Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

xp I'm with you. I thought the guy doing lenny bruce had the voice down and was a decent actor but his physicality seemed cartoonish. in any case, having saint lenny as a deus ex machina is fine with me.
Brilliant casting, great writing. I knew Borstein was a giant but Shaloub was a revelation. Occasionally too long on the Gilmore-y repartee but otherwise scripted perfectly. I only occasionally got in front of the plot. Would've been happy to binge another eight episodes tonight.

all of her shows i want to go on forever. rip bunheads

agree

Agree.

Yeah, the Lenny Bruce character just always jarred me. He was fine, but he could've just been a fictional character and nothing would be loss. The costumes...*swoon*.

otm. just outrageously, insensibly fabulous. you could have a museum exhibition dedicated to the clothing of S1.

my list of 2017 favs looks something like this (haven't seen deuce, halt 'n catch fire, or new twin peaks)

Leftovers
Bojack
Legion
Good Place
Better Call Saul
Rick & Morty
Master of None
Feud
American Gods
Mrs Maisel

other great shows that didn't quite reach that level include American Vandal, Lady Dynamite, Sneaky Pete, BLL, B99, Fargo

2017 12 best of the year for me
Always Sunny
Better Call Saul
Great British Baking Show
Rick and Morty
Insecure
Difficult People
One Mississippi
Nathan for You
SMILF
The Rundown with Robin Thede
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Billy on the Street

Runner ups
Love You More (bummed this ain't gonna get picked up)
Brockmire
Baroness Von Sketch
Better Things
The Good Place
At Home with Amy Sedaris
The President Show

Well prepared Broccoli
PBS Newshour
Jeopardy
Ken Burns Vietnam

Enjoyable trash watching
Top Chef
Ink Masters
Rosehaven
Desus and Mero
Colbert's Late Show

Flawed or broken but worth noting nevertheless
Adventure Time (spiraling down, needs to be put out of its misery)
I Love Dick (went kerflewey after the sixth episode but great until then)
Full Frontal (doesn't make good use of the cast, can't maintain a regular schedule, feeling less cutting)
Game of Thrones (not a great show anymore, kinda hatewatching like the last few seasons of mad men)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (how you say, "problematic")
Search Party (last three episodes were a horrible belly flop)
The Americans (had the feeling of half a season extended to a full season, hoping it bounces back next year)

OK so my best from this year a la Ulysses (btw RS just told me recentl ywho you are and it all makes sense now. I thought you were someone new! :) )

2017 Best

Fleabag
Chewing Gum
SMILF
Nathan for You
Difficult People
You're the Worst
Complicated
Love

Actual Trash but I love it anyway

90 Day Fiance
Before the 90 Days

Show I should like but hate so much because it's depressing as shit and not even a little bit funny

Easy

Oh and I love Shameless so that's on there too even though I think it definitely peaked years ago.

been rewatching key episodes of The Good Wife on Netflix and man when that show was at its peak it was so fucking good

Find it odd there's rumours for a 3rd season of search party. Seems utterly pointless based on how it ended

I have decided I’m not going to keep trying to watch This Is Us. I dont care if America loves it.

It’s like bad, corny Parenthood but it thinks it’s on some mindblowing Inception-level story construction.

And the big guy Toby. NO. everything about his character’s behaviour gives me hives. I feel this need leave the room or stand outside during his scenes, whatever grand gesture he’s making or whatever illadvised hat he’s wearing to a party.

Yeah, I'm out, too. I was hanging on for Randall and Beth, but everything else about that show blows dead dogs in the street. I might come back if they promised me that Kevin would get hit in the face with either a brick or a baseball bat every single episode, without fail. But if they ever skipped an episode, I'd be gone again.

I watched one episode of that schlock fest and nope octopussed the hell out of there.

Should I watch the Gilmore Girls? I know, I know but they just talk so fucking fast and unrealistically that it always put me off.

keep going but watch at 0.7x speed

Then watch Rectify at 1.3x speed

was there a new season of fleabag in 2017?

sadly there was not

Probably not but it was new to me in 2017 and it was great.

apparently not till 2019 :/

as usual, you can blame Star Wars

agreed that it's great, bummer about the long wait

That is too long to wait. Boo.

you should watch Gilmore Girls!

