Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

Everyone keeps talking about this Mrs. Maisel show! I guess I have to watch. Did anyone watch Happy?

you have to watch mrs maisel, it’s the best!

i watched the first ep of Happy & didn’t like it as much as I thought I would :/
i’ll try a couple more but it feels like it’s v forced, like everyone’s trying too hard to be kerrrraaaazy

I'm willing to try a second episode for Chris Meloni's sake

^ this

he’s v handsome

he gets to be an ex-cop, be funny, and do comedic no-stakes violence as opposed to the heavy guilt complex of his past angry cop role

seems very similar to Wilfred, which I was hot and cold on

I really wanted to like Mrs Maisel, but the plotting is just so awful and contrived.

The kids are completely. Like why even have kids in this show if all they do is move from sitter to sitter?

Are we supposed to care about her ex? I can’t tell. Does the show want us to want them back together, cuz he just seems like a doofus most of the time. But then there are these flashbacks where he’s being witty or cool or whatever...

There are also these scenes of forced hilarity that just don’t land for me. The scene where Midge takes over the city planning rally to talk about being blinded by makeup ads or whatever felt so false, with random crowd members turning to each other like “wow, this lady is on to something!” I mean, she’s a charming person, but she seems to get away with so much lame behavior. Maybe this will catch up with her at some point?

I’m still watching, for now, but my wife and I are spending a lot of the show rolling our eyes at each other.

Are we supposed to care about her ex? I can’t tell.

neither can she! sometimes he is cool and witty. other times he is a selfish dumbass. it's a key ambiguity of the show

agree the rally was over the top, almost like some kind of fever dream. i guess it's of a piece with her "coming out" as someone who can command a room but i agree it felt kinda off.

And like she didn't even take a look at the horrible cards that the joke writer sold her on the way over to the gig while she was sitting on the subway?

I guess I'm being pedantic. The whole show has a kind of magical realism feel to it, so maybe the details shouldn't matter. I love the dialogue, and the actors are great, and great together. It's just all of the little stuff that bugs. Like did she really have time to do all of that stuff on her first night out?

it’s meant to be very broad & heightened - like a screwball comedy or a musical without the musical numbers

but yeah if you’re looking for measured & more grounded realism this ain’t that kinda show

If you're looking for measured & more grounded realism you want to avoid the works of Amy Sherman-Palladino in general.

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watched one ep of Happy! and hated it tbrh. gratuitous, gory and a weird conceit with the shrek lite horse. not for me.
otoh i just hoovered up s3 of Narcos, that was goood.

I dunno if it's a good idea to compare the Preacher tv show to Happy or not but since they're both Grant Morrison comic adaptations its hard not to. And the thing that Preacher tv show does well is controlling the pace of the story ( I mean, to the point where they literally drip-feed plot points over multiple episodes). They're not adhering to the normal TV conventions of laying out the plot for the audience and restating plot points and having everyone explain who they are right away - and it's good because it's not exactly an everyday story.

Happy just seemed to be falling over itself to TELL you everything about the story right away and beat you over the head with how misanthropic it is. Plus it seemed to be showcasing a whole lot of the things I don't love about Morrison which is that it just feels like, idk, reddit humor when there's too much of it all at once.

But it could also be first episode teething problems. idk. I love Meloni though so I might not quit right away

Preacher doesn't have anything to do with Grant Morrison.

watching the new fubar show, pretty decent

ha lol shit ok thats one for “i always get those 2 mixed up thread” garth ennis & grant morrison
ok cool yep good gonna go off and kill myself now bye

lol, i could see where those two examples would be easy to confuse tbh; happy! really does feel like an ennis story. not morrison's strongest work at all.

Oh I really liked Happy. I LOVE Meloni though and thought he was excellent.

I am also enjoying the horribly named SMILF. Rosie O is really good and so is the lead woman. Plus, it has Connie Britton who is always good and one of the (ok two of since they're twin girls yes I looked it up) cutest kids I've ever seen on it. https://www.cbspressexpress.com/images/photos/thumbnail/2017/10/13/SMILF_100_10076.R.jpg

I'm intrigued by SMILF but no longer have Showtime. There has to be some free weekend or something over the holidays, right?

SMILF is the best worst named show on tv.
that kid is an amazing actor

Two kids! Identical twin baby girls! Larry is a lady :).

I didn't know! Her chemistry with the kid(s) is amazingly honest and feels super real

Yep, totally agree.

The Run Lola Run themed ep was great.

I guess the lead actress wrote the show and it's loosely based on her life but the whole thing feels very honest and real to me. I really like it.

SMILF is the best worst named show on tv.

I think i only started watching in by accident because that name is horrible . wonder how many people will never give it a chance becasue of it ? it's a good show though.

i saw a bit on freeview weekend but i thought it was one of skinemax-ish soft porns & changed the channel lol

I watched the SMILF premiere but didn't really like it. Fuck Boston and all who dwell therein, for one thing (not about baseball, so don't start), plus it just wasn't that funny or perceptive or anything, to me.

Just started watching Shut Eye on Hulu, which is about a ring of fake psychics in L.A. - Jeffrey "Burn Notice guy" Donovan is the lead, but Isabella Rossellini is the matriarch of the Romany gang that owns Donovan and his wife.

I thought the first ep of SMILF was kind of average, seemed to trot many single mom/working class tropes and also showed the lead naked more than was necessary, but subsequent eps are better.

smilf sounds like a spinoff of too many cooks

search party started so well but turned out uneven. entire plotlines and milieux felt unnecessary or thinly conceived (the cop; the political campaign; julian; drew's scheme to get posted to shanghai) - so much so that those parts almost felt amateurish - the studenty side of the 90s indie film gestalt that i am convinced this show is mining, i guess - but what worked was amazing. the crazy neighbor. portia and elliot. drew and dorie. the constant dread. i am looking forward to portia's weirdo director being brought into the circle of trust (?!)

how could i leave out chantal?? dying @ chantal every time

it got really wobbly here at the end; curious to see how they bring this full circle

watching search party s1 right now. imo it's p flawed but entertaining enough. i don't usually say this but it's like they forgot to write any likeable characters

in season 2 they really dropped the ball on that one, expressed before the lack of empathy for the characters from the writer's POV seems pretty shallow. bailed on season 2, more power to those into it

Second season of Lethal Weapon was even more fun than the first

yeah it was pretty great

I'm finishing the final season of Episodes now and realizing how much I'm going to miss this show. LeBlanc owns every scene he's in.

tbh i'm enjoying runaways a lot more than y'all led me to expect. certainly runs rings around The Gifted, its LA gets some local details right, and iirc the first arc of the books takes a while too

Runaways is actually decent, it’s just I am expecting them to actually run away at some point

i like Runaways a lot

have to admit the error of my ways with not giving search party season 2 a good chance, it's really grow on me. chantal is great

*grown

whattayaknow, Maisel is very good! Will watch more.

and, sad to say, Search Party completely bellyflopped its last three episodes, wtf

ulysses otm

seems like they also forgot the jokes on this season too, the key bit was probably the funniest part

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Kinda hope they get to make a movie or something to tie up where the end of season 2 leaves the series, as I guess it is cancelled. Second season was good, but it had more sadness and less zany from some of the side characters like the Rowdy 3 and Bart.

getting caught up on better things, which i like a lot, but is exactly louie m/l btw (and im fine w/), & the eulogy ep is overrated imo

XP maybe the worst thing to never have appeared on screen tbj