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2020 TV Guide List - Acacia Darlington - June 4, 2020

2020 TV Shows Charmers Watch

Hello all! So I piggybacked off of Fallin and staff and decided we need a thread to list our go-to shows! Feel free to begin your own lists and a one to five * rating. Five being +.

I also invite y'all to make discussion threads for the shows you're really passionate about, and PM me a link so I can put a directory here!


RE: 2020 TV Guide List - Acacia Darlington - June 4, 2020

Kelly's Watch List


RE: 2020 TV Guide List - Sisse Thompsett - June 4, 2020

What the Fallin Household is currently watching:
Great British Baking Show - collection 6
Arrow - Season 5
The Flash - Season 3
Legends of Tomorrow - Season 2
Sugar Rush - Season 1
The Repair Shop - Season 1

What the Fallin Household finished this year:
Great British Baking Show - collection 5
Arrow - Season 4
The Flash - Season 2
Legends of Tomorrow - Season 1
The Good Place - Seasons 1-3

RE: 2020 TV Guide List - Charlotte Beauregard - June 4, 2020

I'm rewatching Gossip Girl (on Season 3 now!) purely so I can once again relish in the slowburn of my OTP. xD

RE: 2020 TV Guide List - Charity Lloyd - June 4, 2020

I'm admittedly more of a tv-watcher than a video-gamer or book-reader. >.>

Avatar the Last Airbender - ★★★★★
Intended for children, but offers a plot with a more fulfilling ending than most modern "adult" tv shows. It features amazing characters and character development, a redemption arc, and lessons that I was amazed to find they were teaching children back in the mid-2000's!
Streaming on: Netflix

The Great - ★★★★
A dramatized and often fictionalized take on the life of Czar Peter and Catherine the Great. Despite its vulgar and profanity-laced humor, I thought it was pretty funny. The costuming is to die for, and Elle Fanning is always a win in my book.
Streaming on: Hulu

Anne with an E - ★★★★★
Based on the Anne of Green Gables novels, AWAE focuses on Anne Shirley's early life as she goes from being an overworked orphan to a daughter. It's a little dark, but that's apart of its charm; it never shies away fro the realities of the era and the struggles girls like her would have faced at the time. It's a coming of age tale mixed with romance in the later seasons, and it a beautiful and wonderfully-acted period piece. Its third season wrapped at the end of last year, so all seasons are now streaming!
Streaming on: Netflix

Good Omens - ★★★★★
Based on the novel by the same name, Good Omens follows a demon and an angel who've befriended each other over the millenniums despite being on opposite sides. When the Antichrist is born, they must decide whether to embrace their separate natures or conspire to stop the Great War for coming. It's a charming plot with interesting side-characters, and the David Tennant and Michael Sheen have amazing chemistry in every scene. It came out last summer, but I'll spend the day watching it if I'm bored because I can.
Streaming on: Amazon Prime


RE: 2020 TV Guide List - Elias Grimstone - June 4, 2020

MJ's Very Subjective Guide To Television

Forever Faves: God help you if you follow me on Tumblr. You have probably seen more than you ever wanted to of these.
Black Sails: Hello "rewatching Black Sails" is my permanent state of being, once I get to the finale I immediately start from the beginning again with no shame. Did you know "shame" and "civilisation" and "storytelling" are the main themes of the show - did you know people have delved into meta even about the artwork in the backgrounds of scenes because there is that much symbolism and foreshadowing in this show? If it were a novel it would be a literary masterpiece. Much to untangle. Shakespearean-level soliloquys. LGBT+ characters. Violence and humour and political tension and somehow builds to insane levels of nuance. Did I mention pirates?

