Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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?

I was thinking Vampire Hunter D

Bit of a gap in the viewing schedule now.

I’m constantly playing catch up so can’t really offer ten shows currently airing. I’ve got the new season of The Great lined up and ready. Otherwise have been engrossed in Happy Valley, as well as the usual pop pablum.

Really gutted Britannia was canceled. It has its up and downs but was quality entertainment.

Gallows Pole is incredible imo

Will check it out thanks for the recommendation!

ive been enjoying high desert on apple.. it is funny, sortof coen bros vibes in a way

I am deep into The Handmaid's Tale (halfway through season 3). It stresses me out every time I watch it, but I have to keep going.

not sure if I have 10 favorite shows of all time, but less current

I am one episode away from finishing Somebody Somewhere, Selling Sunset, and Daisy Jones. (That Daisy Jones finale has been waiting for me for like a month now, so I guess that doesn’t say much for that show.)

I’m also midway through The Great, and watching Silo as it rolls out.

I have yet to start watching the latest seasons of Mrs Maisel, Ted Lasso, or Top Chef (or The Crown!)—all shows that once were favorites and I still like but I don’t feel any sense of urgency.

And I’ve got a list running of shows likely to be nominated for Emmys which I haven’t seen, but I don’t know if/when I’ll get around to them—Dahmer, Love & Death, Fleishman is in Trouble, Shrinking, and a few others.

Daisy Jones quickly became a semi-enjoyable hatewatch for me, finale is pretty “eh”

I liked it at first but she became more and more unlikable as it went on, surrounded by other characters I didn’t much like either.

Will be sad to see Someone Somewhere finish its season. Great show. Though the electric purple suit against the saturated green field during the wedding episode - a bit frightening.

I don't know what to think about Gallows Pole so far. I absolutely adore the novel by Benjamin Myers, and always hoped there'd be an adaptation of some sort.

First choices to direct would have been Robert Eggers, Rose Glass or, in a very perfect and pristine universe, Ben Wheatley + Amy Jump.

There's a lot to love about Shane Meadows' prequel adaptation, and a few decisions I'm just not sure about that take me out of it.

I'm just not sure about the anachronisms that pepper it throughout, for a start. I don't mind the psych-rock soundtrack - that's fine, I guess. The book went a long way to paint a fairly accurate history of pre-industrial Yorkshire. So when the characters start arguing adlib with each other and calling each other "mental", it very quickly becomes This Is England 1789.

As for adlib, I just don't think he captures the best of these performers on this one. It worked fairly well in the present-day domestic settings of his other shows and films, but here it really shows through and breaks the illusion very regularly..

Maybe I'm missing the point. I am enjoying it, it's just hard for me to accept it on its own terms and I'm hoping that one day an adaptation of the book itself that doesn't play out like a soap opera gets made

i never read the novel so maybe that helps idk

Read it, it's great !

I'm only halfway through the series mind you. It has got some really good parts. David Hartley is excellent, the stagwalkers are good fun.

Not sure about Thomas Turgoose yet - I like him as a character but he seems a bit wooden here. Also, for some reason the Grace character seems to operate on one single tone: unnecessarily aggro no matter the situation

Again, I think it's partly to do with the direction and editing. There are scenes of dialogue that go on way longer than after they've landed and it often feels like the actors have run out of things to say

ep 1 dragged, loved eps 2 and 3.
the stagman scenes made me proper chuckle.
i am hoping that this prequel is to figure out if its worth expanding into the actual contents of the book.

but yeah, 'this is england 1789' is very spot on.

Ted Lasso
Silo
ST: Strange New Worlds (new season this week woot)

A lot of old UK procedurals because my other half is maniacal about his Britbox subscription: Endeavour, Luther, Foyles War, George Gently, Happy Valley, Prime Suspect... my god he watches a lot of TV.

Endeavour forever i love it so much

soooooo psyched for Strange New Worlds

Speaking of UK police procedurals, I’m 2 seasons into Unforgotten. Very good.

Yeah Endeavour was great. George Gently I liked too - lots of northern soul music. Only issue was the other copper John, he was a slappable sexist twat.

My sister has gotten very into this old British show about a portly rural chef who gets called into various cases by the local constabulary because his deductive skills have no parallel in the region, can't remember the name though

Pie in the Sky? Starring Richard Griffiths?

Yes that's it! It's so gentle as to be almost ambient

i lived where that was filmed. was a wool shop, i think, which they made into a restaurant for tv. it's now a Pie-themed tearoom.

How much is the IVF stuff in Silo? We enjoyed the first half of the pilot but it's a bit personally on the nose.

Also something about it kinda screams "cancelled before finale"

I am SUPER looking forward to SNW

My current TV diet:

Dead Ringers - strange and creepy and more compelling than I was expecting it to be, having never seen the Cronenberg film.

Wednesday - I’m not the demographic for this show but it’s entertaining. Casually watching to the end.

Silo - argh I like this show but I want to like it more. I keep waiting for the complexity to deepen or for a genuine curveball to come.

Righteous Gemstones s1 - never watched this but promos for the upcoming season got me curious

RuPaul - a recent season (2020? 2021?) but not the most recent.

Dipping in and out of Queer Eye but don’t really care if I watch one episode or a whole season

And because of the writers strike and being without talk shows, I find myself falling asleep to random tv channels that play nothing but old reruns from my childhood/teen years, so I’m alternating between Mad About You and Family Ties.

How much is the IVF stuff in Silo? We enjoyed the first half of the pilot but it's a bit personally on the nose.

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, June 13, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

IVF is not specifically a major plot point, though forced birth control is one thread in the conspiracy they’re trying to untangle. But outside of the pilot there are no characters directly dealing with that. It’s more like one of the many things “they” are doing to “us”

those who have read the silo books know there are huge plot twists to come. no idea how far the current season will take it. i think they've done an excellent job depicting in the claustrophobia, paranoia, and sheer dreariness of the silo existence.

only up to episode 6 of Silo, so far the biggest surprises have come from the Juliette actress’s accent. It’s chugging along ok, hope something big happens aoon

Ooooh, Silo is based on Wool? I did not know that. I devoured those books.

Yes Silo is based on the Wool trilogy.

Makes sense. "Silo" is certainly more literal than "Wool."

Rebecca Ferguson being the star means I'll probably be giving silo a shot very soon.

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

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, December 29, 2022 12:57 AM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

belated you're welcome, Elvis - i'm gonna start in on season 2 this week. S1 really worked for me as a slow-burn, and it was just very sharp and intelligent in terms of how it told its story. it was very atmospheric as well, without being falsely gloomy and foreboding, violent but not gratuitous, and quite refreshingly moving in the corridors of money and power without glamorizing them, more like corporatizing them. Cho Seung-woo and especially Bae Doona were incredibly good, too.

it achieves a righteous balance in how it trickily portrays flawed characters, and how it handles some of the final revelations. pretty superb and thoughtful stuff, an antidote to less placidly-paced modern TV.

There was a “The Simpsons is good again” article in NYmag a few months ago - it’s actually kind of true, maybe? I’ve watched a bunch from the last two seasons and they’re not Monorail-level-great, but it’s certainly way better than I remember it being since the late 90s. More heart and less shit jokes.

More heart and less shit jokes.

This is one of the times when the difference between "less" and "fewer" really makes all the difference, because I don't remember The Simpsons having any shit jokes.

Don't you remember the episode where Bart dared Milhouse to eat a shit sandwich?

Can I Borrow a Fece?

Short Poppies was a delight