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.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
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
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
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.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
really? it's obviously a great episode, but also totally singular and won't prepare you for any of the other episodes
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
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
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
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.
― sarahell, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
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. ...
― sarahell, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
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.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/dBoWnD6.jpg#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.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
Are we going to #1 today?Also too low
― groovypanda, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
Russian Doll & Fleabag are locks
i'm gonna do my best to knock this out today, yes.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
succession, i think you should leave, hopefully joe pera
― na (NA), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
Hopefully Undone, probably Chernobyl
― groovypanda, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:50 (four years ago) link
Mindhunter would be in there, I would think.
― clemenza, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
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?
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
could it be that on cinema does not place somehow?
― Mordy, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
it definitely will
Watchmen was at the bottom of my ballot.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
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
― Clay, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
on cinemafleabagrussian dolljoe perai think you should leavechernobylundonesuccession barry
and uhhh one more
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:54 (four years ago) link
Mindhunter
― Chris L, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:54 (four years ago) link
oh right
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
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)
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
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.
― sarahell, Friday, 14 February 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
at some point i will watch watchmen against my better judgment, primarily because of regina king
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 14 February 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Fg28igA.jpg#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
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 14 February 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
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)
― Mordy, Friday, 14 February 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
surprisingly low for watchmen, i had it as #7 or so so i'm not complaining
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 February 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
what we do in the shadows was my #10 so good job everyone
Russian Doll is prob the biggest oversight from my ballot, would’ve been top 5 if I hadn’t missed it in the noms list
― Clay, Friday, 14 February 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
need to watch both of those last two -- okay, I am not mad at u ilx
― sarahell, Friday, 14 February 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
― jaymc, Friday, February 14, 2020 12:57 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol, oops, I'm clearly all the way out of the loop.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 February 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Friday, February 14, 2020 12:51 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, February 14, 2020 12:56 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink\
Both of these were on my very short ballot and thusly heavily weighted, but I wouldn't put money on either showing up at this point, no.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 February 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
I'm still mad I wasted so much time with Mr. Robot s2 and 3
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 14 February 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
My still to come guesses:
On CinemaRussian DollJoe PeraMindhuntermaybe Doom Patrol but probably not Doom Patrol
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 February 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
As noted in the dedicated thread, Mr. Robot improved a great deal in the home stretch and stuck the landing both better than I ever would have expected and with greater skill than many other shows have managed. I was impressed.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 February 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
still working through season 4 of mr robot, but it's been pretty solid so far.
didn't vote for it cause i didn't start watching til last month
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 February 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
let's stop guessing and talk about how awesome what we do in the shadows is?
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 February 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
Terrace House! Throw a weighted blanket over me in a hot bath!
― Yerac, Friday, 14 February 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
i watched the first season, liked it, then forgot it existed though vague memories of it would insert themselves into my recollections of other shows, and I wouldn't remember where they came from.
― sarahell, Friday, 14 February 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
How does this compare to the film (which I liked)
― imago, Friday, 14 February 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
Would have voted Lodge 49 but only seen the first season
― or something, Friday, 14 February 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
Two shows that I've realized over the past week that I forgot to nominate and possibly would have voted for:
Magic for Humans (a charming and funny Abso-lutely production featuring prestidigitation, which is usually not my thing but is totally my thing in this particular context)How to Get Away with Murder (a show I never in a million years would've ever thought to watch of my own volition or would've ever thought I'd like but got sucked all the way into last year, completely ludicrous and ott but hella addictive and Viola Davis is just magnificent all the time)
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 February 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
re: shadows -- one of my bff's was telling me about it the last time we hung out, and said it was on par with the film, and that I should watch both, and gave me his hulu login so I could watch it. I haven't as yet watched it, but his summary made it sound great.
OMG -- why did I forget to nominate How to Get Away with Murder?!!!! That is one of my faves!
― sarahell, Friday, 14 February 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link