@Limewater My wife (who has read 5 or 6 of the novels and watched all the previous seasons of the series on Amazon with me) says that they are faithful in spirit but many details are different. For example, the time period is different: in the novels Bosch is a Vietnam vet; the TV series is set in current times and he served in Afghanistan. But she recognizes many of the characters and major plot points from the books.
@kdemo It’s great, but there are only seven episodes, not counting the Joel McHale episode they just added. I don’t expect to ever have any desire to watch it again.
@elimanningface@kdemo Are you kidding? Tiger King has everything! Tigers! Lions! Ligers! Polygamy! Genital Piercing! Libertarianism! Country Music! Guns! Shaq! Inspirational Music Videos! A guy who looks like Mitch McConnell!
If it were a nightclub, Stefan would be there.
@IndifferentDude I’m glad I’m not the only one! Not only does most of the food look amazing, but a person is able to hearken-back to “the good old days” before social distancing!!
@mbimeh I wouldn’t (and don’t) feel guilty about any of those!
Only started watching Rick & Morty about a month ago, I think I’m caught up now and excited for the new season, next month.
Wubba lubba dub dub, bitches!
@DVDBZN@InnocuousFarmer@katsuronishi It’s NOT! That’s what’s so amazing about it! I never thought I’d be saying anything along the lines of “My favorite one is the time-travel one.”
The books are all good. The movies peak early and and then the last few kind of suck, in my opinion.
The (HP) movies peak early and and then the last few kind of suck, in my opinion.
Yeah. 3 was the best. 4 also very nice. The first 2 skewed younger (as did the books in which they were based), but they were also quite lovely, sometimes even “magical” at moments.
Then they gave 5-8 to a director who … I dunno. They’re a let down.
FWIW: the “time travel” in book/movie 3 isn’t incoherent. The writer went to some lengths to avoid that.
She did not, however, engage with every possible issue a “time travel” plot device might create.
She was doing a kid’s book, and a great one. She let the book be that.
@DVDBZN@f00l@katsuronishi@Limewater Time travel has this problem: there is no causality outside time. As a result, with I’m sure a few exceptions, time travel plots always have this “big time”, or whatever you’d want to call it – linear causality – that the multiple timelines sit inside. And then the writers don’t bother treating that in a consistent way within the bounds of a single story. And even when they’re consistent, it’s narratively meaningless. Offends the hell out of me. You might as well just have a narrator pause every so often to say “… I was only kidding! Never mind!”
A counterexample: I liked The Peripheral, William Gibson’s second-to-latest book. Has sort-of time travel, but all the timelines are alternate / parallel histories, after points of divergence. It avoids the whole mess.
Time travel has this problem: there is no causality outside time
It’s not like there is a clear model or understanding of causality within linear time. There isn’t. There is simply casual experience. That’s true even within science; because we don’t know how to model or then test for any alternative to causality that we can make strong human-level sense of.
And a rigorous mathematical model of any particular proffered form of causality might be just that and little more; just a mathematical model.
Even within the heights of experimental physics and particle study, this is true.
We simply have v crude and human-perspective based models of what causality is. And, even with all our engineering successes and experimental results, that’s all we’ve got.
And: is time linear?
In our daily casual experience, it appears so. In our daily scientific experience it appears so.
This ain’t enough to make it so in any final way.
All we know is that “the universe appears to be that way, more or less, consistently”. To us. A highly limited species.
We currently have no serious means to test beyond those appearances and assumptions.
And perhaps we are biologically modeled to experience it in that way.
But, no offense to Einstein. Hawking, and other serious mathematical modelers of time, we simply have no idea.
Stories are stories. They’re only supposed to be scientifically valid if they occur strictly within the boundaries of the scientific disciplines.
Within a story, if a plot hole or invalidity alienates the audiences; if it kills “suspension of disbelief”: then it’s a storytelling problem.
Stories incapsulate portions of our shared experiences and our shared capacities for imagination into a specific emotionally and intellectually interesting narratives. Perhaps fictional or speculative. . Perhaps partially historical. Perhaps explanatory, or even seriously and rigorously explanatory. Depends on setting and context.
Any story has “real world plot or reality holes” if you look with a microscope. That’s not the point.
If those plot holes etc go “too far”, or the story isn’t evocative, it fails. It never catches on with the larger intended audience, or the audience rejects it.
Each of us has our own personal hangups here about fictional story elements that bug us.
I forget what mine are at the moment; I seem to have recently managed to avoid fictional etc books that tick me off.
But, why do “stories” work? At all?
Because stories are built into us. They are, in a sense, mentally, what we are to ourselves.