The Terror: S1 (it turned into an anthology show) is based on the Franklin Expedition but with a touch of horror and survival genre tropes as well as a lot of attention to historical detail. (THE WRITERS CARED SO MUCH ABOUT THEIR HISTORY I CRY -) If you have ever wanted to watch 129 Victorian British men die in the Arctic of scurvy, lead poisoning, stabbings, cannibalism and monster spirit bears and do it all whilst ruminating on Victorian masculinity, the colonial mindset, tenderness and compassion and brotherhood, this is the show for you. It's a-okay if at the start you can't tell any of the men apart. (Based on a book by Dan Simmons but don't read the book it's trash, the show treats its women and gay characters and basically everything way better. I thank god every day that the television show did not put in the sex scene set in a platypus pond.)

Derry Girls: Another always-rewatching except this one is the light comedy kind. Sitcom set in '90s Northern Ireland. The girls are genuinely the most accurate disaster-teenagers to ever exist on TV and you will die laughing. The first episode with their group detention is iconic. Will not take you long at all to get through!


Currently Watching:
The Great: I am also recommending this show about Catherine becoming empress of Russia. Comical period drama. Begins with Catherine's marriage to Peter, who has Cash Lestrange's face but Kristoffer Lestrange's idiocy. I'm only halfway through but she's plotting a coup so. I love.

The Good Fight: I just started season 4 which begins with Diane Lockhart, Christine Baranski as a lawyer, having an alternate-reality episode where Hillary Clinton won the election. Sharp law show that isn't afraid to deal with current events and politics and is also extremely off-the-wall. Season Three even featured catchy little songs/animated shorts in the middle of the episodes.

Edit: also I really need people I know to watch Succession, primarily so they can then watch the greatest parody video of all time and laugh with me.


RE: 2020 TV Guide List - Billie Farrow - June 4, 2020

I'm literally just going to list ones that I've either seen recently or thought of recently because I could go on and on.

Currently Watching:
To Watch:
Favorites I'm Always Revisiting:
Have Watched & Would Recommend:

RE: 2020 TV Guide List - Ellory Lestrange - June 5, 2020

Agreed on Avatar that a few people mentioned!

Shows I watched recently:
Defending Jacob - ****
It's a mystery drama, really entertaining but the ending was kinda disappointing.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - *****
I have so much love for this series omg. It's got a great aesthetic and it's super funny.
The Medicis - ***
It was entertaining and I found the two final seasons great. The first season suffered from lack of budgeting I guess, people looked exactly the same as they did 20 years ago and some plots were cheesy. But it was entertaining in the way The White Queen was.
The Plot Against America - *****
A mini series speculating on what would have happened if a republican / pro nazi ish president has been elected during WW2. It focuses around a Jewish family, each member taking a different path. I really enjoyed how fleshed out each character was and how they all genuinely thought they were doing the right and good thing. It's based on a novel that I now want to read.

Other favourites:
Black Mirror - *****
It's a science fiction ish show about how technology could change our lives, for the worst usually but not all episodes are bleak. The episodes are like mini movies, so my rating would vary from episode to episode. I haven't watched the most recent seasons tbh.

Mad Men - *****
LOVE. An excellent character study that does a great job at capturing the 60s. I wanted to work in advertising after this lol. Also DON DRAPER.

Narcos - ****
But only the seasons about Escobar. I really enjoyed it. I wanted to learn Spanish after this.

Orange is the new black - ****
A dramedy about a woman's prison. It focuses around many characters and shows what their life was like before they went to prison. Not all the seasons were that great but overall it's one of my favourites. Also my mom would ALWAYS walk in on me when there were lesbian sex scenes.

Chernobyl - *****
The recent mini series. Loved them. Talked about it for like a week to everyone.

RE: 2020 TV Guide List - Madeleine Backus - June 5, 2020

Community -
Every episode is perfect and I will die on this hill

Silent Witness
British Crime show - each story is 2 hour-long episodes and fully British.

Gardeners World
The show is just about growing plants - it's my happy place, it is so zen and pure! Although 'young Nigel' one of the shows 2 dogs did die last week, so that was a bit sad but otherwise delightful.

Criminal Minds
I'm rewatching it from the start - always worth a rewatch!

