TV Shows...What are you following?

[blueeyeboy]

Godless is canny good

[slave2u]

z nation
wynnoa earp
lucifer
st: discovery

[Stavros]

I have been able to watch the final, Season 6 of The Americans, which I rank alongside The Wire as the finest TV drama produced in the USA (I am not sure where in this context one puts Game of Thrones -is it American?)

The Americans has had a peculiar tv history in the UK. Seasons 1 and 2 were broadcast on the terrestrial channel ITV, but Seasons 3-5 were relegated to an online channel called ITV Encore that was inaccessible to me and most viewers. When the final season began it was broadcast on ITV 4 at 10pm on Wednesday for the first half, then pushed back to Midnight. In addition, whereas Seasons 1 and 2 appeared as DVD box sets, Season 3 only became available in the UK in 2017, and none of the other Seasons are available on DVD, certainly not in the UK. Homeland, by contrast, has retained its peak time slot at 9pm on Channel 4.

I don't know why The Americans has been treated so badly, possibly because of the ratings? And yet, even with some of the drama-only, rather than real history moments, it is rare that so much care was taken to give depth to character with regard to both the Jennings family and the FBI trying to find the sleepers. In particular, the use of Russian actors speaking in Russian with English sub-titles gave tremendous authenticity to the kind of drama that even in the 1990s would have had an American with a phony Russian accent standing in for the real thing.

This was a Cold War drama that was based on the real life experiences of Directorate S that sent undercover agent to live in the US to spy and sabotage. The development of character enabled us to see how living in the US 'turned' Philip to warm to life in the US where his wife Elizabeth never did, while their recruitment of their daughter presents perhaps the most tragic case, as at the end having abandoned her parents and unsure of her fate, even her identity, she downs a glass of vodka in a lonely apartment.

Keri Russell has been sensational throughout these 6 seasons, and though she has made some duff films (Planet of the Apes vol 76 or whichever one it is) and was briefly in the second Mission:Impossible, one hopes her talents will now be used to the good. Much as I like Carrie Mathieson, Russell to me has been a fine example of a strong female lead character defining a drama in the absence of the others in US drama series. The last episode in the season was brilliantly done. And again, ignored by the UK media. Such a shame for such a fine show we cannot do in the UK (even the title sequence is superior to anything found on UK tv). Bravo, America. Now give me those box sets so I can watch it all again!

[Ben in LA]

Power
Billions
I need to catch up on Empire and Star
House Hunters (The whole franchise)

[trish]

Westworld,
The Expanse.
That's pretty much all I've been watching this summer.

[josehip]

shows I watch on tv right now
westworld
pose
supergirl

shows I like to watch in between seasons right now:
twin peaks the return
mosaic
the deuce
big mouth
star trek discovery
veep
grown-ish
jessica jones
atlanta
the good place
master of none
dear white people

shows I don't really care but I watch just to kill time (also in between seasons):
kimmy schimidt
luke cage
daredevil
modern family
stranger things

shows that I want to watch
queen sugar
the chi
the expanse
killing eve
the good fight
angie tribeca

and FINALLY shows that I watched and for some reason I stopped watching and I plan to return to watch it:
THE AMERICANS
legion
broadchurch
fleabag

[MrFanti]

Since I don't really have much free time just one: Jessica Jones

[Cuchulain]

Waiting for the 2nd season of Goliath to drop on Amazon (6/15) and luke cage on Netflix (6/22). Going to binge Westworld 2 on Hbo and Glitch 2 on Netflix. Finished Altered Carbon on Netflix. Was pretty good.

[pantybulge69]

" POSE "on FX channel . new transgender TV series. Every sunday night.

[pantybulge69]

cloak& dagger
Pose
queen of the south
Into the Badlands
luke cage
iron fist
defenders
jessica jones
midnight texas
stranger things
atlanta
Flash
daredevil
Van Helsing
the Punisher
American Horror Story
7 seconds
A series of unfortunate events
Hemlock Grove
Snowfall
Lost in Space
dear white people
Troy- Fall of a city
roxanne roxanne

normally watch empire and star when premiered.