The short explanations given to toddlers by their parents are actually v short “stories” of how the world works.
We tell ourselves snd each other stories all day long, making sense of our experiences to ourself; explaining our experiences and selves to others. We explain to ourselves until we have a model that satisfies us at a given time. This is storytelling.
When we gather for special events as families, we tell each other informal “stories” of our lives.
Stories are fiction. And history. And news. And social glue. And, even, in a sense, science and mathematics.
And those things are, in their own ways, stories.
***Tl;dr
It’s cool to hate time travel tropes. Just don’t expect everyone to agree.***.
@DVDBZN@f00l@katsuronishi@Limewater That’s my point! We only have human sense-making, and time travel tropes violate that aggressively, and worse, often inconsistently!
It’s ok. I’m used to everyone else being wrong.
What I usually rewatch binge: The Office, Parks and Rec, Frasier, Rick and Morty, The Venture Bros. Nothing I’d call guilty pleasure or be ashamed of, though.
@PooltoyWolf Same, I’m not much of a binge-watcher, so I was excited to see the one show that I actually do binge! It’s not a guilty pleasure, though. I feel no guilt about loving the show.
@ahacksaw Literally same, hahaha. I was so thrilled when I discovered the Boston Park Plaza Hotel had HLN on the room TVs, so I didn’t have to miss the premiere of Forensic Files II while I was away from home!
NCIS - NCIS LA - BONES - CASTLE… Except for Forensic Files which is real, real TV and I do watch, I don’t watch scripted real TV, for me life is real enough…
Not a binger, don’t have the attention span for TV type stuff to binge. Haven’t done so since well before there were streaming services. 2 episodes in a row is the best I’ve done.
On DVD, the only thing I remember doing was Sex in the City.
Back when broadcast TV called them marathons, I remember Twilight Zone and Star Trek
Bosch-The new season begins tonight, as someone above mentioned. I have not seen any of the shows in Meh’s list, but have watched some of the others noted in the comments. We kind of binged watched the original Arrested Development when our son brought the discs, before, I believe, there was online streaming.
When I am beyond stressed, I absolutely LOVE reality TV. Lately, I’ve been watching Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, but my all-time favorites are Rock of Love, Joe Schmoe, Mad Mad House, and pretty much any show that involves weddings or marrying a rich person. I’m not happy to admit this, but it’s how I’m coping with life at the moment.
@Goofmont enterprise is corny and terrible but i still find it slightly more watchable than the original. but mostly because i watch it nightly to fall asleep and the original series has too many random/pointless and loud background sound effects or soundtrack crescendos. TNG is my favorite, but currently watching voyager.
The original show can be dumb, or heavy-handed, or obvious, or over the top (hi, Shatner!),
… or brilliant.
And the so-called “special effects” … ouch.
But it reflects its time. It carries a record of the crazy, overdone, naive arguments and issues from that era.
And nothing like it had been made for TV before. And because “set in space”, it could directly target topics most shows wouldn’t touch.
When I watch it, it seems in part a kind of historical reference of portions of 60’s culture.
@Goofmont I love Star Trek, grew up with TOS. The Wrath of Khan is a great movie (not just a good “Trek” movie).
But the “it was only a dream” episode of DS9 where they “killed off” most of the crew ticked me off so bad I walked away and never went back. I tried Voyager, but it was meh. I’ve tried Enterprise a couple of times and wandered off.
Discovery is great. Pike has my vote as the best Starfleet captain ever. And Captain Lorca is the worst ever, but then again, he was supposed to be. And I’m a sucker for Mirror Universe epsiodes.
@f00l this is a great assessment and i totally agree! also, even if it is one of my “least favorite” treks, i do love leonard nimoy & spock very much. one of my favorite characters.
@jerk_nugget I couldn’t take Enterprise at all but then again, Next Gen took a minute to grow on me so there’s hope I suppose.
Voyager was awful the first 3 seasons but it did build the story.
I’m really digging The Orville but now that’s it’s gone to streaming I’m not so sure I’ll continue to follow. A little disappointed it didn’t stay on tv but that’s the way of things these days I suppose.
@f00l@jerk_nugget I never made it through TOS, but I did like TNG, DS9, and Voyager (probably my favorite), and Enterprise too. IMO, they all tend to pick up steam as they go, if they start a little rough.
Haven’t finished Enterprise, still waiting for the writers to give up on this Captain-Vulcan… thing. Points for the cheesecake decontamination room, I guess? I’m in season 2 someplace, I think… even the pop song is starting to not sound horrible.
Discovery didn’t do much for me. Haven’t watched Picard yet.
