# We need a new show to watch, and apparently we're way too picky **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [January 11, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590 "2022-01-11T15:31:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/21 "2022-01-11T16:04:19Z")
A warning about _The Good Place_: one of the characters has a British accent, and another a very strong accent which probably is intended to be east-Asian of some sort. The show is excellent but the accents might be an obstacle for your wife. You could try _Community_, or _How I Met Your Mother_. _Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt_ was fun for the first seasons. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/22 "2022-01-11T16:04:28Z")
and my wife can’t imagine watching with captions, it drives her nuts to have to read while watching. I’m not bothered by accents myself, but I know any show with them is a non-starter for her. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/23 "2022-01-11T16:05:31Z")
forgot about that one…we did watch Community and loved it. Made it a few episodes into How I met Your Mother before quitting (again, too much relationship ‘humor’). And we had the same experience with Kimmy Schmidt…liked it in the beginning, but eventually got bored with it. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/24 "2022-01-11T16:05:46Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I can’t imagine watching television without captions. I hate watching with captions, especially comedy, because so much depends on timing and delivery, and if I already know what a character’s going to say before they say it, it kills the effect. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/25 "2022-01-11T16:06:24Z")
One or two characters with an accent is probably OK…but if it’s the whole cast, all the time, it wont’ work. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/26 "2022-01-11T16:06:45Z")
I’d rather read the captions than totally miss what was said. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/27 "2022-01-11T16:07:39Z")
You didn’t mention _Modern Family._ If you haven’t watched it, it would match your criteria and there’s only one character with an accent. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/28 "2022-01-11T16:12:07Z")
I did mention Modern Family. We liked it at first, but as the kids got older we found it less and less funny. Also, Gloria really annoyed my wife. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/29 "2022-01-11T16:12:27Z")
Weeds. Hilarious dark humor. No accents. There’s some growth involved, but only from “screwed up kids” to “seriously screwed up young adults”. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/30 "2022-01-11T16:12:54Z")
well, yes, if the only two options are to read captions or miss what was said, I’d agree. But the other option is to find a show that doesn’t require us to do either of those things. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/31 "2022-01-11T16:15:45Z")
forgot about Weeds…I think we watched the first few episodes when it came out and just kind of forgot about it. I don’t think we stopped watching because it was bad, just that we got busy (we had little children at the time, who are now much older and don’t monopolize our time as much). Maybe we’ll go back and give it try–can’t remember what we though of it. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/32 "2022-01-11T16:19:52Z")
Oh, yeah … Better Off Ted! Only two seasons, cancelled far too soon, but a wickedly funny satire of corporatism. And Portia de Rossi is great in it. Given your other likes, I think you’d probably like this one, too. ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/33 "2022-01-11T16:22:39Z")
I strongly recommend Better Off Ted. . . I think it would be a good fit with the stuff you guys like. Only 1 season though. Such a shame. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/34 "2022-01-11T16:24:10Z")
Hah. Two more votes for a Ted Danson show. I’ll put it on the list…but it’s hard to overestimate the hatred for Mr. Mayor in this house, and just how much that has put us off Ted (even though he shows up regularly on Curb Your Enthusiasm—but we’ve been watching that from the beginning, and he’s not the star) ---
**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:** [January 11, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/35 "2022-01-11T16:26:44Z")
> [@batsto](#): > > I guess we like shows where the characters don’t learn anything or grow—the cast of Veep, It’s Always Sunny, and Seinfeld are the same awful people at the end of the series that they were at the beginning. Have you watched The League? It gets shaky towards the ending seasons but the first couple seasons were pretty golden. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/36 "2022-01-11T16:27:39Z")
we fell asleep watching the first episode a few weeks ago (not because it was boring; it was very late and we were both sick). Didn’t get far into it—but I had forgotten about it, so I’ll put that on the list to try again. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/37 "2022-01-11T16:36:11Z")
Your taste in TV comedies seems like it’s pretty in line with mine (although I found the premise of **AP Bio** ran out of steam fairly quickly). I would recommend the TV shows **Corporate** and **Detroiters** (although note that Detroiters has the same stars as I Think You Should Leave). Above all, my favourite TV comedy of all time is probably **Delocated** , especially season 2 which is solid gold. Have you watched **The Larry Sanders Show** yet? ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/38 "2022-01-11T16:37:14Z")
I haven’t watched any of those, never even heard of Delocated. So we’ll see if we can find it. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/39 "2022-01-11T16:39:04Z")
I also enjoyed the Amazon Prime show **Upload** although it skewed a little bit towards a less comedic thriller in the last couple of episodes. **Mythic Quest** on Apple+ is pretty good, too (with some of the same cast and writers from **Always Sunny** ). ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590/40 "2022-01-11T16:42:35Z")
We don’t have Apple TV, and I’m already paying for enough services right now. We may end up dropping Netflix though…it’s been a while since we’ve found anything good on there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-show-to-watch-and-apparently-were-way-too-picky/957590.md?page=3)