Last night, Patton Oswalt took to Twitter to comment on the amount of quality television entertainment there is to choose from. Sometimes the amount of great programming available can really get a bit overwhelming, and as per usual, Mr. Oswalt hit the nail on the proverbial head here. While his argument jokingly gives all the reasons why one should avoid going outside to live life and get sunshine to watch ALL THE TV SHOWS, his tweets are really a celebration of all the fantastic series that are currently at our disposal. I might just print these out and hang them somewhere in my house as a daily affirmation of sorts.
Check out the tweets below.
I know I'm supposed to embrace life & go outside & sunshine & I'll be dead someday but fuck TV is SO GOOD right now. It really is.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
I knew @MJMcKean was great but I didn't know he could do tragic & scary in the same scenes. #BetterCallSaul
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
When you're in your 20s you're super-healthy & dumb as a dildo & you heal quick & take forever to learn anything. #BroadCity nails it.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
Mark my words, the 2016 election will be swayed by a #LastWeekTonight piece. Fuck changing satire, they're changing journalism.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
What #BroadCity is to being in your 20s, #Togetherness is for being in your 40s and only JUST learning the lessons of your 20s. Sublime.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
And @ComedyCentral's Murderer's Row of shows: #Review, #NathanForYou, #keyandpeele, #KrollShow, #InsideAmySchumer & #BroadCity. Good God.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
No, #Gotham isn't perfect, but neither was #AgentsofSHIELD. They're being given time, and have #Arrow & #TheFlash to guide the way.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
What else? #Justified is American Dream noir, #WalkingDead is manifest destiny as plague, and #LastManOnEarth is their stoner cousin.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
And that's not even mentioning #Archer, #Girls, #BrooklynNineNine, #SouthPark or #BobsBurgers. And on TOP of all that…
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
…we've got #MadMen, #OITNB, #OrphanBlack, #WetHotAmericanSummer, #VEEP, #SiliconValley, #Powers & #Daredevil coming. Fuck the sun.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
FUCK. I forgot the lunacy of #ComedyBangBang, horror of #Maron, perfection of #Louie, & joy of #Portlandia. It's…it's TOO MUCH.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
And now I just realized I left out #DrunkHistory, #TheGoodWife, #FreshOffTheBoat & #TheGoldbergs. This is ridiculous. Too much great TV.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
And #TwinPeaks is coming back. This will never fucking end. Television is in its "American cinema in the early 70s" phase. Good night.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
Sorry for that feed-choking rant. It's good to be excited about creative things, even if all I'm doing is consuming.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
And there's stuff piled on my DVR queue: #TheKnick, #Luther, #PeakyBlinders & 1/2 a dozen #30for30s, that I'm drooling over. Too. Much.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
Yeah, and I've also got #TheAmericans on queue and I forgot #GameOfThrones. It's a tortuous Hell of Quality, TV in 2015.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
Oh GODDAMIT. #Hannibal. Did I forget that one because it's the most like cinema? How is that beauty on network TV?
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
Sigh. And #VentureBros, #AdventureTime, #WildKratts, #YoGabbaGabba & #TrueDetective (my 5 year-old daughter's faves)
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
Good night. Sorry. To my followers and to any of the shows I left out. There's too many of you & you're all quality.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 3, 2015
It feels like Patton covered most of the bases. Aside from House of Cards and Vikings, tell me dear readers — what shows did he miss?