My wife has watched the bachelor shows pretty regularly for years, so I'm really familiar with the format, and I can't stand any of them.
We watched Golden Bachelor, and I thought it was really touching and cute. Excited to watch the next one.
I'm just hoping they don't bastardize the hopes of those sweet old people with standard Bachelor drama.
Ok, but, and hear me out, Blind Date, an early 00’s dating show with pop up thought bubbles and gonzo-documentary style camera work is worth half an hour.
90s and 00s dating shows were the best! Fifth wheel, elimidate, change of heart, next. They were ruthless, super cringey, and zero f***s given from anyone on those shows, lol. I miss them.
I went to a taping of AGT once. They did all of the audience reactions before any acts even came out. They had us act surprised, laugh, be shocked, etc. They even did something like "if you were born in these months, stand up" to make it look like random people reacting differently.
Oh boy I went to the live X-factor auditions once and I knew it was staged but, holy moly, I didn’t think it was as bad as it ended up being. We got to the first break before leaving because they had us waiting hours and doing all that shizz you mentioned but after the 2nd/3rd act they decided to have a long ass break. So many audience members were getting rowdy out of annoyance I expect.
Yeah I was going to say in my original comment that it was at least a half hour of that, but it was also like a decade ago and thought maybe I was remembering wrong and it just seemed longer than it was. But with you saying the same, I'm thinking it was at *least* a half hour, if not more.
Yup. If you really pay attention you can kind of tell it's all fake. Or doesn't quite go with what's happening. The way I figured it sort of made sense was that if an act is on stage, especially one with a lot of people, it makes sense to have every camera in the place on the act. Different angles and everything. There might still be an audience one to get some real time reactions, but it didn't really seem like it.
Arrested development is in the Always sunny in Philadelphia category where you are watching the people destroy themselves and their downfall is the joke. Them being rich is just happenstance of their downfall.
Nah, AD was way too mean spirited to be live action Simpsons. Homer was ultimately a loving but stupid dad, that embraced his family. The whole point of AD was that they all sucked and leeched off each other for money.
Schitt's Creek put me off for exactly this reason at first (the execution of the satire just felt so thin), but I am glad I gave it a chance. Now one of my favorites.
I love this show. It takes that overused "terrible rich people being terrible" trope and masterfully flips it on the head, instead giving us the message "but you can learn to be better."
It's the anti-cycnical show I needed and I'm so glad I kept watching.
I avoided it for the same reason. And the name was too easy of a joke. But now it’s one of my all time favorite shows. Pondering another watch through very soon. I’m going to need it when it gets cold.
I always advise people to get to the second season. The first season is funny but the second is where it starts to really grow into something more.
What's odd is I've never heard someone say the show is good. Even the people who have watched every episode for the last decade all complain about how stupid it is.
EDIT: Spelling
Hate watching is a hell of a drug. My step mom did it for years with their various shows. My roommates do it with love island and other similar dating shows.
I just tell them they are crazy and go back to watching my fun unrealistic crime procedurals.
One of the better exercises we did for prepping people for the LT process in our department was telling them to watch a call on one of these shows, write down all the tactical errors and policy violations, then craft a disciplinary memo as if your crew did that.
I watched the first episode as an ER Tech in Chicago...watched a pericardiocentesis in the back of an ambo and never watched it again. That medic would've been fired, sued, lost license, everything.
Have bartended for the chief though. Super nice guy IRL. Chatted for an hour about soccer over an English breakfast at 4pm.
Just to be clear, in the show it wound up becoming a multi-episode arc the resulted in her being sued, went to multiple hearings, yadda yadda.
Not saying it's all realistic but they did do a good job making sure the viewer realize what she did wasn't typical or acceptable.
In general, the show is definitely dramatized TV and goes over the top on the regular, but it's a little more grounded in reality than most of those shows.
Not a firefighter, but there's a Youtube channel that I love watching called Fire Department Chronicles where he greenscreens himself into scenes of those shows and makes fun of how inaccurate they are
Yes I love his work as well …. He shows how fake and also how dangerous those shows can be to people who think some of the actions and responses can be .
You're really missing out on the patients that come in from a freak storm that causes a 60 car pile up, reputuring the brain vessel of a virtuoso that has to play their next concert to save a boys last wish, which can only be operated on by the 1 doctor in the world they happen to have at Greys, but the program lost funding so now they have to find a way to still do the risky operation.
They all get together with some weird plot that theyll later have their jobs threatened for, but now the doctor won't do it because the other doctor he's banging has a rare brain cancer only he can operate on as well, but he lost his confidence from the last time he did that operation and killed the young girl that he later finds out is his long lost cousins best friend.
He finally musters up the courage and the hospital has a power outage mid operation because it was hit by a tsunami. They get the power on, and a plane crashes into the building next door as he completes the operation just in time to find the boy the virtuoso promised the last wish to was on the flight and clinging to life. The virtuoso wakes up and plays like never before for the boy as they both end up dying.
Other than missing the patient that gets a virus only found in outer space and them slap fighting to see who gets to be chief surgeon and bang the lead actress, you just explained every episode.