ENBB I tried GG and just couldn't do it. Stop. . . BANTERING, ppl!

i forgot chewing gum. it was great!

wait Fleabag was 2017??

No, I was wrong (see above). It was 2016. Sorry.

ENBB I tried GG and just couldn't do it. Stop. . . BANTERING, ppl!

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, January 2, 2018 6:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, I'm glad I'm not alone. I will try it but any time I've seen parts of it I just want them to stop talking so much and I'm a talker! People don't talk like that. I will give it a go though. Maybe I'll be surprised.

the banter is generally lighter in Maisel, which I appreciated but every once in awhile it gets outta control.

Oh and I am still enjoying Happy. It's not perfect but Chris Meloni is delightful and you can just tell watching him how much fun he's having in the role.

My wife and I just voted to dump HBO ($14.99/month via Amazon) and subscribe to MHz Choice ($7.99/month via Amazon), a channel that offers subtitled foreign TV shows. We're using it to watch Swedish crime dramas, starting with a series based on novels by Camilla Läckberg. I've read one or two of her books; they're pretty good. The channel offers shows in French, German, Italian and several other languages, too. Since my wife speaks German and Italian, this will be even better for her than me.

The Läckberg show - it's called Camilla Läckberg's Fjällbacka Murders - is hilarious. The main character is a female crime novelist who's married to a cop. And because it takes place in a small Swedish coastal town, she just a) happens to be around when the latest murder happens, or b) tags along with her husband the cop, because why not, right? My wife and I are waiting for someone to say, "OK, he's a cop, so I get why he's asking questions, but what's your excuse?" I mean, we never even get a scene of her sitting at a keyboard making a frowny face (universal TV shorthand for Writer Writin' Stuff), so she's basically just a nosy bitch. (Also, they have three kids who just disappear off to Grandma's house whenever it's murder-solvin' time.)

Just finished the Läckberg show, and have found our next candidate: Amazon says the lead character in Maria Wern "manages to sustain her female perspective and approach to life and endures what sometimes feels like an unwinnable battle against rage, death, evil and a harsh, male-dominated workplace." Sold!

Not sure anyone else here watches it but The Magicians is back

I tried The Magicians again but I just can't take the clunky, contrived plot mechanics. When Bacchus was like (supposedly offhandedly) "dude there's a BACK DOOR for magic" I switched it off.

the pilot ep of alone together on free form network was really good/funny

Grown-ish (Black-ish spinoff) is SO good
i love it

i tried that 1 too, seemed fine but not for me

boooo

The End of the Fucking World (on Netflix in the US) is well worth the trouble, though it flubs the landing and begins to wane and wobble in the last episode or two with the writing for the supporting cast.

in retrospect thought the end of the fucking world was trash

i was sold for the first four episodes are so; it lost its way around then. bears very little resemblance to the comic!

Anyone else watching Lovesick? So in love with this show right now

meeeeeeeee

i’m halfway through s3, binged the first 2 yesterday.
really loving it

makes me harken back to my first 2 share houses after uni (minus most of the romantic angst)

Dark ist gut! It's more like Lost than Stranger Things, though. But, you know, good Lost, not final season Lost.

Didn't realize it until recently, but "soap opera/thriller about intertwined families in a small town that is experiencing a supernatural/science-fictiony event" is kind of a not-uncommon genre, isn't it?

which is to say it kind of reminds me of the Leftovers, too.

Or Fortitude!

i think it's kinda cool that Grown-ish is kinda bad but still watchable in almost the EXACT same way that A Different World was.

the newest ep about the basketball player was kinda dumb & boring :(

First ep of The Chi did not hit expectations. Acting is generally good but the writing is superstandard and the plot had enough cliches to fit in on any episode of whatever law'n'order is these days. Willing to give it a few episodes to figure it out but my guess is this will more likely need a season or two to, um, properly season.