Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

all i watch is twin peaks and baseball

Oooooh, did not realize another season of Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories was on the way!

So psyched for the return of Nathan For You.

Twin Peaks is the best thing in years (the only shows that come close are the Abso-Lutely productions, many which have some definite aesthetic overlap with Lynch's work).

what is the "plot" of YTW besides the relationships between the characters?

young prodigy racked with self-doubt that he'll ever be able to write anything meaningful loses his hated father / publicist juggles a rising sense of desire for stability with severe depression / military vet adjusts poorly to co-dependent home life and PTSD / psychopath cannot change her out of control path and finds no release in relationships or utter abandon, etc.

i mean that's the stuff that i find interesting about the show; the underlying "haw all these people are assholes" cynical sitcom foundation is not much of a draw.

imo that was the original draw and it was good

we barely even have "british man has family he hates" left, after his dad's death. we need more actual horrible behavior

Last Chance U give me the rage like nothing else but I could not not watch every episode and now I think I may go to Scooba because dear god.

I want to kick Coach Buddy in the nards so hard

You couldn't make up a more insane example of institutionalized racism. And "academic counselor" Ms. Wagner is hardly worthy of the title.

oh i liked her

Insecure
Twin Peaks
Rick and Morty

looking forward to Nathan For You, Curb and Broad City

Coming up on the end of S3 of YTW - biggest flaw is Lindsey/Paul. They made her too awful and too stupid - S1/2 felt like she was flawed but still human.

yeah totally agree milo

the screeching reclamation of "MY BODY MY CHOICE" as a sort of smug self-centered platitude seemed egregious as fuck to me

http://awfulannouncing.com/ncaa/netflix-renews-last-chance-u-third-season.html

i am about to go in on THE STATE by Peter Kosminksy on C4 (fiction miniseries about ISIS)

I'm going in on Ozark

ha xp

xp
the Graun didn't like it, but going by the trailer I fancy a dabble at this as well.

the Deuce pilot is kicking around. it's good!

if you've been missing dicks on the screen...I have good news

:D

The Tick

so Ozark
There's a certain guy-guy 'partnership' that seems really contrived right?

yup

Does anyone here watch Younger? I've always enjoyed it, but I've especially grown to appreciate it this season, especially among this emotional climate right now, both on and off TV.

The whole cast is uniformly excellent, only weak link maybe being the millennial dude. Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, Debi Mazar, Miriam Shor, Molly Bernard, they're all so good.

I binged the first season & loved it, i am Team Sutton forever

There's always money in the banana stand!
Kinda wish there was an Ozarks thread but I've nearly finished it

Also I watched Top of the Lake s1 immediately prior and the actor common to both is impressive/confusing

can anyone tell me if Hung is worth the investment?

i made it a couple episodes back when it started and didnt care for it. couldnt tell you why

hung felt like a onetrick pony imo
thomas jane is better in Expanse

yeah been enjoying the expanse w my wife. about halfway through season 2. hes def my fav character on there

I'm still watching The Strain

it's good popcorn television

American gods S1 was awesome
Rick n morty is great

it's like if dr who ever got as good as i feel like it could be, in my mind, the platonic ideal of it, it would basically end up being rick and morty

Watched the first episode of Ozark and haven't felt compelled to watch more. It seems wilfully dour.

I had insomnia last night so I watched The Tick. The subsequent episodes are a lot better than the pilot, which I hated. It helps that the central uncertainty they built the pilot around was unceremoniously dumped in episode 2 and the disparate pieces of the show began feeling like they existed in the same universe.

Of course, I'm now going through the AV Club reviews and they are making me retroactively dislike the show, or at least the person reviewing it, as he keeps referring to one of the antagonists as "Miss Glint" instead of "Miss Lint"

I know this isn't the show's fault at all, but still

I like the Deadpool-style dude and his grumpy talking boat.

xp

I loved The Tick and i feel the same way about the reviews. The AVC doesn't really edit anymore.

I'm still watching The Strain

it's good popcorn television

I'm not the only one then.

This season definitely better than the last one (and the execrable Season 2)

Watched the first episode of Ozark and haven't felt compelled to watch more. It seems wilfully dour.

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I made it through two and not even my love for Jason Bateman could compel me to go further. SPOILER: I think I'd have been more willing to stick with it if they didn't immediately set up Bateman as a cuckold. The idea of a family that actually likes each other navigating drug cartels and meth heads sounds way more appealing, like it could have had some Justified vibes potentially. instead we get basically a sad carbon copy of Breaking Bad.

lol cuckold
Yeah would be good if they liked each other from the off and stayed liking each other and that didn't change. Character development sucks.

it *is* bleak though and with some 'oh god they're not going to go there are they' fake-outs which are getting a bit wearing.

I'm just saying, I've seen enough shitty marriages on prestige TV to last me 10,000 lifetimes.

you're the worst premiere tonight

:D

Would have been totally okay with the show completely switching to Jimmy's Desert Stories and not going back to LA.

scruff Jimmy is kinda hott. way more-so than normal shitty Jimmy

Casual has a pretty strong run in the second season, less broadly comedic than most of the first season. Almost gets too dark near the end.

That desert ep was v pretty visually

yeah it had a nice yellowy warmth