Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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Currently screening new episodes as of this year on your local (US/UK/whatever) networks, can be on hiatus. No sports events.

1. Breaking Bad
2. Louis
3. Mad Men
4. Justified
5. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
6. Treme
7. The Venture Brothers
8. 30 for 30
9. The Daily Show
10. Peep Show

Also not bad: Better Off Ted, Doctor Who, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Jeopardy, Archer, Parks and Recreation, Metalocalypse, Frisky Dingo, Bill Moyers, 106 and Park, Frontline, Warehouse 13, America's Best Dance Crew, Sunday Best

Also watchable: Work of Art, Top Chef, Children's Hospital, The Office, Sesame Street

What am I missing?

apparently I'm missing that Better Off Ted and Frisky Dingo were canceled; bummer.

Bill Moyers is retired BTW

No order

Mad Men
30 Rock
It's Always Sunny
Justified
Friday Night Lights
Fringe
Dexter
Daily Show
True Blood
Parks & Rec

I guess I could pick 10 shows from the Cooking Channel. Now that L O S T is done, I don't watch anymore scripted tv.

Doctor Who
Burn Notice
House
Peep Show
The Inbetweeners
Sherlock

God, turns out I really don't watch much telly, or particularly like the stuff I do watch. This is hard. Stuff I do watch all the time like The Apprentice and Strictly Come Dancing and Coronation Street and Lie To Me and Spooks barely seem worth a place in a list, but might have to get forced in purely in the absence of anything else.

Much as anything, I'm looking for suggestions.
Dexter burnt me out after two seasons. True Blood/30 Rock/Fringe/Burn Notice/House have each got one or two episodes of watching until I realized they weren't for me. I've bumped up Friday Night Lights on the Netflix instant watch. InBetweeners is on the tivo now. Is Sherlock worth torrenting?

and why isn't there anything worth watching on american network television?

Sherlock totally worth torrenting, yes.

gave up on 30 rock after two episodes? problem lies inside you

I really should give 30 Rock a go. Do I need to start from the start?

i find tina fey deeply unfunny in the same way that i find jerry seinfeld deeply unfunny. it's my right as a us citizen.

i will check out sherlock.

There's a thread on here somewhere (possibly full of spoilers though, unless you're familiar with the base material). It's superficially at least a bit reminiscent of the most recent series of Doctor Who (it's also helmed by Steven Moffatt), so if that's your bag, it's worth a go.

x-post Fine, but maybe amend you question to "why there isn't anything worth watching on US TV for people with huge blind spots?"

you say blind spots i say good taste
i kinda gave up on doc who this past season but if sherlock's as good as the eccleston/tennant years, i'm in.

the thick of it
curb yr enthusiasm

(huge gap)

the daily show
30 rock

uhm

Oh, forgot the Thick of It was just on hiatus. Yeah, that.

No particular order

Burn Notice
Mad Men
True Blood
Big Bang Theory
Community
30 Rock
Parks & Rec
Louie
Doctor Who
Being Human

Also: Justified/warehouse 13/eureka

I watch too many shows

Shiting shite, I forgot about Being Human as well. I seriously have the memory of a goldfish for shows when they go off air for a bit (would probably have forgotten Peep Show as well if someone hadn't mentioned it first)

Modern Family
Parks & Rec
Community
30 Rock (though increasingly less so)
Peep Show
Top Gear
How I Met Your Mother (though increasingly less so)

Hmm, no dramas.

Used to watch Top Chef and Project Runway but got bored.

I'll have to check out Burn Notice. I figured it was about on the level of the Closer--not bad, but nothing special.

I'm anticipating Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire.

you say blind spots i say good taste

Challops of the Day, right here.

I really should give 30 Rock a go. Do I need to start from the start?

Not really, but depending on to whom you talk, the first season has some excellent, excellent episodes.

30 Rock (eff all the apostate haters)
America's Next Top Model
Friday Night Lights
Treme (though I'm still catching up on it)
Doctor Who
So You Think You Can Dance
Project Runway (ES <3 SA)
ABDC

Damn, I don't even remember what else I watch now. Fringe was only OK with very sporadic bursts of brilliance this season.

Crap, I forgot Project Runway! :(

I also watch Top Chef, though it's not a favorite. PR is much more enjoyable.

What is the thick of it?

TV series which preceded In The Loop (and on which it's sort of based). Government satire with heroic amounts of excellent swearing in it.

yeah you don't need to watch the first 4 seasons of 30 rock to be able to follow the new season (PREMIERING SPETEMBER 23 OH YEAH) but it's like, highly recommended!

more or less in order:

mad men
breaking bad
curb your enthusiasm
community
louie
it's always sunny in philadelphia
30 rock
justified
parks & rec
treme
(law order SVU)

basically what everyone else is watching. been thinking about trying out friday night lights, but i'm worried i won't understand any of it, with the football and all

mad men
breaking bad

well.... that's about it.

With football and Friday Night Lights--it's the industry of the town, in the same way showbiz is for LA in "Entourage" or meth is in "Justified." Not all that hard to follow.

no idea what in the loop is either
i kinda gave up on curb around season four, did it pick up in quality?

In the Loop is the film version of The Thick of It (this could take a while...)

forks, after season four there is leon and the seinfeld reunion so i would say yes. maybe skip season five until later.

Thick of It had something to do with Steve Coogan, didnit?

Breaking Bad
Mad Men
Project Runway
True Blood
Antiques Roadshow

Is an Armando Iannucci thing, Coogan collaborator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thick_of_It

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Top Chef - prior to this season, at least
My Boys
Community
Parenthood
Big Bang Theory
How I Met Your Mother

haven't really gotten into any new HBO/other dramas since Generation Kill. Hoping Boardwalk Empire is worth watching

love you for starting this thread forks;

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Mad Men
Community
Dexter
Louis
The Venture Bros
30 Rock
Parks & Recreation
Modern Family
Archer

Also watchable: Family Guy, American Dad, HIMYM, Doctor Who, House, TDS, The Office, Glee

Oh, Modern Family, yes. I forgot about that one.

Sherlock looks interesting, too. I will definitely check that out.

I really need to get into Glee. Every time I've seen it (twice, and some clips here and there) it looks exactly like my kind of thing.

Mad Men
Community
Parks & Recreation
30 Rock (though I'm becoming less charmed by it)
Pawn Stars
American Pickers
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
The Closer
House, M.D.

I watched the first season of Breaking Bad, but never came back to it. I need to catch up. Modern Family is promising based on a couple episodes from later in the season that I saw (it started out really blah). I didn't watch Louis, will torrent it. Didn't have room for Futurama, though I might substitute it in place of 30 Rock. Party Down, r.i.p.

Oh yeah, and It's Always Sunny. I like it, but it's still a really spotty show. Some eps are masterful, some are total dreck.

Oh shit, yeah, forgot about Futurama.

ALSO Friday Night Lights. Can't say enough good things about it, especially about Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler...perhaps the greatest husband/wife duo ever in an American tv drama.

been thinking about trying out friday night lights, but i'm worried i won't understand any of it, with the football and all

It's not a football show, really. It's a character-driven drama. The football is a backdrop that's incorporated in a way anyone anywhere could understand it.

alright i'm convinced. need something to fill the gap between new mad men eps.

You'll, of course, want to start at the beginning, but here's how I rank the seasons:

3 > 1 > 4 >>>>> 2

Breaking Bad
Louie
Mad Men
Daily Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Community
Parenthood
Archer
Children's Hospital
Late Late Show

You'll, of course, want to start at the beginning, but here's how I rank the seasons:

3 > 1 > 4 >>>>> 2

Concur, though I'm almost tempted to say that you can skip the entirety of season 2.

Louie
Doctor Who
Sherlock
Community
Parks and Recreation
The Office
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Big Love

not currently on, but the girl and I are LOVING Slings and Arrows and everyone with instant watch netflix should try the first season.
A few missteps, but on the whole, very good.

BB
NCIS
Simpsons
Mythbusters
IT Crowd
Go Girls
Neighbours (lol)
Burn Notice

.. that's kinda it now that i think about it, save for a couple of other aussie shows you guys don't give a shit about

Slings and Arrows rules, the second season is something of a dip in quality but the third season is really impressive as well.

Started Friday Night Lights and it's quite good but a bit soapy for us to finish a whole season at a go. Working through season one slowly.

New additions to my current top picks:
Mary Shelley's Frankenhole
Regular Show
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

The first two are ESPECIALLY good; I highly recommend any venture fans trying them. Frankenhole is from the same guy who did Moral Orel and it's as good as that show was at the end of its run and similarly nutso. The Ron Howard episode was a special level of batshit.
Regular Show is an odd duck; adult swim dada stylee for tweens. Surprisingly enjoyable!
And isn't there a thread for Todd Margaret yet?

I was kinda feeling Lone Star after two episodes; shame they canned it. Running Wilde is, unfortunately, not half as smart as it thinks it is; some zingers but they're far between the leaden gags.

Pick up Terriers. It's only 5 episodes deep right now.

metalocalypse is having a pretty great season so far as well.

i watched half of the pilot for terriers and it seemed lame... would be willing to try again.

If it didn't draw you in with its first 30 minutes, it probably never will.

yea i started watching todd margaret -- pilot was hugely funny & the 2nd was pretty meh

also agree abt running wilde - i canceled it off my dvr

i watched half of the pilot for terriers and it seemed lame... would be willing to try again.

― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:19 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

If it didn't draw you in with its first 30 minutes, it probably never will.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:28 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

I disagree with this. I wasn't too bothered after the first.

You could be right. I was hooked instantly, and don't think it's much different now than it was then, but ymmv.

Mad Men
Rubicon
No Reservations
30 Rock
Sons Of Anarchy
Warehouse 13
Being Human
Futurama
House M.D.
Terriers

30 rock
big bang theory
mad manz
project runway
glee
futurama
louis
snl
degrassi: the next generation
uhhh...tnt nba halftime show?

http://video.adultswim.com/mary-shelleys-frankenhole/hunger-of-the-vampire.html
^most recent full episode. Gandhi has an italian accent throughout for no particular reason.

Mad Men
Breaking Bad
Louie
Always Sunny
Top Chef
30 Rock
Project Runway
True Blood
Modern Family
Piece of Work

Breaking Bad
Mad Men
Community
Sons of Anarchy
Parks and Rec
Rubicon
30 Rock
FNL
Terriers
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Sons of Anarchy
Mad Men
Caprica
Community
Big Bang Theory
Project Runway
Fringe
Espn 30 for 30
Monday Night Football :D
Freaks & Geeks Friday night reruns

I finally got into Sons of Anarchy last weekend and hot damn I'm in love

Yeah I just got into it also. Its pretty embarrassing how quickly I caught up though.

how i met your mother
big bang theory
parenthood
hoarders
cougartown
modern family
hell's kitchen
30 rock
louie
american pickers

hah I forgot Louie!!! How quickly I forget

Oh man Hoarders.. that should really be on my list.

