Bones and Chuck.
Chuck used to be a big favorite that has since lost much of its luster for me, but Bones was always a crapfest. It is without a doubt my guiltiest pleasure, and the pleasure has been nose-diving the last couple seasons.
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-Joe
I don’t think I *ever *watch a show that I know I don’t like.
Mrs. Mustard has our DVR overloaded with dreck like Say Yes To the Dress, I Was Pregnant and Didn’t Know It, 47 (or whatever) Kids & Counting, Project Runway, The Two-Headed Baby We Adopted, What Not To Wear, The Siamese Triplets of Hooterville, Kate Plus 8, Caroline Plus 9, Gwen Plus 10, Wee Little Peoples, Glee, Limey Nanny, The 800-lb. Woman, The 300-lb. Teen, The 200-lb. Toddler, The 30-lb. Neonate, The 12-lb. Fetus, and the 1-lb. Sperm.
Point is, we are way past always needing to watch stuff together. She knows I have my movies, my Jon Stewart, my The Wire DVDs, my Breaking Bad, my Red Wings games.
But it’s not that we never watch stuff together. We share interest in Big Bang Theory, Pawn Stars, Raising Hope, Modern Family, and a few others.
BTW, it wasn’t always this way. Very early in our marriage, I used to VCR ‘All My Children’ and watch it with her every damn evening. Holy Crap.
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I think Brennan has said that Angela helps her with the emotional stuff. The former is clueless enough so that she genuinely thinks the emotional stuff is unimportant. Sans Angela, her novels would surely read like textbooks.
But I woulnd’t want Bones without Bones, because her interactions with Booth and Angela, in particular, are half the fun. I especially enjoy watching Angela fight the urge to throttle her sometimes.
Looks like they’re planning a spin-off, if you can believe it.
Same here. I finally dropped it about three episodes ago, despite thinking it has been crap ever since the mid season break in season one.
I give shows an awful long time to “get good”. Caprica is a good example. I hated it, but I kept expecting it to get good. It incorporated all the bits I hated about Galactica (notably the discussion about God) and jettisoned all the bits I loved. But I still kept giving it a chance.
I genuinely hate 24. Hate it. Yet I have seen all of it up until the most recent season. Again, it always felt it was on the cusp of getting good yet never did. I eventually came to a decision that for it to be any good they should just say “sod it” and make it about an alien invasion. It would have been awesome. After seven seasons or something, at the end of the last episode before Christmas, in the very last season, you get a flash of the President shapeshifting into an alien. How awesome would that have been? Imagine if they’d recorded that bit on the sly and managed to slip it in without word getting out. I swear it would have been one of the biggest moments in TV drama history.
I’m currently watching Hellcats for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Not even for the ladies (I don’t go in for the obvious/cheerleader look). I have no idea why.
The new Hawaii 5-O appears to be one I’l be watching and hating. I tend to put it on and then browse the web on the iPad, occasionally looking at the screen.
Law & Order:SVU is a thoroughy terrible show, but it draws me in with the sugary charm of a pedophile claiming to be looking for his lost puppy.
Law & Order:SVU - Just lurid nonsense.
NCIS - Simplistic authoritarian bias reinforcement. I hate the implied side stories that they’ve all done big bad secret stuff, and are still doing big bad secret stuff off-camera that they get to mention and it’s all heavy sht but we never actuall see it…ooooooooo! Otherwise a dull comic book.
NCIS:LA - Again, our hero has done all sorts of backstory heavy sht…ooooooooo! Again, a dull but extremely silly comic book.
Bones - An insult to truly intelligent people by portraying “genius” as a bunch of quirks, whereas the non-genius is the really “smart” one.
Criminal Minds - Oh spare me the over serious profiler crap. How many times does the story devolve into some stereotypical nerdball in some stereotypical barn/garage building with a random chick trussed up? Again? Really?
OK OK {breath…breath}. Forgive me, my spouse controls the TV viewing and has a taste for crime procedurals.
House
We’ve watched it since day one and for some reason feel obligated to continue watching it even though it’s a sad shell of what it use to be. Now to me it’s more like a soap opera and focuses on the doctor’s lives instead of on the interesting patient cases like it did in the past. I could care less if House and Cuddy ever get together. Actually I’d feel sorry for Cuddy if she ever did marry him. I now only pay attention to the show at the 48 minute mark when House gives “the look.” I also listen in to hear what wacky sexual experience or STD House wants to link the current patient’s illness to this time. Nothing would please me more than to see this show end gracefully this season…but I’m sure that won’t happen.
And as always, YMMV.
After Australia’s Masterchef (finally) finishes its run on NZ TV I don’t think I’ll be watching another cooking show for a very long time. Not as good as the original British show & it looks like it is just never going to end.
The later series of Two and a Half Men. No likeable characters & the kid hasn’t been cute for a while now. I’ll still watch repeats of the first couple of series though.
Glee. Family Guy. Hung. Intervention. Never particularly liked Entourage either, but damn if I haven’t seen every one.
Oh, and those stupid “What Would You Do?” hidden camera things, which are apparently shown every other night of the week now. Yes, we get it. White people are unfairly suspicious of black people, and hot chicks can get away with anything (unless they’re dressed sluttily and having their drink dosed, in which case HIGH-FIVE, BRAH!)
Umm…this is a little embarrassing, since I am a middle-aged man, but…I kinda like the show? Especially since there’s very little “conflict among housemates” crap (well, relatively little, compared to other reality shows), and it’s much more about the modeling? And okay, I don’t particularly like the Jays, or Nigel, and I really can’t stand Andre Leon Talley, but I do find myself engaged with the models. Especially as Tyra seems to treat them as if they are engaged in a serious attempt to build careers in the industry. I mean, like two weeks ago when Kayla told Mr. Jay about her sexual abuse, and he didn’t trivialize it or ignore it, while also telling her that she needed to work through it for the photo. It seems to be the least exploitative reality show I’ve ever seen, especially given that it’s about a group of attractive young women. Although there do seem to be more glimpses of the models in their underwear than we saw in the past.
My show that I have finally given up on is Men Of A Certain Age. It sounded so promising, a show looking at the inner lives of men like me, and hey, how bad could it be if it had Andre Braugher, right?
But it’s just never found its groove for me.
My favorite show! I’m totally on board with the Stacy-hate, though. I just love Clinton enough to make up for it.