Do you feel like there are so many good series on TV that it would be hard, if not impossible, to watch all of them?
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May 1st, 2016
I just heard some TV hosts (Live with Kelly and Michael) talk about a Showtime series, “Penny Dreadful.” I searched for it and have it on now. I’m not going to watch much of it, as I’m not watching from the beginning and that’s one of my cardinal rules, but I’m adding it to the list (list in my mind) of shows I want to watch one day. “Breaking Bad, The Sopranos” are two that I can think of offhand. There are a bunch of others, and now “_Penny Dreadful” is added to the list. It’s like goth, Victorian era, demons, monsters, all wrapped in one.
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”Downton Abbey” and ”Call the Midwife” are two others I can think off offhand.
Way too many good shows! The quality of television programming seems to have improved with all the competition. Cable stations, doing 10–15 episodes a seasons instead of the networks’ 22–24, can devote their resources to quality.
It helps for me that I really don’t want to see the dark stuff, or any more FBI procedurals, but there are still too many. Time constraints force me to choose carefully.
Going to be getting Downton Abbey from the library this summer…
(And now cue all the TV haters on their high horses!)
I love a good TV series. I don’t feel like there are too many, but one of my problems is I’m cheap and I don’t subscribe to HBO or Showtime, so I’ve missed out on some good ones. A few years ago I opted for a second DVR rather than buy a “movie” channel. Right now I’m staying with my inlaws, but hopefully will be moving out this month. I am thinking about getting Netflix and one DVR? I’m not sure.
@JLeslie: I also don’t have the premium (HBO, SHO, etc) channels, and there’s still too much to choose. Ugh. My kids keep threatening to get me into streaming with Netflix and whatever, but I am fighting it.
@canidmajor You have a DVR right? You aren’t trying to watch all these shows at their scheduled times are you?
So true. It’s an embarrassment of riches at the moment. Good news is, through DVD, Apple TV, NetFlix, and such, shows can (mostly) be available forever. So you can always try to catch up later.
Yes, although for me, Penny Dredful IS dredful.
Four of my faves are Billions, Vinyl, Silicon Valley, and The Affair (which just keeps getting more dense and interesting each season) and Silicon Valley. There are also plenty of great series from the UK like Black Mirror and Catastrophe which I never would have known about if not for Amazon Prime and Netflix.
Regrettably, many of my favorite series have started off with a bang and then dwindled to a bore—like The Last Man on Earth.
I only ever watch Game of Thrones. So, no.
You are talking about TV Shows! If you miss one, if you miss a dozen, you really haven’t missed anything at all.
Read a book, it’s much more beneficial.
@zenvelo :: There are great tv shows. The “I don’t own a tv so I am better than you” shit got tired fast.
Same with the shaming people that like the pizza that isn’t up to your standards. Climb a wall of dicks, I like Pizza Hut and it is cheap and filling.
We don’t think you are better than us. But we still think you sound like a condescending dick.
Yes. There are so many great shows now. Jon and I binge watched all four seasons of House of Cards in a month.
I’m sad Vikings is at their mid-season hiatus but now we have Game of Thrones. And VEEP is back!
Not at all. There is so much crap on TV that it is hard to find anything of any quality.
CSPAN is probably the best out there.
Thank you, @zenvelo, for bringing truth to my snide aside.
@JLeslie, yeah, I have a DVR, but I have not upgraded to the kind that records everything because, even recorded, There is still too much to keep up with. I do feel left out sometimes, not knowing Game of Thrones and Outlander, but even I, as lazy and sedentary as I am, can’t give the time to everything I might like to see! :-)
@canidmajor My husband and I binge watched Game of Throwns On Demand a month ago. We watched from the beginning to up-to-date. I wish I never started, if that makes you feel any better, but now I’m into it and want to see what happens. I find it too violent, frustrating, and now too ridiculous with the zombies. However, I do like some of the characters (although, many of them have been killed) and I’m curious where the story will go.
Yes absolutely, and I just watch them on Netflix. I still can’t get through even a fraction of them.
I like watching shows about high horses, who knew Black Beauty was addicted to prescription drugs?
@johnpowell i do own a TV, I watch it quite a bit. I may be showing the grumpiness of my age, yet multiple barrages of must see TV is not like it used to be.
