what shows are you watching?

specyalic · Post by **specyalic** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 3:47 am #98959

because TV isnt dead, and i refuse to believe it

EDIT: webisodes and netflix count

Remie Richards · Fri Jun 26, 2015 4:29 am

Television:
Humans on Channel 4, a fiction show about very human like androids mixing in with society.
Empire on E4, a fiction show about the music industry and a family that own a music label.
Hollyoaks on E4, a soap opera.
How I Met Your Mother (endless repeats) on E4.
Big Bang Theory (endless repeats) on E4.

Other:
Youtube, I have over 443 subscriptions and about 30-45 regular uploaders to watch.
Iplayer for any shows I miss or don't air anymore (QI, Mock the Week, Have I got news for you, Would I lie to you?)
Anime, but none at the moment because I'm lazy and cant put up that initial investment of effort to get into any on my list.

probably some others I forget.
My TV is mainly on for company lol, I just need background noise.

Amnestik · Post by **Amnestik** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:46 am #99010

Nothing that I'm watching that's currently airing has consistent enough quality for me to download it every week. But when I'm willing to put up with some bullshit, I'll catch up on the current seasons of Hannibal and True Detective.

Shows I'm following that are currently off-season:
Les Revenants
Game of Thrones
Broadchurch
Bates Motel

I have a huge backlog too:
Veep
Archer
Deadwood (easily the best show on this list)
Justified
Mad Men (boring as hell, I'm never going to finish this)
Orange is the New Black
The Americans
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Spongebob

I've never really liked YouTube. Too much superficial garbage. Though I have started watching Joe Rogan's podcast recently. His guests are usually nobodies, but he's a pretty interesting guy and they talk about some interesting topics.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:16 am #99022

Just got done watching the second series of Silicon Valley, very funny nerd comedy show about programmers - actually feels like they had nerds involved in writing it, unlike the fake intellectual humour of Big Bang Theory (no, using coitus instead of fucking isn't funny.)

Started watching The Brink.

Part way through season 3 of The Wire.

Remie Richards · Sat Jun 27, 2015 2:41 am

I forgot Almost Royal on E4, a show where these two actors are sent to america and pretend to be part of the royal family.
and nobody realises they're fake because ~america~
There's a lot of deliberately odd humour to it because they're essentially taking the piss out of Americans the entire time.

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 3:15 am #99221

watching Humans, Mr. Robot, and Deutschland 83 + true detective s2 and the strain s2

Deutschland 83 is so inexplicably good
the strain is a fucking shitshow i'm just watching it for stephen mchattie

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 5:01 am #99234

Humans, True Detective Season 2.

420weedscopes · Sun Jun 28, 2015 12:09 pm

Remie Richards wrote:Hollyoaks

remie please no

i watched sense8 on netflix
it was ok

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 12:50 am #99868

Oh shit I was totally unaware the new season of Hannibal had started as well.

That makes my list

True Detective S2
Humans
Hannibal S3

And catching up on:
Madmen
The Knick

Lumbermancer · Post by **Lumbermancer** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:33 am #99873

I'm on the 2nd season of 24, because I didn't catch it back in the day. First season was better.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 7:23 am #99944

Jesus Christ.

I warned people a long time ago when we were talking about TV programs and I mentioned Hannibal can be extremely graphic, and that's still true.
...but I want to append that and say "Also make sure you have balls of steel before you watch The Knick."

The use of blood and gore in the third season of Hannibal has kind of become a parody of itself. There's so much of it now it's kinda stupid. It lacks any kind of impact when there are literal rivers of it splashing around in every other shot.

The Knick, on the other hand, has a really washed out color scheme and is sterile enough in most scenes that when there are shots of people being operated on it's really visceral.

specyalic · Post by **specyalic** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:54 pm #100025

well, managed to catch up with the latest regular show episodes, which were released one per day. lots o moving the plot forward
sometimes i feel like its animation that really speaks to me

Mon Jun 29, 2015 3:39 pm

Golan the Insatiable is really good. Almost as good as Rick and Morty. I'm going to enjoy it for as long as Fox is too stupid to realize it's getting worse ratings than the repeats of Family Guy that air before it.

I'm going to give Mr.Robot more time. I'm liking it, but I'm fairly confident I'm gonna lose interest eventually. I'm not usually one to stick around for depressing shit too long, but we'll see. Maybe it lightens up just a tad with more character drama. At the very least, I hope to see more of Mr.Robot talking like a crazy motherfucker.

Just started watching Black Mirror. Very, very good.

I'm enjoying everything Syfy airs on Fridays. Defiance, Killjoys, and Dark Matter. I might start skipping Defiance unless it improves though. It was never an amazing show but the writers are just phoning it in at this point. Dark Matter is easily my favorite of the three. It's good to be watching science fiction again; nobody else in the US even makes any these days.

