Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Blogging Challenge: Favorite TV Shows and Why

As you probably already know, I'm participating in the Weekly Blogging Challenge over at Long and Short Reviews. This week's challenge is "Favorite TV Shows and Why".

I, um, I don't actually watch TV shows.

I mean, seriously: I don't. Not with any kind of reliability. And almost never all the way through. No, not even if they're perfect for me.

It's not that I don't appreciate the format. I mean, back when Buffy The Vampire Slayer was a thing, Beautiful Wife and I would wait until each season came out on DVD, buy the set, and then watch it as we had time. I didn't even know Firefly existed until it was already off the air. So what do I put on a list like this?

Well, there are favorites from my youth:
  • Blackadder
  • Red Dwarf
  • Doctor Who (Fourth Doctor era)

There are things that remind of those -- Upstart Crow has a lot of the tone and feel of Blackadder.

There are things that I just kind of stumbled onto:
  • Star Wars Rebels (an animated series set between the end of the Clone Wars and the beginning of A New Hope) -- I made it all the way through Season 2 of that one before I lost track.
  • The Librarians -- I made it through some of Season 1...
  • Lucifer -- I finished Season 1, and I'm still absolutely baffled by why they'd take one of the most interesting characters in the DC Universe and Christian theology, and decide it was a good idea to cast him in an 80s-style Buddy Cop scenario.
  • Rick and Morty -- a cartoon series sort of loosely based on the Marty McFly / Doc Brown dynamic from Back To The Future, only darker, edgier, and weirder.

Things that Beautiful Wife dragged me into:
  • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
  • The Order
  • Vikings (bits of it, anyway)

So, I mean, yeah: I don't really have favorite TV shows. I just have a handful of shows that I've actually seen, or at least seen parts of. Like this:

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  1. LydiaMay 15, 2019 at 9:28 AM

    I find your answer super interesting. Do you like films? Do you prefer not watching any shows at all?

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    1. Michael MockMay 15, 2019 at 10:22 AM

      Films, when I can. Though with the boys, it's a rare event when I can watch an hour-and-half movie in less than five hours. And even then, I have a huge stock of movies that I'm really, truly going to get around to finally watching one of these days.

      ...It's still not as bad as my TBR pile, though.

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  2. Tena StetlerMay 15, 2019 at 9:57 AM

    I enjoyed The Librarians and Dr. Who. We don't watch much TV either.

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    1. Michael MockMay 15, 2019 at 10:23 AM

      I started The Librarians because of the original made-for-TV movies, and the show really did live up to them.

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  3. AymeeMay 15, 2019 at 10:12 AM

    I've only caught a few episodes of The Librarians because my husband loved it, but it was a good show! And I wasn't ever much of a TV watcher either until I started living with my husband. :)

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    1. Michael MockMay 15, 2019 at 10:45 AM

      We've actually started watching more shows recently (and by "we" I mostly mean Beautiful Wife) owing to Amazon Prime and Netflix, but we're still just... not really connected to them, y'know?

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  4. Marianne ArkinsMay 15, 2019 at 12:20 PM

    I really enjoyed "The Librarians", but I also saw all three movies first AND was a fan of "Leverage" (so much <3 <3) so appreciated the pure silliness of the story. And, LOL, I just rewatched "The Avengers" and still laugh every time I see Cap say what you have in your gif. The kid has been watching Lucifer. It's gotten good reviews, but I'm not sure... we'll see!

    Thanks for stopping by earlier :-)

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    1. Michael MockMay 15, 2019 at 8:18 PM

      I really enjoy reading people's responses to these, so thank you for dropping by as well!

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  5. JudyMay 15, 2019 at 12:41 PM

    Thanks for stopping by! re: TV shows. If it weren't for Hulu and Netflix I would watch very little television. I like having the shows I enjoy (and that my husband doesn't care for) playing in the background as I work. That said, the ones I enjoy I tend to binge watch (new releases I watch the next day, if possible, on Hulu).

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    1. Michael MockMay 15, 2019 at 8:19 PM

      I do that when I'm doing something tedious -- sorting laundry, for example. But it's always a little weird, because I want to pick something that I've seen before so I can follow along without having to stop, but also something that's still entertaining.

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  6. Wendi Zwaduk and Megan SlayerMay 16, 2019 at 7:37 AM

    I want to get over to Lucifer, but haven't had the time. I get the whole not really getting into shows, too. We watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars because the tot was obsessed with Star Wars. It's good. Good list, too.

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  7. Tanith DavenportMay 21, 2019 at 3:03 AM

    I was the biggest Red Dwarf fan as a teen, mainly because I had a crush on Craig Charles.

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    1. Michael MockMay 21, 2019 at 11:44 PM

      It was also an amazingly well-plotted show, but, I mean, that's completely fair.

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