@mycya4me It lasted more than one season so you’re not alone. I accept it as part of the Trek Universe, it just wasn’t for me. If I was trapped and had to watch it I’d be fine.
My ultimate binge show is cutting firewood, sitting on my riverbank, and clearing my hiking trails. Enjoy being stuck in your box quarantined watching other people live. I hope this goes on forever.
@Meh_is_Meh it’s nice you’re privileged enough to have all that. but telling everyone else you hope a pandemic that is killing thousands continues is honestly really disgusting.
@Meh_is_Meh your premise is flawed. many of us aren’t going out because we don’t have the luxury to go outside and be away from others, not because we think merely stepping outside will turn us to dust. there is no land, there is no front or back yard, and we want to protect those that have to go out if we can in a very densely populated area.
where i live, most people still have to go to work outside the home and as a result the city is now a hotspot and hundreds of people have died. it’s not the same as “i better not go outside because i might get hit by a bus.”
@jerk_nugget@Meh_is_Meh I feel you. I just got a pizza delivered and I didn’t even see the delivery person. It is like I’ve died and gone to heaven. No offense to the economy or actual dead people.
I have watched between 1 and 3 episodes of a thing at a time on Netflix, but that’s about all I can take. Dramas are kind of… demanding high-attention things on the one hand, and oppressive on the other hand. Other things tend to satisfy you with whatever it is they offer after an episode or two.
I mistook Gossip Girls for Gilmore Girls, above. Never binged Gilmore Girls, but it would be a guilty pleasure if I did. I mean, I think. I remember they talked a lot, and it was network television enough to not be too heavy.
i don’t have guilty pleasures - i’m really not ashamed of anything i watch, eat, wear, etc.
something i binge most often though would probably be dateline or 20/20. since switching to youtubeTV we’ve regained access to both ID and OWN so there’s always a story about someone who lit up a room getting murdered to be had.
i also could leave the tastemade channel on for hours. good background noise including commercials, lots of cooking.
i am also about to binge the newest season of ozark, and i need to catch up on the walking dead as well.
@macromeh a lot. sometimes it’s so realistic it’s hard to watch because you know ultimately they’re not going to catch a break even if they do the right things.
30 Rock, always. Sometimes SATC when I see it’s on. Recently binged “Little Fires Everywhere” and really liked it- waiting for the last couple episodes.
@tnywatkns Great show. Do you know if it’s available on any of the streaming networks right now? I was watching on Hulu a couple years ago but they took it off there.
I so want to like “The Office”, as I think I would like the humor, but I loathe the shaky cam and needless, random zooming. I have tried watching it a few times, but after a couple of minutes, I just can’t hang
I think “Parks & Recreation” does this also?
Does the original UK version of “The Office” employ shaky cam?
Love binging many of these, especially any true crime, Dexter, Trek (any Gen), Psych and Monk but don’t feel guilty about them. Z Nation is the one I ended up loving to my chagrin.
I have very little guilt about any tv I watch, really. I can’t remember the last thing I binged seriously on, though. Not the way I used to before kids.
Babylon 5, Firefly, The Expanse, The Wild Wild West, Sherlock (both the Butterscotch Cabbage Patch and Jeremy Brett versions), The Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, UFO, anything with Supermarionation.
@blaineg The originals (there are NOT any remakes!) of Hawaii 5-0 and Magnum PI. Columbo, and any of the other NBC Mystery Movie series like Banacek. Mannix, Longstreet, Baretta, Perry Mason, Ironside.
@blaineg The stunt in the opening credits of Wiseguy (a guy jumps backwards onto the hood of a car just before he’s crushed by another car reversing rapidly) gave me the willies Every. Single. Time.
TV hasn’t been on this year so I don’t know what stations do marathons anymore. The ones I will sit down and watch are How It’s Made, Burn Notice, The Twilight Zone (original) and Robot Chicken.
Anything else I just watch 2 to 4 episodes at a time if they play that many in a row.
@RiotDemon. Was it you that recommended True Blood? I started watching it with my daughter today. Does it get less pornographic? Or is that it’s thing? We switched to The Sopranos.
@sammydog01 True Blood does not really get less pornographic.
Completely different from True Blood, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix is really good. It’s a lot less likely to be awkward to watch with your daughter.
The Closer and Major Crimes
Don’t judge
@llangley I love those! I finished The Closer but got distracted partway through Major Crimes by The Mentalist.
@llangley Definitely. We’re rationing Major Crimes to last as long as we can.
Storage Wars (Yes, I know there are no new ones. Don’t care.)
@Shrdlu YES! Shipping Wars was good too.