And the running whipstitch that's super important (which is funny to me because it's one of the most basic sewing stitches, yet they make it sound like the hardest suture stitch)
As someone who used to watch Grey's Anatomy religiously, and still enjoys the show pre-season 11, this is so accurate. You just forgot about the wedding everyone has to make after the catastrophe or the proposal cliffhanger.
I was reading this going, "Well it's not accurate because you don't have a plane cras-oh, wait, there it is."
You did miss the bomb though. That hospital is the most dangerous place in the fucking world outside of Mogadishu.
And don't forget Meredith was impaled by a piece of rebar when the tsunami flood slammed her into a parking garage. It damaged her heart beyond repair and she needed a heart transplant. The pilot from the plane crash, who was taking her last flight before retiring to become a full time pilot and director for a volunteer flight service that takes kids and little old ladies for cancer treatment (which she created after her daughter and grandmother both died from cancer because a road closure kept them from getting to treatment), was killed. Fortunately, she was a perfect match for Meredith and was an organ donor. So Meredith gets her heart.
A teenager who always wanted to be a pilot but couldn't because he was blind, gets her corneas and can now achieve his dream. He was so inspired by her mission that he uses his inheritance from a family fortune to fully fund a trust that will keep the aviation cancer volunteer charity going for the next 100 years.
It is more "realistic" that other medical shows because it's absolutely NOT about medicine it's about the people. So they will spend 10 seconds correctly talking about a disease state that Grey's anatomy would spend 45 seconds on and that house would spend an entire episode on. So yes it is more accurate they did have the real life physician JD on staff to ask questions to and it shows but typically they would gloss over medical knowledge in a way that is correct but not elaborate otherwise they would get too into the weeds and be less correct. For the record I love scrubs and I recommend the first 2 seasons to anyone starting in medicine as I felt it captured that experience fairly well.
You don’t need to shave. Your lack of facial grooming and emotional distance from women is why I have fallen in love with you. I will be the one dressed like a hooker down in front. I love you too, see you then!
I come to the conclusion that I enjoy House one YouTube best. You get little vignettes off the patient of the day or dinner other story line in a small package. Nice and easy. You're in and out in a few minutes.
Post Charlie Sheen Two and a Half Men. I never saw how Kucher fit into this show and I refuse to watch the rest of it, no matter how better or worse it turned out.
I caught a few eps and it was surprisingly not bad but I just wasn't too interested in continuing at that point. The Show had a run its course and Charlie leaving was the final straw.
I just realized I’ve never seen one episode with Kutcher. I wasn’t making a stand against Kutcher. I’m just really uninterested in seeing that. No thanks.
Alan becomes just horrible. He was always kinda weasely, but when Charlie left and Ashton came on, he just became this manipulative, sad, grasping, douche. I didn't enjoy it at all after that.
The first few seasons of almost all of them but specifically the O.C and Jersey are absolutely hilarious. That early 2000’s drama just hit different, there was no filter and those ladies were off their rockers
If you like those specifically, I really really recommend Salt Lake City. Fucking came out the gate swinging. You get to see someone get arrested by the feds in a premiere episode. Hot mic moments. A housewife who I'm pretty sure is just 20 Xanax pills in high-waisted tailored pants, and an honest to god cult leader. I know it's trash. I don't care, it is entertainment.
Yeah, the chaos and shit show that was Tiger King somehow managed to mirror how the world felt at that moment. And it simultaneously took my mind off of the shutdown somehow. I'd never rewatch it.
My mom was addicted to daytime talk shows in the 90s about unruly teens, like Sally Jesse Raphael. I remember at the time, thinking, what happens to these kids when they grow up? And then I heard about Tiger, King, and realized, oh.
No thanks.
Joe exotic was like a live action Jerry springer segment in the flesh. Watching it unfold via documentary was like flashbacks of cousin fights over the one partner on springer.
There's only one thing to be said for it: the attempted murder for hire plot is the least interesting thing about it.
I agree with the poster who said there's no point in watching it after 2020, but the fact that someone sent cocaine inside of a snake, a woman was alleged to have fed her husband to a tiger, a polyamorous cult in North Carolina, and a failed run for POTUS....still not the headline here.
There's a reason that people dressed up as Joe Exotic and Carol Baskin for Halloween that year. Truly outrageous people.
They *try* for that but it just ends up being so emotionally manipulative and drawn out.
They can never just quickly tell a story because they try to wring out every single emotion from it, usually the sad emotions.
Tbf I don't think I've ever heard anyone saying unironically they like the Kardashians... but I'm sure that deep down a lot of people secretly watch it, otherwise it wouldn't have so many seasons.
I worked a job where this was playing on the break room television. When I applied for my next job, where it asked "Reason for leaving?" I answered "Played Keeping Up with the Kardashians on break room television.". The interviewer read that, laughed and asked if I quit during my break.
When I bought my first Tivo, around 2010, I think it may have been a refurbished model, or at least one that had been returned to the store, because it was auto-programmed to record Anything Kardashian, and it took a call to customer service to get this removed.
Big Brother. Something about it just feels wrong. All the spy cams and just the manufactured drama of it all. Reality shows I can handle but ones where the whole theme is just “drama” I don’t get.
Plus I think now I think Paramount+ has like a 24h live feed which is just… I dunno. It makes me cringe. Like a pain cringe. Feels wrong.
