Sunday night is both one of my favorite and least favorite nights of television. I love it because, with the exception of Tuesday night (“Southland,” “Justified,” “Parenthood”), it’s the most densely packed night of great programming. I hate it because, as as television critic, I feel compelled to watch all the good shows. That’s a lot of TV for one night; I have to use two DVRs set up to record two TV shows, and I end up staying awake until two or three in the morning to watch it all, a challenge that’s compounded by the fact that I have newborn twin daughters (I know, I know: White people problems).
It doesn’t help that all of these great shows start after 9 p.m. I watch: “The Good Wife,” “Shameless,” “The Walking Dead,” “Luck,” “House of Lies,” “Life’s too Short,” “Eastbound and Down,” and up until a couple of weeks ago, I was also watching “Downton Abbey.” (I do not watch “Comic Book Men” or “Californiacation.” I have to draw the line somewhere).
Anyway, for my own edification, I was curious about whether the readership here faces similar white-people difficulties. I suspect most of you mete out the programming across the week (Monday, after all, is mostly a graveyard), but I’m curious about which of those Sunday night shows you watch and what you’re interested in. We cover a lot of the same shows here, so if I knew that you all were watching some of these other shows en masse, perhaps we could broaden our coverage to cover stuff like “The Good Wife,” “Shameless,” and “Life’s Too Short” a little more frequently. (Keeping in mind that, next month, when programming turns over once “Mad Men,” “The Killing,” and “Game of Thrones” returns to Sunday night, we could present this question again.)
So, here’s a poll (you can click all that apply) and, below, an open discussion in the comments on Sunday night programming.
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Yeah, a lot. In no particular order: Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons, Family Guy (habit), American Dad, The Walking Dead, Eastbound & Down, Life’s Too Short, Luck, House of Lies, Californication (it’s actually been decent this year — RZA!), and Shameless. I have no life.
WHERE’S “HARRY’S LAW” IN THE POLL???
I don’t usually watch anything on Sunday night, unless it’s football season.
Football!
I also watch Desperate Housewives, yeah yeah I know, but it’s the last season I just want to see how it ends.
Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons…that is all
I watch The Amazing Race, The Good Wife, The Walking Dead, Eastbound & Down, Life’s Too Short, Celebrity Apprentice and Real Housewives of Atlanta (yeah I admit it!!). I was watching Downton Abbey and sometimes I squeeze in some AFV to start off the night. A lot of these shows I don’t get to see on Sunday though so it’s basically a Sunday night/Monday pre-primetime show list.
I’ll watch the Amazing race as long there is a cute girl team to look at and one obnoxious/stupid team to keep things interesting.
Or, if someone gets smoked in the face with a watermelon.
Last week they had to stack watermelons and I prayed they’d show a flashback to the watermelon-to-face of season’s past. No such luck.
Whatever is on HBO, unless Mad Men and Breaking Bad are new
Currently EB&D is the only Sunday night show I watch, the wife watches Desperate Housewives. Can’t wait to start watching Bob’s Burgers and GoT on Sunday nights.
Family Guy
Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons (Habit), Family Guy (Habit), American Dad, Eastbound & Down, Walking Dead, Shameless, Comic Book Men, in 3 weeks: Game of Thrones.
Luck and House of Lies. Not that house of lies is that good but
The Good Wife is set in stone. I’ll DVR the later showings of Game of Thrones and Mad Men if they conflict with The Good Wife. When they’re on, The Borgias (CALL ME, CESARE) and Boardwalk Empire, which I just can’t quit no matter how many main characters they kill.
Walking Dead, Kenny Fucking Powers, Life’s Too Short
LTS is hysterical, y’all need to watch if you don’t already. Liam Neeson was great on it.
“As I said before, I have full-blown AIDS”
I think Liam Neeson has best guest appearance on a comedy locked for an Emmy. Hilarious.
Amazing Race is the only one I watch actually on Sunday, although I will watch GoT live (or as soon as possible thereafter). I DVR Walking Dead and then watch it on a random night with a friend when we’ve got 3 or 4 episodes saved up. I did watch Season 1 of The Killing, but that bridge got burned (and I’m still a little angry about it).
If you’re not watching “Luck,” take a peek at this scene. Trust me.
Technically speaking….I watch nothing and just DVR stuff….
