
The Americans, the best new show of the 2012-2013 season, has been renewed for a second campaign. FX picked up an additional 13 episodes after strong ratings (after DVR viewership was factored in) made it a hit for the network, the first for a drama I believe since Justified. If you’re not on board yet, jump aboard. You won’t have to worry about cancellation, you can get ahead of the curve of all the viewers that’ll likely start watching in between seasons, AND you can join me for our recap discussions.
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Awesome news about The Americans. Graham’s now the Yost with the most!
Yeah, this is great. Finding truly good shows is becoming harder and harder.
I’d assemble my list of good shows (currently airing, 1 hour dramas) as the following:
Not “The Following”
Justified
Suits
Southland
The Walking Dead? (this 2nd half of season 3 is… well, room for improvement)
Black Mirror (airs in the UK – fucking find this and watch it. It’s only a matter of time before Charlie Brooker becomes a household name)
Man I had such high hopes for The Following but that show is dumb as shit. I gave up after 4 episodes.
I met a background actor from “The Americans” last weekend, he’s basically a human prop in the FBI scenes. Anyway, he was cool and he had nothing but nice things to say about Keri Russell and the other big names on the show.
It’s nice that you humanize the male prostitutes before killing them.
I think FX is doing a mini-marathon of the Americans this weekend, for those who need to catch up.
March 1st
The Golden Age of television continues! For the past 3 years there has been more good stuff on tv than I have time to watch, even with a DVR. I purposely have to duck series that people recommend to me because I just can’t afford another weekly show.
erm, are we watching the same TVs? There’s some good shows, yes, but it’s surrounded by thousands upon thousands of reality TV show crap showcasing dreadful people.
Apparently not. I’ll look at my DVR listings. Here we go, in the interest of full disclosure:
Archer, Banshee,Boardwalk Empire, Bob’s Burgers, Breaking Bad, Burn Notice
Community, Copper, Face Off, Futurama, Game of Thrones, Justified, Louie, Mad Men, New Girl, Perception, Person of Interest, Ripper Street, Sons of Anarchy, The Americans, The Newsroom, The Soup, The Walking Dead, Top Chef, Veep
Wilfred, Zero Hour
I think there’s two reality shows and one reality clip show in that selection. I can throw in at least six more reality shows I catch regularly. (The Ultimate Fighter, Project Runway, The Taste, The Joe Schmo Show, Ink Master, Celebrity Ghost Stories, and the odd airing of Gold Rush or Bering Sea Gold)
And since I don’t get Showtime, I catch Shameless on DVD after the season. Arrested Development is coming back on Netflix.
And I don’t believe any of those shows are cancelled. Every years there are another dozen or so series that I record that don’t make a second season but that I enjoy while they’re there. I’m having to delete a bunch of them off my list of subscriptions right now.
BRING BACK TERRIERS!
I’m downloading The Americans tonight. You convinced me (although Keri Russell helped a bit by being so pretty and probably smelling really nice).
Caught the show late and have been catching up, decent so far and quite intriguing. I also like Keri Russel rocking early 80s mom jeans.
Nice! Love this show, glad I don’t have to worry about getting invested and then it getting yanked.