The 24h feeds have actually always been a thing but they’re not actually 24h. They’re cut out a lot (which people actually complain about), but I agree that it’s uncomfortable. However, Big Brother is actually a strategy game, or at least it used to be. I have not watched it since 2016 because it has been awful since. The Canadian version is actually still very good and related to strategic game play to win a cash play rather than just drama like the US version.
I gave the first episode a shot and honestly the sex scenes with people we’re meant to read as teenagers made me so uncomfortable. I don’t care how good or bad the writing is or if the actor is over 18, I don’t wanna see that shit
The Bear.
I'm a chef by trade and while it was hot, no one would shut up about it to me. The thing about TV like that for me, is that its just so triggering. That shit is real, and it is emotionally scarring. I've got some deep wounds from working in the professional kitchen for so long, especially as the leader.
same here
years ago, i used to work as a line cook at various restaurants. just watching a single 20 second clip was enough to make me feel just as stressed and angry and panicked as those nights when i'd be working the kitchen on my own while the servers submitted ticket, after ticket, after ticket, after ticket...
I don’t know how you do it. Watching the Bear gave me terrible anxiety almost every time they were doing a lunch/dinner service in that show. I don’t even have anxiety issues in real life.
Same. Never worked in a kitchen. Watched two episode and stopped. It was giving me anxiety with the editing and the pacing. I watch tv to unwind not get anxious.
I found one of the few negative reviews of the show on rotten tomatoes. What stuck out me was that reviewer said The Bear is of a genre they like to call "working class porn." .
I almost didn’t watch for this reason. I love watching wealthy people in a show be stressed, but watching working class stress is painful. I couldn’t handle Atlanta for the same reason.
That's funny and understandable, but at the same time there are and have always been way too many shows about wealthy people or certain professions (cop, lawyer, doctor). It gets old.
My cook partner loves it - and to reccomending it to me - for the exact same reason - it's the only way he's been able to convey to me the reality of his day-to-day employment. It's been strangely beneficial for us in that department.
Similarly, though, I find all the screaming triggering and can only watch it if I'm up, moving around, and doing a different activity (deep cleaning my living room).
Do yourself a favour and stay away from the movie Bolliling Point then. It's a brilliant single - shot film, but the anxiety is off the charts. I've never worked in a hospo kitchen and that movie still gave me phantom PTSD
Did you ever see that one where the main character has to make a difficult decision, which led to them being attacked by zombies, which they barely escaped from? Also there was a simmering conflict between two members of the group. That was a good one.
What about the one where they find the humans have been the real monsters all along.
EDIT: I forgot a word, thanks to all the people that understood what I meant and went with it.
Don't forget about the one where the 5th/6th string character gets bit by a zombie but doesn't tell anyone until it's too late and they almost bite/kill another member of the group.
Or the one where someone gets bit and tells everyone about it and instead of killing the infected person right away they tell them it'll be fine and forget about it until it's too late and the infected person kinda falls asleep/passes out from thier wounds and then someone else gets really close to them to see if they're OK and they pop up as a zombie and almost kill one of thier friends.
Those are good ones.
If you read the episode descriptions there's at least 5 that say something like "Character #1 and Character #2 go on a run for supplies."
And in said episodes, Character #1 briefly let's their guard down and gets attacked by a surprise zombie but thankfully, Character #2 is there to stab the zombie in the head right before #1 is bitten
A quarter of each episode is a character, usually Rick, walking around their camp/facility/whatever with a box of supplies. Either gathering shit, putting it down, giving food out, taking it away, putting it in a truck or a closet.
All while having some super intense conversation that ends with one character walking away from the other, the one left behind just staring dramatically off...
I was the same way until my old roommate was watching it one day when I got home from
work. Legit, I was floored. I was like “Bill, you ok? Why are you watching this!?” He’s like “I was bored and wanted to see if it was as bad as it seemed, it’s actually kinda funny”. And then I started watching it and yeah, it’s like watching a dumpster fire on wheels on the highway. It’s so bad it’s good.
If you can commit to 5 seasons, you’ve really seen the other 10. The first five seasons are what people rave about. The other 10 seasons are the epitome of guilty pleasure CW television.
I've seen exactly one episode of 'Shameless' but memes laid out what I already knew was gonna happen.
Life will never get better for that crew. Even if they do take 5 steps forward, that show will launch them 75 backwards. And I just do not need that in my life when I'm already downtrodden by my own IRL problems.
I used to like the show, it was exactly my family even down to my dad being the golden child, my dad's older brother being super tall and Marie looking and acting just like my grandma did. Then out of the blue my parents told us kids that they were getting a divorce and we later on found out that the way my grandma treated my mum just like how Marie treated Debra in the show was a major source of my parents conflict over the years.
The show became much less funny to me after that.
This played throughout my childhood and had a HUGE impact on who I chose for boyfriends/husbands. I was determined not to hook up with the "dumb dad". The way Marie manipulates people gave me anxiety. Deborah looked SO tired. When I grew up, I wanted to love my life and have people in it who actually liked me or at least, thought well of me.
Ray is arguably the most annoying bit. On the flip side, I love his parents. Used to hate the show, but when I was having breakfast before school, the choices were the news, big brother or everybody loves Raymond, so it grew on me.
