I’ve been watching Superstore for as long as it’s been on. Not hilarious, but funny enough and, you know, pleasant.
A new one I like is Perfect Harmony. The plots are cliched Southern small town with twists. I’ve always liked Bradley Whitford. Anna Camp is as sweet as sugar. Her ex-ish described himself as a Ten (he’s not) and her as a Thirteen (there’s no better word). All in all, it’s funny enough and pleasant.
What do you watch that ain’t art, but is a pleasant way to burn a half hour?
I just want to second Superstore, except that I often do find it hilarious. It can be extremely smart at times.
It’s a perfect ‘you’re not missing anything if you don’t watch, but you’ll be pleasantly surprised if you do’ kind of tv show.
“The Unicorn” with Walton Goggins. He’s recently widowed with two teen-ish daughters, and friends who are trying to help him navigate getting back into dating. It’s not must see TV, but it doesn’t send me lunging for the remote like the new Patricia Heaton sitcom does.
Anna Camp could read the phone book, and I’d watch it.
I don’t know if animation counts, or the “Adult Swim” stuff, but I watch “Bob’s Burgers” and “Robot Chicken” quite a bit. Even their flat episodes can get me to chuckle a few times
Anything counts in this thread. In my threads there are no rules, just launching points.
Shoeless, it think you meant anything with Patricia Heaton in it.
Regarding Patricia Heaton, she starred in The Middle (although that’s not a current sitcom), which I liked a lot.
OMG–Bradley Whitford, of course! :smack: I knew he looked familiar. Loved him in The West Wing. I like PH-- definitely full of cliches, but still funny. (Hey, cliches ARE funny!) Kind of like Glee, but much less intense. Are we going to get some new episodes soon?
Schooled with Lainey Lewis from the Goldbergs. Based on real life teachers.
Single Parents with Leighton Meester.
Brian
AP Bio wasn’t bad. I watched it every week when it aired, but wasn’t really surprised when it was cancelled (and now I see it’s revived to be streamed on NBC’s streaming platform). Same for The Mick.
I remember a lot of complaints about The Mick were people saying that it just shows Kaitlin Olson can only play Sweet Dee, personally, I just leaned into that. Mick did seem like Dee, but in my head I just told myself that was Dee outside of the bar and away from the gang. Same for AP Bio, it really just seemed like Dennis away from the gang and attempting to make something of his life instead of just being all talk.
OK, if you want to talk about recent but cancelled sitcoms, I really liked The Kids Are Alright, a one-season sitcom from the 2018-9 season. It starred Michael Cudlitz and Mary McCormack as the Irish-American Catholic parents of eight boys aged from about 22 down to infant. I thought it was really well-done and was sorry to see it cancelled.
I was actually pleasantly surprised by Bless this Mess. It’s certainly not brilliant but it’s not nearly as painful to watch as I thought. I was actually hoping for more shades of Northern Exposure and the result was more Green Acres. Still watchable though.
Dax Shepard needs to die in a fire though.
Patricia Heaton is tolerable in small doses, or if there are enough other good actors on the show to distract from her (Raymond, The Middle). But with her being the “star” of this one, plus the incessant CBS laff-track, it’s really more than I can take. Although, I may pause briefly before switching channels if the woman who plays her daughter is on-screen. 
I don’t even know what’s popular these days but I do know I love The Goldbergs and the spin-off Schooled. They’re sweet and silly and heartwarming. I especially like Schooled. I also really enjoyed Speechless, but it was canceled. As was The Kids are Alright, which was a DELIGHT. I don’t know how it’s decided to keep godawful shows like American Housewife and The Connors (which I guess is only still hanging on to spite Roseanne Barr because it’s pure garbage) but they get rid of really enjoyable shows with great casts. I don’t expect Schooled to last long.
Modern Family, The Goldbergs, Black-ish
Same two for our household. We love The Goldbergs, and were willing to stay on an extra 30 minutes for the first few episodes of Schooled. The latter has proved to be surprisingly solid, chiefly by giving Tim Meadows and Bryan Callen room to breathe. Brett Dier was kind of unlikable on Jane the Virgin, but he’s redeemed himself and then some on *Schooled *as Lainey’s colleague/sorta love interest C.B.
Single Parents is a lot of fun, though some of the kids on the show kind of ride that line between “cute-precocious” and “way too adult”. This show is where Taran Killam (SNL) and Brad Garret (Everybody Loves Raymond) ended up. Garret inhabits his Doug Fogerty character completely, and is able to get the viewer to sympathize with and pull for a close-to-cliche jerk personality.
The Conners and Young Sheldon. Neither of them is any kind of masterpiece (and the Conners’ unrelenting downer lifestyle and constant snark get on my nerves sometimes) but both of them entertain me for half an hour, and that’s all I really ask. I like Young Sheldon more since it started focusing more on the other family members, instead of just Sheldon. Meemaw and Georgie, especially, are fun.
I used to like The Kids Are Alright, before it got cancelled.
I tried to watch Bob <3 Abishola since it looked like something I might enjoy, but I found the first episode boring and never tried a second.
Same here. I was a little surprised that the show only got one season.
All on our list. Along with Bless This Mess and Schooled (which is a pale shadow of The Goldbergs).
We just discovered Superstore, and are catching up through on demand. It’s really smart and funny.
But the funniest sitcom right now is Brooklyn Nine Nine.
This is rough comparison because *Schooled *is not really the same type of show. The '90s setting is largely irrelevant to the plots – it could be set now, it could be set in the 1970s. The interplay between the personalities and the efforts at solving the problem du jour are what carry Schooled. Those personalities are largely adults-as-peers in *Schooled *and teens-&-parents in The Goldbergs
I do agree that The Goldbergs is a stronger show, but not that it’s a night-and-day difference.
We watched it too- it was surprisingly enjoyable and funny.