I started watching Schitt's Creek from Season 1 during the first UK lockdown. I'd been told that it gradually improves, and this is what kept me going through Seasons 1 & 2, where I might otherwise have bailed. I thought S1 and S2 were OK, but a long way from the masterpiece that I'd been promised it would become.
For me, things started turning around midway through S3, roughly at the point that David got work at the Blouse Barn. It was around then that I introduced the show to Kevin. As soon I started watching it together with him, it became markedly more entertaining. Funny, that.
S4 was fun, S5 was even better, and by the end of S5 I basically found the whole thing endlessly hilarious. Particularly the way Moira says "baby". Well, particularly the way she says anything, really.
I'm now two episodes into S6, and loving it more than ever before.
The whole premise of the show is very relatable in certain aspects (we used to be rich, we moved to a small town, we gradually integrated), which doubtless helps.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 15 February 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
Philip Pullman’s 1990’s young adult fantasy novel trilogy His Dark Materials appears to have struck HBO execs as ripe for harvest as a potential Potter-esque gold mine. Now in the second of its third seasons, it appears to have shown up a bit late to the cultural zeitgeist.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/NajZpvF.jpegRUNNER UP: His Dark Materials (HBO) - 4 votes, 14 points
TrailerPreview ClipWebsitehttps://thatshelf.com/his-dark-materials-season-2-review/https://filmschoolrejects.com/his-dark-materials-season-2/
I dunno, I feel many real life relationships are more complicated, messy, absurd, funny and interesting than the one portrayed in the story, which I largely found boring and one note. Though I did watch it all.
― chap, 15. februar 2021 18:39
That's fine, but regardless of how you rate the show, I think most would agree it stands out a bit among the big streaming hypes - it's a simpler premise, a simpler story. And I think that appealed to a lot of people.
― abcfsk, Monday, 15 February 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
Michelle McNamara’s well-publicized research for her nonfiction true-crime book I’ll Be Gone in the Dark drew a great deal of attention to the Original Night Stalker (aka the Golden State Killer) cold case and may have contributed to having the investigation reopened. McNamara died before she could finish the book but her husband, the comedian Patton Oswalt, worked with a pair of writers to bring it to completion. Since McNamara’s death, a former cop was identified and arrested as the Golden State Killer and I'll Be Gone was developed into an HBO miniseries.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:57 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/bgWPnuO.jpegRUNNER UP: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (HBO) - 4 votes, 14 points
TrailerPatton on ColbertWebsitehttps://www.npr.org/2020/08/03/897686876/i-ll-be-gone-in-the-dark-sheds-light-on-both-justice-and-its-pursuershttps://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/patton-oswalt-ill-be-gone-in-the-dark/
Good series; surprised it wasn't more popular, since (I think?) some other true crime made the countdown.
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link
I like that take abcsfk
― scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
I’m deeply tempted to write up a 1000-word explainer on the rules and ethos of Only Connect and just why watching at least two episodes of this show has become a nightly ritual for me over the past month. I would include at least a full paragraph of praise for the dryly erudite and warmly generous wit of Victoria Coren Mitchell, who keeps the whole enterprise moving, and a separate chapter of frustration for the painfully British and completely unguessable soccer / snooker / cricket / darts / local street names questions. Maybe later. For the moment, I’ll just say that an ilxor promised me that if I kept watching Only Connect, I would eventually start getting better at it. I couldn’t believe that could be true but, surprise, it is!
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:12 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/4MdzmsC.jpegRUNNER UP: Only Connect (BBC2) - 4 votes, 14 points
Season 16, Episode 1Bootleg YouTube Channel with whole viewable seasonsWebsitehttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2016/jan/19/only-connect-the-uneasy-appeal-of-britains-hardest-quiz-show
I've watched every episode of Only Connect that there has ever been, and that's the way it's going to stay.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 15 February 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
thus far my all time favorite question was the round 2 q where the clues were the answers to the first three questions in round one and they had to figure that out, then remember what the fourth answer was. fuckin' brilliant.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
Genius show
― scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
Surely when historians look back on this year, it will be remembered as the one in which Rick and Morty fever hit the dubious peak of "Rick and Morty but it's Star Trek."