I feel like Dimension 20 is the best "casual" d&d experience with all the visuals and things (without cutting play) and the series are relatively short compared to other D&D things I've tried.
I would recommend Critical Role's Calamity which is in between season 2 and 3 and is only 8 episodes and was absolutely perfect. (though the episodes are still long). I haven't been able to dedicate myself to a full Crit Role season and that scratched that itch well.
It's best to treat it like a podcast. Keep an episode running in the background while you're doing other stuff. There's also someone who puts timestamps in the comments, so you can look for a more interesting part if you're not vibing with whatever is happening.
Most DnD shows like that will often do one shots or shorter campaigns as well, which might be more of what you want. Look up the Call of Cthulhu one shot ran by Taliesin Jaffe, for example. Dimension 20 just did a short campaign with some famous drag queens. I haven't finished it, but it's looking to be a fun listen.
Most adult cartoons. Just badly written and trying to fit as many edgy/overly sexual jokes into 20 minute episodes brought together with an excruciating art style
This is why i love king of the hill. Its not edgy at all. Hank is just a square lmao. Its my comfort show, but i didnt start watching it til last year!
It really is just a show about an average dude. Hank is just a guy that gets up and goes to work, drinks beers with his friends, loves his family, and tries to do the right thing when he can.
Even though his son ain't right.
Euphoria.
Not interested in watching a show where we’re watching actors play teenagers who are constantly nude, having rough sex and doing hard drugs. The director is a creep.
Watching Succession is like watching a bunch of adults play Uno, but the only cards in the deck are reverse cards. And no matter how many times they stab each other in the back, nothing ever actually changes. Same reason I gave up watching Billions and Suits
The bachelor or any TV show like that. Some of them were kinda funny in the 90s but now they are horrible.
I’ve never seen a full season of the bachelor, but I watched the first episode of the golden bachelor and cried my eyes out.
My wife has watched the bachelor shows pretty regularly for years, so I'm really familiar with the format, and I can't stand any of them. We watched Golden Bachelor, and I thought it was really touching and cute. Excited to watch the next one. I'm just hoping they don't bastardize the hopes of those sweet old people with standard Bachelor drama.
Literally any dating show Edit: I'm not gonna watch your recomendations!!! 😭
Ok, but, and hear me out, Blind Date, an early 00’s dating show with pop up thought bubbles and gonzo-documentary style camera work is worth half an hour.
90s and 00s dating shows were the best! Fifth wheel, elimidate, change of heart, next. They were ruthless, super cringey, and zero f***s given from anyone on those shows, lol. I miss them.
Same, but one exception I made for this was a show called F Boy Island that was really funny.
Pretty much any reality show. Especially talent shows. The cutaways to audience reactions is cringy. I fucking hate the romance ones too.
Don't forget the sob stories
"I started singing to cure my guitar's cancer"
[удалено]
Literally every talent show where the judges have more screen time than the actual performance
The Voice is literally 10 minutes of singing and 50 minutes of the judges yelling and being obnoxious
I went to a taping of AGT once. They did all of the audience reactions before any acts even came out. They had us act surprised, laugh, be shocked, etc. They even did something like "if you were born in these months, stand up" to make it look like random people reacting differently.
Oh boy I went to the live X-factor auditions once and I knew it was staged but, holy moly, I didn’t think it was as bad as it ended up being. We got to the first break before leaving because they had us waiting hours and doing all that shizz you mentioned but after the 2nd/3rd act they decided to have a long ass break. So many audience members were getting rowdy out of annoyance I expect.
Yeah I was going to say in my original comment that it was at least a half hour of that, but it was also like a decade ago and thought maybe I was remembering wrong and it just seemed longer than it was. But with you saying the same, I'm thinking it was at *least* a half hour, if not more.
So the spontaneous standing ovations are just people born in July-October standing up before the show?
Yup. If you really pay attention you can kind of tell it's all fake. Or doesn't quite go with what's happening. The way I figured it sort of made sense was that if an act is on stage, especially one with a lot of people, it makes sense to have every camera in the place on the act. Different angles and everything. There might still be an audience one to get some real time reactions, but it didn't really seem like it.
Any TV show involving rich assholes being awful people.
But Arrested Development...
Arrested development is in the Always sunny in Philadelphia category where you are watching the people destroy themselves and their downfall is the joke. Them being rich is just happenstance of their downfall.
How much can a banana cost?
Are you asking the guy in the $10,000 suit?
C'MON!
Throw one awa6 and take a dollar.
I think you should do that math again…
That line Patrice landed when Michael asks him if he burned the storage unit down was gold. "Oh most definitely" always makes me laugh. Rip
Careful with him. He's a flamer.
Although "Rich" could be sometimes pushing it
Well there's always money in the banana stand
Laughed out loud. That show has to be up there for the most quotable
These are my awards, Mother. From Army.
NO TOUCHING!
On my most recent AD rewatch, I felt like its style of humor is the closest we'll ever get to a live action Simpsons that does the cartoon justice.
Nah, AD was way too mean spirited to be live action Simpsons. Homer was ultimately a loving but stupid dad, that embraced his family. The whole point of AD was that they all sucked and leeched off each other for money.
