Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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

I am in the minority on this but I was slightly let down by Rectify's last season - it got a touch treacly. In retrospect I don't think they ever quite recaptured what made S1 so special. Still a v good show mind

> 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

Watching this now... First episode not terrible.

But there is always the suspicion in my mind that these are just the Swedish version of, say, spooks and it's only the fact they aren't in English that gives then some kind of exotic appeal.

Spooks was amazing dude. This is so weirdly paced and acted out. Nothing interesting really happens!

Oh, also, Lady Dynamite (MAria Bamford's show) was super-great.

I know it's a tired line, but this has been a ridiculously good year for television.

here's what i got for 2016.

Top 15 (and one episode)
The Americans
Black Sails
Happy Valley
Better Call Saul
The Girlfriend Experience
OJ: Made In America
Veep
Difficult People
The Detour
Atlanta
Insecure
Fleabag
Catastrophe
The Eric Andre Show
Full Frontal
Horace and Pete (Episode 3)

Great
NBA Basketball
Adventure Time
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Silicon Valley
Jeopardy
Billy on the Street
PBS NewsHour
High Maintenance
The Good Place
Search Party
One Mississippi
Better Things

Good to occasionally great
The Venture Brothers
Real Sports
Broad City
Inside Amy Schumer
Drunk History
You’re the Worst
State of Play
The Comedians
The Nightly Show
The Carmichael Show
Dream Corp LLC
People of Earth
Horace and Pete
All the Way
NFL Football

Watched for some reason or another
Dice
Antiques Roadshow
NFL Football
Game of Thrones
Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
The Simpsons
Last Week Tonight
The Meltdown
Baskets
Hard Knocks
Speechless
Top Chef
Black-ish
Workaholics
Idiotsitter
Off the Air
Archer

Disappointing
Westworld
Vice Principals
This Is Not Happening
Tracey Ullman’s Show
Divorce
Stan Against Evil

Unwatched (mostly or completely) and on tap
Mr. Robot
Adam Ruins Everything
Falling Water
Channel Zero
Black Mirror
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Undercover
Soundbreaking
Black America Since MLK
Gomorrah
Transparent
Queen Sugar
Luke Cage
Good Girls Revolt
The Man in the High Castle
Goliath
Rectify
The Night Of
Bojack Horseman
Casual
Lady Dynamite
Stranger Things
The Path
Daredevil
Crisis in Six Scenes
Last Chance U
Crashing

No (obviously, incomplete)
Halt and Catch Fire
American Crime
This Is Us
Billions
Graves
Braindead
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
UnReal
Survivor’s Remorse
How to Get Away With Murder
Preacher
Sweet/Vicious
Mary and Jane
Loosely Exactly Nicole
Son of Zorn
The Exorcist

there is way too much goddamn television out there now

kinda shocking to see The Girlfriend Experience in your top 15, i totally ignored that

based on yr excellent taste in everything else: don't bother w/ Mr. Robot s2

Also does No mean you watched it and hated it or that you're just not going to bother

Girlfriend Experience was surprisingly deep imo and very well acted. ultimately not particularly prurient and walked a complicated line.

I have been leaning toward skipping Mr. Robot s2; the feedback on this thread and by critics in general suggested it was a bellyflop.

No means I watched it and decided not to watch more because of time constraints, better options or I hated it. "Not bothering" would be a massive list all on its own! I also tape and skim all the nightly shows: Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers, Colbert... I can't handle Corden though I tried.

From that unwatched/unfinished list, I'll likely do Crashing, Queen Sugar (already five eps in but the corniness of the melodrama is beginning to wear), Transparent (four eps in), the last four eps of You're the Worst and the entirety of Stranger Things within the month.

Top shows on at the moment would likely be full frontal, NBA, NFL, Billy on the Street, PBS Newshour, Top Chef... um, Jeopardy? It's suddenly slow. Looking forward to the imminent return of Sunny in Philadelphia and Black Sails though!

I find this a useful tool: http://www.metacritic.com/feature/tv-premiere-dates

Anybody wanna rep for any of these?

Falling Water
Channel Zero
Undercover
Gomorrah
Good Girls Revolt
The Man in the High Castle
Casual
The Path
Crisis in Six Scenes
Last Chance U