Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

so turnabout being fair play, i need to ask if you've seen brockmire.

i have not

Imagine Ted Lasso turned up to 11 with Hank Azaria in the lead and instead of wholesome sweetness, it's fucking filthy. Secretly one of the best shows of the past decade and well worth hunting down. In the USA, all four seasons are on Hulu.
https://www.hulu.com/series/brockmire-8fccfdbc-f77c-4647-9132-59f24606bb7f
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47VjZiIKmaA

^ that's the first episode of the second season.

Just caught up with The Expanse which is thankfully set up for another season but I wish wasn't disposing of characters I like.

Also just finished season 1 of Umbrella Academy which I hadn't been aware of until very recently. Have season 2 set up.

Also Agents Of SHIELD which I'd watched a couple of episodes of at the start of the year and then hadn't got the space to dld further episodes of so only just watched. Pretty good, shame it's gone now.
Think I may not have finished season 6 for some reason either.

Finally got to see I May Destroy you which was great. Hope there's more coming or the cast get more stuff going on.
Michaela Coel needs to be commissioned for more writing if this story did end there.

& got about 3 episodes away from season 2 of the Terror and didn't complete.
Think I even had more episodes on file since the start of the year.

So basically catching up on part watched things from pre Lockdown not sure why it's taken til now other than storage space. That and changing over to listening to podcasts and attending online things more.
May be wanting to catch Lovecraft Country that triggered watching more stuff.

Now wondering if I missed anything else over the last year that I would normally have grabbed.

Brockmire declined from season to season but that just means it went from 5/5 to 4/5 over four seasons.

the original Brockmire bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M95P3DTYxqg

I have a fantasy of Hank Azaria doing a Rockford Files-style throwback cop show - dressed exactly like Brockmire.

lol at Brockmire getting the Godfather quote wrong (he says "Barzini's a pimp" but it's "Tattaglia's a pimp").

hmm - reading up on this, this could be my next thing to watch. like the concept.

Amanda Peet co-stars in the first season and she's as good as Azaria.

"Whoa - knowledge and assumptions! Those are like Loggins and Messina. They seem similar, but time proves one of them to be completely worthless."

k, I'm sold for the long run

you won't be disappointed. I think the final season is prescient and amazing but I think i'm in the minority.

anyone here seen the mid-'90s show nowhere man? been thinking of seeking it out after really enjoying bruce greenwood's performance in exotica

there's an ilx thread about it but it sucks

Final 30 minutes or so of this week's Lovecraft Country was wild (and amazing)

Probably my favourite show this year

I didn't like this one quite as much as the last two maybe, but it was amazing. The scene where she is floating in space was incredible.

yeah dug teh Sun Ra speech bit of Lovecraft Country .
& Hypolyta turning into the heroine of her daughter's comic I take it.

Wondered where the Amazons vs Confederates thing was supposed to be but had been thinking Amazon training had been supposed to be her dipping into a real situation. Which it possibly was.
Or is the set up a reference to an existing story?

Oh & the stellar hoop skirt was something else.

really want to see where it ends up next week, hope she returns enlightened or should I feel better that she's gone on to a place of self fulfilment. Afro futurism though, cool.

watched the first three eps of utopia (2020 amazon) after only finishing season two of utopia (2013, whatever british channel it was on, channel 4?) a few weeks ago. the differences in plot have me genuinely wondering how much of the british one i just forgot? (gf is watching uk one now tho so i at least know the entire premise for ep1 of US version is different)

anyway us one seems ok but so far not convinced it needs to exist/they shouldn't have just made the uk one more available instead

that said i am ALWAYS happy to see Desmin Borges in anything (even if his character in this one seems far dumber than his uk counterpart)

Nu Utopia (what little I saw of it before bailing the eff out, anyway) is one of the worst shows I've seen in a very long time.

xxpost - Yeah, that Hippolyta episode divulged pretty wildly from the corresponding story in the book, but that's not the first time the series has done so and I think the show did a much better job of getting around to the same essential point re Hippolyta coming to terms with everything she gave up to serve the travel guide. I think the Amazon thing was making explicit the link of her character's name.

xp re: Utopia.

Turning a formally distinctive conspiracy mystery into a sociopath road-trip with exposition dumps & social commentary was a bad move. Gillian Flynn has fallen in my estimation.

Looking forward to the HBO mini The Third Day, which shares showrunner/writer, director, and composer with the original Utopia. Ep 3 of 5 aired yesterday.

ooh thanks for bringing that to my attn, will check it out!

looking forward to Zeke with a Beak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=RM2ERZymiJ0

So as of September, these are the best things I've seen this year:

Work in Progress (Showtime)
Joe Pera Talks with You (Adult Swim)
Desus and Mero (Showtime)
High Maintenance (HBO)
Better Call Saul (AMC)
Brockmire (IFC)
The Last Dance (ESPN)
The Dress Up Gang (TBS)
Ramy (Hulu)
What We Do In Shadows (FX)
All Gas No Brakes (YouTube)
I May Destroy You (HBO)
Looney Tunes Cartoons (HBO)
A House Through Time (BBC 2)
Bluey (Disney +)
PEN15 (Hulu)
Escape at Dannemora (2018, Showtime)
Country Music (2019 – PBS)

hat Third Day looks interesting from seeing the first episode tonight.
Obvious reminiscence of Wicker Man etc or possibly suggestion of limbo.
Will see next episode soon.

