Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

Shawkat is great though, deserved better

555 is a pay-to-watch vimeo series starring Kate Berlant and John Early and both of them are pretty great.
4 bucks for 5 11 minute episodes; it's basically High Maintenance pricing. On sale end of the month.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/fivefivefive

Currently on network/non-streaming stuff I like:
Full Frontal
Always Sunny
Adventure Time
Billy on the Street
Top Chef
PBS Newshour
Jeopardy

Garbage TV i am watching and shouldn't be watching:
Workaholics
Jeff and Some Aliens
Baskets

Stuff I'll try out soon enough:
Face Off
Taboo
Mercy Street
Riverdale
Powerless
Superior Donuts
Detroiters
Legion
People Just Do Nothing
Nirvana
Imposters

i couldn't get into search party but iirc and the reason I tried it was cuz one of the creators made the movie 'fort tilden' which I really liked. its v comparable to a long-er form broad city. its on prime. I may have said this all before when search party was 1st discussed idk

Face Off rules fyi

As does Baskets!

Finished Goliath on Amazon - better than I thought it was gonna be. Two episodes into Sneaky Pete and so far it's OK. Ribisi is less annoying than usual.

And The Path is back on Hulu, which I'm happy about. I liked the first season.

Goliath is sort of terrible but also incredibly entertaining, the supporting female cast makes it

Yeah, the female cast was uniformly great, even the small roles like the file-clerk lady Thornton hires.

for those curious about Girlfriend Experience s2, this sounds pretty dope:
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/the-girlfriend-experience-3-1201970846/

Kind of disappointed it won't pick up where S1 left off but will def watch anyway

Watched the pilot of Colony, interest piqued. Anyone seen it and know whether it's worth the slog? Enjoying the combination of dystopia + hot middle-aged actors.

And it seems like it's serious without being fucking miserable like the Walking Dead.

I really enjoyed the pilot for Powerless. Danny Pudi appears to be a walking charisma generator.

Legion looks pretty good, I'm intrigued by Detroiters, the comedy central developed by and starring the dude who plays Richard in Veep and Tim Robinson, formerly of SNL

*comedy central show

Watched the pilot of Colony, interest piqued. Anyone seen it and know whether it's worth the slog? Enjoying the combination of dystopia + hot middle-aged actors.

Yes, it's really good.

Takes a little while to get going but was probably my favourite sci-fi show last year (along with The Expanse) and second season has (so far) taken it up another notch again

I really enjoyed the pilot for Powerless. Danny Pudi appears to be a walking charisma generator.

I feel the exact opposite about both of these things.

Top Chef is good again, I'm happy about that.

otm

Legion looks good, Impostors doesnt look bad either

Legion has the potential to be good tv, given the producer, and batshit crazy, given the source material

mr veg read the rundown to me & i got p confused p fast lol

things that don't matter they'll probably drop: he's Charles Xavier's kid with an Israeli diplomat

what they'll keep: he's a mutant with dissociative identity disorder. each identity has its own powers, and they don't get along

Legion looks pretty good, I'm intrigued by Detroiters, the comedy central developed by and starring the dude who plays Richard in Veep and Tim Robinson, formerly of SNL

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So far, it feels like 2017 has marked the end of TV's mid-'10s golden era. Soon there will be a bunch of crappy shows that try to calculate what addicted people to Stranger Things and it's all downhill forever.

(including Stranger Things season 2)

Things I'm most excited for

The Americans S5
Twin Peaks
Leftovers S3
The Deuce
Bojack S4
Rick and Morty S3 (I assume?)
Review S3
Nathan For You S4
American Gods

fyi Training Day is even more terrible than I expected, despite Paxton

Just finished with Sneaky Pete and it was great, a lot better than I went in expecting.

Anyone watched Legion yet?

Starts in the UK tomorrow night.

starts in the US tonight! we're only a few hours away

I am cautiously optimistic but I kinda hate Fargo

Why?

I fully expect half the characters on Legion to be in his mind btw

I may be wrong but the previews make me think Aubrey Plaza is one of his alts

Legion is great on contact

Legion was pretty great, I thought. The right type of disorienting.

I have no idea what is going on, have some theories, and am interested in watching more to see how wrong I am

so, good tv

i thought Impostors was a yawn until the last 15 min: also the reveal that !Uma! is gonna play a sizeable role. So I'm tentaively in. Also they made a point of referencing Something Wild & I fkn love that movie so I will stay on board for now

Legion is bananas & I'm into it & I have no idea whats going on

I watched a youtube vid breakdown of the comic & holy batfuck what a crazyass concept/story/etc

Tim Heidecker's Decker is... something.

As someone with hearing difficulties, Legion was a little *too* disorienting for me, but the first episode was okay enough. More of a Vertigo vibe than X-Men - it felt like a televised Peter Milligan comic!

I didn't get very far with Fargo - I found it little forcedly whimsical, and had the same issues with Legion. But I'll watch a few more episodes, if I cna turn the sound off and the subtitles on.

I mean, I appreciate how much work goes into soundscaping on TV these days, but unless you have a a kickass speaker and the ears of a 20 year old, it feels like violent mush

liked legion - someone should probably start a thread?

I can do it, but I'm only half way through the first episode. Loving it already, though!

Here ya go: Legion - Crazy FX-Man guy

aw man I just made one too :/

You got a response so you win :)

Watched the season premiere of Billions last night on Hulu. They've learned nothing from last season. It literally cut from Maggie Siff's big showpiece monologue directly to Damian Lewis's big showpiece monologue. At least we didn't have to see Paul Giamatti being sexually tortured, though.