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1ELLt1v.jpegRUNNER UP: Star Trek: Lower Decks (CBS All Access) - 4 votes, 14 points
TrailerSample ClipWebsitehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/arts/television/star-trek-lower-decks-review.htmlhttps://www.tor.com/2020/10/13/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-star-trek-lower-decks-first-season-overview/https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2548496/rick-and-morty-writer-explains-how-star-trek-lower-decks-is-different-from-his-adult-swim-show
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
I love Only Connect, but I get very tired of Victoria Coren's "I'm basically an alky" shtick, and in our house we have started shouting "NO!" and switching away as soon as she mentions Mr Waley-Cohen or Michael Portillo. I also hate the singing. Because we could be having more missing vowels, people!
― trishyb, Monday, 15 February 2021 18:30 (three years ago) link
Okay, we’ll finish up with our top ten tomorrow! Guesses on the lineup and order?
#11 - Schitt’s Creek (Netflix) - 100 points, 12 votes, 6 top 5 votes#12 - Small Axe (Amazon, BBC) - 92 points, 11 votes, 3 #1 votes, 4 top 5 votes#13 - Bojack Horseman (Netflix) - 83 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 votes, 4 top 5 votes#14 - All Gas No Brakes (YouTube) - 76 points, 8 votes, 5 top 5 votes#15 - Normal People (Hulu) - 75 points, 8 votes, 6 top 5 votes#16 - The Dress Up Gang (TBS) - 71 points, 8 votes, 1 #1 vote, 4 top 5 votes#17 - Lovecraft Country (HBO) - 67 points, 11 votes, 2 #1 votes, 2 top 5 votes#18 - Mrs. America (Hulu) - 66 points, 9 votes, 3 top 5 votes#19 - Big Mouth (Netflix) - 64 points, 7 votes, 1 #1 vote, 4 top 5 votes#20 - Action Button (YouTube) - 61 points, 6 votes, 3 #1 votes, 3 top 5 votes#21 - The Expanse (Amazon) - 60 points, 5 votes, 4 top 5 votes#22 - PEN15 (Hulu) - 59 points, 8 votes, 3 top 5 votes#23 - Devs (Hulu) - 56 points, 9 votes, 2 top 5 votes#24 - The Crown (Netflix) - 54 points, 8 votes, 2 top 5 votes#25 - Dead to Me (Netflix) - 53 points, 6 votes, 3 top 5 votes#26 - Jeopardy (Syndication) - 51 points, 8 votes, 2 top 5 votes#27 - The Great British Bake Off / The Great British Baking Show (Netflix, Channel 4) - 47 points, 9 votes, 1 top 5 vote#28 - Brockmire (IFC) - 47 points, 6 votes, 2 top 5 votes#29 - Search Party (HBO) - 43 points, 6 votes, 2 top 5 votes#30 (Tie) - Dark (Netflix) - 41 points, 7 votes, 1 top 5 vote#30 (Tie) - Killing Eve (BBC America / BBC) - 41 points, 7 votes, 1 top 5 vote#32 - Work in Progress (Showtime) - 41 points, 5 votes, 1 #1 vote, 2 top 5 votes#33 - The Great (Hulu) - 38 points, 5 votes, 2 top 5 votes#34 - Giri/Haji (BBC, Netflix) - 37 points, 7 votes, 1 top 5 vote#35 - I Am Not Okay with This (Netflix) - 37 points, 6 votes, 2 top 5 votes#36 - Insecure (HBO) - 36 points, 5 votes, 2 top 5 votes#37 - Worzel Gummidge (BBC) - 35 points, 4 votes, 2 top 5 votes#38 (Tie) - The History of the Seattle Mariners (YouTube) - 33 points, 4 votes, 2 top 5 votes#38 (Tie) - The Kingdom (Netflix) - 33 points, 4 votes, 2 top 5 votes#38 (Tie) - The New Pope (HBO) - 33 points, 4 votes, 2 top 5 votes#41 - Quiz (ITV, AMC) - 32 points, 5 votes, 1 top 5 vote#42 - Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (BBC) - 30 points, 3 votes, 2 top 5 vote#43 - Rick and Morty (Adult Swim) - 29 points, 8 votes#44 - Last Week Tonight (HBO) - 29 points, 6 votes#45 (Tie) - Aggretsuko (Netflix) - 28 points, 4 votes, 2 top 5 votes#45 (Tie) - Unorthodox (Netflix) - 28 points, 4 votes, 2 top 5 votes#47 - High Maintenance (HBO) - 28 points, 4 votes, 1 top 5 vote#48 - RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1) - 27 points, 5 votes, 1 top 5 vote#49 - Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ House of Fun (Netflix) - 26 points, 5 votes#50 - Never Have I Ever (Netflix) - 26 points, 4 votes, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 vote#51 - Tiger King (Netflix) - 25 points, 6 votes#52 (Tie) - Fargo (FX) - 25 points, 4 votes, 1 top 5 vot#52 (Tie) - Ghosts (BBC1, HBO) - 25 points, 4 votes, 1 top 5 vote#54 - Strictly Come Dancing (BBC) - 25 points, 3 votes, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 vote#55 (Tie) - Beef House (Adult Swim) - 23 points, 4 votes, 1 top 5 vote#55 (Tie) - Desus and Mero (Showtime) - 23 points, 4 votes, 1 top 5 vote#57 - A House Through Time (BBC2) - 23 points, 3 votes, 2 top 5 votes#58 - The Repair Shop (BBC, Netflix) - 20 points, 2 votes, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 vote#59 - GeoWizard Missions (YouTube) - 20 points, 2 votes, 2 top 5 votes#60 (Tie) - Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (Netflix) - 20 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#60 (Tie) - Murder on Middle Beach (HBO) - 20 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#62 (Tie) - High Fidelity (Hulu) - 19 points, 4 votes, 1 top 5 vote#62 (Tie) - Ozark (Netflix) - 19 points, 4 votes, 1 top 5 vote#64 - Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet (Apple +) - 18 points, 5 votes#65 (Tie) - AEW Dynamite (TBS) - 18 points, 3 votes, 1 top 5 vote#65 (Tie) - The Plot Against America (HBO) - 18 points, 3 votes#67 - The Good Lord Bird (HBO) - 18 points, 2 votes, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 vote#68 - Star Trek: Picard (CBS All Access) - 18 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#69 - Dave (FX) - 16 points, 3 votes, 1 top 5 vote#70 - 20020 (SB Nation) - 16 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#71 - Bob’s Burgers (FX) - 15 points, 3 votes#72 (Tie) - Oxventure Dungeons and Dragons! (YouTube) - 15 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#72 (Tie) - Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult (Starz) - 15 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#72 (Tie) - Taskmaster (Channel 4) - 15 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#72 (Tie) - Teenage Bounty Hunters (Netflix) - 15 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#72 (Tie) - Videogame Dunkey (YouTube) - 15 points, 2 votes, 1 top 5 vote#77 (Tie) - Bluey (Disney +) - 15 points, 1 vote, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 vote#77 (Tie) - Followers (Netflix) - 15 points, 1 vote, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 vote#77 (Tie) - She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Netflix) - 15 points, 1 vote, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 vote#77 (Tie) - The Umbrella Academy (Netflix) - 15 points, 1 vote, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 vote#77 (Tie) - We Are Who We Are (HBO) - 15 points, 1 vote, 1 #1 vote, 1 top 5 voteRUNNER UP (Tie): Corporate (Comedy Central) - 4 votes, 14 pointsRUNNER UP (Tie): The Eric Andre Show (Adult Swim) - 4 votes, 14 pointsRUNNER UP (Tie): His Dark Materials (HBO) - 4 votes, 14 pointsRUNNER UP (Tie): I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (HBO) - 4 votes, 14 pointsRUNNER UP (Tie): Only Connect (BBC2) - 4 votes, 14 pointsRUNNER UP (Tie): Star Trek: Lower Decks (CBS All Access) - 4 votes, 14 points
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:30 (three years ago) link
I May Destroy You will obv get #1 but I am praying to all gods that How To with John Wilson will at least outrank Ted Lasso, which I've noted before that I absolutely hated - the nadir of these "hold hands and hug each other and everything will be better" nicecore shows, felt like I got a lobotomy after watching it
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
I've only watched How To in the last couple of weeks and so didn't vote for it but would have been very high on my ballot if I'd seen it earlier
― groovypanda, Monday, 15 February 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
"Rick and Morty but it's Star Trek, no not that one, you're thinking of the Orville, those were actual actors"
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 15 February 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
My prediction for top 10:
Sex Education (Netflix)Better Call Saul (AMC)Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)How To with John Wilson (HBO)Perry Mason (HBO)Ted Lasso (Apple +)Mandalorian (Disney +)What We Do in Shadows (FX)The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)I May Destroy You (HBO)
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 15 February 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
Very into the idea of a well liked quiz show I haven’t heard about being available on youtube. I’ll check that out now
― abcfsk, Monday, 15 February 2021 18:56 (three years ago) link
Be warned it has a learning curve of about oh two seasons
― scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
I watched a couple of episodes of Corporate on an airplane, and I enjoyed it, thought the jokes were funny, but in the end wasn't moved to watch any more of it -- too one-note. Bizarrely I found myself comparing it negatively to Workaholics, which -- I thought I just said I objected to one-note shows? -- but Workaholics has a basic warmth that's lacking in Corporate.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
only connect justifies the licence fee alone, and the cringey singing is a highlight.
