Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

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.

i thought the writing of the first episode of The Chi was good, especially the brother's speech at the funeral. There were some holes/implausibilities in the plot for sure.

it is mystifying to me that people like this is us

i agree

i watched 3 episodes waiting to not hate it & bailed.

i wonder if it's because sterling brown is so good? but that just makes me mad, like his talent is being thrown into a hole of poop.

xp i gave all credit to that funeral speech (which included him talking about how his dead 16 year old brother was a virgin) to jason mitchell, who was lifting the material up imo

no, the line about how this shit didn't even seem real rang deeply true to me. that actor is great, for sure.

and, regarding this is us, i adore mandy moore and still can't bring myself to watch it.

i love milo v, mandy & sterling, but they are def wasted. whole thing plays like a tin-eared, bad faith version of a Lifetime movie

i hate the Toby guy so much
SO much

i watched the this is us pilot and thought it was horrible. and I really liked Parenthood.

co-sign

i really wanted to love this is us to replace the Parenthood hole in my heart and i like a lot of the people on it but the tearjerk trolling is over the top even for melodrama. every episode has to end with some lump in throat moment. i didn't make it through the first season. which seemed endless.

i liked seeing jess and mandy in the flashbacks. that would have been a good show. cut out everyone else.

plus if you really think that major dad is gonna make me cry you got another thing coming and i am a diehard simon & simon fan so no hate or whatever.

yeah it def makes me appreciate Parenthood way more

ugh that shows tries to play so hard on cheesy emotions it's so corny.

the only character that is not insufferable is the second husband of the Mandy Moore character imo

Holy fuck at how bad Britannia manages to be.

Another co-sign on This is Us. I made it through two episodes. It's just misery porn where the money shot is "more suffering". Reminds of the Waking Dead. And my life, at times.