Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

Station 11 continues to be a vibey, weird show. I'm really enjoying it. However, I'm not sure if a lot of people want to watch a show about a pandemic that is worse than our current one!

Since everyone seems to be watching Yellowjackets...do people, like, actually have Showtime subscriptions? Or...

We all loved Masterchef Junior, so I was curious where it went. This piece comes to the conclusion that an eighth season has been filmed and inexplicably in the can for two and a half years!

https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/masterchef/masterchef-junior-season-8-canceled-renewed-gordon-ramsay-daphne-oz/#so-what-s-the-hold-up-

xpost Showtime is an urban legend.

Loving Yellowjackets, it's all I want to watch, though I'm worried there's no way it'll stick the landing. I'm using my mother's fios login to watch it.

Loving Station 11, confused about where it's going and what the arc is, esp after last night's two episodes. Very Leftovers.

Still love the Expanse but this season a little less.

I mention these three shows because they are my three big current shows and ALL of them have included intense scenes of amputations and it just makes me worried about the zeitgeist and whatnot.

The other show we're watching is South Side which is the funniest shit ever and I can't believe it's not bigger yet. It will be.

My wife said Abbot Elementary is funny and captures some of the pain of working in the public school system.

I watched the pilot for Abbot Elementary and just got extremely sad and depressed

Loving Station Eleven. In some ways it's reassuring watching a show about a pandemic that's so much worse than covid. Our pandemic timeline is bad but the virus itself could have been much more catastrophic.

Is there any comic relief in this show or is it all self-serious pathos? The Leftovers was obviously super dark, but also funny in its way.

There is definitely some humor, it's not all pathos. Excellent world-building that deepens as the episodes go along and they explore the different characters.

Since everyone seems to be watching Yellowjackets...do people, like, actually have Showtime subscriptions? Or...

― change display name (Jordan), Friday, January 7, 2022 3:04 PM (two hours ago)

In Canada there's a pricey streaming service called Crave that gives you HBO + Showtime plus a few random movies and other things. I love Desus & Mero, but Showtime is otherwise mostly worthless (I am watching Yellowjackets though and will eventually get to the nu Twin Peaks). I did really like a doc on Dick Gregory I watched the other day, it's totally conventional formally but highly recommended especially if you don't know anything about him

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that your ten favorite shows on television that aired in 2021 are all nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

single drunk female is surprisingly good!
https://www.thecut.com/2022/02/finally-a-show-that-takes-millennial-drinking-seriously.html

damn, this UK show Cheaters is pretty great

Current/recent faves:
Severance (Apple+)
Abbott Elementary (Hulu)
Reacher (Prime)
Top Chef Portland (aired last yr but just recently went up on regular Hulu)
Morning Show (Apple+)

I want these to be better than they are:
Star Trek Discovery (paramount+)
Bel Air (peacock)

Bored now
Gilded Age (Hbomax)
Thought it would be sooo good but its so dry & airless, the only things keeping me watching are Baranski & Coons & even then just barely

Fuckin NOPE
The Endgame (Peacock)
This is the same Blacklist template revamped with a new diabolical villain & Morena Baccarin is not the actresss to pull this off. I was done after 1 ep lol

I'm loving Severance so far. Was briefly worried it might feel a bit stilted and slow-moving, but it's doing a lot more with its space than the one fragmentation metaphor it might look set up as from afar. Somewhere between Corporate, Lost and Six Feet Under.

the weirdness of it overall makes me not really anticipate the plot so much - i find myself enjoying it from scene to scene & its v enjoyable to watch in general i find

I'm also digging Severance. It's definitely the show I look forward to the most right now. The work metaphors work for me, even as they are clangingly, in-your-face obvious. The show has such a great look, and the performances are delicious (Turturro and Walken!). With Dannemora and this, Stiller is batting 1000 right now. Everyone should be lining up to pitch him their off-kilter series ideas.

Not sure about making this a (non-limited) series, though. A little nervous that we could be in for years of chain-yanking and mysteries all the way down.

That last Outie-Helly video from a week ago was fucking chilling.

A little nervous that we could be in for years of chain-yanking and mysteries all the way down.

So hoping for this to be the case!

But yeah, I agree that it's just very watchable. The way ideas are visually realised, especially in the props and set design, is ingenious! My favourite alternate world computer monitors in a while. Walken and the Optics & Design department are a real high so far, and I loved the alternate history painting being 'accidentally' circulated for the two departments.

Invasion (apple tv) mentioned precisely once itt and in a list w no review. Well I'm on the last episode now and here's my review

P u stinky!!!

yeah its not great
i liked the divorce angle but that’s about it

That part started good but the rest of it was just so meaningless for so long I lost interest (also so did they kinda!!! With that thread)

I think the only thing I've liked is the monk in the last episode lol

i started to question my choices once they did the military dudes. oof. nope.