I'd only heard other people talk about Hoarders before, but I caught a few episodes during a marathon on A&E yesterday. It's equally enthralling and frustrating, but definitely good tv.

1. Breaking Bad
2. Jersey Shore
3. Life and Times of Tim
4. Parks and Recreation
5. Pawn Stars
6. Curb Your Enthusiasm
7. NFL Gameday Final
8. American Pickers
9. Real World Road Rules Challenge
10. American Idol (usually give up by week 8)

unranked

Breaking Bad
Dexter
Fringe
Louie
Venture Brothers
Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Archer
IT Crowd
Life and Times of Tim
Ghost Hunters (yeah I know, whatever, this show is like crack to me)

warming on parks and rec and psyche courtesty of netflix instant. todd margaret pilot was awesome but havent caught more of it yet

1. FNL
2. Sons of Anarchy
3. Mad Men
4. 30 Rock
5. Eastbound and Down
6. Nurse Jackie
7. the Office
8. Parks and Rec
9. Rubicon
10. Deadliest Catch

Re-done
1. FNL
2. Sons of Anarchy
3. Mad Men
4. 30 Rock
5. Eastbound and Down
6. Dexter
7. the Office
8. Parks and Rec
9. Rubicon
10. Deadliest Catch

11. Nurse Jackie

12. louie
13. breaking bad
14. dual survival
15. man vs. wild
16. curb
17. entourage

i watch too much tv

Mad Men
Eastbound and Down
Hardy Bucks
Ideal
Breaking Bad
Match of The Day
South Park
The Inbetweeners
Entourage
Black Books re-runs

Shows airing in 2010 of which I have watched every or nearly every episode:

Mad Men
30 Rock
The Office [haven't watched any of the new season]
Glee
Top Chef
Saturday Night Live

The show I have watched the most after those:

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

1. ... uh, never mind

Have never heard of:
Hardy Bucks
Ideal
Black Books
Life and Times of Tim

Hardy Bucks - http://www.rte.ie/storyland/finalists/hardybucks.html

Ideal - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_(TV_series)

Black Books - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Books

Black Books is fantastic. LOVE it

10 that I either make time for or catch up on via hulu/netflix/amazon/whatever:

Breaking Bad
Mad Men
30 Rock
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Colbert Report
Daily Show
Eastbound and Down (have not seen any of new season though)
The Soup
Family Guy
Tosh.0

a few that I like a lot but you know whatevs:
Curb
Parks & Rec
Community
How I met Your Mother
Archer

a few I would like to watch but haven't gotten around to:
Modern Fam
Louie
Sons of Anarchy
Terriers
Bored to Death

The fourth hour of the Today show
Wendy Williams
Bay Area Quiz Kids
California Gold
This show on community access featuring a paraplegic man who gets topless hippie lapdances
Question Time - British House of Commons
Eastbound and Down
Jack Van Impe Presents
Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Mad Men

Community
30 Rock
The Venture Bros.
How I Met Your Mother
The Daily Show
Sons of Anarchy
The Soup
Parenthood
True Blood
Terriers

Breaking Bad
Eastbound and Down
Mad Men
Parks and Recreation
Louie
Sons of Anarchy
30 Rock
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Peep Show
Gossip Girl

lemme add Peep Show to my list.

Mad Men
30 Rock
Bored to Death
Friday Night Lights
America's Next Top Model
Parenthood
Modern Family
Chopped
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Entourage

1. Friday Night Lights
2. Mad Men
3. Breaking Bad
4. Rescue Me
5. Army Wives
6. Hung
7. Weeds
8. Modern Family
9. Sons Of Anarchy
10. The IT Crowd

Honorable Mentions: Big Love, Parks And Recreation, Big Bang Theory

Expect to like less as my Netflix-only watching catches up to alleged jumped sharks: Big Love, maybe Weeds

Might be lower on the list if I didn't grow up in West Bloomfield: Hung

Have never seen but expect to like when Netflix gets it: Treme

Would be an honorable mention if it didn't get cancelled: Ugly Betty

Also, Big Bang Theory probably isn't even good enough to be an Honorable Mention. But I haven't totally given up on it yet.

Monday Night Football
Hell's Kitchen
Top Chef
No Reservations
Rules of Engagement
Big Bang Theory
That Metal Show (Trunk, Florentine, some dude with sideburns)

i have trouble filling out my list after that. Mostly watch sports

Peep Show
Mad Men
Breaking Bad
Community
30 Rock
IT Crowd
Curb
Bored to Death
The Office
Jeopardy!

dammit, Bill, people on ilx aren't supposed to know that Don Jamieson is actually me with fake sideburns glued on

Breaking Bad
Mad Men
Peep Show
Doctor Who
Curb
Big Bang Theory
The Inbetweeners
Futurama
Masterchef
Oh what the hell, Boardwalk Empire

Watch Life and Times of Tim, people!

dammit, Bill, people on ilx aren't supposed to know that Don Jamieson is actually me with fake sideburns glued on

― some dude, Wednesday, October 13, 2010 6:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hahahahaha

think i might give sons of anarchy a go, although it looks like it might be too... serious

How do you people have enough time to watch ten different shows on a regular basis?

A lot of these shows don't run at the same time. Also DVR/d0wnl0@ding means you can watch at your convenience.

SOA isn't all that serious...just damn good. and season 2 has henry rollins.

How is SOA this year? I thought the season 2 finale was really stupid, has it recovered?

yeah SOA definitely has plenty of moments of levity, oddball characters, goofiness, etc, in addition to the tons of violence and misery and shock value and drama. i think that season 3's been pretty good so far, although it feels kind of mellow compared to season 2 (which i devoured on DVD in the space of like a week so that i'd be caught up to watch a new episodes and was kind of overwhelming but awesome).

How do you people have enough time to watch ten different shows on a regular basis?

― buju_stanton (Hurting 2), Thursday, October 14, 2010 1:08 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'm pretty much an unemployed stay-at-home parent. but yeah pretty much any show that I can watch at my leisure OnDemand, i do, and only make a point to watch a couple of must-see shows while they're actually on.

agreed, first few episodes of season 3 left me bored and wanting some ass kicking. although season premieres ending...whoa.

How do you people have enough time to watch ten different shows on a regular basis?

I just have a really long Netflix list, and don't mind at all being a year behind the rest of the world when it comes to the shows I like. Rarely watch more than an episode or two of anything a night, and only watch maybe four nights a week, on average. (Only shows I actually watch while they're on are Meet The Press and Face The Nation on Sunday mornings, which I probably should've honorable-mentioned, at least. Never think of them on threads like this, since they've never been in my Netflix queue.)

amazing race
breaking bad
community
cougar town
family guy
friday night lights
how it's made
it's always sunny
NOVA
supernatural

Seriously, Regular Show on Cartoon Network is top ten for me now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve45tBg3FZo
wish more people were talking about this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgfZtyiilAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cY1rPJ2Vdk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7NNFcWlnns
i presume the bluejay and the raccoon are recovering addicts and the park is a halfway house

Realise I left Psychoville off my list.

the only ones i truly go out of my way to watch are FRINGE (it really has gotten so much better this season) and Doctor Who. should say House too, but i am losing interest.

I've never ever watched House. I suppose I should try it one day, people seem to like it.

I've grown to be a big fan of House, but I'm starting to wonder where this season will lead. I mean, once they crossed the line of House and Cuddy getting together... I worried that a lot of the driving tension outside of the weekly medical mysteries would wear off, but they've done a fairly good job so far this season. Also ready for more Thirteen.

1 Girls
2 Game of Thrones
3 Mad Men
4 Modern Family
5 On Death Row
6 The Ricky Gervais Show
7 Regular Show
8 Veep
9 Real Sports
10 Metalocalypse

Currently on hiatus - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Breaking Bad, Venture Brothers, Louie, Justified, Face Off, Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, Onion News Network, Check It Out!, Archer, Young Justice, Workaholics, Unsupervised, NFL whatever

lolPBS - Moyers and Company, Independent Lens, Frontline, POV

lolbritish - James May's Toy Stories, Peep Show, Doctor Who

loldailies - The Daily Show, 106 and Park, Jeopardy

why am i still watching this - Simpsons, ABDC, Parks and Rec, The Office, The Pitch, The Voice

Need to get into/caught up - Boardwalk Empire, Luck, Treme

throw in Antiques Roadshow under lolPBS I suppose.

no order, but lol i try to watch these:

breaking bad
justified
louie
archer
parks & recreation
cougartown
the good wife
bob's burgers
futurama
eastbound & down

lol why do i still watch these they used to be great but now are crap: the office, house, dexter, south park, whatever they call aqua teen hunger force these days
RIP (recent vintage): big love, tim & eric

In no particular order and including stuff that's currently on hiatus (which is pretty much everything atm):

Peep Show
Breaking Bad
Community
Parks and Recreation
The Soup
30 Rock
Happy Endings
Louie
Onion News Network
whatever Tim And Eric are doing at a given time

Stuff I watch that isn't quite top ten: South Park, How I Met Your Mother, SNL, Switched At Birth, Eagleheart. Haven't seen enough episodes of the new HBO comedies to say one way or another. Suddenly realizing that, despite my love of the format, I'm barely watching any current one-hour serialized dramas.

breaking bad
louie
parks & recreation
justified
community
archer
game of thrones
it's always sunny in philadelphia
bob's burgers
homeland

I pulled waaaaaaay back on my Homeland praise after that finale. I'll probably still watch it when it comes back.

Top ten running or on hiatus, in no order, would probably be It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Breaking Bad, Venture Brothers, Louie, Justified, Game of Thrones, Workaholics, Mad Men, Archer, Modern Family

30 Rock
Bob's Burgers
Community
Eagleheart
New Girl
Saturday Night Live
Funny Or Die presents Billy On The Street
Veep
The Daily Show
The Soup

hiatus honorable mentions: Happy Endings, Venture Bros, Justified, Sons of Anarchy, Breakout Kings, Suits, Childrens Hospital

what's billy on the street?

ms. fisher's murder mysteries
community
new girl
don't trust the bitch in apt 23
smash

huh, thought it'd be more than 5

i'll make a list at some point today but would like to remind everyone that Metalocalpyse is back

Billy On The Street is a goofy man-on-the-street pop culture quiz parody on Fuse, really stupid show but also pretty consistently one of the funniest things i've watched lately

Mad Men
Breaking Bad
Hockey Night In Canada
NHL on TSN
HIMYM

hmmm...maybe throw in Hoarders and South Park and Colbert and that's about it. And I suppose I still watch some of the Sunday animated shows on Fox occasionally, but strictly out of habit.

