Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

I watched the Lethal Weapon pilot expecting MacGyver level garbage & actually kinda dug it!

... I know! I'm as surprised as you are!

i like that guy from Rectify figured he'd at least be good in it

he's p great! and love him in Rectify

Yeah, enjoyed the pilot but my expectations were super low. There were some so bad they're good moments but on the whole was pretty decent for a pre-watershed police procedural. Not sure I'll watch a great many more though.

Final season of Rectify starts next month. *Excited face*

leafed thru the RS 100 list (US-UK-Canada, variety included) and absence of SCTV is disgusting.

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You expected that list to be anything but garbage? Your idealism truly knows no bounds.

Chuck OTM regarding Fleabag assessment. Still one of the most enjoyable series in recent memory though.

The Night Of is good.

I enjoyed the 3 episodes fo an Irish thing called can't cope, Won't Cope taht I caught on tv a few days ago.
A bad taste comedy drama about 2 20 somethings from cork living in a shared house in Dublin and still being out of control. One is an art student the other is an office worker who has to hob nob with clients which she does with no discretion or idea of privacy which rapidly gets her into trouble.

That is 3 epiosdes which were shown together out of I think 5 that have been shown so far.

That Logmire is a wholesome fella, a real straight shooter.

saw the first ep of the new MacGuyver yesterday. yeesh. it was horrible w lots of bad-funny cliches.

also saw the first Lethal Weapon, which was really really good. well cast!

That Logmire is a wholesome fella, a real straight shooter.

Watching Season 4 of Longmire on Amazon now. (Don't have Netflix, so Season 5 is out of reach for the moment.)

Probably not in my top 10 but love some Longmire

the last episode of Better Things (16 year old daughter doubts her future) finally broke through; I am suddenly much more interested.
Third episode of High Maintenance was a low point but still pretty dang good.
First episode of Queen Sugar was pretty good; probably gonna watch the other five in the next few days and will report back.

Night Of was great. i could have done without 90% of the eczema and cat 'plotlines' - we could have got the whole thing finished in 4 eps without that. and the prison stuff was just.... there. but anything Turturro and Dennis Box touched was gold.

First half of Night Of much better than second half. Turturro owned the whole thing, predictably.

A Fist Within Four Walls is well worth combing the dark.net for. 28-part martial arts set in Kowloon Walled City in the 60s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fist_Within_Four_Walls

i want to watch bureau des legendes but i can't find it even in the "usual places"

I think Season 1 is available on Amazon play, but I'm waiting for it to hit the t0rrentz myself.

Everything's coming back after summer breaks. So new seasons of all the long term shows.

Just binge watched through a load of last Week Tonight so up to date. Finding some of Jon Olver's quirks might be grating, especially if they are the bits taht would be picked up by anybody mimicking him. But am finding a lot of the rest pretty funny.

Also Full Frontal with Samantha bee. Really funny but keep getting reminded of Trevor and Simon by her polishing the fronts of her trousers.

Has Blackish lost a lot of its popularity? Seems to be being shared by only a couple of people and normally in a way that won't play on my memory stick.

Currently watching Deutschland 83 on Hulu. It's really good; I find it particularly interesting when they're discussing events that were also incorporated into The Americans.

my wife and i are watching blackish. love it

Amazon's Goliath is complete garbage and I am totally going to watch the whole thing purely because the cast is incredible

Atlanta is fucking great btw

I wish Atlanta was aired two eps at a time though, like that Louis season that went to the 20 min format.

i watched the first episode and then just binged the next five back-to-back-to-back and I agree with you wholeheartedly.

Also wanna give a shout out to Queen Sugar; two eps in and it's my fave hour long drama of the moment.

I watched four eps of that I think, I really wanted to like it but it's just so damned corny and the scoring/soundtracking is insufferable

oh yah? I don't mind the corny as most of the acting is very solid (not so much "ralph-angel") and the soundtrack is solid I thought! Meshell Ndegeocello doing the music I believe.

the scoring is fine, it's the extremely on-the-nose needle drops I take offense to. that and the underlying, constantly nagging moral of "hey they'd all just be alright if they stuck together as a family"

I like that it makes basically zero concessions to white audiences, tho, and the kid is v cute

i imagine he will be sacrificed on the altar of drama in time

my dad is evangelizing Queen Sugar to me, I've been meaning to check it out

well Meshell doing the music has sure got my interest

Love "fleabag" probably my fav show since stranger things

NB: one plotline Queen Sugar is doing appears to be a thinly veiled dramatization of the Derek Rose rape allegations.

d40 did you watch crashing too? created & starring the same actress, also came out this year i think, also very good!

Favorite shows lately: Fleabag, Better Things, Insecure, High Maintenance and Atlanta.

I think Better Things might be my favourite thing on TV right now (or at least tied with Atlanta). I love how it seems so aimless, so not plot-driven, but each vignette is so full of character. Its like Louie, but better.

I really enjoyed the first episode of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, possibly solely due to a combination of Elijah Wood and nostalgia for the books.

They remade that? There's a UK version from about 5 years back with Stephen Mangan as Dirk

Is Fleabag a stand alone series or just the first series of several?

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watched the first two episodes of season 3 Black Mirror last night. it's a good thing i like this short form sci fi format cos this show is painful. horrible writing, horrible leaden scripts, horrible pacing, horrible tendency to throw in twists right when things seem like they might be getting interesting, etc. got to give it to BDH, i'm sure it took a lot of guts to do that performance, but it was very cringey to watch, it was like a bad episode of Seinfeld where George just keeps getting shit on only not funny and full of EVERYONE IS ON CELL PHONE DO U SEEEEE???? commentary. lame. that ending...... yuuuuuck. as for the second ep, the VR horror ep was slightly better, but was full of twists that were just confusing rather than interesting. the show feels half written. there are good ideas in there but it's really unfocused.

watched some of Blacklist too. the show is silly but in all the right ways. James Spader is so fun to watch!

Looks like Fleabag was based on a stage play. I was wondering if it was the introduction to a longer term character. Hope there is more coming. Series was great.

black mirror episodes set in the uk seem more natural, maybe it's the whole thing where the british natural state of mind is existential dread

I really like You're the Worst but it bugs me sometimes how there's such a huge gap in the character realization. Gretchen is pretty fully realized, Lindsay and Edgar are basically cartoons but they have attempted to give them more depth. But Hint

Ugh... But Jimmy is just a pretentious asshole with no growth or depth. Only on s2 though.

I feel, sometimes, implicated by Lindsay's hatred of Paul.

lol I never do, Paul is just such a goober

I love the dedication that they've written into the character -- he has to know some shit but somehow never has a meltdown. It's either some amazing propping up of the fourth wall or the series ends with him murdering everyone

Edgar's PTSD storyline really got to me.

better things is great! the "period speech" made me feel weird. i wasn't sure if it was supposed to be cringeworthy or cool? maybe that was the point?