@sammydog01 @Shrdlu and better!
@elimanningface @Shrdlu And probably less fake.
House is up there. I also liked Bones before they started boning.
@show_the_maw where are you watching those?
@unksol On my TV?
House is on Amazon prime and sometimes I’ll catch a Bones marathon on TNT.
@show_the_maw mmmm no tnt for me. Excellent taste
House, definitely yes!
Bones? Good gods no.
Why are we not talking about ‘House’? It’s not Lupus!
@vfrdirk because it’s not lupus
Until it is lupus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Don't_Want_to_Know
@vfrdirk i watch house every night! so happy it’s back via amazon after netflix got rid of it. those were the real dark days.
Port protection.
Anything by Dan Schneider.
Preacher.
Prime: City on a Hill with Kevin Bacon. Luther Season 5. Bosch Season 6 (starts tomorrow).
And The Closer and Major Crimes. Great characters.
@mike808 Would you happen to know if “Bosch” is very faithful to the novels, either in spirit or detail?
@Limewater My wife (who has read 5 or 6 of the novels and watched all the previous seasons of the series on Amazon with me) says that they are faithful in spirit but many details are different. For example, the time period is different: in the novels Bosch is a Vietnam vet; the TV series is set in current times and he served in Afghanistan. But she recognizes many of the characters and major plot points from the books.
I expected everyone to say “Tiger King”.
Haven’t seen it, but I still know the whole story.
It’s unavoidable.
@kdemo I don’t do much binging, but of the ones I have, the only one I would classify as a guilty pleasure is “Tiger King”.
@kdemo It’s great, but there are only seven episodes, not counting the Joel McHale episode they just added. I don’t expect to ever have any desire to watch it again.
@kdemo I think people didn’t think of it because it’s not a very good show. Don’t believe what @limewater says.
@elimanningface @kdemo Are you kidding? Tiger King has everything! Tigers! Lions! Ligers! Polygamy! Genital Piercing! Libertarianism! Country Music! Guns! Shaq! Inspirational Music Videos! A guy who looks like Mitch McConnell!
If it were a nightclub, Stefan would be there.
@elimanningface @kdemo @Limewater Now I know another definition of Prince Albert, and it’s not in a can.
@elimanningface @kdemo @Limewater @sammydog01
@elimanningface @Limewater - Stefon is maybe the only thing that could get me to watch “Tiger King”.
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives!
/image stuff face
@IndifferentDude Beat Bobby Flay is fun too.
@IndifferentDude I’m glad I’m not the only one! Not only does most of the food look amazing, but a person is able to hearken-back to “the good old days” before social distancing!!
/giphy roadrunner wile e coyote
Archer
@mike808 hold my… Whiskey
Do you want ants. Because that’s how you get ants.
/giphy Dexter
well that’s not the right one…
/giphy Dexter on Shotime
well fuck. I give up.
@Perkalicious Omelette du fromage!!
@Perkalicious @PooltoyWolf
/image Dexter showtime
@Perkalicious @PooltoyWolf I play Rollercoaster Tycoon Touch. I was excited they have an Easter building called Omelette Du Fromage.
@Perkalicious @RiotDemon That’s awesome!
POPSOCKETS! SPROCKETS! DAVY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
@mike808 well that’s silly… I never realized Showtime actually did include the W.
What an odd logo choice.
@Perkalicious
Seems to be there when I looked.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showtime_(TV_network)
Doesn’t appear to ever have not been there.
@mike808 Yeah, I just meant in my head it was never there because of how the logo was designed.
I don’t have one that is a “guilty pleasure”. I happily binge any of the Marvel series whenever new seasons happen, though. Especially Punisher.
@Pony ah. When new seasons were still possible
Take your pick.
@mbimeh I pick Firefly
@mbimeh I love Firefly, but would in no way classify it as a guilty pleasure.
@mbimeh I wouldn’t (and don’t) feel guilty about any of those!
Only started watching Rick & Morty about a month ago, I think I’m caught up now and excited for the new season, next month.
Wubba lubba dub dub, bitches!
Most (not all) of the Battlestar remake was absolutely fantastic!
LOST
@katsuronishi
A friend just got me into Lost, and it’s sooo good!
@DVDBZN @katsuronishi Should we tell 'em?
@blaineg @DVDBZN @katsuronishi that he has a bad friend? I say just let it play out.
@DVDBZN @katsuronishi I only saw one Lost episode. It was some incoherent time travel plot. I hate incoherent time travel plots (that is, all of them).
Outraged, I resolved to never watch another episode of Lost again. Bwhahahah!
