Or you could say movie instead of show.
Friday Night Lights is a great show, but I absolutely cannot comprehend the residents’ slavish, religious devotion to football. Everyone’s lives revolve around it in some way even if they’re not players or cheerleaders or coaches. Is this really the way life is in some towns?
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you would understand if you lived in Texas
what else is there to do on a Friday night? And in a small town there is only one high school so the whole town can be united in something
If everyone’s lives didn’t revolve around football, why bother to make a show about football?
It’s like saying “Cheers is a great show about a bar, but they never show Cliff delivering mail.”
That was the point of the book, also named Friday Night Lights, on which the show is based, that the people’s lives revolved way too much around high school football.
The King of Kong is a great documentary, but I don’t see how people can devote so much time competing to get the high school of an arcade game that is nearly 30 years old.
One of the amazing things about human beings is our capacity for creating our own drama. I don’t think it’s really necessarily to “get” why people like something only that you understand that they do.
::hoping this is not too far out of the spirit of the OP::
Justified is a great show but the FX network is lame for not letting you watch episodes until 30 days after their original air date.
It’s a good piece of fiction marketed as a documentary, at any rate.
Metropolis is a great show, but only if you ignore the plot, characterization and acting and focus entirely on the visual experience of the sets and costuming.
Maybe. Nanook of the North certainly wasn’t an accurate depiction of Eskimo life when it was filmed but it’s still a documentary. At any rate, the producers of The King of Kong have their own take on some of the criticisms. According to the producers they had material they didn’t use that would have made Billy Mitchell look like an even bigger douche.
As for the criticism you linked:
I don’t know what movie he was watching but the filmmakers did not hold up members of this particular subculture to be sneered, dismissed or laughed at.
How I Met Your Mother is a great show, but they really need to wrap it up. At this point his kids have been on that couch for months listening to their father talk about several girlfriends that he had before their mother.
Not to mention the time their dad and one of his best friends got really bored and just started screwing for like 24 hours straight.
Of course, the show acknowledges this by having Future Ted ask his kids “Am I a bad dad?” after he tells the tale of Barney nailing seven women in seven days.
Two and a Half Men was not a great show and needs (needed?) to be cancelled but they need to have a series finale to wrap up the loose ends.
Alan has ripped off nearly everyone on the show in a Ponzi scheme and Rose is married to Manny Quinn.
Actually, Manny Quinn is a “Mannequin”
Ummmm…watch a movie? Go out dancing or to dinner or both? See a play or musical somewhere, possibly in another town? Board games? Parties, bunco, bowling?
Not trying to start a fight here, just tossing out possibilities.
2 1/2 Men is a Great Show, but only because of the supporting cast. The lead guy sucks donkey balls.
Good one!
Big Bang Theory is a great show, but when my geekery overlaps theirs (video games and comic books), it tends to fall flat, since they don’t actually seem to know all that much.
The premise of the show quickly went from sweet to creepy to downright child abuse. No one should *ever *be forced to learn that much about their Dad and friend’s sex lives.
Supernatural is a- well, maybe not great, but fun- show, but they are way too bloody. There’s no way this many people could be getting ganked by ghosts and other supes without most of the world catching on that there’s something that goes bump in the night. And they REALLY REALLY REALLY need to show more nudity. Might also be nice to find out what’s happening on other continents- maybe a European spin-off that could sometimes intersect with the U.S./Canadian version.
I’ll give it a whirl. (A few examples will be from the past, unfortunately, as there isn’t a lot on TV I’m interested in nowadays.)
Dancing With The Stars is highly entertaining (provided you have DVR to cut out all the dead air) and by far the best reality program right now, but the voting/elimination system needs a MASSIVE overhaul. Three things: 1. Limit the votes. Require confirmation for an e-mail vote, and delay the confirmation request to curb ballot stuffing, and only one vote per phone. 2. Unshackle the judges. It’s depressing how they have to constantly walk on eggshells because every word is open to scrutiny. Make the comments and scores anonymous until at least the following week. 3. Allow everyone at least four weeks before being eliminated unless they’re totally stinking up the joint or obviously don’t want to be there. Don’t let the first round be such a crapshoot. Cut at four weeks, then one more cut before the finale, easy as pie.
Survivor used to be a great show, but now that everyone knows the winning strategies, winning has become a matter of mostly luck. (Yes, Richard Hatch was lucky, but he wasn’t just lucky.) They should stop constantly trying to come up with new twists and quirks and monkey wrenches and just turn it into a straight-up physical game show, an outdoor adventure version of Minute to Win It, if you will.
Herman’s Head was a very good show with a nice, quirky premise, one of the best comedies of the 90’s, in fact, but it was juuuust starting to stagnate at the end. Ideally, there would’ve been a fifth season where the characters, especially Herman himself, broke out of their ruts and made serious decisions about where their lives were headed, but I don’t regret it ending when it did.
The Powerpuff Girls was a legitimately great show through and through, but if Shut The Pup Up wasn’t a 2000-foot shark jump, nothing is. (To recap: Marginal bit player acts like colossal jerk for entire episode and completely gets away with it; two men commit multiple murders and completely get away with it.) Furthermore, the episode where the girls quietly accept that they’re bound to protect Townsville forever and absolutely cannot escape their fate (don’t remember the title) was downright depressing. To keep going would’ve been cruelty. (Don’t have much of an opinion on that “Z” spinoff; it looks like every other anime to me.)
JAG was an excellent show most of the time until CBS got bought up by a defense contractor. The result was an increasingly unwatchable lovefest of our military, complete with finger-down-the-throat whitewashes of every high-profile frackup our armed forces has been involved in since the Bush I administration. The logic employed in these was surreal (because the Russians have a defective torpedo, it’s perfectly fine to kill Japanese civiliains out of carelessness?).
The WWE* used to be one of the best shows around, but pretty much everything since the collapse of WCW has been a long, slow, painful burn. The hideously bungled InVasion, HHH getting a stranglehold on Raw, The Undertaker hanging on way too long, Katie Vick, Eddie Guerrero’s death and subsequent exploitation, Chris Benoit’s meltdown, Kevin Nash’s breakdown, Stephanie McMahon gaining control of ECW…heck, it’s almost as if the whole point of this company is to keep Wrestlecrap.com going.
The Simpsons…uh, on second thought, just forget it. 
I missed this episode. Was “Aunt Robin” the best friend?
Dark City was a great science fiction film (it’s what The Matrix aspired to be and failed), but the opening narration is just plain terrible. It gives away the mystery and several plot twists. First-time viewer are told to turn off the sound until Kiefer Sutherland looks at his pocket watch.