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- CreatorMichael SchurStarsKristen BellWilliam Jackson HarperJameela JamilFour people and their otherworldly frienemy struggle in the afterlife to define what it means to be good.2/5 (S2 1st Run) The show that begs the question, Where can they go with this? Well, they took things into wonderful and rich directions in season 2, while ted Danson delivered the best performance of his career.
- CreatorFred ArmisenCarrie BrownsteinJonathan KriselStarsFred ArmisenCarrie BrownsteinKyle MacLachlanA sketch-comedy series that parodies life in Portland, Oregon.2/20 (S7:1st time 8) Still fresh and funny in it's 8th season, Portlandia continues to be excellent because it's a sketch comedy approach to fully fleshed out characters. And the keen observations continue, with my personal favorite being Instant Trash skewing the type of low price products we buy that we instantly throw out or wind up in a draw.
- CreatorDuane CapizziBill FingerMichael GoguenStarsRino RomanoAlastair DuncanEvan SabaraBillionaire Bruce Wayne fights crime and evil as the mysterious Batman.2/21 (S1: 1st time 8) It's a kids cartoon, that I could not stop watching. And even though it gets way to punny, it's very entertaining, with a two-part season finale that is genuinely captivating.
- CreatorFred ArmisenBill HaderSeth MeyersStarsHelen MirrenFred ArmisenBill Hader"Documentary Now!" parodies the current obsession with documentaries. Season one features six different stories and stylistic approaches paying tribute to the doc format.2/22 (s2: 1st time 8) I might be a plus to know what they are parodying, but they are funny even when you don't. The Salesman homage Globes is amazing, and that two part Kids Stays in Pictures send-up is a masterpiece.
- CreatorDavid CraneJeffrey KlarikStarsMatt LeBlancStephen ManganTamsin GreigA couple of British TV producers move to Hollywood to export their most popular series, and find it is not what they expected.2/22 (S5: 1st time 7) It ends in a way that feels like something the creators came up with when they developed the pilot. Plus, with the short order (seven episode), Carol doesn't get a proper sendoff. That said, it's still funny, and the characters are still great, but it could have finished stronger.
- CreatorJames BobinJemaine ClementBret McKenzieStarsJemaine ClementBret McKenzieRhys DarbyBret and Jemaine are Flight of the Conchords, a folk-rock band from New Zealand living in New York City in search of stardom.2/28 (S2: 1st time 7) It feels like a good place to leave this often hilarious quirky little show. Even though it stayed fairly consistent, it spun it's wheel a bit in the story department.
- CreatorPete HolmesStarsPete HolmesGeorge BasilJamie LeeA New York comic is forced to make a new start for himself after his wife leaves him.3/1 (s1: 1st time 9) It's refreshing to see a Christian lead set in the middle of compromising positions. It's an honest look at faith that the faithful don't get involved with, which is why their movies suck.
3/20 (s2: 1st time: 8) Even though Pete's transition from naïve Christian to naïve reformed Christian is a little rough, watching the characters growth in comedy has been captivating. Also, the season finishes very strong, with definitive moments where we get to see him grow as a person through experience. - DirectorStan LathanStarsDave ChappelleDonnell RawlingsDave talks about not actually growing up in the projects, the hate he received from the transgender community, and from fake news.3/4 He's honest and effortless which is exactly what I want from my comedians.
- CreatorBryan FullerStarsHugh DancyMads MikkelsenCaroline DhavernasExplores the early relationship between renowned psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter and a young FBI criminal profiler who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers.3/14 (S2: 2nd time: 10) It's really one of the best seasons of television ever. A bold, cinematic, no-holds-barred, uncompromising vision worthy of the praise it never received.
- CreatorArmando IannucciStarsJulia Louis-DreyfusTony HaleAnna ChlumskyFormer Senator Selina Meyer finds that being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she hoped and everything that everyone ever warned her about.3/18 (S4: 1st time: 8) This originally aired in 2015. My God, how quaint. What once would seem like satire is now where I wish we were. That is how much of a joke we've become. The show itself, still funny, just not as biting simply because I'm too late the party.
