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Meme: 31 Days of December: Day 4 TV
Dec. 6th, 2015 09:51 pm( 31 Days )
Day 4: talk about television this year
Don't mind if I do! I've been watching a lot of television this year, both current shows and old shows I missed the first time around. I really love television; I like having it on while I write, art, or play games, and J and have a handful of shows we specifically wait to watch together. (Which is much easier now that we live together again.)
In no particular order, things I have watched this year (that I can remember off the top of my head):
Friends: I never watched this when it first aired, and started watching it the end of last year, I think. I still haven't finished it, though I only have maybe half a season left, because I know what happens with Ross and Rachel, and I just can't bring myself to watch it. (Ross is terrible. He potentially could have been my favorite character [dinosaurs], but he is just so, so terrible.) I loved Monica just like I knew I would, and ended up loving Chandler and Joey a hell of a lot more than expected. This NYC is so white it is bullshit, but I've enjoyed finally watching something that is treated as quite the cultural touchstone.
Bones: This show. Oh, this show. It is ridiculous at the best of times any more, but something about the characters keeps bringing me back. I've watched it since episode one aired, and I'll probably keep watching it until the end. J and I watch this one together.
Castle: See above. It is also ridiculous, but in a more heartfelt, wonderful way, and it is 100% the characters that bring me back. Well, all the characters but Castle, who I don't actually much like. He's fine, he's just -- at the heart of it, he's an entitled rich straight white guy, and I get annoyed by him because I see so much of the annoying parts of actual people in him. I will say he annoys me less when I'm not working in a certain environment, so I'm liking him more these days. Another show J and I watch together.
Gotham: Oddly enough, this is J's addition to our list, even though it is clearly a comic book adaptation. He's not a big fan of superheroes, but apparently more open to DC than my beloved Marvel (of course he is), and he seems to like Batman well enough. I love baaaaaaaby!Selena best, and mostly enjoy seeing the way (somewhat) familiar characters start coming to life. I am infuriated by the way it keeps killing off people of color, though, and of course the treatment of mental illness was never going to be great, not in Gotham.
Flash: I have watched none of this season, but I'll catch up soon. It sort of slipped away from me, but I really loved last season.
Arrow: I'm still back in season one, but have been trying to catch up. It keeps falling to the side, and I much prefer the Flash, but I know I like some of what happens in the future, so I'll keep going.
Supergirl: OMG ADORABLE. I love this show so far, enough that I actually use CBS' on-site streaming, which until this point I was only willing to do for Criminal Minds. It, and its focus on sisters, just makes me happy.
Criminal Minds: There were a couple season where the cases where just over-the-top ridiculous and stupid. It seems like they've pulled back from that a little bit, but I don't trust them to not go back to that well just to be salacious in the future. I love the characters so much, that's why I keep watching, and I've rewatched the first ten seasons a couple times this year. I find it soothing; despite the violence, it was one of my mother's favorite shows. That helps, I think; she introduced me to it a few years before she died.
Jane the Virgin: HELLO FAVORITE SHOW. It is wonderful, heart-warming and sweet and sad and beautiful and funny. I love Jane the most, but everyone is fantastic and understandable even when they're being terrible, and the narrator is the best.
Girl Meets World: Nostalgia forever, plus adorable friendship between the girls, and even more nostalgia, and, oh, I love this world. It makes me happy.
WWE: I don't watch the PPVs anymore, and I'm super behind on the weekly episodes, and I've only just started watching NXT because Nia Jax is everything I've wanted in a woman wrestler at the WWE, but I do love it so.
iZombie: Another J choice (though I would have added it if he didn't), and another surprise, because he also doesn't like comic book adaptations. (Though he also watches the Walking Dead.) I love Liv, and I generally love the way her personality changes each week, and I have no idea what happens in the comics, so I like the surprise of the story. Ravi is a doll, and I love when the science things.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Still not a fan of Jake, and therefore don't really care about Jake and Amy, and could definitely use fewer fat and trans jokes, but I love the rest of the characters a ton. It is mostly hilarious and touching and the chosen family feelings are strong.
Muppets: I don't even know what to say about this show, beyond nostalgia and hilarity.