We're enjoying The Afterparty on Apple. Teenager approved genre mash-up with a fun cast.

oh i keep meaning to watch that

goes down easy with 30 min episodes

Five episodes into the K-drama/comedy/something Glitch and it's...really good? It's ostensibly about para-reality, UFOs, repressed memories, etc. but crosses that with a story about friendship, faith, and modern disassociation. Every turn into cults and crop circles countered with turns into cigarettes, boredom, and the sense that good questions are more important than good answers. Don't watch if you need to have everything explained.

I mean, Glitch is pretty badly reviewed but the criticisms thrown at it (meandering, takes to long to solve things) are exactly the reasons why I'm liking it.

don't know about favourite but this is what i currently record according to the pvr. a lot of this is just background during the day tbh

daily:
ST: Enterprise (series 3)
Bluey
Ghosts: US
Simpsons (series 30)
Bob's Burgers
Chasing Classic Cars
Overhauling
Scrapheap Challenge

weekly:
secret genius of modern life
wheeler dealers
taskmaster
horne section tv show
new rick and morty
Bangers and Cash
totp 1993
outer limits
Astrid: murder in paris (recorded, not watched yet)
Senorita 89 (recorded, not watched yet)
QI
Click
Handmaid's Tale
Only Connect
Unversity Challenge
Aussie Gold Hunters Mine SOS
Maigret
Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre
Sky Arts Artist of the Year
Frankie Boyle
Louis Theroux
Blown Away

the highlight is probably bob's burgers - its pun game is very strong, i like the kids' various obsessions, decent song every episode.

Taking "currently on television" to mean "aired in 2022":

The Sex Lives of College Girls
The White Lotus
Never Have I Ever
The Rehearsal
Only Murders in the Building
Heartstopper
I Love That For You
Somebody Somewhere
The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel
The Bear

I mean, Glitch is pretty badly reviewed but the criticisms thrown at it (meandering, takes to long to solve things) are exactly the reasons why I'm liking it.

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I’ll check that one out — I’ve been watching Stranger, which is another K-drama, a slowly unfolding thriller set inside the world of the Seoul judicial system. Lots of twists, a crash course in learning the particularities of how things are run in Korea, lots of emphasis on the minutiae of interpersonal interactions and social presentation, and unlike a lot of shows I really have zero idea where it’s headed. Much of the stiff formality many characters engage in on a daily basis is pierced by the presence of the great Bae Doona as a cop who isn’t playing by the rules, which is more to say she’s just not fearful of the system vs someone who’s stepping out of line. It’s definitely meandering and takes patience but it’s refreshingly paced compared to a lot of the breakneck speed with which watercooler most watercooler shows tend to operate.

Some recent-ish K-dramas I liked, both (uncharacteristically for me) zombie-related:

- Happiness: our heroes are trapped in an apartment block with terrible people, zombies are outside, "zombie action Parasite" is not really accurate but there's a lot of social commentary

- Zombie Detective: poor guy wakes up a zombie, starts working as a private detective, I guess it's mostly a comedy?

I do enjoy how Korean shows are frequently incapable of sticking to a single genre

In rotation:
Abbott Elementary (Hulu)
The Big Brunch (HBO)
Bobs Burgers (Hulu)
White Lotus (HBO)
Interview With The Vampire (Showtime)
Atlanta (Hulu)
Pennyworth (HBO)
Wednesday (Netflix)


out of rotation
Peripheral (i had to bail, i keep falling asleep - will circle back at some point)
League of Their Own (not feeling it? idk why)

classic tv shows in rotation
Night Court
Taxi
Sanford and Son
X-Files

Here's what I've gone the distance on recently:

Pistol
The Deep End
For All Mankind (season 3)
*Servant Of The People
Extracurricular
How To Change Your Mind
Glitch
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

Extracurricular is definitely worth checking out if you're into K-dramas but give it a shot even if you're not. In short, awkward model high school student has a darkly comic secret life as a crime lord. Violent hilarity ensues, but as with most K-dramas you can't really predict what happens. The creators of this go on to make Glitch.

I watched Servant Of The People when it first came out, but hadn't seen it since the Russian invasion. Season 1 is pretty much the set-up for the spectacular season 2 - if I had to single out any episode of season 2, it would be episode 4 where Zelenskyy (as Goloborodko) wakes up to discover that everyone in Ukraine has left the country because of open borders and ends up running everything in the country on his own. Shades of The Quiet Earth...

Disappointed by How To Change Your Mind. I think it's good for the history of how things have gotten to where they are now, but found it lacking in actual support or guidance for someone dealing with depression or PTSD now who's looking for possible avenues.