Anything else I've missed recently?
Phoebe Waller Bridge thing about yanks on trains?
Trying to catch up with things I didn't get around to d/ld earlier this year.

Watched the first episode of Star Trek Lower Decks which I hadn't heard of before. Attempt at Rick & Morty or something type humour within the Star Trek universe, not sure if it fully works.
May give another episode a shot.

Have been enjoying Harley Quinn though which I think is more successful.
Very potty mouthed and gorey which it seems to trade on.

Recommend staying with Lower Decks- it takes a few episodes to get funny. I was deeply nonplussed by it initially but I super love it now & it regularly makes me snort laugh

Phoebe Waller Bridge thing about yanks on trains?

Assuming you mean Run, I thought it was terrible. Might’ve made an okay movie but it did not justify being dragged out into a series. It did make me wish Archie Panjabi got more work

Yeah I watched a few eps of Run... I could take or leave it

Run looked like the kind of thing that would have worked better as a 90-minute movie. I canceled my HBO subscription before watching any of it.

yeah definitely felt more like a good movie romcom

Another vote for sticking with Lower Decks xps

ted lasso really frickin stuck the landing

A perfect season of TV.

bloody beautiful

i knocked out the last six episodes of Ted Lasso on a binge and yeah, it's good. Had some issues though: the terrible terrible music, an inclination toward mawkishness that's mostly but not entirely held in check by the writing, the predictability of the character arcs. BUT! Worth watching, worth recommending and I will be waiting for next season. NB: the guy who plays Roy was also a lead writer on the show and is the writer/co-creator of the new AMC show Soulmates.
https://www.vulture.com/article/brett-goldstein-ted-lasso-soulmates-interview.html

You know what I'm not looking forward to a second season of is Raised by Wolves. I've noted on this thread already how gleefully dumb and baldly aspirant it is in attempts at parable and deep meaning but it has gone completely off the rails into crazy town.

Here's some last episode spoilers for you: the pregnant android gave mouth birth to an evil flying leech baby so the other android (who is in love with her) took the whole family on a suicide crash mission into a bottomless pit in the whistle-shaped spaceship... but it didn't work because they went through the molten center and ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE HOLE IN THE PLANET and emerged in the jungle where the androids ran away and the giant leech baby flew off into the clouds. Space Jesus, who was left for dead in the prior episode but revived and killed a bunch of holy warrior after eating an android eyeball and tripping balls, appears to have mentally sent his crazy to his child - who is not actually his child because he and his wife killed his parents and stole their faces and have raised this kid for years - because the kid suddenly knows that his mother is an imposter (because god told him) so he shoots her in the belly and runs away into a barren landscape with no one but a magical white mouse to keep him company. This sets up a cliffhanger where the multicultural cast and gutshot woman can now look to a white twelve year old boy to lead them and protect them from the religious zealots, ghosts and devolving cavepeople that are hot on their trail and yes I KNOW this sounds awesome, that's why i'm watching it but they've been making it weirder every episode and I'm kinda exhausted with its cocaine sci-fi ravings.

The most recent episode of Lovecraft Country was OH MY GOD great

i regret opting for Raised by Wolves over Lovecraft Country and will rectify that shortly.

Yeah, Lovecraft Country is pretty much already in my all-time next-level top tier.

I seem to be blown away every week by Lovecraft Country. Final 5 minutes this week were *chef's kiss*

Other Recent Watches:
- Spitting Image 2020: Puppets doing the news? What will they think of next? (this was okay)
- Earth to Ned: Puppets doing talk shows? What will they think of next? (this was not okay)

First Episodes on Deck (i wish i had better focus for anything these days):
We Are Who We Are
The Third Day
Fargo
NeXt
Tiny World
Soulmates
Monsterland
The Good Lord Bird
Walking Dead: World Beyond
Honor
Cobra
Departure
Flesh and Blood
Gangs of London
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
Warrior
A Wilderness of Error
The Vow
Des
The Plot Against America

the first episodes of both Wilmore and Amber Ruffin's Peacock talk shows are very bad but i'm hopeful both will find their footing. doing a talk show without an audience seems like knitting a parachute on the way down.

Four episodes in and I still don’t know what to think of We Are Who We Are.

what... is it? Euphoria UK?

Soulmates looks dire

We Are Who We Are: The Ke$ha Story

Did we not talk about s2 of PEN15? Because it's wonderful. Much darker than the first, more aspirational and just more complete.

Two episodes in. Friends of mine told me it gets dark and, while that's not exactly what I want from the show, I can see it being a good pivot.

it's not gratuitously or painfully dark, it's "i'm going through puberty and everyone around me is insane" dark