Parks & Rec is the only show I watch

The Big Bang Theory (after previously resisting it, ive grown to like it now, well its on all the time anyway)
Game Of Thrones
Mad Men
Breaking Bad
Match Of The Day
South Park
The Savage Eye (irish satirical show)
Community (watched the first 2 seasons)
Nip/Tuck (is this still going? ill watch it if its on)
Portlandia (i like what ive seen but its not on tv over here)

oh yeah Eastbound and Down as well

and Peep Show

Oh, you know what on hiatus show I totally forgot about? Boss. I dug that way more than I expected to.

finally started watching eagleheart. so funny!

Right? It's kinda sad that I don't hear more people talking about it. Chris Elliott has a show again! And it's really funny!

I think the only shows I really like that are on right now are Workaholics and Portlandia. Shows that I've sort of forgotten about, but which I'm sure are as good now as they were when I used to watch them: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Top Chef.

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Community
Archer
Bobs Burgers
Sherlock
Dogs101
Cats 101

Uh... Parks & Rec I guess.

So, not top 10, but non-cancelled shows I watch every ep of off my DVR

Dramas: GoT, Mad Men
Sitcoms: HIMYM, Cougar Town, Modern Family, Happy Endings, Community (RIP), Parks & Rec, 30 Rock, Portlandia, Louie, IASIP, Jon Benjamin Has a Van, The League, Suburgatory, Veep, Children's Hospital, Eagleheart
Animated: Adventure Time, Metalocalypse, China IL, Boondocks (Reverse-RIP!), Venture Bros, Family Guy, American Dad, Bob's Burgers, Archer, Futurama, South Park

I think that's everything.

New Additions: Eagleheart,Comedy Bang Bang, Small Town Security, reruns of Hard Knocks on NFL network
I may start Sunday Best again.

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― calm me maybe (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, June 7, 2012 9:37 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh and storage wars

Oh Chris Elliot has a new show? Huh!

After watching previews for The Virgin Diaries last night I am pretty excited about that too. Seriously. Skippy and his "wing mom".

http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/virgin-diaries/videos/skippy-and-wing-mom.htm

SYTCD
Deadman Wonderland
Eagleheart
Childrens Hospital
Eric Andre Show
Adventure Time
Family Guy
American Dad
NTSF:SD::SUV:::
Young Justice

... okay looking at that list, I am a fucking absurd person; how are you going to be almost 40 and have almost all of your favorite shows being on Cartoon Network

Sounds sensible to me!

it's really the only reasonable way to go
dan, if you like adventure time, i find regular show to be a much smarter version of same with more, like, teenage motivations

what are you going to like instead, mad men? zzzzzzz

oh Regular Show is great too, it's in my top 20 (along with Green Lantern, Ben 10, ATHF, Black Dynamite, Boondocks, etc etc basically this summer I've only watched Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, SYTYCD and tennis)

looking forward to this fall with new episodes of the critical darling NBC sitcoms and the Wed night ABC juggernaut

also it's sort of terrible but I really like Grimm? and looking forward to Mob Doctor and all of its Rapaporticy

I second Pillbox's list from upthread, except to subin Community for basically anything else.

New Additions: Eagleheart,Comedy Bang Bang, Small Town Security, reruns of Hard Knocks on NFL network
I may start Sunday Best again.

― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:57 PM (1 hour ago)

nooooooo these 2 shows are some of the worst things on television

i wouldn't ride or die for bang bang, but it's fun and i love reggie
explain your beef w/STSecurity

hate reality tv, hate reality tv that prods and pokes at people who are weird, if im going to watch that shit i might as well just roll with my big fat gypsy wedding or w/e

Love that one too.

bobs burgers
happy endings
louie
mad mans
sytycd
proyecto runway
himym
Friday night dinners
snl
parks and rec

xp to jjj: i entered the show with that philosophy, figured i'd watch it once and then turn off.
i have an abiding hate for "har har look at the freak tv" and i assumed it would be reno 911 THE REALITY SHOW
that show started oddly, twisted a bit and then suddenly got very very inclusive. there's no poking of fun by the end of the first episode and most of the standard reality tropes are quickly subverted. there's a no-judgment, hanging with the crew feel that makes it seem almost like a straight up scripted drama. the characters are likable, human and basically kind at heart and so is the direction.
if you didn't get all the way through the first episode, you should try it.

and i say this as someone who finds even fucking TOP CHEF inhumane

like the big reveal at the end of episode one seemed pretty wrongheaded and creepy considering the obv setup for the whole show was "look at these bumpkin morons" so instead of being an interesting insight it felt a lot more like they were using the transgendered officer as a "whoa check out the freak" signpost which i found stomach turning.

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hate reality tv that prods and pokes at people who are weird

This is the only kind I like tbh. People fascinate me. idk. Not all shows like that are making fun of the people though some totally are, yes. I know it's mostly shitty tv but I'd rather watch that than all the "funny" sitcoms people love round here. *cough* community *cough*

I've never seen the show you're talking about though. I'm just realizing that the things I do watch (Hoarders, Gypsy Wedding etc.) fall into that category.

Oh I like Girls and Louie too. Those are good.

xp we got different things from that reveal. having grown up in the bible belt, i didn't think they seemed like bumpkin morons, they felt like very familiar types to me.

also the gentleness of that reveal, the obvious courage it took for diesel to do it and the weird mix of frustration, love, derision and pride that the chief took in forcing it forward was kind of amazing

the second ep explores a kind of fluid and nearly abstract sexuality among the characters without guilt or jealousy in a way that i've never seen on television. there's no freakshow elements far as i can see, a lot of exhibitionism but everyone appears to me to be accepting and grateful for the opportunity. the direction is treading lightly and doesn't rubberneck at obvious points; i also like the cartoon backstory bits.

What channel is this show on?

AMC
NOT ON DISH
i dunno, i think it's got the potential to be special tv.

i might be treading some of my loathing for the reality stuff i am talking about into the show, so i am def not making pronouncements on high abt it, i just have a super hair trigger abt all those sorts of shows. because i hate them.

re: Community, if you don't laugh at Allison Brie macing herself, you are looking for very different things out of your television entertainment than I am

I've tried a couple times but can never get more than 5 minutes or so in. idk. I realize that nearly everyone else I know does and that this is probably my issue but I just don't like it. :/

I like s1 and part of s2 Community, but the "cleverer" it gets the more indufferable I find it.

er insufferable.

E, I definitely felt that way about the pilot so I understand the reaction; I just really liked the original paintball episode and the show basically stuck with me from that point on, and with extra investment in the characters the first season becomes really great (including the pilot, which I now can't believe I hated). I will also admit that I kind of forced myself to get into the show because I really wanted Yvette Nicole Brown to be on hit and that I'm even more interested in following the show now because I found out Joel McHale is high school buddies with a singing friend of mine from college who recently went viral in a video of a speech he gave to WA state representatives explaining why, as a Christian, he felt morally obligated to vote in favor of legalizing gay marriage.

but I do also think the show is funny, I mean the zombie episode was classic

i was hooked from Chang and Jeff's class presentation.

sorry, Pierce and Jeff in Chang's class

How do you people have enough time to watch ten or more shows on a regular basis?

(Joel McHale is actually making an appearance at one of my friend's campaign events, which I think is massively cool)

xp: no kids

(he posted to ILX) xp

How do you people have enough time to watch ten or more shows on a regular basis?

DVR helps

in no order, and if any of these hits a certain point of suckitude I will drop it in a heartbeat

30 Rock
Bachelor Pad
The Glee Project
Community
Happy Endings
Suburgatory
Unsung
Don't Trust The B In Apartment 23
Breaking Bad (though I'm only like 1/3 of the way in to Season 1 on Netflix)
Justified (though I've only seen the first two seasons on DVD)

only show I know I watch that I left off is The Soup, which I still watch for the clips even though the jokes in between feel lazier every week

hahaha here's hoping Bachelor Pad can keep up its current standard of quality

i was just thinking I should have said certain point of boringness or something like that

that show is amazing though

oh it looks amazing, if I was more invested in the Bachelor franchise that would totally be my shit

Breaking Bad
Bobs Burgers
Venture Bros
Louie
Parks and Rec
The League
Eric Andre Show
Childrens Hospital
Luther (assuming this is still rolling on)
American Horror Story

wait Peep Show has more coming right? that should be in there somewhere

I feel like I watch a lot of television, and I could easily name 10 shows that I really like, but at any given time of the year I can watch as little as 90 minutes a week to as much as maybe 6 hours a week, and three of hours will probably be on Sunday night. It seems like a lot of time commitment, but it's really not that much when half the shows are only 30 minute sitcoms and with DVR you can kind of squeeze those in whenever.

At the moment I watch 3 and a half hours, though maybe it's more accurate to say 2 and a half since the hour I spend with the Newsroom usually involves me gasping, agog, into some black hole of bizarre awfulness.

just started watching Damages on Netflix streaming and if that is still a going concern and it doesnt shit itself up after the first season, that would be a worthy nom too

oh yeah i just finished season one of that, probably didn't include it just because the guest stars this upcoming season are Jenna Elfman and Ryan Phillippe...ooooh

Dharma and teen Valmont, together at last

Oh I like Breaking Bad too.

Ryan Phillipe has an amazingly hot voice.

trying to think what my actual faves right now are, probably:

Doctor Who
Game of Thrones
Community
30 Rock
Parks & Rec
American Dad
Young Justice
Don't Trust the B**** in Apt 23
New Girl
Happy Endings

honorable mention to Bleach, Deadman Wonderland, Eric Andre Show, Big Bang Theory, Suburgator, Modern Family, The Middle, Grimm, Venture Brothers, Up All Night, Law & Order: SVU, Family Guy, South Park

this seems as good a place as any to note that in the first episode of Bachelor Pad, a woman told her partner (who then went off and made out with another woman) that if they lost the first competition (which was to keep themselves inside a heart-shaped box as it was slowly turned 90 degrees), she would "donkey punch him in the neck."

i keep meaning to try damages

it's easy to watch 10 or even 30 shows when they're 15 minute adult swim eps

Justified (though I've only seen the first two seasons on DVD)

You're in for a treat, s3 rules and is the best season yet imo (seems to be a minority opinion tho)

damages s1 is pretty solid, but s2 was such a snoozefest that I never really tuned back in

Zero love for SHARK TANK itt, that is a great show

what i've seen i've enjoyed but i never remember to watch it

if you like adventure time, i find regular show to be a much smarter version of same with more, like, teenage motivations

regular show is ok, but imho these aren't in the same league

yup.

see i agree with you, but inversely. I tried adventure time for about three eps and then never went back.

that's almost exactly how many episodes of regular show I watched and yet I have watched almost every episode of adventure time.

the scene in the last ep where SPOILERS they blast off from earth and we see what the post-apocolyptic adventure time earth looks like (w/ a huge crater in the side) and then interface with the super god abraham lincoln who trades his immortality for jake's life and turns into the lincoln memorial /SPOILERS was a new kind of high point for the show.

i've watched every episode of regular show!
different strokes

I think both shows are great

2 ilxors, 3 opinions

7 views
2 likes 1, 469 dislikes

Damages 1 & 3 are good, 2 is okay, 4 is draggin' ass so far

In no order

1. Key and Peele
2. Modern Family
3. It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
4. Regular Show
5. 30 for 30
6. The Daily Show

Television is slow right now

Real Time with Bill Maher
Jeopardy

Key and Peele's season is over

tivoing still new to me. but yeah, there's not much on now.