Stuff I'm going to watch when they start airing new episodes again:
Better Call Saul
Archer
Rick and Morty
Brooklyn Nine Nine

Also gonna watch Heroes Reborn when it airs

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:12 pm #100174

Man, the theme song for this new season sucks. I miss the first season's song.

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THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:31 pm

Get Smart and the occasional Steven Universe. I might check up on Deutshland 83 and see what that's about.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 6:55 am #101231

>Having a TV
>2015

It's dead, accept it

That said, I decided to watch(online of course) JoJo's Bizarre Adventure after hearing like 4-5 friends speak highly of it.
Yeah, it's pretty neat
Not what I would call exceptionally well made, but it's amusing nonetheless

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 3:45 pm #101351

Hannibal Season 3 sucked so bad it killed the show. I'm okay with this. It's better than having to watch more of Season 3. Seasons 1 and 2 were so good, just leave it as it is with those two and move on.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 7:12 pm #101415

Does watching shit on Netflix count? Cuz I been watching Daredevil and The Trailer Park Boys

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 7:17 pm #101417

Watching television shows on your computer is still "Watching TV".

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 4:41 am #105020

i think the thing i like the most about mr. robot is that they haven't thrown any retarded "it SOUNDS complicated so i'm sure people will buy it" hackerspeak.

so far everything has at least been remotely plausible although you can kind of tell that the actors themselves haven't been told which parts are actually the bits they should be putting emphasis on, but i guess that's not too bad of a deal considering they did their research and the hacking scenes aren't one guy mashing on his keyboard while trying to "reverse engineer the mainframe".

i still don't really care that much about the mc's subplot with his drug addiction but it's been handled in an ok way. everything else is pretty on point with writing and cinematography. i even only rolled my eyes a little bit at the fsociety/anoymous is leejun analog being made since it's barely touched on. i read some bitching on imdb or whatever about how the show has a "gay agenda" because there are 2 gay characters even though one is portrayed as somewhat inept and the other is the primary antagonist and is a sadomasochist patrick bateman-esque psychopath which is kind of the opposite of what most gays like in their agenda on TV portrayals you know what i mean

humans is still okay but as it goes on it starts to run flat to me because everyone is an exercise in extremes. every character's so 0-100. the robots are inexplicably superhuman at one time and then inexplicably become deaf as hell and unable to recognize that there's someone behind them in a relatively convenient plot point for the human but whatever

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 5:00 am #105021

ep4 got pretty meta with the hotel scene though so i didn't mind it too much

Takeguru · Post by **Takeguru** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 10:19 am #105051

Whatever cartoon my niece is watching.

Lately it's been steven universe and fuckloads of teen titans go reruns.

Remie Richards · Sat Jul 18, 2015 12:48 am

I've been getting up at 1 in the morning every day because I'm NEET for a while (off college) and e4 has a double bill of Tattoos After Dark.
I do not like Tattoos, I do not like Piercings, but I will HAPPILY sit and watch Tattoos After Dark.

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:20 am #106701

i seen that new mr robot episode and it's lit but then i get to the last couple of scenes and things start getting too real for a show about a drug-addled skiddie

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:23 am #106702

this swedish mf really did watch some random bitch urinate on national prime time cable tv

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:25 am #106704

'thank u for the lovely evening' leave

Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:53 am

Bojack Horseman season 2 is tight. For anyone who hasn't watched season 1, come on now, it's really good. This is also a PSA that season 2 is out.

Mr Robot is WAY better than I was expecting

Amnestik · Post by **Amnestik** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 8:48 am #106759

Remie Richards · Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:02 pm

HUMANS Finished, great finale

Spoiler:

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:59 pm #109139

I've been watching The League pretty much non-stop when I start to go to sleep.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 10:10 pm #109140

Started watching something called Dark Matter recently.

Its a sci-fi show, on sy-fy channel - who'd have thunk it.

Its a bit like Firefly meets Bourne Identity, in that its a ship full of misfits flying around that have lost their memories because of sabotage during cryosleep, and they all have bad ass fighting skills because *spoiler*
Even the crazy killer android with the nice arse ended up with her memory wiped when the crew reset her... who has now taken an oddly wisconsin housewife personality - I'm half waiting for her to pull out the bible.

Not bad... oddly addictive - although that might just be because I haven't been able to get my scifi fix since Stargate:Universe got cancelled (it was just getting good damn it! So was Caprica.)

Raptorgaming · Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:19 pm

I just started with S4 of the Wire an am waiting for: Game of Thrones S6, Person of Interest S5, House of Cards S4 and Better Call Saul S2.
Stuff that I plan to watch at some point: True Detective, The Walking Dead, Sense8 and Hannibal.
(I also really really hope that I'll get to see more of Black Mirror at some point. That show was incredible)

Mister_Doc · Post by **Mister_Doc** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 1:27 am #109488

I'm watching s2 of BoJack Horseman and looking to get into True Detective.