4/6 (S5 1st Time: 10) So tight (or narrow, if you'd prefer), and cleaver, and funny, and wonderfully vulgar - this is the best season of Veep yet. - CreatorDavid CraneMarta KauffmanStarsJennifer AnistonCourteney CoxLisa KudrowFollows the personal and professional lives of six twenty to thirty year-old friends living in the Manhattan borough of New York City.3/27 (S1: 1st Time: 6ish) It makes for solid background noise. It rarely makes me laugh. But the cast, who have all gone off to do things that are much, much better (sometimes), are charming. It's perfect viewing just beyond my tablet.
5/14 (S2: 1st time: 6) - CreatorChris CarterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiTwo F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.3/31 (S11 :1st Run: 8) If you subtract the Carter aspects including the unbearable first episode, this is a very good, often great season that at times is able to recapture some of the magic of the early years.
7/5 (S2: 2nd Time:8) The pacing can be a bit mild, and some of the "lore" is overdone. But the appeal, and the chemistry is undeniable.
12/24 (S3: 2nd time: 8) - CreatorDavid AngellPeter CaseyDavid LeeStarsKelsey GrammerJane LeevesDavid Hyde PierceDr. Frasier Crane moves back to his hometown of Seattle, where he lives with his father and works as a radio psychiatrist.4/8 (s4 3rd time: 10)
8/15 (S5 3rd time:10) - CreatorAlex GansaHoward GordonStarsClaire DanesMandy PatinkinDamian LewisA bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.4/9 (S5 1st time: 8)
6/5 (S6 1st Time: 9) - CreatorNatasha LeggeroRiki LindhomeStarsNatasha LeggeroRiki LindhomeArmen WeitzmanA mockumentary-style period piece comedy that follows members of the wealthy Bellacourt family and their servants in early 20th-century Newport, Rhode Island.4/9 (S2 1st time: 8)
- CreatorJohn AltschulerMike JudgeDave KrinskyStarsThomas MiddleditchT.J. MillerJosh BrenerFollows the struggle of Richard Hendricks, a Silicon Valley engineer trying to build his own company called Pied Piper.4/20 (S5 1st time: 10) It's not only consistently funny but it is also consistently genuine. It feels so real, so lived in, that i'm sure most of these stories were stolen off the hard drive of a tech guy's journal.
- DirectorRyan PolitoStarsBenji AllonbeIke BarinholtzSacha Baron CohenSeth Rogen hosts an evening of comedy to raise awareness for Alzheimer's disease.4/27
- CreatorJack AmielMichael BeglerStarsClive OwenAndré HollandJeremy BobbA look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century.5/1 (S1 1st time: 4) I know I'm in the minority on this one, but as cool as the cool can be, I never felt invested in any of it. It's why it took me years to get through this first season.
- CreatorIvan RaimiSam RaimiTom SpezialyStarsBruce CampbellRay SantiagoDana DeLorenzoAsh has spent the last thirty years avoiding responsibility, maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead until a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind and Ash becomes mankind's only hope.5/1 (S3 1st Run: 9) It will be sorely missed. There will never be anything else like it.
- CreatorSimon KinbergCarrie BeckDave FiloniStarsDave FiloniTaylor GrayFreddie Prinze Jr.The crew of the spaceship Ghost defends those who cannot fight for themselves against the Empire, providing the spark for a rebellion.5/6 (S1 1st Run:7) At it's worst it's your standard issue Saturday morning cartoon: fun and unexceptional. But at it's best, it's right up there and exceeds the movies.
- CreatorDonald GloverStarsDonald GloverBrian Tyree HenryLaKeith StanfieldEarn and his cousin, Alfred, try to make their way in the world through Atlanta's rap scene. Along the way they come face-to-face with social and economic issues touching on race, relationships, poverty, status and parenthood.5/10 (S2 1st Run: 9.7)
- CreatorDan GoorMichael SchurStarsAndy SambergStephanie BeatrizTerry CrewsComedy series following the exploits of Det. Jake Peralta and his diverse, lovable colleagues as they police the NYPD's 99th Precinct.5/21 (S5 1st Run: 9)
- CreatorAlec BergBill HaderStarsBill HaderStephen RootSarah GoldbergA hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.5/23 (S1 1st Run: 8)
- StarsJessica BardenAlex LawtherSteve OramJames is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a road trip in search of her real father.6/20 (S1 !st time: 8) A serial killer comedy by way of Wes Anderson, this gets more and more appealing as the series goes on.