1. 30 Rock
2. Bob's Burgers
3. Killer Karaoke
4. A Football Life
5. The Hour

okay so i've decided i'm going to try enlightened on hbo go, does anybody wanna rep for any of these hbo series/miniseries?

Five Days
Big Love
The Pacific
Summer Heights High

Pacific and Summer Heights are good.

Big Love is at least worth a season or two investment, esp bc ya know

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ivWX1b9wiEw/S7n_S3hFz_I/AAAAAAAAAd4/yRTc7Uq-Wrw/s1600/biglove2_450.jpg

1. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2. The Eric Andre Show
3. Regular Show
4. Adventure Time (finally got into it; tried to go back to season one and hated it! need to start w/season 2? Current shows are great.)
5. The Blacklist
6. Masters of Sex
7. Modern Family
8. Key and Peele
9. Moyers
10. 30 for 30

Also will give some love for Uncle Grandpa, Sleepy Hollow, Sword Art Online, Real Sports

In no particular order

1. Breaking Bad (I havent seen the new episodes)
2. Eastbound and Down
3. Louie
4. Homeland
5. Justified (just started watching the 1st season)
6. Mad Men
7. Match of the Day (do sports count?)
8. The Walking Dead (just started watching this, I havent made up my mind as to whether its worth following yet)

Excluding Breaking Bad because it is over, but it would be near the top.

1. Bob's Burgers
2. Louie
3. Girls
4. Mad Men
5. Daily Show
6. Colbert
7. Eric Andre Show
8. Parks & Recreation
9. Frontline
10. CBS Sunday Morning / 60 Minutes (tie)

Special mentions: Eastbound and Down, Totally Biased, Rectify, Real Sports, and New Girl.

hi

Boardwalk Empire
Pointless
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Eastbound and Down
Peep Show
Louie
Masterchef
Mad Men
Game of Thrones
South Park

Was debating whether to include Doctor Who, which I will always watch but I don't think is particularly good right now.

in no real order

Blacklist
Sleepy Hollow
Boardwalk Empire
Sons of Anarchy
Justified
American Horror Story (just started s1 last weekend)
30 for 30
Project Runway
Key & Peele
Broadchurch (it's finished now but I dug it)

oh shit bump out Justified since ut hasnt started and replace with NASHVILLE

gah i love it so much

9. Pointless (forgot this)
10. The Returned (its over now but season 2 is about to start in France I hear)

Fuck, I'm watching a lot of television lately.

Currently on:
Adventure Time
The Americans
Game of Thrones
Veep
Inside Amy Schumer
Fargo
Silicon Valley

Early Contender:
Last Week Tonight

Coming Soon:
Penny Dreadful, Leftovers, Dinner With Friends

Hate Watching:
Mad Men, Modern Family

Watching as a Couple (mostly kinda distractedly watching while playing MPQ):
Blacklist, The Bletchley Circle, Parenthood, Orphan Black, Call The Midwife,

Please Come Back Real Soon:
The Eric Andre Show, Louie, Broad City, True Detective, The Returned, Getting On, Masters of Sex, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Review, Workaholics, Sword Art Online, Inside Comedy, Children's Hospital, Unsupervised, Metalocalypse, Your Pretty Little Face Is Going to Hell

Please Come Back and Be Better:
Key and Peele, Venture Brothers, Justified, Rick and Morty

Piling Up on the Tivo/HBO Go/Netflix and Awaiting a Few Spare Hours to Test/Return to:
Those Who Kill, Girls, Archer, Real Sports, The Red Road, Rectify, Almost Human, Dracula, Turn, Steven Universe, Years of Living Dangerously, 30 for 30, Agents of SHIELDlol, Uncle Grampa, Hannibal, Chicagoland, Regular Show, Cosmos

Tried and True:
106 and Park, POV, Independent Lens, Antiques Roadshow, Nature, American Masters, America's Test Kitchen

Tried and Denied:
Bates Hotel, Teen Wolf, Reign, The Daily Show, Sleepy Hollow, Bob's Burgers, Sons of Anarchy, Face/Off

Oh and please come back Eagleheart too.

'tried and denied' is a good category. i was primed to love The 100 as stupid trash but it couldn't even fill that hole in my heart.

please come back real soon: Lucas Bros Moving Co. don't think i've seen it mentioned on this thread.
I've also been enjoying Building Wild. i've wanted a cabin for a while and tuffy is my dude.

New favorites: Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge, Vikings (though S2 just ended)

Old standbys that I'm really loving lately: Hannibal, Nashville, Blacklist

Loved but am now eternally denied forever why bcz cancelled: Almost Human

The last season of Vikings was so good, in common with Da Vinci's Demons, underrated.

ehhh...beginning and finale were GREAT, but middle section of that season had me on the fence, it was a real slog for at least 3 or 4 episodes in there for me

but overall, it's loads of fun

Vikings or Da Vinci?

I actually meant series 2 when I said the last series of Vikings.

vikings

also I'd like to send a note out to tv casting ppl -- moratorium on casting Donal Logue as a villain for a while. Just the very fact of him showing up in vikings told me right away that he was gonna betray someone somewhere solely based on his turn in Sons of Anarchy

also he telegraphs his 'I'm being nice but I'm actually menacing' way too much

he always seems like that one dude at a bar that drinks too much and gets mean

i liked him in Terriers, but not much else recently he is in that Gotham City thing next.

his Sons of Anarchy arc was dope tho

totally

i like adventure time, veep, game of thrones, hannibal, inside amy schumer

Donal Logue pretty cool on L&O SVU

I want to recommend Review. I'm only three episodes in but it's darkly hilarious stuff, and Andy Daly brings it. Tim & Eric's Abso-Lutely Productions are pretty reliably great (see also: Eric Andre, Nathan For You).

Rewatching Louie with my girlfriend, who's only seen the first season. I'd forgotten how amazing it is. And totally didn't realize until this morning that the new season started last night. And I guess Comedy Bang Bang and Maron both come back this week?

Also rewatched Orphan Black and Parks and Recreation, reaffirming the latter as my favorite sitcom currently airing and easily nestled among my favorite shows ever.

Oh, and Agents of SHIELD has gotten really great once it became clear that they were slowly building the show up just to break it apart post-Captain America 2. FUIUD, basically.

Great profile of Nathan Fielder: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/magazine/nathan-fielder.html?hpw&rref=magazine

very excited by the eminent return of nathan for you

imminent even

Currently greatly enjoying:
Drunk History
Nathan for You
S1 of Hannibal
Adventure Time
Almost Royal
Last Week Tonight
Regular Show
Attack on Titan
Jeopardy (i'm hooked again)
Real Sports

I'm sure Masters of Sex will join this list when it premieres this Sunday. All the PBS middlebrow stuff (Nature, Moyers, Frontline, POV, American Masters, etc) still gets a lot of watching time around here too.

Ray Donovan is kind of horrible; I got four episodes in and gave up midway through the fourth... admirable acting but just stupid blatant caricaturing of races and genders and ethnicity and terrible writing. Extant was hysterically dumb in every way; I am a little tempted to hatewatch.

Come back soon please: The Americans, Game of Thrones, Veep, Inside Amy Schumer, Eagleheart, Fargo, Silicon Valley, Orphan Black, The Eric Andre Show, Louie, Broad City, True Detective, The Returned, Getting On, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Review, Workaholics, Sword Art Online, Inside Comedy, Children's Hospital, Family Tree, Unsupervised, Blacklist, Metalocalypse, Your Pretty Little Face Is Going to Hell, High Maintenance.

Please come back better: Key and Peele, Venture Brothers, Justified, Mad Men, Modern Family, Rick and Morty, Girls, Doctor Who, Agents of Shield, Archer

Coming Up Shortly and Likely to be Finished Equally Quickly: The Strain, Rush, Satisfaction, Married and You're The Worst

Sadly on both counts, I have given up completely on Comedy Bang Bang and The Daily Show.
Orange is the New Black and House of Cards both leave me cold but I am somewhat curious about Lilyhammer, Knights of Sidonia and Hemlock Grove. I will likely try out the Marvel programming when it airs.

I currently have season-to-now backlogs of Tyrant, Leftovers, Crossbones, Time of Death, Halt and Catch Fire, The Last Ship, Penny Dreadful, Nurse Jackie, Rectify, Years of Living Dangerously, Turn, Rosemary's Baby, Red Road and Chicagoland. With Ray Donovan out of the way, which of the above do y'all suggest I crack open?

btw, i recommend people who never watched Frankenhole give it a shot as the full series is apparently watchable online now:
http://video.adultswim.com/mary-shelleys-frankenhole/index.html

which of the above do y'all suggest I crack open?

Rectfy without a doubt

we're watching The Last Ship but it's gone from stupid fun to boring, so i dunno how highly i'd recommend it

Leftovers is worthwhile imo

I was genuinely lolling at that ep of The Last Ship where they take out the evil Taleban henchmen without breaking sweat, but it is the lowest type of military hardware worshipping dreck. Turn is a very decent series and Penny Dreadful blows hot and cold but is definitely worth sticking with for the decent episodes. Catch Fire is ridiculous and suffers from too many gratuitous scenes of characters blasting out music, but it is still fun. It took me a couple of ep's to recognise Lee Pace as the dude who was very good in spielberg's Lincoln movie.

You're the first person I've seen say anything complimentary about Turn. Then again I've barely seen anyone talking about it

I have heard good things about Turn

It probably suffered from starting while some of the big guns were still running and not really flying out of the traps in the first few episodes.