It’s not easy, always being right.
@DVDBZN @InnocuousFarmer @katsuronishi Yet, amazingly, the best Harry Potter movie was the time travel one.
@DVDBZN @katsuronishi @Limewater I haven’t watched those yet, but that’s an obvious lie!
@DVDBZN @InnocuousFarmer @katsuronishi It’s NOT! That’s what’s so amazing about it! I never thought I’d be saying anything along the lines of “My favorite one is the time-travel one.”
The books are all good. The movies peak early and and then the last few kind of suck, in my opinion.
@katsuronishi I loved, loved loved LOST!!
@blaineg @katsuronishi @unksol
Wait wut?
/giphy wait what?
@DVDBZN @InnocuousFarmer @katsuronishi @Limewater
Yeah. 3 was the best. 4 also very nice. The first 2 skewed younger (as did the books in which they were based), but they were also quite lovely, sometimes even “magical” at moments.
Then they gave 5-8 to a director who … I dunno. They’re a let down.
FWIW: the “time travel” in book/movie 3 isn’t incoherent. The writer went to some lengths to avoid that.
She did not, however, engage with every possible issue a “time travel” plot device might create.
She was doing a kid’s book, and a great one. She let the book be that.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TimeTravel
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TimeTravelTropes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurTimeTravelIsDifferent
Etc. Time travel as a concept can be a gas to play with.
@DVDBZN @InnocuousFarmer @katsuronishi Babylon 5 did a good time travel episode, Babylon Squared.
@DVDBZN @f00l @katsuronishi @Limewater Time travel has this problem: there is no causality outside time. As a result, with I’m sure a few exceptions, time travel plots always have this “big time”, or whatever you’d want to call it – linear causality – that the multiple timelines sit inside. And then the writers don’t bother treating that in a consistent way within the bounds of a single story. And even when they’re consistent, it’s narratively meaningless. Offends the hell out of me. You might as well just have a narrator pause every so often to say “… I was only kidding! Never mind!”
A counterexample: I liked The Peripheral, William Gibson’s second-to-latest book. Has sort-of time travel, but all the timelines are alternate / parallel histories, after points of divergence. It avoids the whole mess.
@DVDBZN @f00l @InnocuousFarmer @katsuronishi @Limewater
The time travel plot of Back to the Future series wasn’t bad.
@DVDBZN @InnocuousFarmer @katsuronishi @Limewater
It’s not like there is a clear model or understanding of causality within linear time. There isn’t. There is simply casual experience. That’s true even within science; because we don’t know how to model or then test for any alternative to causality that we can make strong human-level sense of.
And a rigorous mathematical model of any particular proffered form of causality might be just that and little more; just a mathematical model.
Even within the heights of experimental physics and particle study, this is true.
We simply have v crude and human-perspective based models of what causality is. And, even with all our engineering successes and experimental results, that’s all we’ve got.
And: is time linear?
In our daily casual experience, it appears so. In our daily scientific experience it appears so.
This ain’t enough to make it so in any final way.
All we know is that “the universe appears to be that way, more or less, consistently”. To us. A highly limited species.
We currently have no serious means to test beyond those appearances and assumptions.
And perhaps we are biologically modeled to experience it in that way.
But, no offense to Einstein. Hawking, and other serious mathematical modelers of time, we simply have no idea.
Stories are stories. They’re only supposed to be scientifically valid if they occur strictly within the boundaries of the scientific disciplines.
Within a story, if a plot hole or invalidity alienates the audiences; if it kills “suspension of disbelief”: then it’s a storytelling problem.
Stories incapsulate portions of our shared experiences and our shared capacities for imagination into a specific emotionally and intellectually interesting narratives. Perhaps fictional or speculative. . Perhaps partially historical. Perhaps explanatory, or even seriously and rigorously explanatory. Depends on setting and context.
Any story has “real world plot or reality holes” if you look with a microscope. That’s not the point.
If those plot holes etc go “too far”, or the story isn’t evocative, it fails. It never catches on with the larger intended audience, or the audience rejects it.
Each of us has our own personal hangups here about fictional story elements that bug us.
I forget what mine are at the moment; I seem to have recently managed to avoid fictional etc books that tick me off.
But, why do “stories” work? At all?
Because stories are built into us. They are, in a sense, mentally, what we are to ourselves.
The short explanations given to toddlers by their parents are actually v short “stories” of how the world works.
We tell ourselves snd each other stories all day long, making sense of our experiences to ourself; explaining our experiences and selves to others. We explain to ourselves until we have a model that satisfies us at a given time. This is storytelling.