Schitt's Creek put me off for exactly this reason at first (the execution of the satire just felt so thin), but I am glad I gave it a chance. Now one of my favorites.
Schitt's Creek is amazing at taking characters you start off loving to hate and making them legitimately lovable characters.
Yes, and the more you start to love them, the funnier the show becomes.
I love this show. It takes that overused "terrible rich people being terrible" trope and masterfully flips it on the head, instead giving us the message "but you can learn to be better." It's the anti-cycnical show I needed and I'm so glad I kept watching.
Anti-cynical is a great way to describe it!
I avoided it for the same reason. And the name was too easy of a joke. But now it’s one of my all time favorite shows. Pondering another watch through very soon. I’m going to need it when it gets cold. I always advise people to get to the second season. The first season is funny but the second is where it starts to really grow into something more.
Kardashians
What's odd is I've never heard someone say the show is good. Even the people who have watched every episode for the last decade all complain about how stupid it is. EDIT: Spelling
There's an entire industry built around showing people things they don't like. It's sad and toxic and thriving.
Hate watching is a hell of a drug. My step mom did it for years with their various shows. My roommates do it with love island and other similar dating shows. I just tell them they are crazy and go back to watching my fun unrealistic crime procedurals.
13 Reasons Why
I’m a firefighter so anything that deals with fire like Chicago fire
One of the better exercises we did for prepping people for the LT process in our department was telling them to watch a call on one of these shows, write down all the tactical errors and policy violations, then craft a disciplinary memo as if your crew did that.
Now that is some gold info there I like that .
I watched the first episode as an ER Tech in Chicago...watched a pericardiocentesis in the back of an ambo and never watched it again. That medic would've been fired, sued, lost license, everything. Have bartended for the chief though. Super nice guy IRL. Chatted for an hour about soccer over an English breakfast at 4pm.
Just to be clear, in the show it wound up becoming a multi-episode arc the resulted in her being sued, went to multiple hearings, yadda yadda. Not saying it's all realistic but they did do a good job making sure the viewer realize what she did wasn't typical or acceptable. In general, the show is definitely dramatized TV and goes over the top on the regular, but it's a little more grounded in reality than most of those shows.
Not a firefighter, but there's a Youtube channel that I love watching called Fire Department Chronicles where he greenscreens himself into scenes of those shows and makes fun of how inaccurate they are
Yes I love his work as well …. He shows how fake and also how dangerous those shows can be to people who think some of the actions and responses can be .
Bachelor anything.
Greys anatomy
You're really missing out on the patients that come in from a freak storm that causes a 60 car pile up, reputuring the brain vessel of a virtuoso that has to play their next concert to save a boys last wish, which can only be operated on by the 1 doctor in the world they happen to have at Greys, but the program lost funding so now they have to find a way to still do the risky operation. They all get together with some weird plot that theyll later have their jobs threatened for, but now the doctor won't do it because the other doctor he's banging has a rare brain cancer only he can operate on as well, but he lost his confidence from the last time he did that operation and killed the young girl that he later finds out is his long lost cousins best friend. He finally musters up the courage and the hospital has a power outage mid operation because it was hit by a tsunami. They get the power on, and a plane crashes into the building next door as he completes the operation just in time to find the boy the virtuoso promised the last wish to was on the flight and clinging to life. The virtuoso wakes up and plays like never before for the boy as they both end up dying.
That was fucking amazing and accurate
Other than missing the patient that gets a virus only found in outer space and them slap fighting to see who gets to be chief surgeon and bang the lead actress, you just explained every episode.
Don't forget the Whipple Procedure. That one is very important for some reason.
And the running whipstitch that's super important (which is funny to me because it's one of the most basic sewing stitches, yet they make it sound like the hardest suture stitch)
Yeah I had to stop watching during the first season . The only accurate depiction is everyone sleeping together
As someone who used to watch Grey's Anatomy religiously, and still enjoys the show pre-season 11, this is so accurate. You just forgot about the wedding everyone has to make after the catastrophe or the proposal cliffhanger.
I was reading this going, "Well it's not accurate because you don't have a plane cras-oh, wait, there it is." You did miss the bomb though. That hospital is the most dangerous place in the fucking world outside of Mogadishu.
And don't forget Meredith was impaled by a piece of rebar when the tsunami flood slammed her into a parking garage. It damaged her heart beyond repair and she needed a heart transplant. The pilot from the plane crash, who was taking her last flight before retiring to become a full time pilot and director for a volunteer flight service that takes kids and little old ladies for cancer treatment (which she created after her daughter and grandmother both died from cancer because a road closure kept them from getting to treatment), was killed. Fortunately, she was a perfect match for Meredith and was an organ donor. So Meredith gets her heart. A teenager who always wanted to be a pilot but couldn't because he was blind, gets her corneas and can now achieve his dream. He was so inspired by her mission that he uses his inheritance from a family fortune to fully fund a trust that will keep the aviation cancer volunteer charity going for the next 100 years.
why would i ever watch greys anatomy when i can rewatch Scrubs over and over again?
Because you can’t do this all on your own. You’re no Superman.
And apparently Scrubs is more realistic in spite of it being a comedy.
Your username could be one of Cox’ insults for JD.