The worst thing about The Last Ship is that that fucking thing is irl equipped with almost every possible weapon like ie HELLO GUIDED MISSILE

The show should should be like
"The Russians say they want-"
***KABLAM!!!****
"Nevermind"

It's the end of the world & theyre acting like it's a carrier & oh well guess we should go to shore & shoot at things in person with our guns wtf

And the Captain is doing his worst community theater interpretation of Kurt Russell. There's a line where 'steely-eyed squinting' crosses over to 'chronic myopia'

He says "Put 'em in the drink" and big fucking cannon sends non-deadly arsenal that topples dingy with millimetre precision accuracy from miles away. I bet that happens all the time!

And blasting a choral reef with a torpedo is not cool!

fucking hell, red wine spelling.

first ep of last ship is so fucking stupid but pretty fun, jingoistic nonsense and all.
"badass sir..."
[me from my couch] "....BADASS!"
".... BADASS!"

the lowest type of military hardware worshipping dreck

I am deep into the second season of Hannibal; this show is fucking awesome.

Married and You're the Worst were surprisingly well-written first episodes. Was expecting less, both are pretty solid!

Satisfaction was kinda stupid but at least equal opportunity stupid? More of a guilty pleasure. Rush, even less so and probably not worth watching the second episode. Welcome to Sweden is garbage unfortunately.

The Knick
Drunk History
You're the Worst
Married
This Week Tonight
Hard Knocks
Rectify (on Season 1 still)
Masters of Sex (maddeningly inconsistent but still very very good when it's good, they overextended themselves with guests and subplots and have left all sort of shit dangling in the wind)
Adventure Time
Nathan for You (just now ended)

I also am watching The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Doctor Who, Simon and Garfunkel, Regular Show, Attack on Titan, The Quest (lol), Real Sports

STILL need to crack Leftovers, The Strain, Outlanders, The Last Ship, Intruders, Tyrant, Black Sails, Homeland, Halt and Catch Fire, Crossbones, lots more.
Tivo makes it easy to get a whole series queued up and then hard to get around to watching it

i saw the first ep of the strain and thought it was terrible, nigh unwatchable

I like 'married' & 'youre the worst' ok too, tho the latter feels oddly like a constant advertisement for whiskey and trendy eyeglasses

married is good -- not wall to wall laughs but usually a good moment or two each ep. I really like Nat faxon.

Meltdown is fun.

A friend of mine begged me to try out Nathan for You, i watched a couple of eps including Dumb Starbucks but I just found myself totally nonplussed by the whole thing. And he sounds like Tina from Bob's Burgers which was super distracting.

HA! Wow you're right about that.

Though I love Nathan For You myself

dramas get the short cuz most i don't watch in real time and those i do have been burning me

The Mindy Project
Kroll Show
Community
Drunk History
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Bachelor/Bachelorette/Bachelors In Paradise
Key & Peele
House Hunters
Unsung
True Detective

Watching You're The Worst and hopeful they'll get past every episode climaxing with them saying "what are we? what's happening here?" after a misunderstanding. New Girl and Justified are breaking my heart. Loving Scandal through season 2 and Parks & Rec from halfway through season 2 to wherever I am now (3-4ish).

actually replace true detective on my list with girls, the former really being a mini-series

the strain is fun-bad, and has one legitimate excellent performance courtesy of David Bradley IMO. but if the occasional idiotic plot gymnastics to set up absurd (if fun) horror/action sequences aren't tolerable, stay away. the dialogue is also crappy. THAT SAID, it has what Walking Dead lacks - self-awareness about its genre absurdity.

counting things that finished airing earlier in the year and only traditional "series":

The Americans
Hannibal
Game of Thrones
The Leftovers
Veep
Silicon Valley
You're The Worst
Mad Men
The Bridge
Orange is the New Black

I love The Strain. For practical/special effects alone it's GREAT! I really liked the books -- took me an episode or two to get past the cornyness of the show but I really like it.

Doctor Who
Orphan Black
Game of Thrones
Big Bang Theory
Community
Parks and Recreation
Modern Family
The Middle
American Dad
Brooklyn Nine-Nine

honorable mention to Attack on Titan, Black Lagoon, The Goldbergs, Bob's Burgers and Archer

I really need to catch up on Veep. Completely missed last season.

couldn't find room for The Knick in the top 10 but it's also very good if not yet great. for miniseries, Fargo, Sherlock and True Detective were all great in various ways, though Fargo definitely exceeds them all and it was awesome to see it win the miniseries Emmy.

I still find thread title astonishing... 10 out of, what, the 30 you watch?

So Fargo is in the same universe as the movie? Are we supposed to believe that something else interesting happens in a place like that? What are the chances.

i DO watch like thirty shows a week.

No, all the characters in the Fargo miniseries are different (though some are modeled on chars. in the film), plus it's about 20 years in the future. Trust me. It's great, and it manages to be its own thing while honoring the source material.

I should give those anime shows a chance, haven't seen a good series in a while

Hannibal
Orange is the New Black
Adventure Time
Space Dandy
Stephen Universe
WWE Raw
The Hotwives of Orlando
The Knick

Nhex, I think Attack on Titan is incredible. So much bleakness, so much awesomeness.

My Fiance was roommates with the creator of Steven Universe back in college.

djp, how does it compare to deadman wonderland? similarly disturbing?

It's a very different beast from Deadman Wonderland; the dread/despair is of a wholly different flavor and the scale is much, much different. It's also a good bit more straightforward that Deadman Wonderland. I wouldn't go to Attack on Titan if you're looking for surreal headfucks, but if you dig bleak extinction stories with a flickering ray of hope in them, it's a good one.

I watched the first two episodes of Attack on Titan. One of the coolest animated series I've seen. I need to get back on that.

DJP, that description is somehow exactly what I wanted to hear, I'll definitely give it a shot.

watch in original language + subtitles, or is the dub good?

The first five episodes are flat-out incredible IMO. It remains good after that but it's really a show that rewards blind sequential watching.

I am enjoying the dub on Adult Swim; I'm sure it also rules with subtitles.

oh cool, looks like adult swim is gonna start rerunning them from the beginning on the 31st?

Set those DVRs, folks. It's a great show.

my niece is super into Titan, am curious

This looks really good. And it's on Canadian Netflix, unlike absolutely all other TV shows and movies.

I've also really been enjoying Black Lagoon, which is kind of an criminal buddy show in the same general vein of (but inferior to) Cowboy Bebop (only set on Earth among competing criminal factions, so without a lot of the gonzo imagination), but they just did an intentionally unpleasant storyline revolving around the kidnap and abuse of a female high school student that was really, REALLY difficult to watch and almost impossible to recommend to anyone else.

Black Lagoon is the result of Japan watching Tarantino. Titan is super popular, the 1st volume of the manga has been in the weekly US top 10 for the last year.

A friend got me to watch You're The Worst on FX - it's kind of terrible, but fairly entertaining.

Attack on Titan is a great comic, the animation is pretty much a shot for shot recreation

this entire conversation is making me want to bump The Middle off of my list for Attack on Titan

I'll never understand what people see in The Middle.

It's an oddly likable show, not one I'll go out of my way to watch, but I'll catch reruns.

I didn't like Malcolm in the Middle either fwiw and that's what it reminds me of the most.

dan do you have/would you like cbrs of the first ten books of AoT?

I do not have and I would like that very much

just hit ya.

dude you rule

I hadn't seen The Middle in a long time (couple of seasons I guess) and then I caught a new episode back around Memorial Day while at my parents' house and I was scandalized by Brick having a deep teenager voice.

xp np; they're virtually identical to the cartoon though i like the comic art better

the middle is such a waste of everybody's time

so i watched the first 5 eps of titan last night and holy shit that show is b-a-n-a-n-a-s

If I were going with "best TV on TV in 2014", the stuff I'm rushing to watch as soon as it airs:
Eagleheart
Louie
Nathan For You
Drunk History
Eric Andre
The Knick
Silicon Valley
Broad City
Getting On
True Detective
Hannibal
Adventure Time
Game of Thrones
Veep
The Americans
Fargo
Last Week Tonight
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Watched the first episode of Black Sails last night and though the sexposition was moronic and the gratuitous violence was cribbed right from GoT and apparently 60% of pirates are underwear models, it still has some fun acting and a coherent plotline and some trust in the viewer to stay ahead of the script and it's not bad at all.

prob add Inside Amy Schumer to that "must watch" list

and maybe Hard Knocks, I'm such a sucker for NFL propaganda

The first seven eps of Attack on Titan have been excellent. The episodes rush by so fast. The titans are actually pretty disturbing. They're like giant vicious children, gleefully tearing people up like insects.

The subbed version I'm watching has some baffling translations. One exchange went something like:

"Hey, don't mess with my clothes. What did you rub on me?"
"...my trust in others."

lol that was how it was dubbed too - i didn't really understand that scene either

the whole story of how Eren and Mikasa met is just completely mental

I'm hoping for more exploration of the politics of the society within the walls. For the human government to forcibly eject a fifth of the population in order to avert mass starvation, under a pretext of resettlement, should at least have been a cause for intense debate and disagreement, and only Armin has said anything about it so far.

Going Deep w/ David Rees.

"mikasa es su casa"

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there's just too much new shit on just now but in terms of what i'm watching plus what just ended i would give a current list of

transparent (i mentioned this in the thread i started for it but wow is this ever fucking great. worth the amazon prime sub)
the knick (probably the best show currently airing on a television channel)
Last week tonight (this feels like what the daily show used to be)
z nation (more fun than it looks! gleefully unapologetically stupid!)
married (great acting, great writing, grown up problems, plus naked jenny slate, i hope to god it gets renewed)
drunk history (somehow the conceit never gets old)
you're the worst (good acting and generally good writing, i would like it to be just a tad less self aware)
the roosevelts (14 hours of american history! finally finished last night)

i could see these getting pretty good: blackish, blacklist, outlander, the affair, gracepoint, worricker, makers, survivor's remorse, the missing, rectify (i kinda need to really have a running go at this)

yeah, i'll try it because i am a fucking media hound: gotham, constantine, the flash (and i guess i'll try arrow again though it sucked and agents of SHIELD just cause you guys say it got better), mulaney, marry me, the mccarthy's, the chair, intruders, red band society, leftovers (the first episode was such a fucking bummer and the "something STRANGE is happening here" lindelof vibes were a massive turn off but the acting was good)

i am very much looking forward to the return of: black sails (january?), broad city (january), hannibal( "Fuller stated in June 2014 after winning the Saturn Award for Best Network Television Series that they were told by David Bowie's management to ask again for his availability for the third season "), getting on (november; super hyped about this returning), sunny (january) and the eighty other things i love up thread

i guess i'm gonna keep watching these but in my heart i am sorta over you: doctor who, key and peele, masters of sex, modern family, attack on titan

continuing old people broccoli: moyers, nature, antiques roadshow, american masters, POV, jeopardy, frontline

plus the twenty other complete series just sitting waiting to be watched... i mean, i still haven't tried penny dreadful f'r crissakes... or homeland! or boardwalk empire!