When we gather for special events as families, we tell each other informal “stories” of our lives.
Stories are fiction. And history. And news. And social glue. And, even, in a sense, science and mathematics.
And those things are, in their own ways, stories.
***Tl;dr
It’s cool to hate time travel tropes. Just don’t expect everyone to agree.***.
@DVDBZN @f00l @katsuronishi @Limewater That’s my point! We only have human sense-making, and time travel tropes violate that aggressively, and worse, often inconsistently!
It’s ok. I’m used to everyone else being wrong.
@DVDBZN @f00l @InnocuousFarmer @katsuronishi @Limewater
@unksol No!
P O I
What I usually rewatch binge: The Office, Parks and Rec, Frasier, Rick and Morty, The Venture Bros. Nothing I’d call guilty pleasure or be ashamed of, though.
Finally, a choice that fits me to a tee! Forensic Files!
@PooltoyWolf Same, I’m not much of a binge-watcher, so I was excited to see the one show that I actually do binge! It’s not a guilty pleasure, though. I feel no guilt about loving the show.
@ahacksaw Literally same, hahaha. I was so thrilled when I discovered the Boston Park Plaza Hotel had HLN on the room TVs, so I didn’t have to miss the premiere of Forensic Files II while I was away from home!
Fringe
Wynonna Earp
Killing Eve (binging seasons I and II again to watch III)
The Expanse
@stolicat I like your style
@stolicat Fringe blew my mind at the beginning. It was so good. I didn’t like it as much towards the end.
@RiotDemon like many a Fox network show, they had to rush the ending for being cut off earlier than planned. That show was all about Walter …
NCIS - NCIS LA - BONES - CASTLE… Except for Forensic Files which is real, real TV and I do watch, I don’t watch scripted real TV, for me life is real enough…
HIMYM
Naked and afraid!!!
Schitt’s Creek
Uhhhh, Hulu running The Sopranos so there’s that
Also, Rick & Morty
any of the NBC “Chicago” shows, firemen, PD.
Not a binger, don’t have the attention span for TV type stuff to binge. Haven’t done so since well before there were streaming services. 2 episodes in a row is the best I’ve done.
On DVD, the only thing I remember doing was Sex in the City.
Back when broadcast TV called them marathons, I remember Twilight Zone and Star Trek
Dawson’s Creek! Oh, I love that show.
Frasier, Monk, Psych and Columbo.
@wonidejack, all exemplary choices!
Bosch-The new season begins tonight, as someone above mentioned. I have not seen any of the shows in Meh’s list, but have watched some of the others noted in the comments. We kind of binged watched the original Arrested Development when our son brought the discs, before, I believe, there was online streaming.
Sabrina the teenage witch
We are on Season 3 of Bosch — really good. Also liked Midsomer Murders, Endeavour, and Grantchester.
@TheFaceOfBoe You’ll probably also like Billy Bob Thornton in Goliath (on Prime too).
@TheFaceOfBoe, took me like a year to watch all of the Midsomer Murder episodes
Creek Schitt
Don’t judge me, but it’s Peppa Pig and Hey Duggee. My kids have outgrown the shows and I’m finding myself missing their clean, dry, British humor.
When I am beyond stressed, I absolutely LOVE reality TV. Lately, I’ve been watching Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, but my all-time favorites are Rock of Love, Joe Schmoe, Mad Mad House, and pretty much any show that involves weddings or marrying a rich person. I’m not happy to admit this, but it’s how I’m coping with life at the moment.
Star Trek Original, Next Gen, DS9, Voyager but NOT Enterprise.
@Goofmont This. Especially DS9!
@ComputerMD82 I’m partial to Voyager at the moment but absolutly wouldn’t turn off DS9 if it were on!
@Goofmont But I like the Enterprise, But NOT STD, Loved Picard!
@Goofmont enterprise is corny and terrible but i still find it slightly more watchable than the original. but mostly because i watch it nightly to fall asleep and the original series has too many random/pointless and loud background sound effects or soundtrack crescendos. TNG is my favorite, but currently watching voyager.
@Goofmont @jerk_nugget
The original show can be dumb, or heavy-handed, or obvious, or over the top (hi, Shatner!),
… or brilliant.
And the so-called “special effects” … ouch.
But it reflects its time. It carries a record of the crazy, overdone, naive arguments and issues from that era.
And nothing like it had been made for TV before. And because “set in space”, it could directly target topics most shows wouldn’t touch.
When I watch it, it seems in part a kind of historical reference of portions of 60’s culture.
/giphy TOS Kirk Spock McCoy
@Goofmont I love Star Trek, grew up with TOS. The Wrath of Khan is a great movie (not just a good “Trek” movie).