I watch “Once Upon A Time”…..or “Two Great Rack Girls” as I prefer to call it….I watch the DVR episode on Monday or Tuesday
Using On-Demand…I plan to watch these shows like a long Movie:
Californication (Last year SUCKED…but nice nudity)
Shameless
and if there is an HBO show….like Sopranos or True Blood…I DVR and watch that as well..(DVR is better than On-Demand because the fast forward (if needed) works better…
MY DVR can record two shows while I watch another on-demand or recorded show
I forgot to add I watch America’s Funniest Video’s on Sunday.
“I have newborn twin daughters”
Congrats Dustin, got 2 daughters my-self.
Congrats. But you’re doing it wrong — DVR all this shit so you can watch something during the four a.m. feeding.
When my second was born last year, I rewatched all three seasons of Deadwood during the feedings. I’m hoping his first words are “Swea’gin! Cocksucka!”
I have two daughters as well.
When they were younger and refused to sleep, I put in The Shield or The Wire DVDs and turned the sound off, subtitles on and rocked them to sleep. Watched so much good television that way.
We watch these shows on Monday: Luck, The Good Wife, Eastbound and Down and The Walking Dead.
Shameful that more people here watch Californication than The Good Wife.
Smegga, I’m guessing that has to do with the cross section of people taking the survey. I would guess mostly males under 40 are voting so I don’t think The Good Wife had much appeal to that crowd, whereas boobs on Californication.
American Dad.
and once upon a time…it really isn’t that bad
Why watch American Dad when you can just watch Family Guy twice?
Shameless and Eastbound are the only ones I will watch actually on Sunday night. Shameless is fantastic- it should be getting more hype than it has been. I’ll skim through walking dead on DVR because its hysterically awful.
I’ll do the same with House of lies because of Kristen Bell and its always amusing to see a 9th grader’s understanding of ‘management consulting.’
HBO and Showtime’s back-to-back rerun of the shows actually makes for being able to just watch straight through from 9-1 AM: Luck, Eastbound, Life’s Too Short, Shameless, House of Lies, and Californication, in that order, mostly because I don’t particularly care if I see the last hour of that lineup or not.
There are a ton of shows that are “out of season” right now that I catch on Sundays. Of the list posted though, only Walking Dead and Luck. I removed Comic Book Men from my DVR list last week.
I don’t get Showtime, so I typically catch anything interesting there on secondary media later on.
Sundays are the worst regardless of the time of year. Right now I have The Amazing Race, The Walking Dead, Luck (which I’m saving up to watch with a HBO-less friend and Milch fan), Life’s Too Short and Californication. I assume Showtime will bring back The Borgias around the same time as GoT and Mad Men, so my DVR will keep running late into the night and keep me watching Sunday shows on Monday or Tuesday.
I’ve tried to get into EB&D, I really have. But I gave up on it after the 2nd episode this season was aggressively unfunny. It actually made me angry that I was suffering through it.
What about Once Upon A Time!!!! It’s awesome!!!
Agreed.
House of Lies is garbage. It’s like Entourage but for bigger douchebags. Wait–that’s not fair. Still a turd though.
It is terrible- but like entourage I keep watching it without fail. Here’s how the first episode would go in the real world:
Client cfo: Hey, those management consultants just pulled up in a stretch limo.
Client ceo: Fire them.
Don Cheadle: but if we’re fired how can I fuck one of you?
Client: You can’t, because that never happens.
Shameless, Eastbound and Down, Californication are can’t miss. House of Lies and Luck (only cuz I work in horse racing) are if I’m bored, and Walking Dead is building on my DVR, but haven’t seen any this season.
I def have that problem…Simpsons (more from nostalgia), Luck (Milch fan, though the show may not keep my attention much longer), Shameless (Emmy Rossum and Shanola Hampton are hot), House of Lies (meh…), Eastbound and Down and Californication (awesome hilarity), Walking Dead (getting good again)
I gave up on Shameless midway through season 1 after they faked a funeral, it was too stupid of a show and over the top, like an endless nacho cheese fountain but replaced with cum.
Why would you give up on that? An endless nacho cum fountain sounds amazing.
I watch Shameless and Californication pretty regularly, I occasionally put them off until the 2nd showing, and catch Animation Domination instead (esp. American Dad). Sometimes I catch Eastbound & Down on Sundays, but more often I’ll watch a rerun later in the week.
Oh, and Bob’s Burgers, once it starts up again. Which is this week, I guess.
Simpsons, caused I’ve watched it from the beginning and every once and a while I’ll get a really good laugh or a well done episode. Family Guy, I’ve enjoyed the preachy season more than most I’ve talked to. American Dad, Roger’s extensive back story’s and characters have been really well thought out and thorough.