Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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

"Insecure" finale was excellent.

watched all of fleabag yesterday & loved it

Seem to be in bits every week watching Rectify at the moment. So great

I liked the early, less relationship-centric eps of Insecure best.

I said earlier (prolly on the Atlanta thread, but definitely before Rectify started back up) that Atlanta was show of the year unless Rectify knocked it out the park, and goddamn if they aren't swinging to the sorry I don't know why I embarked on a metaphor about a sport I know nothing about. But Rectify this season seem to have doubled down on everything that made it great in the first place, these characters are so well defined that it is encroaching on my real life, in that when I consider how my actions will affect various people I have to stop and think which of them are real and which of them are just on Rectify, oh dear looking back at that it doesn't make me seem overly well-adjusted but I get by.

In other news, I am very much enjoying Search Party.

I just started Atlanta today finally & I love it. The vibe, everything. Real good.

Checked out the Great *American* Baking Show this week & am ok woth it, it's not up to the original but has the same nice vibe about it, quirky bakers. Hosts are a bit ehhhh but i can deal.

You're The Worst season finale was a+, such a great weird show.

First ep of Search Party has been pretty tough to get through.

So much shouting. That doesn't change, either. Bail while you can.

Saw the first episode of Chewing Gum and not sure I can get my wife to return to it. She did make it through two episodes of Fleabag, which I hear gets better and richer as it goes along, so there's hope there. She's pretty put off by the (now long-running) trend of TV comedies being little more than terrible people behaving terribly, whether for sheer discomfort (Curb Your Enthusiasm) or total chaos (Always Sunny), but she seems to have the least patience for shows like You're The Worst, which I think are great and rewarding, but I concede you have to make it over a couple of hurdles first to find the humanity in all the horribleness. I think she prefers the more innocent mutual insult society of shows like Happy Endings or even Party Down.

You're The Worst season finale was a+, such a great weird show.

Totally. Use of Roches' Hammond Song at the end was A++++++

I'm like halfway through season two of Rectify and I'm not enjoying it very much (I don't care for any of the characters). Does it start to pay off a little more, or is this more or less the vibe the whole way through?

rectify seemed well done but it made me sort of nauseous to watch it? like if someone intelligently cast and directed a particularly bleak recurring nightmare i have.

I've burned through eight episodes of Pitch over the last two nights. Season finale is tonight (Thursday), so I have one more to watch plus that.

I love everything about this show, hope it comes back. And I hope it comes back with another ten episode season, because it could get bloated otherwise. It's super lean right now.

xp I loved S1 of Rectify, but I was so bored with the first ep of S2 that I've never gone back.

u should def go back

yeah s3 and s4 of Rectify >>>>> s2 (which I agree took a bit of a dip)

in retrospect, everyone really underrated the hell out of The Girlfriend Experience, which is back next year with the same creatives but a different cast/premise.

I kept meaning to write something about the staging and sound design on that show

also maybe something about the sex, but prob not

I mentioned it to M0 Ryan at HuffPo as being overlooked and she hadn't seen it lol

I could do a pitch on spec

If anyone else, like me, didn't bother to pay for Horace & Pete when it was new, it's on Hulu now.

Glad Keough got a GGs nom at least xp

H&P was flawed but way more compelling than most things I saw this year

Definitely one of the best shows of the year

Horace & Peace was excellent.

^ "Pete" that should be. :-)

UK people or fans of Scandi crime drama: I just wasted 8 hours of my life watching MODUS and it was absolutely terrible so don't do that

Atlanta is the best. Darius in particular.

This year my faves were (not in order, though Atlanta is probably #1):
1. Atlanta
2. Brooklyn 99
3. Stranger Things
4. Black Mirror
5. Better Call Saul
6. Silicon Valley
7. The Good Place
8. GoT
9. The Americans
10. Preacher

Oh wait... High Maintenance was also great.

Rectify finale was pretty much perfect