Top tv shows currently airing

enough of the kid shows. yeah, i'm looking at you Game of Thrones, Marvel shows, and Mr. Robots. what are the best currently airing shows for adults? by that, i don't mean porn, but actual quality shows that explore adult themes. off the top of my head, i'd put the following in that category:

Rectify
The Girlfriend Experience
House of Cards
The Fall
High Maintenance (this one's borderline)
Top of the Lake

any others? i'm probably missing a lot. i'd love to read some recommendations. there are way too many series out there to watch and i'd like to sift through the mediocre stuff.

The Leftovers

yeah, i've tried that but only got two or three episodes in and couldn't get into it. i should give it a another try as i heard good things about the show.

Please explain why TGE and HoC belong on the list. I thought anyone who loves Rectify would have guaranteed decent tastes but you might prove me wrong

Quarry, solid show if you like REctify

House of Cards explores the dynamic of a political power couple. yes, it gets heavy-handed at times, but i think the performances sometimes outweigh the poignancy or nuance. the first two seasons doe this best, but Mrs. Underwood's relationship with her mother was handled quite well.

The Girlfriend Experience is my favorite discovery of the year. the show explores how a woman may be seduced into escorting. it also delves into the relationships an upper class escort has with clients and parallels them to the one's she has with family and coworkers.

it's okay if you do not care for the shows. no big deal. but to claim they aren't quality shows is facetious at best and downright imbecilic at worst.

Young Pope is the best show currently airing, easily

anything written by lindelof is most definitely for children.

also television is dead, read a book negro.

oh damn, i forgot about that show. i recall the trailer for it was quite captivating. thanks for reminding me of it, i'll check it out soon.

i'm currently reading Umberto Eco's Baudolino, William Faulkner's The Unvanquished, Norman Mailer's Picasso bio, and Thomas McGuane's Crow Fair.

what books are you reading?

yeah, that's Sorrentino's new one, right? i'm waiting for it to air here in the states in January, i think.

Just because it has to be said...

you can apply that level of interpretation to just about anything. The only barrier are concepts surrounding artistic intent. But fuck artistic intent.

>im reading 4 books at once

kek pseud detected

also, Umberto is YA trash, Faulkner and his corncobby chronicles are ignored by any real literati, nonfiction is laughably autistic, and Crow Fair isn't even a proper book, its an anthology.

In conclusion kys desu, you're not even a committed enough pseud to fit on on /lit/ and you should go back to shitposting cunny threads or something.

going to have to try harder, mate. obvious bait is obvious.

indeed. i was simply stating the reasons i enjoy those shows, not writing a dissertation as to your barriers of artistic merit or intent. if you're up for it, i'd like to read a list as to why you find those shows unequal to the others.

The Young Pope

Salem

The Americans.

>Currently airing
>implying it will get a second season

THIS
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Used to be Quarry, now it's The Young Pope.

house of cards and the fall both shit the bed, rectify is good though

fargo
its always sunny
true detective
silicon valley

why dont we have shit that Sup Forums watches general ; - ;

still waiting for The Expanse new season.

I thought this was a Rectify thread where I could express my hate towards Trey. Turns out it's not.

>HoC shat the bed
>mentions True Detective
Wew

>The Fall
i agree the third season was a let down. i still enjoyed aspects of it, though.

>House of Cards
the first two seasons were topnotch. the rest isn't up to par, but still not rotten.

this reminds me of The West Wing after Sorkin left. the quality drop off was evident. while that show dropped off a cliff quality-wise, i don't think either The Fall nor House of Cards suffered that much.

Fargo is great. forgot that one. i can't get into Silicon Valley. from what i've seen of Sunny it's quite funny. the less said about the second season of True Detective the better. however, i applaud Pizzolatto for attempting this type of ensemble cop noir. sucks he failed with his second attempt.

Echoing The Young Pope as the best show currently airing. I didn't watch the most recent season of House of Cards, but I saw the first three and they were mediocre.

The Leftovers and Fargo are also decent, although the latter doesn't focus on big adult themes as much.

Did you actually watch 2 or 3? The third episode is a lot different from the first two, and is one of the best in Season 1 IMO.

>The Leftovers
yes. the last thing i recall seeing was an episode where a man drives up to a compound where some prophet resides. something like that. i really could not get over the silly smoking cult thing in the first or second episode.

Pustina is the best show atm.
Channel Zero is comfy.

just read a little about that. apparently it's called Wasteland here in the states. i look forward to checking it out.

another show i recently dug was Fortitude. it's not great, but the setting is intriguing. matter of fact, it does get rather silly at times. more of a guilty pleasure than anything.

