Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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.

catching MacGuyver live right now, it's part 2 of a fantasy-themed series where he travels back to Camelot and is working with Merlin the magician

Anyone else watching "Crashing"? It's grown on me after 4 episodes. Really good mix of drama/comedy.

I've been watching it. It's not in my "appointment viewing" list but I'm enjoying it. I preferred the UK show with the ame name (but completely different premise/unrelated) from last year.

"Crashing" (UK) was so good

Stoked about Fleabag season 2!!

Fargo season 2 is on Hulu now, and I'm enjoying the hell out of it.

that medieval 2-parter of MacGuyver turned out really cool! he made a dog whistle to calm down a medieval guard dog and Merlin was all astounded by this trick. TNG/DS9's Colm Meaney had a bit role. plus in 2nd episode you find out MacGuyver's first name!

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shit i just misspelt MacGyver a million times

I remember that event when it happened live. ANGUS!

I found Fleabag hard to watch. I guess its the same reason I dislike shows like the UK Office and Extras, but those extremely awkward situs and people make me feel ill. The toothy guy! Ugh he reminded me so much of too many "trying way too hard" date guys.

I found the fourth-wall breaking and general cringeyness of Fleabag was very smartly deployed, for reasons that only truly become clear later in the season.

^ Agreed. First time I watched "Fleabag" I turned it off within a few minutes. I came back to it later on and it won me over after the initial cringe factor.

Didnt mind the 4th wall stuff so much - it was a play originally, right?

Yeah, with Phoebe as the only star