What TV Show are You Currently Obsessed With???

[shadowkat]

While I'm cooking root vegetable soup, a television poll or rather meme - where everyone who stumbles upon this checks off their current favorite television series, which they've been obsessing over. (I really should be working on my taxes...but, alas, the last time I did my taxes on Valentine's Day, someone broke in my apartment and stole my laptop while I was sleeping with all my tax information on it. So, I'm slightly superstitious, granted that was a different apartment, and it's close to impossible to do it here...but still.)

Anyhow, back to the poll/meme. Once you check off your favorite television series (the one you are obsessive about at the moment), assuming of course I managed to list it (if I didn't mark other and list in comments), go to the comments and make your case for the show - list any links to meta, fanfic, fanart, fan communities, boards, vids, etc - the links not the actual work. If someone else listed it first, reply to their response and list yours...who knows you might have made a new connection. Oh and here's the important part -- MAKE SURE YOU TELL PEOPLE, ie me, WHERE THEY CAN WATCH OR SEE YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW! (otherwise, how will it get new viewers?? If people can't find it, they can't watch it. Keep in mind we live in a world with over 1000 different channels and distribution venues.)

For people like myself that watch television but aren't obsessed with any tv shows or in any fandoms at the moment - I have "Nothing at the Moment" listed, because I'm not obsessive about any television series at the moment -- but I'm curious to see where everyone else is leaning. And if there is anything interesting out there that I'm overlooking.

[As an aside, once you insert the poll - you can't edit it -- which makes doing polls a dicey enterprise.]

[Poll #2036851]

Comments

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Right now I'm following The 100 (yay!), Agent Carter (on Netflix), and catching up on The Americans (Netflix) and Danger 5 (also Netflix).

I'm almost at the end of s1 of The Americans and not quite sure what to make of it. Yes, it's gripping enough drama-wise, but for a show about cold war shenanigans it's almost clinically scrubbed free of any actual political content, and I find it increasingly hard to swallow that the characters get away with all this. But at least I'll never be able to NOT see Keri Russell as an ice cold assassin again, which should make the inevitable Felicity reunion a lot more fun.

Danger 5 is so utterly ridiculous I can't not love it, even if s2 isn't nearly as good as s1. A WWII spy series set in the 60s (and later in the 80s), with our multi-national team of squabbling heroes trying to stop Hitler from building new superweapons. It's basically a live-action Archer.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Thta's because The Americans only pretends to be a show about cold war spies while it is actually a show about marriage and family.

That said, there's more political content in season 2 and 3.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

That said, there's more political content in season 2 and 3.

Awesome, thanks!

It is a very good show about marriage and family. It just bugs me a bit that you have all these characters prepared to sacrifice their lives for The Cause... and so far, The Cause has been very very abstract.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

So it's a series about Russian Spies but focuses mainly on what it is like to be Russian Spies in the US during the cold war attempting to raise a family in middle America?

Currently on either F/X or Amazon Prime or Netflix (as far as I know).

Danger 5 is on Netflix?

The 100 is on CW and Netflix? (I'm actually watching this as well)

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

So it's a series about Russian Spies but focuses mainly on what it is like to be Russian Spies in the US during the cold war attempting to raise a family in middle America?

Pretty much - the central characters are Soviet agents who have been undercover posing as a regular American couple for 20 years, with kids and all, and who are suddenly forced to become more active as the Cold War heats up again under Reagan. So one driving question becomes just how much they've actually become Americans rather than just good little marxist-leninists pretending to be Americans.