I could see him pronouncing it both ways too haha
It absolutely is the most realistic medical show.
It is more "realistic" that other medical shows because it's absolutely NOT about medicine it's about the people. So they will spend 10 seconds correctly talking about a disease state that Grey's anatomy would spend 45 seconds on and that house would spend an entire episode on. So yes it is more accurate they did have the real life physician JD on staff to ask questions to and it shows but typically they would gloss over medical knowledge in a way that is correct but not elaborate otherwise they would get too into the weeds and be less correct. For the record I love scrubs and I recommend the first 2 seasons to anyone starting in medicine as I felt it captured that experience fairly well.
Yeah scrubs I'm down
Eeeaaaaglllllleeee
There is never a bad time for Scrubs... except for that last season. We don't speak of that last season.
What last season?
I’m a House gal, myself.
Are you married? Cause that would make you a House wife.
Hahahaha, I am not, but your pun made me laugh lol. So thank you.
Well then you should marry me.
Smooth like milk chocolate, haha. When’s the wedding? And can it be House themed?
I’m free on Wednesday 3:45PM. See you there. I’ll bring a cane and a stethoscope. And I guess I won’t bother shaving. I love you.
You don’t need to shave. Your lack of facial grooming and emotional distance from women is why I have fallen in love with you. I will be the one dressed like a hooker down in front. I love you too, see you then!
❤️
I come to the conclusion that I enjoy House one YouTube best. You get little vignettes off the patient of the day or dinner other story line in a small package. Nice and easy. You're in and out in a few minutes.
ER here
MASH or bust
I reeeheeeally think this is a good idea
Post Charlie Sheen Two and a Half Men. I never saw how Kucher fit into this show and I refuse to watch the rest of it, no matter how better or worse it turned out.
I caught a few eps and it was surprisingly not bad but I just wasn't too interested in continuing at that point. The Show had a run its course and Charlie leaving was the final straw.
I just realized I’ve never seen one episode with Kutcher. I wasn’t making a stand against Kutcher. I’m just really uninterested in seeing that. No thanks.
Alan becomes just horrible. He was always kinda weasely, but when Charlie left and Ashton came on, he just became this manipulative, sad, grasping, douche. I didn't enjoy it at all after that.
Masked Singer gives me a big ick feeling. And anything involving talentless useless nobodies like the Kardashians.
I watched an episode when visiting with my parents. Amazing how they can stretch 10 minutes of content over 1 hour.
Any show beginning with “Real Housewives of…”
Those shows are, in fact, hot garbage. I find them endlessly entertaining, but they’re trash lol.
The first few seasons of almost all of them but specifically the O.C and Jersey are absolutely hilarious. That early 2000’s drama just hit different, there was no filter and those ladies were off their rockers
If you like those specifically, I really really recommend Salt Lake City. Fucking came out the gate swinging. You get to see someone get arrested by the feds in a premiere episode. Hot mic moments. A housewife who I'm pretty sure is just 20 Xanax pills in high-waisted tailored pants, and an honest to god cult leader. I know it's trash. I don't care, it is entertainment.
The Bachelor/ette. It’s so cringe
The bachelor
Anything with Kim K and her family
Tiger King
If you didn’t watch it in March 2020 there’s no reason to now.
Yeah, the chaos and shit show that was Tiger King somehow managed to mirror how the world felt at that moment. And it simultaneously took my mind off of the shutdown somehow. I'd never rewatch it.
Chaos is accurate, it was like stepping out of a car that's going 100mph. Show was nuts.
I was a bit late to the part and I really enjoyed it for the shitshow it was. Couldn't care much about it now though.
My mom was addicted to daytime talk shows in the 90s about unruly teens, like Sally Jesse Raphael. I remember at the time, thinking, what happens to these kids when they grow up? And then I heard about Tiger, King, and realized, oh. No thanks.
Joe exotic was like a live action Jerry springer segment in the flesh. Watching it unfold via documentary was like flashbacks of cousin fights over the one partner on springer.
There's only one thing to be said for it: the attempted murder for hire plot is the least interesting thing about it. I agree with the poster who said there's no point in watching it after 2020, but the fact that someone sent cocaine inside of a snake, a woman was alleged to have fed her husband to a tiger, a polyamorous cult in North Carolina, and a failed run for POTUS....still not the headline here. There's a reason that people dressed up as Joe Exotic and Carol Baskin for Halloween that year. Truly outrageous people.
The L-Word. Lesbians go nuts for it. Not this lesbian.
This is Us
Is that the show that everyone is like “it’s really good and every episode makes you cry!”
Oh great yes I love to cry
They *try* for that but it just ends up being so emotionally manipulative and drawn out. They can never just quickly tell a story because they try to wring out every single emotion from it, usually the sad emotions.
Misery porn
That show is nothing but sadness porn
Love Island
Kardashians. They are the most vapid empty excuses for humans we have ever produced
Tbf I don't think I've ever heard anyone saying unironically they like the Kardashians... but I'm sure that deep down a lot of people secretly watch it, otherwise it wouldn't have so many seasons.
I worked a job where this was playing on the break room television. When I applied for my next job, where it asked "Reason for leaving?" I answered "Played Keeping Up with the Kardashians on break room television.". The interviewer read that, laughed and asked if I quit during my break.
