pretty good.

Thanks!

(pretty sure the other song I liked was the Yo La Tengo, btw)

I own (and wear) the shirt Chris wore to the wedding and it freaked me out that he had it.

Mr Veg and I are watching Spinning Out on Netflix. We’re 4 eps in and i like it a lot. Lots of ice skating <3

[spoiler guarded] as Julia's husband in ep 3 of Work in Progress had me laughing loud enough this morning to nearly wake up a sleeping household.

same

ffs I watched 3 episodes of Deadwater Fell and it's really terrible. Save yourselves!
I will obv have to watch the final ep to confirm it's as bad as it is.

i just watched all 4 episodes of Deadwater Fell mistakenly thinking that David Tennant's character was the one who did the rescuing, not the one who was rescued. (rescue itself was at night and one scottish man with a beard looks pretty much like the next in the dark).

odd seeing the woman from the good fight (Cush Jumbo) with long hair and speaking in her original(?) accent.

Mystic Quest Raven's Banquet on Apple is... okay? I'm a sucker for video game centered sitcoms. The delivery is pure Always Sunny and the acting is pretty solid but it's predictable as hell and generally never gets past third gear.

Gentefied, on Netflix, is pretty good. Smart and funny and none of the characters are total assholes whom only the writers find sympathetic.

Beforeigners, on HBO Europe, is a car crash of SF-themed procedurals (Alien Nation comes to mind) - not particularly great, but compellingly not bad either.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/02/review-time-travel-and-murder-combine-in-hbos-riveting-beforeigners-series/#p3

I'm going to be re-activating my HBO subscription next month for the second season of My Brilliant Friend and am definitely planning on watching Beforeigners.

Have watched the first episode of Beforeigners and I'm in

Thanks to whichever one of you recommended Stath Lets Flat. It's been a while since I saw a cast so thoroughly, convincingly dedicated to hilarious idiocy.

Anyone else (still) watching Briarpatch? I'm really enjoying it.

Yes! Really good so far!

josh how are you watching stath lets flat?

i was curious to try it but didn't invest any energy into figuring out how to watch it in the u.s.

I downloaded it from some BBC forum. Wasn't a torrent, was a direct download, and it took forever to find a place that was sharing it.