#2017 tv

[cinephile-at-heart]

Best New Shows of 2017

14.  The Good Fight (CBS All Access)

When The Good Wife ended I was relieved. The show had lost its vigor in the past two seasons and it felt like the storylines were in a monotonous rut. So, I’ll admit I wasn’t the most excited when a Diane Lockhart/Lucca Quinn spin-off was announced. I watched the premiere out of devotion to Christine Baranski and was, of course, hooked for one reason: this was the show The Good Wife always wanted to be. Despite my annoyance that CBS is hiding its two best dramas on a streaming service only Star Trek nerds and old people who forgot to cancel their free trial subscribe to, putting if there has given them opportunities that were never afforded them when The Good Wife was an anchor in CBS’ Sunday primetime lineup. The most obvious is that it allows The Good Fight to have way fewer episodes which tightens the ongoing narrative. Resulting in less wheel spinning for the character’s emotional arcs. However, the show, like its predecessor, is still reeeeeaaaaallllly good at writing compelling cases of the week. The two parts feel at balance here in a way they rarely did on The Good Wife. It also helps that Diane Lockhart is a less opaque character than Alicia was and that the cast is bolstered with many excellent people of color who challenge Diane’s privilege when necessary (most of the time tbh). This show is way better than it needs to be and I feel bad about how much it’s been forgotten during awards season because it should win 10 Emmys alone for finally letting Diane Lockhart say fuck.

[ezekialmcadams]

2017 TV List - What I’m Watching, Watched, Want To Watch And Finished - Dec 3 2017

@paulsons 

MONDAY

Supergirl: Season 3 (Fifteen episodes left)

TUESDAY

Marvel’s Runaways (Seven episodes left)

WEDNESDAY

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Queen Sugar: Season 2 (Fifteen episodes left)

Mr. Robot: Season 3 (Two episodes left)

THURSDAY

The Good Place: Season 2 (Five episodes left)

Van Helsing: Season 2 (Six episodes left)

FRIDAY

Superstition (Eight episodes left)

SUNDAY

Search Party: Season 2 (Eight episodes left)

Preacher: Season 2 (Twelve episodes left)

STARTED BUT HAVEN’T FINISHED

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (Seven episodes left)

13 Reasons Why (Twelve episodes left)

Snowfall (Nine episodes left)

I’m Dying Up Here (Nine episodes left)

Top of the Lake: Season 2 (Five episodes left)

Anne with an E (Six episodes left)

This Is Us (Seventeen episodes left)

The Handmaid’s Tale (Nine episodes left)

The Mist: Season 1 (Nine episodes left)

Guerilla: Miniseries (Five episodes left)

Star Trek: Discovery: Season 1 (Thirteen episodes left)

Jamestown (Seven episodes left)

The Exorcist: Season Two (Four episodes left)

Ghosted (Eight episodes left)

The Mayor (Eleven episodes left)

Ghost Wars (Six episodes left)

Freakish: Season 2 (Nine episodes left)

Alias Grace (Five episodes left)

UNWATCHED TV SHOWS

Daredevil: Season 1 & 2 (Netflix)

Sense8 (Netflix)

Marco Polo (Netflix)

Narcos (Netflix)

Love (Netflix)

Into the Badlands (AMC)

Haters Back Off (Netflix)

The Crown (Netflix)

Ronja The Robber’s Daughter (Amazon)

GirlBOSS (Netflix)

Dear White People (Netflix)

The Keepers (Netflix)

Outcast: Season 2 (Cinemax)

G.L.O.W. (Netflix)

Gypsy (Netflix)

Friends From College (Netflix)

Ozark (Netflix)

Mr. Mercedes (Audience)

One Day at a Time (Netflix)

Atypical (Netflix)

American Vandal (Netflix)

The Disappearance (CTV)

Mindhunter (Netflix)

Frankie Drake Mysteries (CBC)

Godless (Netflix)

The Indian Detective (CTV) - Nov 23 2017

UPCOMING

The Deep Pilot (Freeform)

The Hollow (Netflix)

The Rain (Netflix)

Castle Rock (Hulu)

Carnival Row (Amazon)

Drama High (NBC) - March 2018

Strange Angel (CBS All Access)

$1 (CBS All Access)

Two Sentence Horror Stories (Stage13)

Yellowstone (Paramount)

A Discovery of Witches (Sky)

They Can’t Kill Us All (AMC)

Heist 88 (FX)