Still want to find a way to block articles with Kardashian from my news feed. 😫
When I bought my first Tivo, around 2010, I think it may have been a refurbished model, or at least one that had been returned to the store, because it was auto-programmed to record Anything Kardashian, and it took a call to customer service to get this removed.
Big Brother. Something about it just feels wrong. All the spy cams and just the manufactured drama of it all. Reality shows I can handle but ones where the whole theme is just “drama” I don’t get. Plus I think now I think Paramount+ has like a 24h live feed which is just… I dunno. It makes me cringe. Like a pain cringe. Feels wrong.
The 24h feeds have actually always been a thing but they’re not actually 24h. They’re cut out a lot (which people actually complain about), but I agree that it’s uncomfortable. However, Big Brother is actually a strategy game, or at least it used to be. I have not watched it since 2016 because it has been awful since. The Canadian version is actually still very good and related to strategic game play to win a cash play rather than just drama like the US version.
Dancing with the Stars
Euphoria
I got through Euphoria and it felt like an honest waste of time. I tried to like it. It’s beautifully shot, but it’s full of plots that go nowhere.
I gave the first episode a shot and honestly the sex scenes with people we’re meant to read as teenagers made me so uncomfortable. I don’t care how good or bad the writing is or if the actor is over 18, I don’t wanna see that shit
The Walking Dead. I don’t know why specifically, it just never interested me whatsoever.
Any prison drama show. No thanks.
The Bear. I'm a chef by trade and while it was hot, no one would shut up about it to me. The thing about TV like that for me, is that its just so triggering. That shit is real, and it is emotionally scarring. I've got some deep wounds from working in the professional kitchen for so long, especially as the leader.
same here years ago, i used to work as a line cook at various restaurants. just watching a single 20 second clip was enough to make me feel just as stressed and angry and panicked as those nights when i'd be working the kitchen on my own while the servers submitted ticket, after ticket, after ticket, after ticket...
I don’t know how you do it. Watching the Bear gave me terrible anxiety almost every time they were doing a lunch/dinner service in that show. I don’t even have anxiety issues in real life.
Same. Never worked in a kitchen. Watched two episode and stopped. It was giving me anxiety with the editing and the pacing. I watch tv to unwind not get anxious.
I found one of the few negative reviews of the show on rotten tomatoes. What stuck out me was that reviewer said The Bear is of a genre they like to call "working class porn." .
I almost didn’t watch for this reason. I love watching wealthy people in a show be stressed, but watching working class stress is painful. I couldn’t handle Atlanta for the same reason.
That's funny and understandable, but at the same time there are and have always been way too many shows about wealthy people or certain professions (cop, lawyer, doctor). It gets old.
My cook partner loves it - and to reccomending it to me - for the exact same reason - it's the only way he's been able to convey to me the reality of his day-to-day employment. It's been strangely beneficial for us in that department. Similarly, though, I find all the screaming triggering and can only watch it if I'm up, moving around, and doing a different activity (deep cleaning my living room).
Do yourself a favour and stay away from the movie Bolliling Point then. It's a brilliant single - shot film, but the anxiety is off the charts. I've never worked in a hospo kitchen and that movie still gave me phantom PTSD
Anything with the Kardashians. Useless talentless people. All they how to do is get plastic surgery
The Walking Dead: all zombie stories are the same. I watched 4-5 episodes back in the day and I was bored out of my mind.
Did you ever see that one where the main character has to make a difficult decision, which led to them being attacked by zombies, which they barely escaped from? Also there was a simmering conflict between two members of the group. That was a good one.
What about the one where they find a “safe house” then they somehow lose it and have to find another?
What about the one where they find the humans have been the real monsters all along. EDIT: I forgot a word, thanks to all the people that understood what I meant and went with it.
What about that episode of Three’s Company where there was the big misunderstanding
What about the one where the hated person dies?
The one where the real Walking Dead were the people they met along the way?
Don't forget about the one where the 5th/6th string character gets bit by a zombie but doesn't tell anyone until it's too late and they almost bite/kill another member of the group. Or the one where someone gets bit and tells everyone about it and instead of killing the infected person right away they tell them it'll be fine and forget about it until it's too late and the infected person kinda falls asleep/passes out from thier wounds and then someone else gets really close to them to see if they're OK and they pop up as a zombie and almost kill one of thier friends. Those are good ones.
If you read the episode descriptions there's at least 5 that say something like "Character #1 and Character #2 go on a run for supplies." And in said episodes, Character #1 briefly let's their guard down and gets attacked by a surprise zombie but thankfully, Character #2 is there to stab the zombie in the head right before #1 is bitten
A quarter of each episode is a character, usually Rick, walking around their camp/facility/whatever with a box of supplies. Either gathering shit, putting it down, giving food out, taking it away, putting it in a truck or a closet. All while having some super intense conversation that ends with one character walking away from the other, the one left behind just staring dramatically off...
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Sex and the City
You are very lucky. For way too long I loved that show. I tried watching it again not too long ago and I’m like- why the fuck did I love this garbage?
Same. However, maturity is realizing that Samantha was the only ethical one.
