I’m dropping Desperate Housewives - it was just toooooo much.
I thought about losing Prison Break, but the first two episodes this season have been pretty good, so I’ll stick with it.
Are you talking about “Stand Off”?
I think part of the premise is that they are not a couple (in fact I think he has a wife at home) but are sort of work-spouses.
I might watch one episode of ER. Paula Malcomson – Trixie from Deadwood – is joining the cast as a single mother with a child. Not sure if she’s a nurse or a doctor. Isn’t that Linda Cardellini’s spot?
I’ve never seen her in anything but Deadwood, and I’m sorta interested to see how she does with a different sort of character. (I’m assuming she won’t be offering open air blowjobs on ER.)
Man, I lost track of ER like five years ago when it started getting so absurd I couldn’t watch with a straight face-- and I was a big fan for the first several seasons. I wasn’t even sure it was still around.
Weird… I can certainly understand someone just plain not liking The Office. But there seems to be a nearly universal consensus among people who watch it that last season was just fantastic. So I can see it as a yes, or a no, but I can’t figure out how you have it hanging by a thread.
Anyhow, all the things that people say about ER are true, and yet, I keep watching it. Maybe it’s just that I have a crush on so many of the actresses…
Can I buy some drugs from you?
-Joe
Seriously, was that hospital built on an Indian burial ground with masonry from the death chamber of the old state prison? My wife who likes the show is also getting sick of it, so we may quit watching it. I’ve been losing interest for a while, but she had been somewhat interested last season, except for the Darfur episodes.
I’ve given up on the Law and Orders as well, I’ve just seen too many of them to really care and be interested anymore. I may check out Heroes and Thats how I married (met) your mother, but it depends.
Apparently I am completely wrong… They are having an affair… and therefore I am no longer interested in the show.
I think a much more interesting idea is exploring the complex, almost spousal relationship partners can form.
If anyone can straighten those fuckin’ ER cocksuckers out, she fuckin’ can.
I think the only show we’ve decided to stop watching is 24.
It’s not the show, it’s me. I think it’s funny, but not hysterical other people do, so I’m starting to think that I just shouldn’t watch if i don’t start “getting” it soon.
What’s weird is that I love the British version, but the American version just seems so “sit-com” to me.
That’s kind of how I feel about the show too. I’ll probably watch some episodes this season, but it’s not a must see show. It’s funny, but I don’t really care about the characters enough to watch each week.
I watched one episode of ER last season (the finale), and this season I’ll watch long enough to see how the cliffhangers are resolved, but that’s it. The first few seasons were really great too.
Lost is out this season too. Last year was the first time I watched, and even though I read up on the first season, it just didn’t hold my interest. The show when on hiatus in for awhile, then I missed a few shows once it came back. After that, I just didn’t care anymore.
Me too. I got tired of the idiot plots and gaping plot holes (same thing really), as
well as a lack of creativity as the show has gone on, even tho Kiefer is completely
convincing and appealing in the role otherwise.
Lost. Apparently, in order to keep up with the shenanigans this season, there is like eight hours of Internet footage and back-stories that the viewer has to research. Wait a second. Homework? For a TV show? I don’t think so.
The “dead” guy? That was a little surprising, but I didn’t mind it.
I gave up on “Lost” last year, and my husband is debating doing the same this year.
I think that’s the only show I used to watch that I’ve ditched.
I gave up on ER ages ago, Not bovvered if I miss CSI: Miami (hate Crane),
I quit watching ER and CSI Miami a long time ago. The last straw with ER was a few years ago when they crushed a woman between two cars–I thought that went way too far. I probably won’t be watching CSI New York. I’ll watch CSI and Law & Order if nothing else good is on. I might not be watching Grey’s Anatomy, but I’ll give it a chance. I have a feeling it’s going to go totally in the wrong direction, and I’m tired of Derek and Meredith. Does she own stock in a mascara company? She needs to lighten up a little bit–you can’t see her eyes under all that mascara. Does she even have eyes?
OT, but the makeup artists on Grey’s clearly haaaate Ellen Pompeo. I know she’s supposed to look tired, but is she supposed to be deathly white except for a large red splotchy area around her nose and mouth that appeared sometime around the middle of the second season, and and stayed? It’s like every day is Opposite Day for the person applying her concealer.
I don’t think she’s a particularly attractive woman anyway, and the makeup on Grey’s is *not * glamour makeup (see Heigl, Katherine: veritable goddess in RL, passably pretty on Grey’s), but they really make Meredith look awful.
I’m clearly in the minority here; I think she’s a cutie. The appeal of Sandra Oh escape me, though; that nose is waaaaayyyyyy too long.
Eesh. Last year I watched way too much TV. At least an hour or two every night, and mostly shows that I felt I couldn’t miss, somehow. It just ate up my life.
I’ve dumped everything except for Lost, which I intend to make time for when it returns.
So now I’m not watching Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, House, Prison Break, any flavour of CSI or Law & Order, The Office, My Name is Earl, 24, Nip/Tuck, ER, Without a Trace, Cold Case, etc. I’m also not watching any of the new shows that will replace non-returning ridiculously redundant shows that I watched last year, like Surface, Invasion, and Threshold. I’m not watching The Daily Show or The Colbert Report.
I might occassionally watch The Simpsons, King of the Hill, or Family Guy, but I’m not going to plant myself in front of Fox for them all (and American Dad) again. I’ll probably also check in occassionally with the stuff my GF likes to watch from time-to-time, like Canada’s Next Top Model or summat.
Holy crap, when you cut all that passive time out, it’s amazing how much more you can fit into a week. I used to hardly watch any TV at all – didn’t even subscribe to cable. Then in 2001, a few compelling shows caught my eye, and I guess I got a bit of a habit – which kept creeping upwards each year.
I think in the future I’ll wait for DVDs of Six Feet Under quality shows, if I’m going to watch them at all. (Except for Lost. I can’t live without the SDMB post mortems.) 