On deck: The Kingdom: Exodus, The Peripheral, Andor, Stranger, A Wilderness Of Error

Just wrapped up The Patient & The Bear - pretty good and holy shit great give me more now

Restarted The Peripheral now that it's built up some episodes & The English on Amazon. The latter was almost a bail after the first 5 minutes because it was so awkward and stilted but it has rapidly improved.

due to a mix of a busy arts calendar and getting back to the ceramic studio and physical rehab and generalized anxiety which is making it more difficult to focus, I've watched about half as much teevee this year as last... and been on ILX about 1/4 as much as in past years! Weird correlations.

Even so, here's my 2022.

Nineteen Great Shows
Slow Horses s1 (starting s2 shortly)
Single Drunk Female s1
Marriage s1
Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butthead s1
Bust Down s1
I Love That For You s1
Our Flag Means Death s1
The Rehearsal s1
Barry s3
Peacemaker s1
Bluey s3
Joe Pera Talks With You s3
This Fool s1
We Need to Talk About Cosby
She-Hulk s1
The Kids in the Hall 2022
Only Connect s17/18
Youtube: Ryukahr Plays Mario (plot twist: he shaved)
Letterman YouTube Channel (this has been a lifesaver this year)

Very Good to Pretty Good
Abbott Elementary s2
Cunk on Earth s1
Little Demon s1
Rick and Morty s6
Mo s1 (great and then fell apart)
Fisk s2
The Simpsons s34 (surprisingly good!)
The Other One s2
Desus and Mero s4 (RIP)
The Great Pottery Throw Down s5
As We See It s1 (this should've been renewed)
Youtube: Defunctland
Youtube: Video Game Donkey
Youtube: Grand POOBear: Iron Bros
Youtube: Odd Tinkering
Youtube: Iron Pineapple
Youtube: Action Button
Youtube: Channel Five

Not Finished but Already Likely To Be Among the Best of the Year
Traumazone
Sort Of s2
Handmade: Britain’s Best Woodworker s2
Heartstopper s1
Severance s1

Not Finished but Pretty Good with Flaws
Reboot
Somebody Somewhere
Ms Marvel
Zen Motoring
All That Glitters

Coming Up Shortly
Kindred
Last Chance U Basketball

Top of the List of Should Watch/Will Watch
Andor
Dark Winds
The Patient
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Minx
Serpent Queen
Interview with the Vampire
Am I Being Unreasonable
Black Bird
A Cut Above
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared
The Dry
Let the Right One In
Moon Knight
Pachinko
Somewhere Boy
Stuff the British Stole
Willow
Better Call Saul
Urusei Yatsura 2022
Mosquito Coast
Reservation Dogs
Staged
High School
Ramy
Atlanta
Ranking of Kings
Gentleman Jack
For All Mankind
Undone
The US and the Holocaust
Station Eleven
Cabinet of Curiosities

No
The Bear

Bad Sisters
House of the Dragon
Rap Shit
We Own This City
Blown Away
Everything’s Trash
White Lotus
Killing It
P-Valley
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

Please Do Better
What We Do in the Shadows

I should add The Kingdom to the "should watch" soon pile

I am on something of a media library building kick right now, anyone on my plex ring should sniff around a bit.

gross

xp any chance the 2021 tv poll surfaces?

My favorite shows of the year

Reservation Dogs
Andor
Severance
Somebody Somewhere
The Bear
The Old Man
Better Call Saul
Barry
Our Flag Means Death
Mythic Quest
The Outlaws
Only Murders in the Building

Lol Tracer

yyyyyyeah i need to do that poll before the end of the year. been hard to keep focused. will try!

EVERYBODY should be watching "Sort Of" btw. It was great in the first season and hasn't slowed down.

Aggregated critics' list of best 2022 TV shows. Great to see Severance doing so well atm

https://www.metacritic.com/feature/tv-critics-pick-10-best-tv-shows-of-2022

I’ll check that one out — I’ve been watching Stranger, which is another K-drama, a slowly unfolding thriller set inside the world of the Seoul judicial system.

Thanks for the rec omar! Digging this

Forks, interested to know how you would improve WWDitS?

curb your enthusiasm
the nanny (repetitions)

xp, they blew up ALL the setups in the prior season except for the Laszlo raises an energy vampire one and ran that entirely into the ground. the show was set to be a bunch of individual character building arcs and Nadia and Gizmo in the Old Country, which would've been far preferable to recycling some now sorta stale plotlines.
If Guillermo goes full fang, i could buy back in but I thought last season was by far the weakest it's ever been.

A vampire vampire hunter would be interesting

You mean like Blade?