Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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mr veg wanted to watch it & we literally sat in silence for the entire episode. it's ok i guess, just really dull. he's emulating star trek so slavishly that it sucks all the air out of whatever he's trying to do

plus i just dont enjoy him much in general

dude has a face for radio, as they used to say

he looks like a ventriloquist dummy, it weirds me out

the whole concept of the show is just so strange to me. it is so indebted to Star Trek that the "created by Seth MacFarlane" line feels entirely disingenuous. what I saw was actually *less* funny than any random episode of TNG - there was like one joke in that entire stretch, a cringey Star Wars reference. the thing was it actually was kinda decent, probably better than what the actual new Star Trek will be. but if you're gonna take it seriously then why make the entire thing look and feel exactly like a show that aired 30 years ago??

totally

peter david actually did the "exes captaining a ship" thing better in the new frontier novels, and those novels are super clumsy (although fun)

Third episode of this season of YTW was fantastic, up there with the peak of the second season.

We just binge-watched the entirety of Big Mouth, a new Netflix show about adolescence and how gross and confusing puberty can be, and it was hilarious and gross and accurate and heart warming. Some really groundbreakingly good female writing in it (getting first period and freaking out and dealing with that and all the rages and I HATE YOU MOM I WILL CALL YOU BY YOUR FIRST NAME) had me crying laughing.

has You're The Worst jumped the shark? Last episode just made me feel empty, like they've lost the plot

Tried watching the pilot of White Famous, former SNL castmember Jay Pharaoh's new Showtime show. I bailed after about 15 minutes, when Jamie Foxx appeared as himself, literally holding a conversation with Pharaoh's character while a naked woman who never gets a name bounces on top of him. The "joke" in the rest of the scene was that Foxx was wearing a small cheerleader's skirt and repeatedly exposing himself to Pharaoh while attempting to give him career advice. (Pharaoh plays a standup comedian attempting to become "white famous".)

YTW is slowly turning into a misanthropic version of Spaced which I'm fine with tbh

There have been a few moments where Gretchen has been like irl hipster Danerys Targaryen these past 2 episodes and I fkn LOVE it

Also having the dude from Eureka play her fuckboy is weirdly great casting

I hadn’t considered that ensemble cast connection but, Simon, I think that’s a fair comparison

Couldn't stand new ytw. I didn't think of game of thrones I thought it was an apocalypse now tribute or s thing

i think they were going for The Ring or something

Danerys stuff I meant more when she specifically fucks with Jimmy like last week when she stood on the table & yelled HEY DOT DOT DOT in his face

Edgar literally said "Japanese ghost" and it was a hella obvious grudge/ring vibe

i loved the HEY DOT DOT DOT in the premiere. haven’t seen any other episodes yet but i’m bummed if the writing is as uneven as it was at the end of last season :\

it’s pretty good so far.

Is anyone else watching the last season of Halt and Catch Fire aka the show with the coolest music supervision on tv

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 15 September 2017 15:45 (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is so good right now. Haley putting on "Fish Heads" in the car <3

tales from the road

*tales from the tour bus, rather.

i binged through the second season of One Mississippi with my gal last night and hooboy it's good but potentially triggering. highly recommended but watch your step.

most recent YTW ep was pretty good, i guess i'm still watching it so it didnt totally fall off a cliff, now that they're not entertaining the idea that shes about to get back w/ jimmy its improved

Anyone watching Great News? The last episode was a Tina Fey script and probably the funniest straight-up sitcom episode I've seen in ages.

The show as a whole is... not great. It's uncanny valley 30 Rock. Some great lines delivered by a *not quite* great cast. By this season has been better.

s2 of Better Things has been *fantastic*

omg the adult boyfriend in the first episode

ready for autumn:

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Anyone watching Great News? The last episode was a Tina Fey script and probably the funniest straight-up sitcom episode I've seen in ages.

The show as a whole is... not great. It's uncanny valley 30 Rock. Some great lines delivered by a *not quite* great cast. By this season has been better.

― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, October 15, 2017 2:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea I watch this & enjoy

I did not even know this show existed until I saw a commercial for it during The Good Place. 'Oh, hey! Tina Fey has a new sitcom! I had no idea! (internets for more details) And this show I would like to watch and have never heard of is in its second season! Congratulations once again on your complete incompetence, NBC!'

Fey didn't join the cast until this season, though. The first season it was a sitcom about a young news professional whose endearingly wacky mom comes to work at her job. It looked like pretty much the worst thing ever.

Fey's just finished a guest spot but was amazing.

I's a fun punchline machine, but the lead is the weakest link, and almost every character is a 30 Rock analogue. I like Andrea Martin but she's suuuuper broad. Overall it's improving but still has a while to go before it reaches Happy Endings levels of sucking-to-suddenly-being-awesome.

Ahhh, okay. Didn't notice it wasn't a Fey vehicle, but it is created and written by 30 Rock alumni so still potentially intersting.

hooray Dirk Gently is back

new mike judge cartoon is real good, cartoon depictions of some country legend's stories. two part tammy wynette/george jones episode was great. highly recommended

Girlfriend Experience is back - Seimetz and Kerrigan split directing duties and are telling two different stories, with one ep of each airing every week. A neat idea, and seeing them work apart really sharpens the difference in how they direct. The sequence that opened Kerrigan's segment was maybe harder to watch than anything in the first season.

the first half you mean? yeah, it led to a yelling argument in my house.

yes, that one. and I suspect it started a lot of arguments in a lot of houses.

liking that amy sedaris show which feels like it's spiritually akin to pee wee's playhouse on some level

most definitely.

dirk gently x 10

So y'all are saying The Girlfriend Experience should not be experienced with one's girlfriend? Duly noted.

The art direction in the Kerrigan episode is even more ludicrous than last season. So many sterile white rooms

Plus the ominous low level hum soundtracking every scene

yeah I'm hoping he tones it down a bit in the rest of the season, I like how he directs but it's verging on self parody

I'm mostly there for the creepy sterile hotels and the low level hum parts

yeah I'm not saying I don't get a kick out it

apple's version of a zipless fuck

Nirvanna The Band The Show season 2 is running now, it's pretty great so far!

after painstaking research into what i want to start next, i've settled on Billions, i'm not sure what this means

here's a surprise: SMILF on Showtime is really good
also the pilot to "Love You More" on Amazon is spectacular
the leads in both shows are women named Bridget who go topless so that's an odd coincidence

SWF had a topless Bridget Fonda. Makes you think