But the “it was only a dream” episode of DS9 where they “killed off” most of the crew ticked me off so bad I walked away and never went back. I tried Voyager, but it was meh. I’ve tried Enterprise a couple of times and wandered off.
Discovery is great. Pike has my vote as the best Starfleet captain ever. And Captain Lorca is the worst ever, but then again, he was supposed to be. And I’m a sucker for Mirror Universe epsiodes.
Picard has been fun as well.
@f00l this is a great assessment and i totally agree! also, even if it is one of my “least favorite” treks, i do love leonard nimoy & spock very much. one of my favorite characters.
@jerk_nugget I couldn’t take Enterprise at all but then again, Next Gen took a minute to grow on me so there’s hope I suppose.
Voyager was awful the first 3 seasons but it did build the story.
I’m really digging The Orville but now that’s it’s gone to streaming I’m not so sure I’ll continue to follow. A little disappointed it didn’t stay on tv but that’s the way of things these days I suppose.
@f00l @jerk_nugget I never made it through TOS, but I did like TNG, DS9, and Voyager (probably my favorite), and Enterprise too. IMO, they all tend to pick up steam as they go, if they start a little rough.
Haven’t finished Enterprise, still waiting for the writers to give up on this Captain-Vulcan… thing. Points for the
cheesecakedecontamination room, I guess? I’m in season 2 someplace, I think… even the pop song is starting to not sound horrible.Discovery didn’t do much for me. Haven’t watched Picard yet.
@mycya4me It lasted more than one season so you’re not alone. I accept it as part of the Trek Universe, it just wasn’t for me. If I was trapped and had to watch it I’d be fine.
@InnocuousFarmer @jerk_nugget
That ST enterprise theme song is <shrug>.
But the quick visual “history of exploration” montage accompanying it is a fav.
@Goofmont I like them all except TOS it’s just too reddiculos. Well the first season off TNG was also horrible. Even enterprise is passable
My ultimate binge show is cutting firewood, sitting on my riverbank, and clearing my hiking trails. Enjoy being stuck in your box quarantined watching other people live. I hope this goes on forever.
@Meh_is_Meh I’m jealous. Both of your plot of land and your apparent free time during daylight hours.
@Meh_is_Meh it’s nice you’re privileged enough to have all that. but telling everyone else you hope a pandemic that is killing thousands continues is honestly really disgusting.
@Meh_is_Meh I wish my land was better but I was not expecting 4 inches of snow in April. So
@jerk_nugget yeah it is kind of disgusting. But think of all the people that are being saved from car wrecks from going to work.
@Meh_is_Meh your premise is flawed. many of us aren’t going out because we don’t have the luxury to go outside and be away from others, not because we think merely stepping outside will turn us to dust. there is no land, there is no front or back yard, and we want to protect those that have to go out if we can in a very densely populated area.
where i live, most people still have to go to work outside the home and as a result the city is now a hotspot and hundreds of people have died. it’s not the same as “i better not go outside because i might get hit by a bus.”
@jerk_nugget @Meh_is_Meh I feel you. I just got a pizza delivered and I didn’t even see the delivery person. It is like I’ve died and gone to heaven. No offense to the economy or actual dead people.
The West Wing - over and over
@fletchypoo - I’m watching again for just the 2nd time. It’s about the only thing that calms me these days.
Huge sigh
It’s so nice to see a president actually be presidential.
British Detective TV shows like Hetty Winthrop, Miss Marple, Mallorca Files, Rosemary & Thyme
@Athena1169 I hope you watched sherlock
Greys Anatomy
Binging isn’t really a thing for me.
I have watched between 1 and 3 episodes of a thing at a time on Netflix, but that’s about all I can take. Dramas are kind of… demanding high-attention things on the one hand, and oppressive on the other hand. Other things tend to satisfy you with whatever it is they offer after an episode or two.
I mistook Gossip Girls for Gilmore Girls, above. Never binged Gilmore Girls, but it would be a guilty pleasure if I did. I mean, I think. I remember they talked a lot, and it was network television enough to not be too heavy.
i don’t have guilty pleasures - i’m really not ashamed of anything i watch, eat, wear, etc.
something i binge most often though would probably be dateline or 20/20. since switching to youtubeTV we’ve regained access to both ID and OWN so there’s always a story about someone who lit up a room getting murdered to be had.
i also could leave the tastemade channel on for hours. good background noise including commercials, lots of cooking.
i am also about to binge the newest season of ozark, and i need to catch up on the walking dead as well.
