Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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.

Billions is vile

I liked the Girls premiere, but then I have pretty much loved the last three seasons sooo

I also really enjoyed the premiere of Detroiters. Major points for using deploying Death on the strk

Three eps in and Santa Clarita Diet is growing on my, though Slapstick Olyphant is still very weird to me

the 'people just do nothing' show that viceland is now showing is good & funny..is it popular in the uk ?

I just can't bring myself to care about billions or the young pope or any other show that people rave about 😩

Detroiters and Crashing were so implausible - is that part of the humor ?

idgi

crashing looks bad i would literally never watch pete holmes in anything

Riverdale is so good u guys

Darkest timeline Archie with a slight Twin Peaksian garnish

Im digging "Search Party" which is like Girls but with a murder mystery element involved. Crushing on Alia Shawkat too

I watched Crashing yesterday and wasn't impressed. Did wonder where I knew the girlfriend from also if she had a brother I'd seen in Supernatural etc.

Also saw Bellevue which I did enjoy. Had just been wondering what Paquin had been up to since glimpsing Rogue in Days Of Future Past which I half watched over the weekend. Thought she'd become too young to still be her.

Santa Clarita diet was fun. Olyphant not being an action hero etc. Hope it's coming back.

search party is terrific!

Three episodes in and The Expanse seems right up my street - like BSG if it took its sci-fi elements remotely seriously.

:)

i think search party is on all4, so will dig into that once i finish this 'walter presents .. ' thing, 'thicker than water', which is basically a swedish version of 'bloodlines', but still rather watchable.

Realised where i'd seen her before, guard in Orange is the new Black
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isn't related to

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is she?
Could see family resemblance.

lauren lapkus, shes good she does a lot of podcasts

i watch the pilot of "preacher" too and i really liked it. im in. love the irish vampire. watched 2 episodes of "legion" and altho its definitely quality; the disorientating nature of it can be a tad exhausting

Preacher is completely batshit but ace.

^^^ ding ding ding

yeah? should i check it out? i liked the comix.

i'm sure it's no legion

it's just good batshit tv is what it is

yeah but no #vapefrog

well no

Billions' second episode is a big improvement on the season premiere.

Still watching This Is Us. Last night's episode was a standout. Guest appearance (including surprisingly solid old-age makeup) from the dude who played Paper Boi on Atlanta.

Big Little Lies is nice so far. Reese Witherspon is amazing.

couldn't get through the first episode. the framing device/flash-forward interviews were infuriating.

Yeah it's definitely slight and heavy handed. Some good perfomances though.

I am kind of obsessed with the Netflix Voltron series

wanna sell me on it? I was a voltron youth.

It's a reboot, using most of the building blocks from the original show, jettisoning Sven and replacing him with a new character named Shiro, and giving actual character arcs to Keith, Lance, Hunk and Pidge. (Hunk and Pidge especially are MUCH more fleshed out, both personality- and plot-wise than they were in the original show.) Everyone feels like more of a real person rather than just a human subsidiary to a cool-looking lion and the Golra conflict is ramped up considerably with decidedly higher-feeling stakes than the original series. It also feels a lot more like they are actually dealing with an entire universe rather than some unidentified planet due to the setting.

You can get the tone and direction pretty much from the jump in the pilot; I'd say watch it and see if it interests you. If it does, you will probably love the series. If it doesn't, it might grow on you but there are so many seeds planted from the beginning that I don't how you can make the emotional investment that lets later episodes pay off without buying into the pilot.

dammit i should watch voltron

I watched the Taken spinoff last night. It took me a few minutes to realize that the gigantism-afflicted-looking-dude playing young-Liam-Neeson was...Rollo from Vikings. He looks really bad with a normal-dude haircut and stubble. There were some decent stunts and network TV-acceptable gun fu, but I won't be back.

thx djp, i will give Voltron a test drive

Crashing is pretty good so far - Peter Holmes isn't really funny to me, but he's kind of the straight man to the other comedians jokes anyway. Kinda hard to find a caring and sweet dude funny.

Man, this season of Colony.