I hope Bowie will be playing Agent Phillip Jeffries, back on the job after his series of mysterious disappearances.

We're watching Doctor Who and Agents of SHIELD and Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories and that's about it at the moment. Fun but nothing spectacular. Most of my favorites in the moment these days are shows which are no longer airing (e.g. currently rewatching the early seasons of Roseanne for the eleventeenth time, which amazingly never get any less fresh or amazing on subsequent viewings).

hypocritical coming from me but forks u watch too much tv

Actually, I would like to recommend the new Tim & Eric show at least inasmuch as it's worth checking out if you're on the fence about Tim & Eric. It's basically a darkly humorous and surreal anthology series. Still super absurd but way toned down from their usual schtick.

mordy, i tivo so basically i watch at the end of the day. i do watch a fairly surprising amount of tv no doubt, but it doesn't much seem disproportionate given the amount of media of all types that i digest and i try to keep it to stuff that's, you know, GOOD
i don't have much patience for "guilty pleasures" or deeply flawed and somewhat rewarding geek fare or shows that I once liked a lot and am now into solely out of nostalgia.

i'll put the tim+eric show in the mix but i think i kinda burnt out after seeing them live many years ago and suddenly being struck with embarrassment that i enjoyed these same bits on the teevee. maybe they evolved somewhat? i like the things they do with camerawork/direction/surrealism and i find myself singing this in my head when i look through any menu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Re6pZri8Gw

Yeah, the new show is basically just a series of 12-minute surrealist short films. Pretty well-done and way different than their sketch stuff.

deeply flawed and somewhat rewarding geek fare

(seriously though man that's way too many shows)

Yeah man you should take up pottery or something

all the comic book shows fall under the "well, I'll try it!" variety and i think i'm returning to arrow mostly just to see how it intersects with the flash... both those characters are pretty meaningful to me; the old flash tv show was like, my favorite thing ever as a kid and i still have a solid 70-issue run of mike grell's take on the Green Arrow character on the shelf. but yeah, if i was a betting man I would be surprised if i stay past either of those beyond the first two episodes. SHIELD put me off after a three episode go but everybody on the thread says it improves. Gotham is getting some unanimous advanced geek animus. Constantine is a real wild card; they're clearly not going for the warren ellis/alan moore thing. I am skeptical. but i'll try!

Blacklist is really my girlfriends thing so i watch while i send emails or ipad. It's also why i know more about greys anatomy and parenthood than i really want to. but blacklist is okay if you're only giving it about 60% of your attention.

i am also down to try 'how to get away with murder', never saw scandal and would like to know what the story is with this lady

i have a great many interests!

i'm gonna try to catch all these comic book shows on-demand that you mentioned but damn there's just too many
did the same as you with Agents of SHIELD, but the Capt. America sequel kinda got me jazzed about trying it again

blacklist just looks so ridiculous. spader looks hilarious on all the billboards i see. fedora bro going the full hannibal.

you basically just explained the series there and spader is fucking good at that character

a quick term search on ILX suggests there's only three of us who had a go at The Roosevelts; that shit was excellent and everyone should try it. Teddy's a complete sociopath and a legit killer! Franklin had a coterie of women who supported his need to be loved! Eleanor was the moral compass for the nation! Loads of amazing stories. My main complaint was that, even at fourteen hours, it wasn't comprehensive enough. I think the Japanese internment camps got about a minute and a half of screen time. There was no mention of the teddy bear. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN

xp it is, you just wish it was like 60 minutes of Spader rather than 15 minutes of him and 45 minutes of a bunch of random cop/fbi/cia jobbers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSYJ4haG1MQ
for those too young to remember. elfman music still kinda awesome if samey as hell with everything else of that time period.

After reading the first two Edmund Morris Teddy Roosevelt biographies, I can't imagine packing his life on its own into a single miniseries. He's a pretty fascinating dude.

I'd honestly rate Agents of SHIELD about as highly as at least half of the Marvel U movies thus far. Some of the acting is a little more low-rent (which is probably to be expected) but I don't get people's beef otherwise.

in my defense, this is what i'm planning on watching; it's pretty unlikely i'll get to all this nonsense until mid-2015 if then

on last watch, SHIELD just didn't seem interested in complete stories or anything other than standalone wackadoodle "he's got flying powers!" origin stories
don't get me started on origin stories

SHIELD was ultimately pretty good about drawing elements from all/most of the first season episodes into a single cohesive narrative while still keeping almost every episode self-contained. Given all of the plates they had in the air and the beats they were trying to hit in a timely fashion, I think it was really a pretty impressive first season.

well see that kinda thinking makes me believe i might be open to it in season two

off topic but i wonder who the last us president to hands on, actively one-on-one kill a person was. it's hard to imagine a modern president straight up killing someone with a gun they fired and then bragging about it. because apparently teddy did!

yup, total psycho. he's this impossible person

a surprisingly funny show is the ifc garfunkel & oates thing. ff'd thru songs if needed, i do sometimes

"the chair" isnt great but im enjoying it, only somewhat in the reality-show cringe-watch style. the 2 "directors" they picked are def a good contrast

"the knick (probably the best show currently airing on a television channel)"

I am surprised this doesn't get more fanfare because it has been a brilliant first season so far, best thing on tv by miles right now. I would have cried if this didn't get renewed.

i sorta hate watch Garfunkel and Oates; i'd like it to be better but i'm a sucker for the fred savage touch

the knick is getting lotsa salon type praise but mainstream overlooks it... it's such an auteuristic piece it doesn't really surprise me.

Oh yeah I meant on here, it will probably have it's own thread by season 2.

See you on DVD next year, The Knick!

wow, do we not have a knick thread? I guess we're just talking on the soderbergh thread? Start one!

found myself surprised to really like Garfunkle and Oates too

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/29/outlander-wedding_n_5896284.html

Part of what made it work was that neither character -- and by extension, the audience -- had their reactions or vulnerabilities mocked or belittled. Why shouldn't Jamie be nervous? What groom doesn't wonder if his presents -- and his performance -- will be acceptable? Why wouldn't a man be turned on by a woman's willingness to teach him new things? Why shouldn't Claire want to look at him -- and why wouldn't Jamie appreciate being seen? Why wouldn't he appreciate her body right back? Why wouldn't the camera want to see all of that? Isn't it weirder for the camera not to look?

Every choice "Outlander" has made regarding its depiction of sex has made those moments sexier. I can't think of a reason that a large percentage of men wouldn't agree. In any event, Moore certainly isn't making the show just for straight ladies."Look, I read the book, I loved the book," he said in an interview with Buzzfeed. "When my wife and producing partner gave me the book, they weren't like, 'Oh, here’s a romance novel. See what you can do with it.' They said, 'Here’s a really good book.' I don't see any reason why men won't watch this show." It is an adventure tale, and that might be one reason for the people who don't watch it to dismiss it. More reasons some critics and viewers might shove it aside: It's on Starz; it's based on a book that women like; oh no, someone said the word "romance" (that last one may be the dopiest reason of all). People also used to dismiss the word "fantasy" in the fancier realms of cultural critique, but viewers and critics were able to see the serious intent of "Game of Thrones," which has, deservedly, been taken seriously as a work of art.

It may not have the HBO imprimatur, but what "Outlander" is doing, especially with regard to sexuality, also deserves to be taken seriously. The very first sex act in the pilot depicted a clothed woman receiving oral pleasure, and that felt very much like a statement of purpose. The wedding episode proved that "Outlander" has no intention of backing away from that subversive agenda. In "The Wedding," it reinforced the idea that desire is worth exploring, wherever it originates, and that the female gaze has something to offer all viewers who are willing to look.

Mulaney has okay acting, good casting, occasionally genuinely funny jokes (i laughed at the humidifier punchline) and i cannot imagine watching another episode for the life of me. laugh track/ "filmed before a live studio audience" HAHAHAHAHAH joke HAHAHHAHAHA joke HAHAHHAHAHAH setup setup joke HAHAHHAHAHAHA pacing is fucking horrible. i can't do a multiple camera sitcom setup at all any more.

dug martin short martin-shorting it up

lowest-rate new comedy premiere in a long time apparently

*rated

i enjoyed it but i fear it is doomed for the ax

So, we can start listing Twin Peaks itt right?

Currently on, roughly in order of interest: The Eric Andre Show, Adventure Time, Looking (this is pretty great!), Black Sails (still gotta watch the first ep but pretty jazzed about it), Justified (first two episodes of the new season are a definite improvement), Broad City, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Jeopardy, Antiques Roadshow, Nature, Mike Tyson Mysteries, Frontline, Moyers, Real Sports, 30 for 30, Regular Show

coming back within the next week or two and excited about it: The Americans, How to Get Away with Murder, Last Week Tonight

coming back in the next week and i guess i'm watching?: The Blacklist

on hiatus and eagerly awaiting eventual re-up: Transparent, The Knick, Married, Drunk History, You're the Worst, Homeland, The Affair, Hannibal, Getting On (super quick mini season was as good as anything on tv ever), Louie, Nathan for You, Silicon Valley, True Detective, Game of Thrones, Veep, Fargo, Hard Knocks, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Inside Amy Schumer, Orphan Black, The Returned, Review, Inside Comedy, Happy Valley, The Venture Brothers (good special!)

on hiatus and kinda sorta looking forward to eventual re-up: blackish, The Strain, Survivor's Remorse, Masters of Sex, Key and Peele, Simon and Garfunkel, Family Tree, Children's Hospital, Your Pretty Little Face Is Going to Hell, Almost Royal, Mad Men, Rick and Morty

it's early but I think I don't want to watch these anymore: Man Seeking Woman, Togetherness

am getting into the habit of watching the first ten minutes, turning it off and then wondering why i watched the first ten minutes: The Simpsons, Girls, Modern Family, Archer

checking in on to see if it gets better: The Nightly Show, Workaholics

Still to be watched: Agent Carter, SHIELD, Gotham, 12 Monkeys, Babylon, Backstrom, The Librarians, The Missing, Olive Kitteridge, Penny Dreadful, Outlander, Intruders, Rectify, Worricker, Crossbones, An Honorable Woman, The Fall

Tride and Denied: Halt and Catch Fire, Tyrant, Flash, Arrow, Over the Garden Wall (sorry Mordy), Gracepoint/Broadchurch, Constantine, Mulaney, Marry Me, The McCarthys, Red Band Society, The Leftovers, Doctor Who, Marco Polo, Orange is the New Black, House of Cards, Hemlock Grove, Ray Donovan, Bob's Burgers, The Daily Show, Sleepy Hollow, Maron, The Goldbergs, Brooklyn Nine Nine, Benched, Utopia, The Comeback, Turn

I guess I gotta buy this sooner or later: High Maintenance

on the to-tivo list: izombie, Wolf Hall, Last Man on Earth, Odyssey

oh and add tim and eric's bedtime stories to "kinda looking forward to re up"

Hey forks, just checkin', but did you know there was very recently a second super quick mini season of Getting On?

the one that was as good as anything on tv ever?