Shameless (US version). It’s like a train wreck and I just can’t look away. How many bad decisions can one group of people make?
@macromeh a lot. sometimes it’s so realistic it’s hard to watch because you know ultimately they’re not going to catch a break even if they do the right things.
Good Sci Fi, like Star Trek (except STD), The Orville!!, Firefly, Babylon 5 and basically any Sci Fi!
30 Rock, always. Sometimes SATC when I see it’s on. Recently binged “Little Fires Everywhere” and really liked it- waiting for the last couple episodes.
Current shows: Ozark, Better Call Saul, Tiger King
Older shows: The Wire, Breaking Bad, Sopranos
@jimdkc nice! 6 for 6 in wrong answers.
Scrubs
The Office
Parks & Recreation
3rd Rock from the Sun
@tnywatkns Great show. Do you know if it’s available on any of the streaming networks right now? I was watching on Hulu a couple years ago but they took it off there.
@Al_Coholic Yes, i’ve actually been watching it on Tubi this week. Believe they’ve got the whole series up.
@Al_Coholic @tnywatkns Also available on the (free) Roku channel. And on demand on Sling and OTA on the Laff channel. Probably others as well.
I so want to like “The Office”, as I think I would like the humor, but I loathe the shaky cam and needless, random zooming. I have tried watching it a few times, but after a couple of minutes, I just can’t hang
I think “Parks & Recreation” does this also?
Does the original UK version of “The Office” employ shaky cam?
@DrWorm trust your gut and say “The Office.”
Not the correct answer but still a very, very, good choice.
@DrWorm parks and rec is awesome. I can’t stand the office may be different reasons
VAN GOGH! MANGO! TANGO! AWESOME!
Love binging many of these, especially any true crime, Dexter, Trek (any Gen), Psych and Monk but don’t feel guilty about them. Z Nation is the one I ended up loving to my chagrin.
Any TV Poker game.
NTSF:SD:SUV
@PocketBrain Gesundheit!
@PocketBrain Wow, I spelled it right the first time!
I have very little guilt about any tv I watch, really. I can’t remember the last thing I binged seriously on, though. Not the way I used to before kids.
Babylon 5, Firefly, The Expanse, The Wild Wild West, Sherlock (both the Butterscotch Cabbage Patch and Jeremy Brett versions), The Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, UFO, anything with Supermarionation.
@blaineg The originals (there are NOT any remakes!) of Hawaii 5-0 and Magnum PI. Columbo, and any of the other NBC Mystery Movie series like Banacek. Mannix, Longstreet, Baretta, Perry Mason, Ironside.
@blaineg Oh, Wiseguy. I think that was my introduction to Jonathan Banks.
@blaineg everyone loves butterfly horrorpants
@blaineg The stunt in the opening credits of Wiseguy (a guy jumps backwards onto the hood of a car just before he’s crushed by another car reversing rapidly) gave me the willies Every. Single. Time.
If that had gone wrong, he’d never walk again.
@blaineg
@blaineg I watched that show every week back when you had to watch every week. I loved it.
Kevin Spacey too! With that sister thing.
TV hasn’t been on this year so I don’t know what stations do marathons anymore. The ones I will sit down and watch are How It’s Made, Burn Notice, The Twilight Zone (original) and Robot Chicken.
Anything else I just watch 2 to 4 episodes at a time if they play that many in a row.
@yakkoTDI I’m not sure where you reside but TV has been on. In fact, for many channels, broadcasting occurs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The answer is King of the Hill.
Bob’s Burgers, Seinfeld, and Parking Wars are also acceptable answers.
You don’t like my answers, but you choose the assinine Bob’s Burgers?
BLUE BLOODS
[1]: https://www.cbs.com/shows/blue_bloods/
Frasier.
@RiotDemon. Was it you that recommended True Blood? I started watching it with my daughter today. Does it get less pornographic? Or is that it’s thing? We switched to The Sopranos.
@sammydog01 True Blood does not really get less pornographic.
Completely different from True Blood, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix is really good. It’s a lot less likely to be awkward to watch with your daughter.
@sammydog01 yeah, that was me. It’s rated mature for a reason. It definitely does not get less pornographic.
@RiotDemon It was just more than I expected- too much to forward through. Which is kind of sad because the other parts were really good.
@sammydog01 it is a good show. Best not to watch with your children though.
@RiotDemon She’s in college, but still.
@sammydog01 it’s awkward as fuck with family around, lol.
@RiotDemon @sammydog01
TWS…nevermind…
Aww man this is tough, It’s a toss up between Francis, Bonzo, Blondie and Elvis movies.
Shameless, Grace and Frankie
ozark