I don’t like the netflix dumping of thirteen episodes at one time, and with time shifting it’s great to watch Walking Dead the next day, but then you are missing something else, and now I am behind on three shows.
It is, after all, TV, and if you miss something on TV it isn’t worth being upset.
By the way, I am not against chain store pizza, I have declared for Round a Table as far superior to ther chains. But when it is faster to get a pizza from them than it is to cook a frozen pizza, give me fresh over frozen.
My misspelling was dreadful—not dreadful.
It is @johnpowell! And it looks like it will be a good one.
I like watching television. And yes, there are too many good programs to choose from. I like films, TV and I read lots of books too.
Penny Dreadful is just starting its third season.
What I find annoying is when I get into a series and then they cancel it.
I cut the cable cord in 2009, and since then most of my TV consumption has been DVD marathons rented from the library. We got Netflix a few months back, and now I also have access to a private server for TV shows and films.
My habit of binge-watching hasn’t changed much yet. I usually have one or two shows at a time that I’ll spend a week powering through, then be sad it’s over and move on.
I started Penny Dreadful, and it seems interesting enough, but it didn’t grip enough to launch that week of obsessive watching yet.
Maybe after I’m caught up on Master Chef AU.
Haven’t yet read the other answers, will do so after posting.
Yes! There are so many wonderful shows on TV that my Netflix queue runneth over, but that’s a good thing.
The 3 shows that we watch regularly, on network TV are Elementary, The Big Bang Theory and NCIS.
It would take all day to list all of the Netflix shows we have watched, are currently watching, or shall watch. Right now we’re almost current with Midsomer Murders, which is a show that @gailcalled turned me onto several years back. We stopped watching when the star retired and they had another fellow step into his shoes. We started watching a whole bunch of other shows, but we recently went back to it, and we love the new guy as much as we loved the original guy. It’s just a nice murder mystery show, set in England with lovely architecture and scenery, witty dialogue and interesting who done it story lines, plus the new DCI has this nifty little dog named Sykes
Seek…. Masterchef AU is all automated.. Down for live chatting in the AM? You know where to find me. Golf-bro needs the boot.
What do you mean it’s automated @johnpowell? What is it that particularly appeals about the Australian Masterchef?
Don’t you have US Masterchef?
Do you get Gogglebox @johnpowell?
The gogglebox. Tv of people watching Tv. I tried and it was a bit too meta.
And yes we have US masterchef and the tone is so off-putting. It is very different from the AU one. I like that everyone on the AU masterchef is so supportive. The American one is about who can be the biggest asshole.
@johnpowell I haven’t seen the AU version of Master Chef, but I do think that most of the U.S. cooking competitions are very mean spirited to the contestants. I can’t understand why they think it needs to be that way. I like watching Chopped, but usually turn it off when it gets to the judging part. I just like to see good cooking, and I would love the shows better if they were supportive of the chefs. One that I have seen, though, it’s a kid’s baking contest show, where they are very supportive. I love that show and those kids can really cook, sometimes better than most of the adults on Chopped. Plus they’re so cute.
The US MasterChef Junior the judges are much nicer and the children are so sweet to each other. It’s very nice. I much prefer the nice. Sometimes when a child gets overwhelmed I feel so bad for them, too much stress for such young children, but the judges come over and help them get through. It doesn’t happen to often. For the most part the kids do amazingly well.
@Kardamom, you would LOVE Masterchef AU. Perhaps you can use the download options @johnpowell mentioned? The judges on this programme are really lovely, kind and supportive. I was just surprised to see people here saying how much they enjoy it.
@Earthbound_Misfit That sounds wonderful. I’ll see if I can get it somehow. Nice is so much better than nasty.
@Kardamom
I have your back….
I went as far as doing this for my love of MasterchefAU (yes, a chatroom that has a window playing masterchef). Seek and I watch in the morning (10am California time) and snark about everything. Seek is a way bigger asshole than I am and it is hilarious.
Masterchef AU sort of restores my faith in humanity since I watch TrumpMSNBC all day.
I will send Kardamom a link. And Earthbound_Misfit let me know if you want the link to live snark it.
and for fun
Lol, thank you @johnpowell. Do you watch it in real time?
Marco is back. The looks he gives some of those contestants would put a soapy star to shame.
I am a bit of an asshole.
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