Avenue 5
Bloomin Hilarious! hugh laurie being fabulous

The Terror
Fantastic show! I can't wait for another season!

Bob's burgers
Another fabulous show! Added to that the archer cross over and I find is delightfully mundane

Derry Girls
I went to school with those girls! I feel seen by that show and was taught by sister Micheal!

Great British Bake off
Another wholesome feel good show!

Being Human (UK Version)
It's a plot I'd sort of like to play out here! A ghost, a vampire and a werewolf try to pretend they are normal with varying degrees of success! XD

Big Mouth
For the hormone monsters alone! and Also because Nick Kroll is hilarious.


Carnivalé
It feels like a complete story, it's canceled now, and there was supposed to be another season, but the way it was written the season finale feels like a series finale. Excellent show.

RE: 2020 TV Guide List - Elias Grimstone - June 5, 2020

(June 5, 2020 – 6:09 AM)Ellory Pendergast Wrote:  Chernobyl - *****
The recent mini series. Loved them. Talked about it for like a week to everyone.

SAME and not to be a nerd about literally everything but the show's writer Craig Mazin did an excellent podcast ep for each episode that delves in further to his creative choices and the real history of the disaster. Worth a listen.

RE: 2020 TV Guide List - Esteban Zavala - June 5, 2020

These are all great shows and I have also watched or am watching many of them.
And yess, Derry Girls! It never fails to crack me up.
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RE: 2020 TV Guide List - Madeleine Backus - June 5, 2020

(June 5, 2020 – 9:54 AM)Esteban Zavala Wrote:  These are all great shows and I have also watched or am watching many of them.
And yess, Derry Girls! It never fails to crack me up.
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The stuff about the punt purse was too accurate! People here still keep 2 purses, one for euro, one for sterling!

RE: 2020 TV Guide List - Elladora Black - June 5, 2020

Lauren Watches Too Much TV - Recommendation Edition


Harlots
Who likes complex female characters, fabulous costumes and possibly the most compellingly despicable villain to grace the small screen? This girl. A thoroughly entertaining period romp about 18th century sex workers where every single white guy that turns up is shown up for being a shitty part of the patriarchy, there are multiple LGBT characters, a realistic colour palette for multi-cultural London (fun fact! Black people weren't invented in the 20th century!) and the show is led by angsty bisexual Lady Sybil and her hilariously awful mother.

[Charming Related Fun: Elladora is a dominatrix specialist, Evalina Rosier is a Very Gay upper class lady with a Terrible Secret and Jessica Brown Findlay is occasionally too beautiful to look at.]

Feud
On the one hand a very scathing look at the terrible attitudes towards women, and particularly older women, in 1960s Hollywood, but on the other hand a total excuse to have some extremely talented and funny people say really hilariously bitchy things to one another. Both of these goals are excellent. The period detail is legit, the making of Baby Jane is as batshit as you want it to be, both actresses are amazing in their roles (oddly enough, Jessica Lange gets more range as Joan Crawford than Susan Sarandon does as Bette Davis which is a nice ironic cosmic joke) and it includes Catherine Zeta Jones playing Olivia de Havilland which is a line straight out of my fourteen year old fantasy brain I can tell you.

[Charming Related Fun: Gretchen Lestrange is a Terrible Actress.]

Dead to Me
Pure, glossy fun with Kelly Bundy and Velma from Scooby Doo as a pair of women whose lives become intertwined by manslaughter, wine, grief, murder, anger and home ownership. I <3 <3 and you will too. (Please note: your interest may depend on how entertaining you find Christina Applegate losing her shit which for me is Very Much.)

What We Do in the Shadows
The same premise as the film of the same name (vampires living together as long-term roommates) but so much better IMO. The jokes are excellent, the accents are suitably silly, there's a whole episode based around the vamps having a drunken night out with a master vampire that descends into the best kind of chaos when they feed on drug users and get high. It's all incredibly funny and I love it.