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Tue Aug 04, 2015 2:32 am

I'm watching Star Trek Deep Space 9 on Hulu.

Only one episode in but DS9 seems pretty cool. Hulu on the other hand is terrible and likes to shove waaaaay too many ads in.

Amnestik · Post by **Amnestik** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 5:19 am #109576

Hannibal has actually gotten pretty good later in the season. It's such shit that it got cancelled.

Mr. Robot is pretty meh. Writing isn't great and the main character is too unjustifiably edgy/boring/a voyeuristic dick for my tastes. They're saying a lot of things about consumerism too that I think would be pretty cutting edge if they'd been said about 6 years ago.

UnREAL is a new show I've been watching that sounds terrible on paper but is surprisingly good. It's a deconstruction of reality TV, and considering the amount of fucking idiotic reality TV we've had over the past 10 years, it's about time somebody pointed out the obvious engineering and exploitation that people seem to ignore.

Haven't seen this week's True Detective but I imagine it's pretty mediocre as usual.

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 4:29 am #117325

i'm already missing hannibal.

i bingewatched hemlock grove this weekend in a drunken wine haze. weird show. half the time it's teen wolf and the other 50% of the time it decides it wants to be evangelion. i don't hate it but i don't use the word 'like' for it either. they also used most of the budget for the wolf scenes, which are appropriately eli roth level grody.

it's been a minute since i read the book. some of this i don't think was in the book. i dunno how they spread this out to 3 seasons.

i was gonna watch narcos next but i have no more time to follow fall tv shows rip

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 5:08 am #117336

Narcos and Beyond Scared Straight.

EndgamerAzari · Tue Sep 08, 2015 5:40 pm

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON wrote:I'm watching Star Trek Deep Space 9 on Hulu.

Only one episode in but DS9 seems pretty cool. Hulu on the other hand is terrible and likes to shove waaaaay too many ads in.

DS9 was fun. Unlike the other Star Trek series, it's set in one static location so you get a lot of development with ongoing events and recurring characters.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 6:39 pm #117497

DS9 gets much better after the second season.

As does Babylon 5, which imo is the best sci series ever.

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 7:20 pm #117502

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 7:55 pm #117510

They typed out his speech impediment as part of his nickname? That is pretty hilarious

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 5:40 am #117617

Nobody call me Maccus anymore.

My name is now J-Smoove.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 2:56 am #147762

BAMPU

I watched all of Sherlock. It started out as wondering if there was anything to this phenomenon and it turned out to actually be interesting enough to see it all through. I would like the show a lot more if the audience was given a chance to piece out the small clues and stuff that Sherlock notices.

It's not great but it passed the time. I'll watch the next season as it goes for the same reason. It's not a great show, but it passes the time.

The Knick had a second season at the end of 2015 I somehow completely missed, which is fucking embarassing considering how much I loved the first season and anticipated the second. I'm the only person I know who gives a shit about the series so I guess how the fuck was I supposed to know.

Seriously though. Watch it. If you liked Boardwalk Empire, Peaky Blinders, or other near-turn-of-the-century dramas you might like this as well. It's fucking brutal.

Post by **oranges** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 8:39 am #147840

Blacklist

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 10:05 pm #147919

Nothing Recent... but I've made a habit of rewatching stuff. PLanning on doing a full rewatch of the Trailer Park Boys and Always Sunny.

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 10:46 pm #147931

Malkevin wrote: - Stargate:Universe -

was universe ever good? In my opinion I saw like the first couple episodes on syfy and was like "this is shiet". mostly because it didn't seem (in my brief memory of it) at all like SG1 or Atlantis. I think I'm gonna try re watching all of SG1 and Atlantis again, maybe I'll give universe another shot too

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 12:07 am #147949

They massively toned down the Dawson creek angtsy teen love shite in the second season, writers had finally pulled their heads out their arses and the last few episodes were actually good

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 12:52 am #147981

TheWiznard wrote:
Malkevin wrote: - Stargate:Universe -
was universe ever good? In my opinion I saw like the first couple episodes on syfy and was like "this is shiet". mostly because it didn't seem (in my brief memory of it) at all like SG1 or Atlantis. I think I'm gonna try re watching all of SG1 and Atlantis again, maybe I'll give universe another shot too

It's by no means as bad as people seem to think it is from what I understand, but it doesn't stand up to SG-1 or Atlantis. I've seen a little, thought it was neat. Should sit down and finish it. Unfortunately, it did get cancelled, so.... yea.

Fri Jan 22, 2016 3:27 am

Heroes Reborn wound up sucking but I'm too pot committed to stop since the last episode is tonight.

IcePacks · Post by **IcePacks** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 4:07 am #148029

the blacklist is still fantastic, despite the fact that it should be shit (probably because james spader is one of the best goddamn actors on the planet)

i've been trying to catch up on manhattan

waiting for all of marvel's shit

venture bros soon