>Fortitude
I really liked it. Strong atmosphere. Intruiging setting. It gets a bit over the top at times but apart from the rabid violence it is patrician.
No bad guys, no love interest, no beautiful people, no happiness, no family values. Just a lot of suspense and a solid finish.
One of my all time favorites. In January next season comes out.

>The Americans
>Nathan For You
>You're the Worst

Those are my favorite shows that are still running. YtW is the only one currently airing at the moment though and the season finale is tomorrow.

How has Rectify s4 been? I'm waiting for it to end so I can watch it all at once, I absolutely adore that series.

this!

doing the same thing here. i usually give a series a good headstart before catching up with it.

Westworld

It's the last season, you oughta watch it weekly just so you can discuss new episodes with fans one last time

I can't watch a series as it is coming out weekly for some reason. I was able to do it with LOST since that was fun and exciting taking part in the discussion but I just like watching a series at my own pace.

>#nofilter #cloudporn #instanature

The Americans, nothing comes close.

mah nigga

while i like The Americans, i find stretches of subplots rather boring. especially the children and the FBI character. it's like they found the most boring aspects of these characters and focused on that to heighten the drama of the main protagonists. just my opinion. i think it's a mediocre spy show and don't really understand why it's lauded so.

>Rectify getting good discussion on Sup Forums

I'm sorry I don't see it but it's nice knowing the series has a decent fanbase here in the mix of capeshit

>lethal weapon
>Blunt Talk
>The Expanse
>Planet Earth 2

hoc is awful post s2
true detective i have hope for considering it will start fresh
honestly i felt like even the second season of the fall was showing cracks. i didnt even watch the third.

The Leftovers
The Young Pope
Better Call Saul
Westworld
Bloodline

Bloodline's first season was amazing. the second one, not so much. i'm still waiting on Westworld to finish up to start watching it. from what i've seen in discussion threads here, i'm not expecting much. hope i'm surprised.

It's pretty good. And it's almost always worth watching Ed Harris and Anthony Hopkins.

Isn't Rectify just some drama about guy who gets out of prison and has to reajust? what's so good about it? does he start becoming a criminal secretly or what exactly goes on without spoilers.

>does he start becoming a criminal secretly

>from what i've seen in discussion threads

>2016
>still believing anything coming from image boards

nigga please

>Pustina
Stop shilling this and then not telling me how to get it. I know it's you making those fucking threads.

I gave first season a chance, it's mind numbingly boring.

Black Mirror

Black Mirror is the very definition of reddit sensibility Sup Forumsedoracore.

you have to understand the world of emotions to get this show

sorry

Ash vs Evil Dead

The exorcist is good, and somehow understands what made the movie good

great sound design, everything is filthy and grimey, and the plot is interesting so far

>Isn't Rectify just some drama about guy who gets out of prison and has to reajust?
yes. however, this line of thinking is questionable because you can reduce any narrative to a single sentence and make it sound dull. Isn't The Sopranos just about the Italian Mafia? Isn't The Wire just about cops and drug dealers? see?

what's good about Rectify is the pace, character interplay, and how the mystery is handled whether the protagonist committed the crime, had a hand in it, or did not. while some find the series too slow paced, i find it refreshing and the characters strong and well-written.

I'm autistic and I understood it. Try harder.

Is Rectify finished yet? Season 2 made me realize that the show is too slow to watch week to week and I enjoy it more just marathoning it.

ok i'll give it a shot, thanks.

while i enjoy the concepts behind each Black Mirror episode, i find the writing/dramaturgy often sophomoric and no better than a Law and Order SVU episode (damn my ex for making me watch that shit).

you did not if you found it boring.

try again

Don't bring SVU into this, its the funniest thing on television by a huge margin.

as in SVU is so awful, it's hilarious, right?man, that show sucks.

The Knick
BoJack Horseman
Fargo
The Leftovers
The Americans
Peaky Blinders
Underground

Baskets
Better Call Saul
Casual

The Knick is amazing.
Peaky Blinders? not so much.
need to check out Underground.

>the knick
but they killed the only person worth watching the show for

Baskets and Casual. need to check those out.

yeah, sucks. i heard they're going for a change up every 2 seasons. set at the knick but in a different time and different characters.

oops, meant to reply to

Seconding Quarry, it's probably televisions best kept secret at the moment

cool, thanks. i'll check out Quarry soon.

1. Rectify
2. The Leftovers
3. The Young Pope
4. Rick and Morty
5. Fargo
6. You're the Worst

You're the Worst is more miss than hit with me. i've only seen the first season and by the end of that the side characters had grown beyond obnoxious to barely watchable. i did enjoy some of the interplay between the two leads, though.

The Knick became a fucking cartoon during the second season. Unwatchable.