Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

I am pretty certain Dirk Gently is getting cancelled after this one season but so far it's been everything I wanted that Amazon Tick pilot to be wrapped in the convoluted narrative framework I was hoping for from a Dirk Gently story. It seems to be utterly baffling to people reviewing it and complete and total catnip to me; it's the only show I'm actively watching at the moment.

^ The Holistic Assassin is so wicked!

i said to mr veg "i have no idea what is happening but i like it"

Anyone know why so many characters in so many shows have bog standard stock ringtones on their mobiles instead of personalised ones (Marimba, I'm looking at you)?

Is it a licensing thing? Or is it just an easily recognisable audio cue for audiences?

Watching the Swedish version of The Bridge and liking it a lot more than the US remake.

I think Fleabag is probably my favourite show this year; enjoyed many series, but this one takes the cake.

I liked Fleabag a lot - is Phoebe Waller-Bridge's other series (Crashing) good?

xxxp - in the US, the only people I know with personalized ringtones now are my parents' age

Haven't seen it yet Milo, but meaning to check it out. Search Party premiered, it seems burning millenials and their ineffectuality and hollowness has become ample fodder for writers. Rightfully so (I'm one btw).

1) antiques roadshow

Search Party is available On Demand if you have cable.

I got a bit too heavy into Gardener's World this year, just the sight of Monty Don and his big dog took my depression down a few notches, and now I'm wondering how to cope without them.

Looking forward to The Affair, which is obviously quite a bad show in some ways, but never fails to entertain.

Enjoyed the first episode of Insecure but didn't feel the need to keep watching - someone tell me I'm missing out. Issa Rae is incredible but the best friend's kinda dull - she seems like a great writer about herself but maybe not other people?

popping in to say i loved Catastrophe

Hey Milo - "Crashing" is great so far, far more light-hearted than "Fleabag" and more in the mold of classic british buddy comedies (like "Peep Show").

Lethal Weapon is still awesome fyi

Lethal Weapon is still awesome fyi

sorrry lol

Season 1 of The Missing is p incredible was that discussed anywhere? What do ppl think of the ending ??

i have just started watching & i really like it!

apparently s2 is a whole new & totally different situation, kind of a cool idea for the series

oh idk if it's being talked about on ILM but Soundbreaking on PBS is p cool

xps Yeah, I'm surprised how much I'm still enjoying Lethal Weapon

i don't remember the thread we discussed The Missing on but yes it was very good

I started Crashing, too, definitely more traditional than Fleabag or Catastrophe (the only British shows I've seen in a bit) but pretty good.

Watched the first couple episodes of Divorce. SJP is doing kind of a nothing straight-woman performance, but the character-actor-support-stuff is good.

It's weird seeing a Sharon Horgan show in a upper-crust NY milieu though - it's like watching a show that's been Google translated.

next ep of divorce is written by hayes davenport, i am puuuuumped. i'm a couple eps behind so i haven't even watched the tom scharpling written ep yet!

I really liked S1 of The Missing, ending included. I'm watching S2 and it's gripping but perhaps more formulaic crimey drama with too many timelines to keep track of.

Crashing was ok, not as good as Fleabag.

Crashing was very BBC 3

WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG TO WATCH ATLANTA??

^this

Just finished Season 1 of the Swedish version of The Bridge. Really good.

Watched the Season 3 premiere of The Affair and am on board for that one as well. It's kind of amazing what a piece of shit the male lead is, and yet his two oldest children are so much worse.

ATLANTA PREMIERED LIKE TWO MONTHS AGO!!

lol but tv journalism has been talking about our post-Atlanta world

just binged all of Search Party... pretty damn good!

Also knocked out four episodes of WestWorld. Also a good time.

i wasn't interested in search party until i saw michael showalter wrote it.

the payoff is earned but i wish i knew for sure it had been renewed? They leave the door open and the story more or less unfinished.... depending on how you'd like to define it.

I'm fairly certain it'll be renewed, assuming TBS is interested in building up their nascent comedy brand (or "comedy" in the case of SP)

I violently disliked Search Party and regretted wasting my time on it - I watched the first four, fast-forwarded through the rest. Just felt shouty and unpleasant and overpleased with itself for bending the rules in a pretty predictable way. And no one talked like a human. What did you like about it?

I liked it as a statement on the desperate need for deeper meaning as you move out of your twenties and into your thirties; I liked that all the people were desperate and needy and horrible but not in any sort of a way that felt too false; I liked the acting in general and for the boyfriend in particular; I liked that it took chances (and sometimes failed) and tried out some new ideas

i did NOT like the soundtrack.

Lol, I mostly agree with you there, but I still hated it. Agree the boyfriend actor was really good.

I was really happy they pivoted away from making the boyfriend as awful as he was in the pilot.

Yeah. I found the two blonde friends unwatchable though. In general the whole thing felt a bit idiot plotty, with meanness substituting for idiocy.

i guess it never felt mean to me? and the climax felt very much earned: the terrible search for meaning proving utterly false, but now the journey has created a whole series of life-changing situations. it owes a lot to "how to get away with murder" imo except without serious exploration of race or gender

guys..... honestly watching a show like Atlanta has been a kind of "raise your standards" moment for me. i think it may have just kneecapped Westworld, for instance.

Fleabag's writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge was featured in an interview in the Guardian Weekend Magazine yesterday
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/26/phoebe-waller-bridge-kate-tempest-conversation-fleabag

I didn't enjoy the Atlanta pilot, does it improve/change?

i think it gets better but i also loved the pilot a lot.

PBS chat show ep of Atlanta is all time

the latest rectify was best tv ep of the year