# Appointment TV shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 24, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appointment-tv-shows/732417 "2015-09-24T18:38:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appointment-tv-shows/732417/21 "2015-09-25T13:07:14Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Yes, that is fair enough, I suppose. But everyone I know in my economic class can afford (and has) Netflix but still insists on watching TV shows the night they come out! “No, I can’t do anything that night, that’s my Breaking Bad night”. Well, the issue with Netflix is that you’re either watching it the night it airs or eight months later. For services that let you watch stuff a day or two after it airs I can see letting an episode slide. Waiting the better part of a year doesn’t seem equivalent, especially if you want to watch the new episode next week or discuss it with friends. ---
**Author:** ![Gothic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gothic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gothic)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appointment-tv-shows/732417/22 "2015-09-25T14:34:09Z")
Agents of Shield, TWD, and GoT because I enjoy the threads about them here. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appointment-tv-shows/732417/23 "2015-09-25T17:00:10Z")
Empire, Outlander, Game of Thrones, Big Bang Theory. I binge watched The Good Wife so I’m caught up on that, so that will probably be added to the list. ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appointment-tv-shows/732417/24 "2015-09-25T20:55:09Z")
I watch shows on broadcast day that I fear will be spoiled for me the next day in some fashion if I don’t. Especially for season and/or series finales. For example, I watched the series finale of Mad Men that evening just because I knew I would run across something the next day about it, despite my best efforts. But even in these cases, I’ll wait at least 20 minutes so I can avoid commercials (as someone posted upthread). I’ll watch awards shows live (Oscars, Emmys). I’ll watch certain massive sporting events live (e.g, the Superbowl) or else I won’t watch them at all. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appointment-tv-shows/732417/25 "2015-09-26T10:24:26Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Every show I watch, I watch soon after it’s broadcast. When else should I watch it? I tend to binge-watch dramas. I don’t see \*Person of Interest \*until well after the season’s over. Same with _Blue Bloods_. That may be the case with TBBT, as I’m not bothering with this season. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appointment-tv-shows/732417/26 "2015-09-26T11:35:11Z")
Kind of an obscure one. _Murdoch Mysteries_. I just adore it. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appointment-tv-shows/732417/27 "2015-09-26T11:57:33Z")
Nothing now, but the final shows I made sure we caught live were Survivor and Supernatural. Even those get watched a day later now, though. ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appointment-tv-shows/732417/28 "2015-09-26T12:13:14Z")
Game of Thrones is the only one for me right now. In the recent past, Breaking Bad, Lost, BSG were all shows that, to the extent possible, I watched at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appointment-tv-shows/732417/29 "2015-09-27T04:51:06Z")
The last show that I absolutely didn’t want to wait to see was _Terriers_. It was so, so good. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appointment-tv-shows/732417/30 "2015-09-27T18:55:55Z")
\*\*Old shows: \*\*\*Oz \*was. I wouldn’t even answer the phone when Oz was on. _Law & Order_ during the Briscoe years. A roomie and I used to have Chinese food on Thursday nights. (In related L&O weirdness, I was watching an episode, and just as the detectives on TV were knocking on someone’s door, someone knocked on my door…and it was Jacksonville detectives, looking for information about my downstairs neighbor, who’d been found dead in his apartment. :eek: ) \* Doctor Who \*with the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors. _Life on Mars_ (UK version) _Torchwood_. _Northern Exposure_. _Broadchurch._ (season 1) \*\* New shows:\*\* _The Walking Dead_. I’m hooked despite a lot of the stupidity. _Game of Thrones_. ---
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appointment-tv-shows/732417/31 "2015-09-28T00:07:59Z")
The last show I was super-psyched about watching ASAP was Hannibal on NBC. Ah, I miss those psychos already… At the time I was following Tumblr more than I am now, and it was IMPOSSIBLE to not get spoiled, no matter if you put “spoiler” or “spoilers” in your blacklist or what. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![urban1a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47c2d/32.png) [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appointment-tv-shows/732417/32 "2015-09-28T01:42:16Z")
I watched each episode of Star Trek TOS as it came on. And Laugh-In was special. I had to be home and I audio taped the show (reel-to-reel tape recorder sitting in front of the TV). I don’t think I ever listened to them though. There were probably others, but I don’t remember them right now. Bob [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/appointment-tv-shows/732417.md?page=1)