Top 77 Television and Streaming Video Series of 2019

lucky for you I'm already hoarse from previous booing

this show fucking sucks

Rewatched all of BoJack before second half of S6 and S5 was much better second time around. Free Churros is probably one of the (many) best episodes overall.

S6 Part 1 was great and a travesty that Stranger Things has finished above it.

"Free Churros" was the show at its self-indulgent worst for me lol

he will always be THE MEAT MAN to me, but tbf Pasquesi is incredible in this, goes places I didn't know he had in him

― Οὖτις, Friday, February 14, 2020 12:14 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

If/when y'all find yourself in Chicago, make a point of seeing TJ & Dave, the weekly two-man improv show he does with T.J. 'yes, that guy from the Sonic commercials' Jagodowski. It's the only improv I'd ever recommend to the uninitiated and I recommend it highly. They're both amazingly nuanced and intuitive performers. P.S. If Tracy Letts is sitting in for one of them, DO NOT SEE; Pulitzer Prizes apparently do not translate into improv performance skillz.

TJ and Dave are a fun show for sure.

Stranger Things is good, eff the haters, and this season was quite fun. Ethan Uma Jr. was a swell addition to the cast. That said: did not vote for it.

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#12 - Schitt's Creek (Pop US) - 101 points, 11 votes

Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Schitt’s Creek on Netflix Website

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mzdm3gzraI

I lost interest in Killing Eve pretty early on in s1 and no one seemed to think s2 was an improvement

This was my reaction to S1, I was kind of dumbfounded out some of the plot turns.

Loved the first two seasons of GLOW, and I threw some points at it for this poll mostly out of fondness for them, because I didn't like the third season at all.

And speaking of dreary sitcoms that I found completely unfunny...

I loathe Bojack. Tried watching the first episode again and bailed halfway through, never so much as a cracked a smile at its humor.

Everyone says this show is good, but I've always avoided it because of it's too-cute title

refuse to watch because canadian but I'm glad we finally produced a new series y'all enjoy, I guess

couldn't make it through more than a few episodes of the first season, no matter how much I love Chris Elliott.

Loathe seems a pretty extreme reaction to a show you've only ever watched one episode of xps

it's very funny and also effectively heartwarming, which is not usually something i enjoy. it does take a few eps to get rolling.

chris elliott is maybe the worst thing about the show, and i'm a fan

YESSSSSSS. Had this been a ranked ballot, I might have put Schitt's Creek at #1. I likewise avoided it for forever because of the title, begrudgingly gave it a shot very recently at my gf's suggestion, and we have very quickly fallen deeply in love with it. The format is straight-up sitcom but man, the performances are great and often hilarious and then out of nowhere incredibly touching and poignant etc. I honestly cannot say enough good things about it. As I posted in the Parks and Rec thread, if you like/love that show, I would urge you to give this one an honest go. And yeah, it kinda takes a season to really get its footing, so stick with it.

i also liked 'Free Churro' and think if you're gonna try Bojack, that's a place to start.
https://observer.com/2018/10/bojack-horseman-free-churro-finds-comedy-in-tragedy-you-get-it-right/

Alternately 'Downer Ending'?
https://www.avclub.com/its-fear-and-self-loathing-in-hollywoo-as-bojack-horsem-1799802691

chris elliott is maybe the worst thing about the show, and i'm a fan

― na (NA), Friday, February 14, 2020 12:36 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

Precisely this. Dan Levy is a goddamn MVP and I hope he goes on to very good things after the show ends.

i also liked 'Free Churro' and think if you're gonna try Bojack, that's a place to start.
https://observer.com/2018/10/bojack-horseman-free-churro-finds-comedy-in-tragedy-you-get-it-right/

really? it's obviously a great episode, but also totally singular and won't prepare you for any of the other episodes

downer ending is probably a good starting point otoh, comes in at the end of s1 and was the first indication of the levels of weird and sad the show would eventually reach

Michael Chabon did script work on it.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, February 14, 2020 8:12 AM (two hours ago)

not a selling point for me ... especially after he and his wife thought it would be great for them to script a show about Ghost Ship -- ugh, no. Fuck off Michael Chabon.

So disappointed atm: if "When They See Us" wasn't gonna win, then at least the logical winner should have been the Star Wars Babies show. ...

it's obviously a great episode, but also totally singular and won't prepare you for any of the other episodes

Fuck off Michael Chabon.

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#11 - Watchmen (HBO) - 120 points, 13 votes

Damon Lindelof's Watchmen

Watchmen on HBO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zymgtV99Rko

Top 10 coming up! Give your guesses as to lineup and so on.

Are we going to #1 today?

Also too low

Russian Doll & Fleabag are locks

i'm gonna do my best to knock this out today, yes.

succession, i think you should leave, hopefully joe pera

Hopefully Undone, probably Chernobyl

Mindhunter would be in there, I would think.

I kind of think that The OA is going to get some love? Even on ILX it's mostly a culty following but maybe it makes up for the sparseness with more enthusiasm?

could it be that on cinema does not place somehow?

it definitely will

Watchmen was at the bottom of my ballot.

Barry has a shot presumably, surprised watchmen didn’t make the top 10 but obv ilx is full of detractors for the very idea of it

on cinema
fleabag
russian doll
joe pera
i think you should leave
chernobyl
undone
succession
barry

and uhhh one more

Mindhunter

oh right

I was like "that show looks awful" then I realized I was thinking of the Emma Stone/Jonah Hill thing and not the awesome show I love

No, Mr. Robot? (I've only seen the first 1 1/2 seasons so maybe it got bad)

If/when y'all find yourself in Chicago, make a point of seeing TJ & Dave, the weekly two-man improv show he does with T.J. 'yes, that guy from the Sonic commercials' Jagodowski.

Pretty sure they have not had a weekly gig in Chicago in at least a few years, though they are doing a couple of reunion gigs next month.

love Schitt's Creek, would have been my #1 if i could have ranked it. genuinely wonderful and frequently hilarious, almost always pleasant, and almost sci-fi in its utopianism. Incredible performances from all four of the main cast, w/valuable supporting work all around, and Chris Elliott is fine though the total LVP here if i'm being honest. he's just about the last reason to watch this. This is sort of the antithesis of a cruel comedy show, which doesn't deaden the humor whatsoever. it somehow makes the core premise extremely fresh and increasingly so over its entire run, along w/a lot of unexpected twists and turns and some vv forward thinking depictions. many moments of being blindsided by unexpected emotion etc.

i don't know anything about any ghost ship show

It was announced back in December. It was included in some network PR thing about a package deal Chabon was involved in. It got shared and forwarded to people whose friends and family members died in the fire. There was public outrage and angry tweets, and then Chabon and Waldman, fairly quickly dropped the idea.

at some point i will watch watchmen against my better judgment, primarily because of regina king

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#10 - What We Do in Shadows (FX) - 123 points, 13 votes

Taika Waititi

What We Do In Shadows on Hulu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R2dDwzuZ4s

oh

I hope this means undone didn't place

watchmen was my #1 so i should probably say something about it but it was just really well made and smart and the hooded justice origin episode was probably the best episode of tv i saw last year. nb a week later i regretted not swapping it with my #2 vote (which is yet to place)

surprisingly low for watchmen, i had it as #7 or so so i'm not complaining

what we do in the shadows was my #10 so good job everyone