I don't have much to add to my usual list except that I agree that the final season of Justified is thankfully returning to form and that the final season of Parks and Rec is unfortunately not really doing a whole lot for me (it feels like they've finally relented and just turned it into a live-action Simpsons). Oh, and Enlightened (which is nowhere near being currently on) is fantastic.

newest archer was really good, forks. u should probably watch the entire ep.

also most recent parks + rec was a very sweet natured bottle ep

You mean the Leslie & Ron ep from last week (haven't watched last night's episodes yet)? Because, yeah, that was the first one that felt right and that I unequivocally liked this season.

yes that's the one i meant

my current list:
adventure time, steven universe, kroll show, it's always sunny, broad city, workaholics, parks + rec, bob's burgers, eric andre, comedy bang bang, newsreaders, archer, NXT, lucha underground, new girl, mindy project, brooklyn nine nine

super excited for new hannibals.

forks what is simon + garfunkel? i'm assuming u meant garfunkel + oats? but in case u didn't i would really like to watch a serial show about simon + garfunkel.

btw ur so wrong about over the garden wall, fyi.

OTGW's on my DVR, still gotta get to that

cartoon network: still the most consistent show provider of all

between cartoon network/adult swim + comedy central i probably don't really need any other channels

I've probably watched 50 episodes of Impractical Jokers in the last 3 months (and nothing else really, outside of Packer games)

lol i do watch occasional episodes of impractical jokers

the Bingo punishment literally made me fall off the couch

Marry Me
Gotham
Marvell: Agents of Shield
Mulaney
New Girl
The Flash
Parks and Rec
Jane the Virgin
Hart of Dixie
Bobs Burgers

so you're the Mulaney fan!

I only watch, like, five shows currently airing. The only new one (and one I'll happily talk up) is Agent Carter.

Stuff I'm kinda looking forward to watching (most of them probably five years or so from now, if I'm being realistic): Better Call Saul (obvs), Daredevil, 12 Monkeys, Last Man On Earth, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, iZombie, and, uhh...The Odd Couple? (which feels wrong but I like pretty much everyone in the cast so we'll see)

Agent Carter
Bob's Burgers
Archer
The Flash
Star Wars: Rebels
New Girl
Walking Dead
Marvel's Agents of SHIELD

. . . and that's about it. Just started watching season 1 of Orphan Black on Amazon streaming. Watched the 12 Monkeys pilot and first episode and was kinda meh.

Broad City
Bob's Burgers
NBA Gametime
Check Please Bay Area
Jeopardy

i'm into better call saul and netflix' marvel stuff... maybe the comedians? josh gad is okay.

How's Star Wars: Rebels going? Tempted as its part of the "New Canon" and it's co-produced by Greg Weisman of Gargoyles fame (well, it was).

Bob's Burgers is still strong, actually, yet strangely unheralded in general, maybe due to proximity to the McFarlane shows...

Rebels is pretty uneven so far - just not sure the characters they've got are the right ones to carry this section of the franchise forward. OTOH they've already gotten James Earl Jones, Frank Oz and Billy Dee Williams to reprise their roles. It's a good looking show, though, I'll give you that.

Now that I'm not ON IPHONE I can be a little more specific - it's not that I mind the characters much, it's just that 9 episodes in they aren't real well-defined except for the kid and the ex-Jedi, and that rather than showing us much of "the beginnings of the Rebellion," what little plot development there has been has been more about "will ex-Jedi be able to overcome his own doubt and successfully train the kid as a Jedi while keeping him from his own instincts for anger and revenge?" Which is not as interesting to me, which has been covered before in SW Episode III, and which has only played out in very low-stakes ways so far. Some of the action animation has been good, and the voice work is pretty good overall, but for the only SW property on the air right now it isn't doing much on the whole. Honestly, the best thing in the show is the relationship between the alien and the kid. They bring out the worst in each other in often funny ways. And I do like how much of the design work -- the planet Lothar, the alien, the droid -- is based directly on early McQuarrie stuff.

First ep of "Black Sails" delivered.

was def planning to 100% ignore this thing -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slap_(U.S._TV_series)

but i trust cholodenko as an exec producer & directing at least 1 epi so

shit i meant this for that rollling tv thread o well

Wow, backstrom. Couldnt get to the opening credits

detectorists, new girl, booze traveler, brooklyn 99, broad city, lucas bros moving co,
shit only 6

thread makes me wish i had time to actually watch TV shows :(

Lucas bros otm

seen the first two eps of The Slap - promising. a couple of interesting stylistic elements.

Justified
The Fall
House Hunters International
Review
Backyardigans
The Killer Speaks

Maddow, Matthews, Lawrence, Letterman, not-Ferguson (or the occasional Conan), News Hour, Charlie, Mindy, Seinfeld reruns, Shondaland

I have run out of patience with Togetherness; the kick the can episode with its ongoing "marriage is hard guys!" hobbyhorse, the will-they-or-won't-they temptress/szhlub sideshow and the cardboard cutout hipsters sorta proved to me that there's nothing for me.
Never liked The League, not a fan of baghead, just don't think i like the mumblecore aesthetic of the Duplass bros.

the last episode of Man Seeking Woman featured a japanese penis monster named tanaka. very much done with that now as well.

I got through the first episode of The Slap, that shit is lame.

High Maintenance was fucking brilliant and worth 8 bucks.

Better Call Saul is exciting. Jinx is very good! Workaholics is better this season! Archer and Girls are not.

My biggest surprise is how much I'm enjoying Looking. Good acting, good scripting, likeable characters.

oh and Fresh of the Boat is terrible. Sitcoms are the pits. I kinda gave up on blackish too.

i think archer is great this season - big bounce back from the last

The actually had to make a list/ chart keeping track of all the TV I want to watch/catch up/keep up with. I hit something like 27 different shows!

Catastrophe is really good. Watch that.

I am really into 12 Monkeys. Finding it kinda like a low-level Fringe & pretty engaging so far (Kurt Acevedo helps)

Better Call Saul has made the list. I resisted Breaking Bad forever, and still find it overrated albeit absorbing, but I'm already finding Odenkirk's characterization more interesting than Cranston's.

One day I may get past a half hour of Mad Men.

I have discovered that I am the only human who likes The Slap

Justified is killing it this season, though it's still only about 1/3 as good as The Americans.

the 6 shows i actually care about right now are
Rick & Morty
Eric Andre Show
Adventure Time
Tim & Eric Bedtime Stories
Bob's Burgers
Mr. Pickles

i watch reruns of SVU & South Park sorta frequently, which are both current shows.
and i used to watch Fargo & True Detective when they were newer within the past year.

i'm guessing the new Odd Couple will not use the Neal Hefti theme

they tried to redo the Hawaii 5-0 theme with some synth drums or whatever, then immediately went back to the original. surprised if they just don't use the original theme (or more likely, a 2-second hit of it)

Season 3 of Vikings is back tonight and has got good advance reviews so far. I am not ashamed to say I genuinely love this shit!

its sloppy fun. but not as much fun as spartacus.

I just got into Shark Tank, and now I wish there was way to watch old seasons; none of the streaming services I have offer them. Such an entertaining show, and it doesn't treat its audience like idiots.

great show

vikings yaaaay

I caught Empire for the first time this week and it is sudsy and OTT and pretty fun! I could see it growing on me; having Timbaland (and a posse of junior producers) do the music is a masterstroke. I also need to get more into Twelve Monkeys, SHIELD/Agent Carter and Gotham as all have rewarded initial or renewed interest.

Otherwise, currently airing at the moment:
The Americans
Broad City
Black Sails
Justified
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Looking
Last Week Tonight
Jinx
Better Call Saul
Adventure Time

and Jeopardy at #11. somehow I got hooked on Jeopardy again.

Wildly varying degrees of diminishing returns: Bob's Burgers, The Simpsons, Girls, blackish, Regular Show, Workaholics, Modern Family, Archer

Just finished, will be missed: How to Get Away with Murder, Eric Andre (still a real contender for best show on television imo)

A LOT of new stuff upcoming to start airing in the next two weeks: Dig, Secrets and Lies, American Crime, Last Man on Earth, Broadchurch, A&E's take on The Returned

blackish is up and down but overall i'm on board - the good stuff is very satisfying

Last Man on Earth rules

Top Ten of the Moment:
Daredevil s. 1 - Netflix
Adventure Time s. 6 - Cartoon Network
Justified s. 6 - FX
The Americans s. 3 - FX
Last Week Tonight s. 2 - HBO
Louie s. 5 - FX
Silicon Valley s. 2 - HBO
Game of Thrones s. 5 - HBO
Veep s. 4 - HBO
Jeopardy s. 31 - ABC

Other Stuff I'm Watching:
Mad Men s. 7B - AMC
Workaholics s. 5 - Comedy Central
The Comedians s.1 - FX
Cancer: Emperor of All Maladies s. 1 - PBS
The Simpsons s. 26 - Fox
Children’s Hospital s. 5 - Adult Swim
Weird Loners s. 1 - Fox

Currently Running / Saving on Tivo / Watching Intermittently:
Last Man on Earth s. 1 - Fox
Modern Family s. 6 - ABC
Wolf Hall s. 1 - PBS
Secrets and Lies s. 1 - ABC
American Crime s. 1 - ABC
The Messengers s. 1 - CW
Antiques Roadshow s. 19 - PBS
Nature s. 33 - PBS
Frontline s. 33 - PBS
Regular Show s. 6 - Cartoon Network
Real Sports s. 16 - HBO
30 for 30 2015 - ESPN
12 Monkeys s. 1 - SyFy
iZombie s. 1 - CW
Bloodline s. 1 - Netflix
American Odyssey s. 1 - NBC
The Messengers s. 1 - CW
Olympus s.1 - CW
Gotham s. 1 - Fox
Big Time in Hollywood, FL s. 1 - Adult Swim
Nurse Jackie s. 7 - Showtime