- CreatorLisa JoyJonathan NolanStarsEvan Rachel WoodJeffrey WrightEd HarrisAt the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, waits a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.6/24 (S2 1st Run: 8)
- CreatorJudd ApatowLesley ArfinPaul RustStarsGillian JacobsPaul RustClaudia O'DohertyA program that follows a couple who must navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment, and other things they were hoping to avoid.6/23 (S2 1st time: 7) What holds me back from loving Love is Paul Rust. The characters is a bit of a judgmental jackass, and it bothers me. Generally I like the show.
- CreatorDan HarmonStarsJoel McHaleDanny PudiDonald GloverA suspended lawyer is forced to enroll in a community college with an eccentric staff and student body.6/29 (S1 1st time: 7) I watched a handful of these on the first run. It seemed to be right up my alley, but something kept me at arms length. Although I could see how cleaver it was, it never made me laugh. All these years later, I've given it a second shot, and I'm glad I did. Although Joel McHale is problematic (he not funny, and making him a defacto leader does not work), and Chase seems out of place (also a reminder of just how much McHale's poor man's Chase doesn't work), it's the other players, who have gone off and started remarkable careers of there owns, whom make this winning comedy. It's not until the back half of the first season, where Harmon is set loose, that makes me look forward to what's to come.
- CreatorBryan FullerMichael GreenStarsRicky WhittleEmily BrowningYetide BadakiA recently released ex-convict named Shadow meets a mysterious man who calls himself "Wednesday" and who knows more than he first seems to about Shadow's life and past.6/29 (S1 1st time: 8)
- CreatorDmitry LipkinStarsEddie IzzardMinnie DriverShannon WoodwardA family of crooks assume the identity of an upper-middle-class suburban clan in the Deep South.7/6 (S1 1st Time: 7)
- StarsOliver PlattKevin ConwayDaniel SunjataA look at the New York Yankees attempt to win the 1977 World Series. Based on Jonathan Mahler's book "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning."7/23 (mini-series 1st time) And I gotta say, this is mostly awful, and both Turturro and Platt seem to know it. The execution of the material is so misguided that there is no way this thing could have ever worked.
- CreatorMark FrostDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanMichael OntkeanMädchen AmickAn idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.7/24 (S1 3rd Time: 9)
11/16 (S2 1st time all the way through: 7) - CreatorTom GormicanKevin EttenStarsAdam ScottCraig RobinsonAlly WalkerA skeptical tough ex-cop is forced to team up with a nerdy scientist who is a firm believer in the paranormal. They must help a secret L.A.-based government agency deal with unexplained and paranormal occurrences.7/29 (S1 1st Time: 8) Too bad it got canceled just as they figured it out. The first half of the season was a slightly amusing riff on the buddy cop genre. But the retooled second half, turning the show into an office comedy By beefing up secondary roles and adding new characters, benefited the overall tone and laugh quotient.
- CreatorLiz FlahiveCarly MenschStarsAlison BrieMarc MaronBetty GilpinA look at the personal and professional lives of a group of women who perform for a wrestling organization in Los Angeles during the 1980s.8/2 (S2 1st Time:9)
- DirectorBo BurnhamStarsChris RockSpike LeeChris Rock takes the stage in Brooklyn for a comedy special filled with searing observations on fatherhood, infidelity and American politics.8/4
- CreatorSharon HorganStarsSarah Jessica ParkerThomas Haden ChurchMolly ShannonA couple goes through a long, drawn-out divorce.8/5 (s1 1st time: 7)
- CreatorChris FedakJosh SchwartzStarsZachary LeviYvonne StrahovskiJoshua GomezWhen a computer geek inadvertently downloads critical government secrets into his brain, both the CIA and the NSA assign an agent to protect him and exploit his newfound skills.9/19 (s5 1st time: 8) Strong final season top a very fun series.