FINISHED

Gilmore Girls: Season 4 - Finished Jan 14 2017

Sherlock: Series 4 - Finished Jan 21 2017

The Good Place: Season 1 - Finished Jan 22 2017

Sneaky Pete: Season 1 - Finished Feb 1 2017

Luke Cage: Season 1 - Finished Feb 4 2017

Santa Clarita Diet: Season 1 - Finished Feb 6 2017

Timeless: Season 1 - Finished Feb 21 2017

Emerald City: Season 1 - Finished March 5 2017

Taboo: Season 1 - Finished March 14 2017

Big Little Lies: Season 1 - Finished April 2 2017

Iron Fist: Season 1 - Finished April 8 2017

Legion: Season 1 - Finished April 9 2017

The Path: Season 2 - Finished April 20th 2017

The Magicians: Season 2 - Finished April 22 2017

The Expanse: Season 2 - Finished April 22 2017

Hap and Leonard: Season 2 - Finished April 22 2017

Trial & Error: Season 1 (Eight episodes left) - Finished April 23 2017

Riverdale: Season 1 - Finished May 13 2017

Underground: Season 2 - Finished May 14 2017

Supergirl: Season 2 - Finished May 28 2017

The Americans: Season 5 - Finished May 31 2017

Mars: Season 1 - Finished June 2 2017

Prison Break: Season 5 - Finished June 2 2017

Feud: Season 1 - Finished June 20 2017

Fargo: Season 3 - Finished June 22 2017

iZombie: Season 3 - Finished July 1 2017

Castlevania: Season 1 - Finished July 7 2017  

Pure: Season 1 - Finished July 9 2017

Bellvue: Season 1 - Finished July 23 2017

Penny Dreadful: Season 2 - Finished Aug 1 2017

Penny Dreadful: Season 3 - Finished Aug 3 2017

Vice Principals: Season 1 - Finished Aug 3 2017

Wrecked: Season 1 - Finished Aug 4 2017

The Man in the High Castle: Season 1 - Finished Aug 5 2017

Roadies: Season 1 - Finished Aug 10 2017

Gilmore Girls: Season 5 - Finished Aug 18 2017

Dimension 404: Season 1 - Finished Aug 22 2017

Wynonna Earp: Season 2 - Finished Aug 25 2017

Game of Thrones: Season 7 - Finished Aug 27 2017

Gilmore Girls: Season 6 - Finished Aug 28 2017

The Defenders: Miniseries - Finished Aug 31 2017

Horace and Pete: Season 1 - Finished Sept 3 2017

Twin Peaks: Season 3 - Finished Sept 3 2017

Gilmore Girls: Season 7 - Finished Sept 3 2017

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life - Finished Sept 6 2017

Blood Drive: Season 1 - Finished Sept 17 2017

The Strain: Season 4 - Finished Sept 18 2017

Midnight, Texas: Season 1 - Finished Sept 18 2017

Insecure: Season 2 - Finished Sept 20 2017

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season 3 - Finished Sept 21 2017

Grace & Frankie: Season 3 - Finished Sept 21 2017

Ghosted Pilot - Sept 24 2017

Sea Change Pilot - Sept 26 2017

Orange is the New Black: Season 5 - Finished Sept 30 2017

The Gifted Pilot - Oct 6 2017

The Orville Pilot - Oct 9 2017

Marvel’s Inhumans Pilot - Oct 10 2017

Superstition Pilot - Oct 14 2017

Lore: Season 1 - Finished Oct 22 2017

Channel Zero: No End House: Season 2 - Finished Oct 26 2017

Chance: Season 1 - Nov 6 2017

Shut Eye: Season 1 - Nov 6 2017

American Gods: Season 1 - Nov 14 2017

Marvel’s The Inhumans: Season 1 (Six watched, Two episodes left) - Finished Nov 14 2017

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later - Finished Nov 17 2017

You’re The Worst: Season 4 - Finished Nov 17 2017

Better Things: Season 2 - Finished Nov 17 2017

Sea Oak Amazon Pilot - Finished Nov 17 2017

[plinys]

aesthetic mood boards for every show i’ve watched in 2017: supergirl

Supergirl is what I can do, Kara is who I am.

[screenlines]

In your effort to take down your enemies, you run the risk of losing those you truly need.

Reign, CW (2017)

[alexandradagreatt-blog]

Lili Reinhart, Betty Cooper.

[vakariaan]

50 Seasons in 2017

Taking inspiration from something an irl friend did last year and also my 100 Films in 2017 goal, I’m aiming to watch 50 new seasons of TV this year.

This is only gonna be full seasons (whether they’re mini series or 22 episode shows) and only seasons I’ve started and finished this year (so no shows that I started watching forever ago and never got around to finishing)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Season 6)

Star Wars: Rebels (Season 1)

Star Wars: Rebels (Season 2)

A Series of Unfortunate Events (Season 1)

Sherlock (Season 4)

[chilldeanne]

2017.5 | skam 

I thought I would start making a note of my favorite shows/films/music of the year because I always forget my favorites by the time December rolls around. 

We’re only a couple weeks into the new year but I am fully obsessed with Skam. It’s a Norwegian show about young adults who are dealing with love, friendship, family, etc. It sounds unoriginal but it’s unique in that it’s real, and not ‘real’ in a “Girls” kind of way. Not in a way that slaps you in the face because it’s trying to be real. It just feels like a genuine representation of the trials and tribulations that a young person goes through. 

I only watched the third season which had a queer main character and discussed mental illness, coming out, internalized homophobia, bipolar disorder, pansexuality and other very important topics that are mistreated or misrepresented in media. It respected all of these issues and had characters that were supportive and understanding, but also confusing and challenging. The conflicts made sense, they weren’t overblown or dramatic. The interactions between the characters felt like they were pulled out of my own life. Everything worked. The acting, the writing, the storytelling and how it’s shot. It all works perfectly. 

I feel like shows that choose to include representation of mental illness or queerness often come off like they are trying to make a statement. They have ‘the bullying episode’ and the ‘suicide attempt’ episode or ‘the coming out episode’. But, Skam feels different. It feels real. Mental illness and queerness affect everything in my life all the time. It’s not something that just pops in to make a statement and then leaves. Everything the characters do, all of their interactions, are informed by these traits of their personality or these identities. It’s so well done and well thought out. I have never felt more understood by a tv show in my entire life.

I highly recommend at least watching the third season of Skam. It’s structured so that every season has a different main character so it’s not a huge deal, I don’t think, to start at season 3. I can not tell you how much I adore this show. Now, I go back and watch Seasons and 1 and 2. Fun fun fun.

[gurl]

9 New TV Shows Coming Out In 2017 You Need To Watch