Pretty Little Liars: I just flail in this show's general direction. I've watched the first season and a half a bunch of times, because each time I sat down to watch it, I felt like I needed to start at the beginning in order for things to make sense. I did that straight through with this last mid-season break, and nope, it didn't really make any more sense from watching it from the beginning. Love the hell out of the characters, find much of the story choices unbelievable at best and downright terrible at worst in the last season or so. Will keep watching until the end.
Blindspot: I will put up with a lot to watch Sif kick ass each week on my television, and this is nowhere near my limit of ridiculousness yet. Jaimie Alexander is so lovely.
Quantico: I've only watched the first couple episodes, and I really liked that. I should get caught up soon.
Mysteries of Laura: Sort of feels like Castle without as much love for the supporting characters. I find it super enjoyable when I watch it, but I rarely think about it after.
The Simpsons: I'm not sure why I keep watching. It has its moments, as always, but no episode really makes an impression.
Jessica Jones: Haven't quite finished it, and generally hate stories where rape is so central to the plot, but I fucking love this show, and I'm glad it exists in the MCU.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Haven't seen most of the current season, and the stories aren't as satisfying now as they were in season one, but it is still adorable and sweet and often heartwrenching.
House: J watches this, and sometimes I sit around doing other things while he watches it. I've never had any interest in watching it, but I've caught a lot about the characters while he's been watching it, and I don't hate it.
Cupcake Wars: I ... am not actually sure how I got sucked into watching this, but I watched the random episode collection on Netflix (which gives no real sense of continuity for the many people who come on the show multiple times), and enjoyed it, though I got disproportionately annoyed by so many contestants saying some variation on "I didn't come here to lose." Well no shit! No one does!
Great British Bake-off: Such a fantastic palate cleanser to the above. I watched not the most recent season, but I think the one before that, and it was lovely and sweet and funny and I actually feel like I learned a lot. I texted Sister K and her BFFs about a billion times while watching it, because they were watching it too, and that just added to my joy.
I am pretty sure that's not everything I've watched this year, but that's all from off the top of my head, and I'm out of time, so phew. A ton of television. Such good times. What are you guys watching? Any recommendations?
Day 4: talk about television this year
Don't mind if I do! I've been watching a lot of television this year, both current shows and old shows I missed the first time around. I really love television; I like having it on while I write, art, or play games, and J and have a handful of shows we specifically wait to watch together. (Which is much easier now that we live together again.)
In no particular order, things I have watched this year (that I can remember off the top of my head):
Friends: I never watched this when it first aired, and started watching it the end of last year, I think. I still haven't finished it, though I only have maybe half a season left, because I know what happens with Ross and Rachel, and I just can't bring myself to watch it. (Ross is terrible. He potentially could have been my favorite character [dinosaurs], but he is just so, so terrible.) I loved Monica just like I knew I would, and ended up loving Chandler and Joey a hell of a lot more than expected. This NYC is so white it is bullshit, but I've enjoyed finally watching something that is treated as quite the cultural touchstone.
Bones: This show. Oh, this show. It is ridiculous at the best of times any more, but something about the characters keeps bringing me back. I've watched it since episode one aired, and I'll probably keep watching it until the end. J and I watch this one together.
Castle: See above. It is also ridiculous, but in a more heartfelt, wonderful way, and it is 100% the characters that bring me back. Well, all the characters but Castle, who I don't actually much like. He's fine, he's just -- at the heart of it, he's an entitled rich straight white guy, and I get annoyed by him because I see so much of the annoying parts of actual people in him. I will say he annoys me less when I'm not working in a certain environment, so I'm liking him more these days. Another show J and I watch together.
Gotham: Oddly enough, this is J's addition to our list, even though it is clearly a comic book adaptation. He's not a big fan of superheroes, but apparently more open to DC than my beloved Marvel (of course he is), and he seems to like Batman well enough. I love baaaaaaaby!Selena best, and mostly enjoy seeing the way (somewhat) familiar characters start coming to life. I am infuriated by the way it keeps killing off people of color, though, and of course the treatment of mental illness was never going to be great, not in Gotham.
Flash: I have watched none of this season, but I'll catch up soon. It sort of slipped away from me, but I really loved last season.
