I liked it. It was a good article. However, what I want to address here is one of the comments posted after the article, by a reader who goes by 'K.'
"Why in the world would an escapist medium like TV bother with anything that was "normal”? I don’t turn on the TV to revisit my boring day. My current favorite shows can be summarized as follows:
- the human race running from robots in spaceships.
- a spy who is stuck in Miami.
- airplane crash survivors on an odd island.
- FBI agents investigating strange phenomena.
- renovating old houses.
- the trials and tribulations of geeks living together, with an attractive neighbor who drops in from time to time.
- a nearly retarded man who lives in Rhode Island and offends nearly everyone on some level
- an often fascinating hour of television devoted to some kind of science.
I can’t say there’s anything good in it, but boy is it entertaining (and sometimes educational, as well)"
Which led me to ask, "how would I summarize some of my favorite TV shows?" Since Big Bang Theory and This Old House were done above, I'll try some others.
- one man's flashbacks to his single days in New York
- who knew that the crap in the attic was valuable after all?
- the most dysfunctional workplace, ever
- the most dysfunctional TV show, ever
- deeply weird doctors who work in an often surreal hospital
- In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.
What are your favorite shows?
Well, as CBS refuses to show Big Bang Theory online, I can't watch any shows about dysfunctional nerds. And what other shows we did like have been killed off, I'm pretty much down to:
ReplyDelete- Most dysfunctional boss ever managing an only slightly less dysfunctional office, except for one guy and the receptionist who everyone likes. (oh, and they're getting married.)
- OCD guy solves murders by noticing tiny details. (But oddly is never asked to help solve anything but a murder) (We've borrowed 4 seasons of this)
My favorite canceled show is:
- Lawyer has vision usually involving singing and dancing which tell him to fight for the little guy.
And this one isn't a TV show, but sucks up my time like it is:
- Explosive charges strewn randomly across a field, and my strange detection device gives proximity, but not direction.
Hulu and CBS both have clips of BBT online, but not full episodes. Tragic.
ReplyDeleteThis looks like fun...I love Clark's description of Minesweeper...
ReplyDelete- Underachieving nerd works with the CIA and NSA to save the world when he's not working with a group of misfits at a big box electronics store.
- Wisecracking fake newsman offers real insight into the silliness of politics
- Wisecracking fake pundit offers commentary on the silliness of punditry
- Exceptionally old teenagers stop having sex occasionally to play football
- A dysfunctional family which includes a gay lawyer, an overworked single mom, a recovering addict/war vet, a sneaky brother, and a republican constantly butts in on each others' business
- Grown men ice skate and chase a small black disk around an ice rink, crashing into one another and occasionally fighting
I want to add something clever here, I like the idea, but I am at a loss. Most of the shows that I want to admit to watching have already been mentioned.
ReplyDeletePeople run all over the world yelling at their partners and generally making Americans look bad as they race for a million dollars?
People starve to death, get eaten by bugs, and "betray" one another as they try to outwit, outlast and outplay each other for a million dollars?
I make these shows sound really ugly, but I wouldn't miss them.
Fat people try to become less so?
Hmmm, now that I see my comment posted, the wording in my Survivor description doesn't quite flow the way I had hoped. Commas, more -ings or less -ings should have been used. Those gerundive phrases will get you every time! Sorry.
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