I love my wife, shes smarter than me and often people just have to agree to disagree about what they find entertaining and why. But objectively there is plenty of dog shit on tv and she brings some of it into our house regularly. We have more than one room in our house and more than one tv, but still, I don’t always feel like laying in bed or hanging out in our cold basement so endure this garbage I must:
Dance Moms - It’s reality tv, I get it, it’s not real and for all the yelling these bitches do they likely all go out for cosmopolitans and laugh together when it’s over. If it was only them it wouldn’t bother me at all. But those are their children in the room, they are still at an impressionable age and I don’t care what they’re told off camera what they are subjected to is verbal child abuse. That their role model acts the way they do in pubic and that the abuse is the ‘entertainment’ makes me feel sick.
Ghost Hunters - Adults with flashlights in old house closets asking the darkness questions and jumping at sounds the camera crew makes in other rooms. Fine. But they pretend to offer evidence and appear scientific and I think that damages the lowest common denominator’s trust in real science and their general ability to reason.
My wife watches all those Dateline/Murder mysteries. It’s not a mystery. The husband/boyfriend did it.
I’m embarrassed to admit the wife watches Teen Mom (1?, 2?, MLXXI?). I mean really. There just aren’t enough rolleyes emoticons for that show. Nothing chases me from the room faster.
I try to remind myself that I watch goofy superhero shows; so the whole pot calling the kettle black thing.
I can live with just about anything on, but I get a little frustrated sometimes by the way she always watches the same things. Ghost Hunter-type shows – I have no problem with these. I can live with it. I find some of them pretty clever, when they use the excuse of looking for ghosts as cover for telling you about the history or geography of a place. (We’ve gone on “ghost tours” in various cities for the same reason)
Say Yes to the Dress and its clones – I can only take so much of women putting on wedding dresses, arguing with their families over the choices, and the hosts gushing over every dress. I say “No” to the dress, myself.
House-Hunters and their ilk. We take our two prospective house- or apartment-dwellers on a tour of three different places in a different city/foreign country/tropical getaway and show them three different places, one of them outside their price range*. Then they watch them agonize over the trade-offs between these and finally make the wrong decision (or at least the one I wouldn’t have made). Then they start the whole process over again with a different couple.
What kills me is that my mother has gotten hooked on these shows, too, so I get them when I visit her, as well. And now my wife and my mother at last have something they can bond over.
and these people always have WAY more money than me, which is another reason I don’t love these shows. If I were on it, the hosts would be giving me the choice between the Refrigerator Box in the downtown alleyway and the plasticized packing crate near the waterfront. But I’d really want the corrugated storage shed in the country, which I wouldn’t be able to afford.
My wife’s usually smarter than i am & has better taste in television than I do. She’s a bit grumpy in the morning so she turns on stand up comedy, kinda loudly.
I’m staring at a grumpy zombie, and hearing “bla, bla, bla? then. you might be a red neck”…
Thankfully Formula One season is almost upon us. Otherwise the F1 channel is filled up race after race from 30 years ago. I love watching car races live either in person or on TV but I cannot comprehend why one would waste 2 hours watching the 1979 Belgian Grand Prix! AND…during the season I’ll watch qualifying from time to time, but Friday practice? Good lord. For every race hubby watches minimum 9 hours of programming.
Not only have I had to sit in the same room while my wife watched the entire Twilight series, she re-watches them all the damn time. Horrible, horrible films.
I also have to leave the room when she watches Grey’s Anatomy. The only show I know of where I hate every single person on the show. Everyone a self-centered overly dramatic narcissist. I wish the hospital would burn down and kill everyone but somehow all the patients survive.
Don’t you get enough of the paint drying on the shows you mention?
Pepper Mill loves these shows, too. And the This Old House Hour on PBS. And Rehab Addict. And all the others.
Hallmark Channel movies - Aaarrghhh! Every one is the same - girl is with boy who she really doesn’t love but is going to marry anyway, girl meets boy who she really does love, girl dumps boy that she really doesn’t love (but it’s OK, because he usually does something horrible to justify her decision), girl marries boy she cheated on bad guy with.
The only thing different is the setting. Sometimes it’s winter in the Rockies, sometimes summer on the beach, sometime a small town out west or in New England. Even the actors/actresses look the same. I haven’t really listened, but I’ll bet the dialog is the exact same every time and is just lip synced by the cloned actors.
My wife watches Grey’s Anatomy. She even freely recognizes it’s become a total shitshow, she just keeps watching out of a sense of momentum and completism. Urg.
She watches it on headphones, otherwise I start to snark it up, crosstalking with the characters.
He doesn’t really watch TV. I find this extremely strange. He says he likes to watch TV with me, but he doesn’t watch it on his own.
One day, he said to me: “In the future when we have a house [we live in a tiny apartment], maybe we could put the TV in an office or another room - the living room should be for receiving guests, not for watching TV”.
This did not go down well with me. “That’s the most offensive thing you’ve ever said to me. The TV and the sofa are best friends; why would you want to break them up?”
If I could, I would tape a TV to some scaffolding in front of my face, so I could watch one the entire time.
I’m sure he would have much to contribute to this thread
Gawd when she was unemployed she was watching The kitchen, chew Any kind of cooking show or contest. Celebrity apprentice. Just horrible stuff. She’s back to work now but old habits die hard. I can’t stand how she watchs tv. Most of yhe time she’s not even watching, it’s just background noise while she plays on the laptop. Generally, if she’s not here, the tv is off. She dvr’s hours of tv per day, waaay more than she could ever watch. Justsuch a waste .