― danzig, Monday, 15 February 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link
Speaking of sitcoms with basic warmth -- with Schitt's Creek I had the very classic progression of starting to watch it in 2016 when it was kind of only modestly known and being like "there's an incredibly winning sitcom with Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara nobody's ever heard of" and then finally people DID hear of it and I instantly became one of those "come on, it's not THAT good" people, but I watched it through to the end, I cared about everyone, I accepted its basic warmth and corniness -- a total success, but I doubt I'll ever watch an episode of it again.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:19 (three years ago) link
Corporate peaked with the "male makeup" episode, one inspired joke after another and a perfect ending
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
I know that one cant judge schitts creek on either the name nor the first episode nor the first season but listen they called it that and you can hardly skip episode one nor season one so ill live without it
― scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
It took me four and a half seasons before clicking that Schitt's Creek's Johnny and Moira had been in Best In Show and A Mighty Wind. Duh.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 15 February 2021 19:39 (three years ago) link
if i ever try schitt's creek again, i'm jumping straight to the third season
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:42 (three years ago) link
I love Only Connect and also it's kind of my main skill, unless it involves knowing cricketers or flags
― kinder, Monday, 15 February 2021 19:42 (three years ago) link
xpost YOU WILL CRY. How many other sitcoms can make that boast (aside from those that are cryingly bad)
― The Mandolinrainian (Old Lunch), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:43 (three years ago) link
Meh i get my crying sorted with youtubes of ppl buying their dads their old cars back or watching spurs thks
― scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
All in the Family made me cry a few times
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
Presumably, Only Connect is the only show on this list to have featured two ILXers...
― mike t-diva, Monday, 15 February 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
Uh, awkward, but im eugene levy
― scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:53 (three years ago) link
Jeopardy!
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
Strictly Come Dancing made me cry this year. It might even have been the final? But it was a night when lockdown was at its darkest and deepest. The UK government had a press conference earlier in the evening with some terrible and depressing news on it, probably about people not being able to see each other over Christmas at all, and then the dancers had to come on and pretend everything was glamorous and showbizzy, even though there was no live audience and none of the couples were allowed to interact with each other. It was all so weird, and bless them, they were all trying so hard.
― trishyb, Monday, 15 February 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
Someone from work won an episode of Only Connect (with his team)
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 15 February 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
I cannot remember the last time I cried from watching something on tv
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 15 February 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
All in the Family had some very emotional episodes.
― clemenza, Monday, 15 February 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
I cry at everything on television. Every week when Keith starts crying on the Pottery Throwdown, I fill up as well.
― trishyb, Monday, 15 February 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
lol, pottery throwdown has become the most emotional show on tv right now for sure. they're so close!
i cried at the end of I May Destroy You.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
just dialed up a few episodes including the "Edith and the Rapist" one and here come the waterworksJean Stapleton gets me everytime.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
a tender moment
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
and you can hardly skip episode one nor season one
counterpoint: you totally can
Jeopardy has featured three ilx0rs
cried through 30% of the running time of It's A Sin the other week
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 15 February 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
I didn't think The Boys would be top ten, but I'd also be surprised for it to totally miss the 77 given there was some enthusiasm for it. Was the latest season of Curb good? I didn't even bother
― Vinnie, Monday, 15 February 2021 23:43 (three years ago) link
Curb was good not great, final episode went out a week or two before pandemic lockdown w/ Larry opening a restaurant with hand sanitiser dispensers on every table
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 15 February 2021 23:50 (three years ago) link
didn't realize people loved perry mason like that
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Monday, 15 February 2021 23:51 (three years ago) link
put a skinny kinkster into a good suit and youre not losing votes
― scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2021 23:53 (three years ago) link