- CreatorMatt GroeningJosh WeinsteinStarsAbbi JacobsonEric AndréNat FaxonPrincess Tiabeanie, 'Bean', is annoyed at her imminent arranged marriage to Prince Merkimer. Then she meets Luci, a demon, and Elfo, an elf, and things get rather exciting, and dangerous.9/21 (S1 1st time: 8) I'm looking forward to seeing where this series goes.
- CreatorMarti NoxonStarsAmy AdamsPatricia ClarksonChris MessinaAfter treating her mental illness, crime reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown to solve the murder of two young girls. However, she is forced to face and deal with her own demons too.9/23 (Mini-Series 1st time)
- CreatorBill DubuqueMark WilliamsStarsJason BatemanLaura LinneySofia HublitzA financial advisor drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder money to appease a drug boss.10/2 (S2 1st time: 9)
- CreatorNorm MacDonaldStarsNorm MacDonaldAdam EgetMichael KeatonBased on his podcast, comedian and former Saturday Night Live (1975) alumni Norm Macdonald and his sidekick Adam Eget sit down and chat with celebrity guests about their life, career and views in a somewhat unconventional and often irreverent way.10/6 (s1 1st time: 9)
- CreatorVince GilliganPeter GouldStarsBob OdenkirkRhea SeehornJonathan BanksThe trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill in the years leading up to his fateful run-in with Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.10/8 (S4: 1st time: 9)
- 20068 epsTV-146.8 (5.5K)TV Mini SeriesStarsRobert MammoneKodi Smit-McPheeWilliam H. MacyA television mini-series adaptation of Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Stephen King's collection of short horror stories.10/24 (mini-series: 1st time)
- CreatorMike FlanaganStarsMichiel HuismanCarla GuginoHenry ThomasFlashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.10/25 ((s1: 1st time) Ultimately a disappointment considering how brilliant the bulk of the series has been and what soft-served dookie the feed us in the finale.
- CreatorCary Joji FukunagaPatrick SomervilleStarsEmma StoneJonah HillSonoya MizunoTwo strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial for a drug that they're assured will, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, permanently solve all of their problems. Things do not go as planned.10/26 (mini-series: 1st time)
- StarsVanda ChaloupkováHana BaronováVojtech HýzdalA chilling glimpse into the first-person accounts from people who have witnessed horrifying, peculiar, extraordinary supernatural events and other unexplained phenomena that continue to haunt them.11/9 (s1: 1st time)
- DirectorBen DeJesusStarsJohn LeguizamoRubén BladesAndres Nicolas ChavesLatin History for Morons: John Leguizamo's Road to Broadway captures John's quest to cram 3,000 years of history into 90 minutes of stage time and bring a whole new set of historical characters back to life as one man. Infused throughout the documentary is John's special brand of humor and openness. The road to his ultimate goal - his next Broadway hit - unfolds in a fun, intriguing, and poignant adventure that not only offers an intimate look into the journey of a passionate artist, but also shines a light on the rarely-told stories of Latino heroes who made their mark on America. Featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of the one-man show taking shape, the film follows John's riveting process - from his early inspirations and research, to his first-ever comedy club tour, through workshops of the show - before culminating in performances at the historic Public Theater as he aims for a Broadway run. Along the way, John navigates the challenges of writing (and re-writing) history lessons meant to enlighten and entertain.12/4
- CreatorMark FrostDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanSheryl LeeMichael HorsePicks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.12/19
- CreatorRob McElhenneyGlenn HowertonStarsCharlie DayGlenn HowertonRob McElhenneyFive friends with big egos and small brains are the proprietors of an Irish pub in Philadelphia.12/29 (S1: 1st time: 8) It's only 7 episodes, but I mainlined this sh!t. I've understood why I haven't gone all in on this show. Every time I watch it, I'm laughing.