OT: What's your favorite current Cable TV shows?

[walleye38]

Mine are Ray Donovan, House of Cards and Suits!

Big Ten Network reruns

 

[Woodpecker]

One that I didn't see mentioned that I really like is Silicon Valley

 

[wbcincy]

There are a lot of niche shows I'd love to get to at some point - Orphan Black is good (what I've seen of it), and I want to watch Black Mirror, Mr. Robot, finish Bloodlines, and eventually get to The Wire.

Also, if you haven't watched the BBC Sherlock Holmes series with Benedict Cumberbatch, it's absolutely amazing.

I cannot believe with your taste in television that you still haven't watched The Wire! I always warn people with that show that you have to get pretty deep in before you really love it. By the end of its run, it was one of my top 5 all-time dramas (sitting equally among Mad Men, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones).

Are there any lovers of Six Feet Under on here? That's my "older show that a lot of people seem to have really liked that I never saw"

 

[jj410]

Mine are Ray Donovan, House of Cards and Suits!

Current: Silicon Valley, Ballers, The Brink. (Donovan and True Detective are just silly violence porn.)
Previous: The Wire, Sopranos, Curb Enthusiasm, Breaking Bad, Pawn Stars, Mad Men, Louie.
All current broadcast shows except 60 Minutes and news are unwatchable, noother exceptions.

 

[jj410]

Funny you mention legal inaccuracies in a show. I don't know if you made it far enough, but in True Detective season 2, one of the major plot points for Colin Ferrell's character Ray Velcoro is the custody, and legitimacy, of his son Chad. His wife essentially threatens his visitation rights (wants them to be supervised) and if he objects or fights or has any other fits, she'll conduct a paternity test to determine his biological father (pretty sure it's her rapist) Farrell knows this is a strong possibility but would rather not have it proven. In an arbitration meeting, this is all put on the table. In actuality, the law in California says there is a conclusive parentage presumption to a father when his wife conceives while they are married and cohabitating (barring evidence of sterility) under Family Code sec. 7540. That presumption is rebuttable with a blood test, but only if the mother or presumed father files a special motion with the court for a blood test within 2 years of the child's birth (Family Code sec. 7541). In other words, just as we, the audience, might find this situation where Ray raised the kid and can have his parentage unilaterally challenged a decade later, California law finds this unfair too.

Pretty big deal, right?

Anyway, watch Peaky Blinders - it's fookin' awesome.

Ray and that guy played by a comedian are the two of the most unbelievable characters ever invented.
They always finish the boring episodes with gratuitous violence, usually from Ray, to keep the viewers coming back. Given Ray's sleazy character, his love for his fat son of unknown parentage is pretty hard to believe.

 

[wbcincy]

Current: Silicon Valley, Ballers, The Brink. (Donovan and True Detective are just silly violence porn.)
Previous: The Wire, Sopranos, Curb Enthusiasm, Breaking Bad, Pawn Stars, Mad Men, Louie.
All current broadcast shows except 60 Minutes and news are unwatchable, noother exceptions.

Great addition on Louie. Though he really lost me with a few episodes last year, looking forward to the new season. There's likely no comedian I like more than Louis C.K., but the hurricane episode was just kind of....ok....so a hurricane happened and you ran around getting your kids...neat. But Louis has shown genius in so many ways with his show that I'll forgive episodes that I just don't get in return for the brilliance I get in so many others.