Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

i never read the novel so maybe that helps idk

Read it, it's great !

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Endeavour forever i love it so much

soooooo psyched for Strange New Worlds

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

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

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

Pie in the Sky? Starring Richard Griffiths?

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

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

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

Also something about it kinda screams "cancelled before finale"

I am SUPER looking forward to SNW

My current TV diet:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yes Silo is based on the Wool trilogy.

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

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

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

Thanks for the rec omar! Digging this

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

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

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

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

More heart and less shit jokes.

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

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

Can I Borrow a Fece?

Short Poppies was a delight