On Shortly:
Orphan Black s. 3 - BBC
Inside Amy Schumer s. 3 - Comedy Central

Upcoming Later This Year:
Transparent s. 2 - Amazon
The Knick s. 2 - Showtime
Married s. 2 - FX
Drunk History s. 3 - Comedy Central
You’re the Worst s. 2 - FXX
Homeland s. 5 - Showtime
The Affair s. 2 - Showtime
Hannibal s. 3 - NBC
Getting On s. 3 - HBO
Nathan for You s. 3 - Comedy Central
True Detective s. 2 - HBO
Fargo s. 2 - FX
Hard Knocks 2015 - HBO
The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail s.2 - Comedy Central
The Returned s. 2 - Sundance
Review s. 2 - Comedy Central
Inside Comedy s. 4 - Showtime
Happy Valley s. 2 - BBC
The Venture Brothers s. 6 - Adult Swim
The Strain s. 2 - FX
Survivors Remorse s. 2 - Starz
Masters of Sex s. 3 - Showtime
Key and Peele s. 5 - Comedy Central
Tim and Eric’s Bedtime Stories s. 2 - Adult Swim
Your Pretty Face is Going to hell s. 2 - Adult Swim
Almost Royal s. 2 - BBC
Rick and Morty s. 2 - Adult Swim

Eventually:
Wayward Pines s. 1 - Fox
The Whispers s. 1 - ABC

To catch up on:
Agent Carter s. 1 / s. 2 - ABC
Shield s.2 / s. 3 - ABC
The Librarians s. 1 / s. 2 - TNT
The Missing s. 1 - Starz
Penny Dreadful s. 1 / s. 2 - Showtime
Outlander s. 1 / s. 2 - Starz
Rectify s. 1 / s. 2 - Sundance
The Honorable Woman 2014 - BBC
The Fall s. 1 / s. 2 - BBC or Netflix
The Book of Negroes s. 1 - BET

Thus far this year:

Very Special / Important / Wow
High Maintenance s.2 - Vimeo
Getting On s. 2 - HBO
The Eric Andre Show s. 3 - Adult Swim

Great Time
Broad City s. 2 - Comedy Central
Looking s. 2 - Showtime
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia s. 10 - FXX
Black Sails s. 2 - Starz
Better Call Saul s. 1 - AMC

Nice
How To Get Away with Murder s. 1 - ABC

Okay
Blacklist s. 2 - NBC
blackish s. 1 - ABC
Mike Tyson Mysteries s. 1 - Adult Swim
Archer s. 6 - FX

Oh dear
Man Seeking Woman s. 1 - FX
Togetherness s. 1 - HBO
The Nightly Show s. 1 - Comedy Central
Girls s. 4 - HBO

i have a problem.

i thought i watched a lot of tv shows

tbf, i'll likely only ultimately finish a third of that (i'm still on ep 3 of s1 of rectify for instance) but i like to at least try everything to get a sense of whether or not it blows me away or is instantly lousy.
on the other hand, i'm probably watching 25 series at any given time.
what can i say, i'm a tivo power user.

the idea of having a ten favourite shows of the moment is kind of baffling to me qua time investment

how is nurse jackie on seven seasons??

last season this year.
edie falco has been a lead character on a television series for fifteen years solid; she took a year off between sopranos/nurse jackie

forks i hate you because you make read these lists and i goddamn read them

I gave up on Mike Tyson after a few episodes. Feel like it should be up my alley but eh.
Last Man on Earth is pretty great. Super cringe-y, and he gets worse every episode!
Surprised Steven U's not on your list at all, /adult sadface
I gotta get to Daredevil ASAP. The entire season of Better Call Saul is also waiting for me, this summer maybe...
Is Weird Loners worth it? I was put it on the Happy Endings Diaspora Watch (along with that other terrible looking show where what's-her-face plays a lesbian)

i only watch cbs old people shows now

and law & order reruns stolen from the internet, when available

Mike Tyson is almost totally redeemed by getting to hear norm macdonald's voice. it's kinda proof that i'll watch anything with him in it. otherwise, it's not worthwhile in any way.
last man on earth is killing me with sitcom tropes... crazy harridan wife! knockout blonde! guileless fat sweetheart! i'm sorta watching it and i like all the actors and the concept is interesting but the execution is terrible imo.
I tried steven universe but, like foster's home and bee & puppycat and over the garden wall it's just too goddamn twee for me. i don't know what made adventure time click from garbage to genius, maybe someday it'll happen there.
Daredevil is in the early stages but it's pleasing. Better Call Saul is a home run.
Weird Loners had a solid pilot and not too many immediate sitcom tropes but i'm sure they'll soon show up to cliche it to death. I'll give it a shot till then.
one thing i'm trying not to do is keep a list of shows i've tried and don't like. it's too depressing.
i never got into police procedurals. It's why i was late to true detective and hannibal. by and large, the best of any genre is worth watching.

it's really shitty that last man on earth immediately devolved into "our hero will spend this half hour treating women like absolute garbage while trying to fuck them" and also nothing else happens on the show other than this.

mike tyson mysteries sounds like it has to be the nadir of the adult swim aesthetic

nurse jackie, jeez, the first season was so good and apparently they decided to mainly tread water a bunch? that's sad

We've mostly just been watching and enjoying superhero fluff lately (Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, Arrow, The Flash). Daredevil is next in the queue once we're caught up on the latter two.

Justified has been better this year if still a bit aimless. Still a few episodes behind. Parks and Recreation was uneven but it ended on a sweet note.

Looking forward to the return of Louie. Cool with (if not exactly excited about) the return of Orphan Black.

For me, Better Call Saul could've coasted on goodwill if it was only decent, so I was psyched beyond belief that it was pretty much excellent.

Eric Andre Show and Nathan For You and Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories are top shelf id food.

i kinda agree with u clay on Last Man. It had real potential but fell off more or less within the first episode.
i am okay being shamed for watching Mike Tyson Mysteries but tbrr it's hardly any more offensive or dumb than archer
i have honestly never seen more than two episodes of nurse jackie! but i kinda wanna see if they got anything worth looking at in the swan song as i love edie falco.
Daredevil has thus far (again just two eps) been notably less fluffy than the CW/ABC superhero roster... like notably so.
I'm of the opinion that Eric Andre is making art; dumb art yes, but art. at apex, it justifies the adult swim aesthetic.

yeah with last man it's like "hm cool a post-apocalyptic comedy about a guy alone in the world, what form could this possible take?" and i was excited about that. and then by episode two it's a show about a manchild being forgiven by the women in his life for being a disrespectful dirtbag. like it's so incredibly bad on this front i want to think there's some satire in there but i'm not finding it.

Still haven't watched any Last Man On Earth but everything I've read made it seem like it was Forte in completely unsympathetic protagonist mode a la MacGruber. Is that not the case?

And yes, Eric Andre is next level. To the extent that I'm occasionally a little concerned about him. He puts all of himself into that thing.

yeah, the basis of the show is definitely cringing/laughing at how terrible and stupid he is, followed by a very brief moment of sympathy. i love it!

i just realized that description could be applied to any number of awful sitcoms with "rude" protagonists like Two and a Half Men or some such, but Forte is really excellent

Saw the first episode of Orphan Black a couple of nights ago. It's a great premise and definitely something I could get into.

1-9 empire
10 louie

Last Man On Earth works well for me as a horror show.

i gave empire a real chance and couldn't get past three episodes. When it works well it reminds me of Douglas Sirk but mostly i just get embarrassed watching it.

i get no sympathy for last man on earth except for the actors who generally deserve better than non-stop poop jokes / "men are dogs, m i rit" / check out this crazy bitch / january jones va va voom huh guys / fatuous four minute bits of will forte doing rubberfaced takes in service of no real punchline

i really don't get those vibes from the show! yeah, louise belcher comes off as crazy, but she and all the other cast members come off as largely reasonable, likeable people - forte is the only one who is an ass. it's not like "men are dogs", it's just forte

BUT HE IS THE LAST MAN ON EARTH

well, not really!
also he has clearly gone way more insane than everybody else

i dunno man

I mean Will Forte is pretty clearly insane...but I think him and Kristen Schaal make a pretty good apocalyptic couple or something.

i couldnt hang with last man on earth

forks i think u are addicted to lists more than tv watching lol

daredevil is great

ooh and i have a recommendation for detective show fans: bosch on Amazon Prime is formulaic but classy & nicely paced & has lots of LA-location stuff...and MARLO FROM THE WIRE <3

i like lists and tv, yes.
basically this was the year i made use of the notebook function on my mac and finally got around to journaling my media habits
i prob need to add bosch to the pile
gonna watch a pair of daredevils now

i've always liked titus welliver, dude seems like he has some secrets

obv its all in service of foiling forte but i really dig how genuinely nice & keep it posi todd is on 'last man on earth'

LMOE was one of the best pilots i've seen on network tv in a minute

...then it crashed and burned harder than pretty much anything ever

i'm reading a bosch book right now and now all i can see is the LOST dude.

Everyones otm on LMOE it had a promising start and kind of turned to crap

the americans has to be tops but we're in a pretty good season for TV rn, so after that in no particular order:

mad men
thrones
silicon valley
american crime (is anyone else watching this? I think it's fantastic. bit on the nose but the points it's making are smart enough that I don't mind. utterly brutal though & so rough a watch that i can't quite believe it's on prime time network TV)
louie
veep
banshee (finished its 3rd season a little while ago, utterly batshit, I must again ask plz is anyone watching)

i have been taping american crime and you are honestly the first person i've heard mention it AT ALL so i'll take that as a sign i should give it a shot
banshee always struck me as not my cup of tea. tell me more.

i am curious abt american crime

some thoughts
http://observer.com/2015/04/the-four-worst-types-of-tv-critics/

I have just gone 3 episodes into the original BBC House Of Cards series and have also been re-watching Wolf Hall. I am enjoying Wolf Hall a lot more on the 2nd viewing, it is that good it deserves a 2nd viewing.

Vikings is killing it right now and as ridiculous as it is I love how they have attempted a Norman origin story into this series, it is a load of bollocks but it is fun as hell.

I couldn't get into American Crime, it is quite frustrating in that it is admirable and depicting interesting stuff, but ultimately the end product is mediocre melodrama.

Really looking forward to the next The Americans ep'- Paige's Russian odyssey, that is going to be so good.

man you guys are hard on LMOE! although I agree it's gotten less entertaining the more it's turned into focusing on standard sitcom-relationship plots. I was kinda hoping that if they were gonna go with constantly introducing other survivors that they would go really nuts with it - wacky cults, former friends/acquaintances/nemeses popping up, survivalists, etc. but that obviously isn't happening.

also I was *really* disappointed when the second guy turned out to be the fat dude and not Danny McBride