Arrow: I'm still back in season one, but have been trying to catch up. It keeps falling to the side, and I much prefer the Flash, but I know I like some of what happens in the future, so I'll keep going.
Supergirl: OMG ADORABLE. I love this show so far, enough that I actually use CBS' on-site streaming, which until this point I was only willing to do for Criminal Minds. It, and its focus on sisters, just makes me happy.
Criminal Minds: There were a couple season where the cases where just over-the-top ridiculous and stupid. It seems like they've pulled back from that a little bit, but I don't trust them to not go back to that well just to be salacious in the future. I love the characters so much, that's why I keep watching, and I've rewatched the first ten seasons a couple times this year. I find it soothing; despite the violence, it was one of my mother's favorite shows. That helps, I think; she introduced me to it a few years before she died.
Jane the Virgin: HELLO FAVORITE SHOW. It is wonderful, heart-warming and sweet and sad and beautiful and funny. I love Jane the most, but everyone is fantastic and understandable even when they're being terrible, and the narrator is the best.
Girl Meets World: Nostalgia forever, plus adorable friendship between the girls, and even more nostalgia, and, oh, I love this world. It makes me happy.
WWE: I don't watch the PPVs anymore, and I'm super behind on the weekly episodes, and I've only just started watching NXT because Nia Jax is everything I've wanted in a woman wrestler at the WWE, but I do love it so.
iZombie: Another J choice (though I would have added it if he didn't), and another surprise, because he also doesn't like comic book adaptations. (Though he also watches the Walking Dead.) I love Liv, and I generally love the way her personality changes each week, and I have no idea what happens in the comics, so I like the surprise of the story. Ravi is a doll, and I love when the science things.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Still not a fan of Jake, and therefore don't really care about Jake and Amy, and could definitely use fewer fat and trans jokes, but I love the rest of the characters a ton. It is mostly hilarious and touching and the chosen family feelings are strong.
Muppets: I don't even know what to say about this show, beyond nostalgia and hilarity.
Pretty Little Liars: I just flail in this show's general direction. I've watched the first season and a half a bunch of times, because each time I sat down to watch it, I felt like I needed to start at the beginning in order for things to make sense. I did that straight through with this last mid-season break, and nope, it didn't really make any more sense from watching it from the beginning. Love the hell out of the characters, find much of the story choices unbelievable at best and downright terrible at worst in the last season or so. Will keep watching until the end.
Blindspot: I will put up with a lot to watch Sif kick ass each week on my television, and this is nowhere near my limit of ridiculousness yet. Jaimie Alexander is so lovely.
Quantico: I've only watched the first couple episodes, and I really liked that. I should get caught up soon.
Mysteries of Laura: Sort of feels like Castle without as much love for the supporting characters. I find it super enjoyable when I watch it, but I rarely think about it after.
The Simpsons: I'm not sure why I keep watching. It has its moments, as always, but no episode really makes an impression.
Jessica Jones: Haven't quite finished it, and generally hate stories where rape is so central to the plot, but I fucking love this show, and I'm glad it exists in the MCU.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Haven't seen most of the current season, and the stories aren't as satisfying now as they were in season one, but it is still adorable and sweet and often heartwrenching.
House: J watches this, and sometimes I sit around doing other things while he watches it. I've never had any interest in watching it, but I've caught a lot about the characters while he's been watching it, and I don't hate it.
Cupcake Wars: I ... am not actually sure how I got sucked into watching this, but I watched the random episode collection on Netflix (which gives no real sense of continuity for the many people who come on the show multiple times), and enjoyed it, though I got disproportionately annoyed by so many contestants saying some variation on "I didn't come here to lose." Well no shit! No one does!
Great British Bake-off: Such a fantastic palate cleanser to the above. I watched not the most recent season, but I think the one before that, and it was lovely and sweet and funny and I actually feel like I learned a lot. I texted Sister K and her BFFs about a billion times while watching it, because they were watching it too, and that just added to my joy.
I am pretty sure that's not everything I've watched this year, but that's all from off the top of my head, and I'm out of time, so phew. A ton of television. Such good times. What are you guys watching? Any recommendations?