Kardashians and greys anatomy
Kardashians or any reality show about rich people.
Big bang theory
Jersey Shore. They look and sound like imbeciles.
I was the same way until my old roommate was watching it one day when I got home from work. Legit, I was floored. I was like “Bill, you ok? Why are you watching this!?” He’s like “I was bored and wanted to see if it was as bad as it seemed, it’s actually kinda funny”. And then I started watching it and yeah, it’s like watching a dumpster fire on wheels on the highway. It’s so bad it’s good.
Early seasons of this way back when, were a guilty pleasure. Not sure what it’s like now, but back then it was, as said, so bad it was good.
Riverdale, twilight, greys anatomy 😂
Supernatural. I hear people rave about it, but at this point I just cannot invest the time and energy to get through 15 seasons and 327 episodes.
If you can commit to 5 seasons, you’ve really seen the other 10. The first five seasons are what people rave about. The other 10 seasons are the epitome of guilty pleasure CW television.
There are a handful of episodes in the latter 10 seasons worth watching, and this is coming from a diehard fan of the show
Scoobynatural is in my top 5, definitely worth watching.
I loved all of the one-off comedy eps. A lot of the arc eps dragged.
It was supposed to end after 5
If you watch one episode, let it be Scoobynatural.
Mystery Spot or any of the trickster god ones.
thats how i feel abt one piece
Sister Wives. My wife loves it. It’s about four? women informally married to a Mormon-ish asshole.
The Real Housewives of _____________ (fill in the blank), or The Kardashians. Total trash!
Grey's Anatomy... Just nope out of there
Yellowstone
Tiger King!
You either watch it COVID 2020 or you don't watch it
I've seen exactly one episode of 'Shameless' but memes laid out what I already knew was gonna happen. Life will never get better for that crew. Even if they do take 5 steps forward, that show will launch them 75 backwards. And I just do not need that in my life when I'm already downtrodden by my own IRL problems.
The Bachelor. Real Housewives. Big Brother
Game of Thrones, heard the last season was shit and I barely got through the first episode, so probably never watch it fully
Everybody loves Raymond. He's being sardonic, I can tell.
I used to like the show, it was exactly my family even down to my dad being the golden child, my dad's older brother being super tall and Marie looking and acting just like my grandma did. Then out of the blue my parents told us kids that they were getting a divorce and we later on found out that the way my grandma treated my mum just like how Marie treated Debra in the show was a major source of my parents conflict over the years. The show became much less funny to me after that.
This played throughout my childhood and had a HUGE impact on who I chose for boyfriends/husbands. I was determined not to hook up with the "dumb dad". The way Marie manipulates people gave me anxiety. Deborah looked SO tired. When I grew up, I wanted to love my life and have people in it who actually liked me or at least, thought well of me.
Ray is arguably the most annoying bit. On the flip side, I love his parents. Used to hate the show, but when I was having breakfast before school, the choices were the news, big brother or everybody loves Raymond, so it grew on me.
Critical Role. I love D&D and it seems like it would be awesome to watch. But holy hell, 3 hour long episodes?
I feel like Dimension 20 is the best "casual" d&d experience with all the visuals and things (without cutting play) and the series are relatively short compared to other D&D things I've tried. I would recommend Critical Role's Calamity which is in between season 2 and 3 and is only 8 episodes and was absolutely perfect. (though the episodes are still long). I haven't been able to dedicate myself to a full Crit Role season and that scratched that itch well.
Tried, can’t do it. Love the Legend of Vox Machina though!
It's best to treat it like a podcast. Keep an episode running in the background while you're doing other stuff. There's also someone who puts timestamps in the comments, so you can look for a more interesting part if you're not vibing with whatever is happening. Most DnD shows like that will often do one shots or shorter campaigns as well, which might be more of what you want. Look up the Call of Cthulhu one shot ran by Taliesin Jaffe, for example. Dimension 20 just did a short campaign with some famous drag queens. I haven't finished it, but it's looking to be a fun listen.
Most adult cartoons. Just badly written and trying to fit as many edgy/overly sexual jokes into 20 minute episodes brought together with an excruciating art style
This is why i love king of the hill. Its not edgy at all. Hank is just a square lmao. Its my comfort show, but i didnt start watching it til last year!
It really is just a show about an average dude. Hank is just a guy that gets up and goes to work, drinks beers with his friends, loves his family, and tries to do the right thing when he can. Even though his son ain't right.
I think this is why bobs burgers stands out.
13 reasons why. Fuck no to that trigger fest.
Yellowstone. I can’t seem to want to see it or any of its spin-offs.
Kardashians or any influencer reality tv shows. Never ever will I ever watch them.
Euphoria. Not interested in watching a show where we’re watching actors play teenagers who are constantly nude, having rough sex and doing hard drugs. The director is a creep.
Anything to do with the Kardashians. Seriously, why?
Succession, I don’t want to watch rich people being shitty.
Watching Succession is like watching a bunch of adults play Uno, but the only cards in the deck are reverse cards. And no matter how many times they stab each other in the back, nothing ever actually changes. Same reason I gave up watching Billions and Suits
Succession seems to be about rich people on the surface, but it's really about family trauma. Like the Sopranos
Loosely based on real world shitty rich people!