TV we've been watching lately

[Ambious]

Y'all should be watching the new With Bob and David on Netflix, because these old motherfuckers still got it.

It's true

They have their moments, some of it falls flat though.
At the absolute top of their run is this piece of brilliance:

[Really_Quite_Nice]

 
So, uh... Gravity Falls is wonderful.

I was also (unexpectedly) charmed by iZombie.

[Kaleidoscope]

Gravity Falls has to be one of the best cartoons that Disney Channel ever showed.

Too bad they kept on having hiatuses so much. I never understood why it took so long for episodes to come out

[Fanzay]

The Americans is really good, I'm liking it so far, nine episodes in. I like that they play it completely straight.

[A Meat]

Restaurant: Impossible is pretty great, it's like Kitchen Nightmares only with a slightly different focus.

[chai tea latte]

I'm tentatively excited about Vinyl. Anyone else?

e: nope

[speedbath]

Love came out on Netflix today. It's some kind of comedy TV show thing, ten episodes. I like it.

Paul Rust and Gillian Jacobs are in it.

[Ambious]

Love came out on Netflix today. It's some kind of comedy TV show thing, ten episodes. I like it.

Paul Rust and Gillian Jacobs are in it.

I watched half of it already but decided to stop.
The neurotic schtick gets annoying after a while, and even worse - Russ reminds me of who I used to be and kinda still am in some ways, and it's a sad personal reminder I don't really need in my life.

[A Whirring Bone-White Gleech]

A friend just got me into Letterkenny, it was great.

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I imagine that it made Boot's life a living hell.

[eldritchhat]

Hey, if anyone likes Portlandia at all, definitely check out Bill Hader and Fred Armisen's Documentary Now!

It's basically a show that parodies different styles of documentary, from investigative to band documentary. It is quite funny, and surprisingly inline if you've seen many documentaries. However, they have not done a Herzog parody yet, so I'm hoping that'll be in the next season.

[CormansInferno]

Everything is Terrible/Memory Hole's Adult Swim pilot Gigglefudge USA is up. Watching this much Memory Hole in one sitting might not be advisable.

[chai tea latte]

The Expanse is a caramel macchiato everyone-is-queer hard sci-fi space opera and it doesn't give a shit if you're not into that.  The soundtrack (ambient/electronic instead of thundering Bear McCreary drums) and world design are great, and my only complaint so far is that it's almost too dense - I never read Leviathan Wakes and there's very little narrative hand-holding - but if you liked the first few seasons of Game of Thrones or Battlestar Galactica you'll almost definitely like this.

[Turtle]

Who wants to talk about the latest in modern television, The Wire?

[Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop]

Who wants to talk about the latest in modern television, The Wire?

I'm always ready to talk about the wire

[CormansInferno]

I never even watched this show but this is fantastic breakdown of 9/11-era pop culture. Please be advised there's some intense action movie violence:

"24" was the Bush administration's favorite TV show. It was also a quasi-apocalyptic nightmare that reduced America to a cathedral of death worship. That is not coincidental.