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TV watching: another one bites the dust
Jan. 17th, 2017 01:43 pmBlindspot just got dropped from my DVR to-watch list.
I am finally, painfully, learning that I personally dislike the entire genre of shows with long-term conspiracy-based plots where anyone (and probably everyone) is a bad guy, or at least having a secondary set of motivations. That’s true (for me) even of shows that other people think are great and that get good reviews. In the past couple of years, I’ve watched at least a season of, and ultimately dropped, Quantico, How to Get Away with Murder, The Blacklist, and now Blindspot. And Timeless and Frequency are both on the bubble for now.
I feel a little guilty about giving up on “good” shows, but it’s not as if I need them to pass a test for school. If it’s not amusing me sufficiently, what’s the point?
On the other hand, I like long-arc shows, as long as they have a defined ending point. I’m sorry that Murder in the First was canceled after three seasons, and I’m looking forward to the new season of American Crime, even though that one is quite dark (two seasons so far, both with seriously depressing resolutions and ruined lives).
I am finally, painfully, learning that I personally dislike the entire genre of shows with long-term conspiracy-based plots where anyone (and probably everyone) is a bad guy, or at least having a secondary set of motivations. That’s true (for me) even of shows that other people think are great and that get good reviews. In the past couple of years, I’ve watched at least a season of, and ultimately dropped, Quantico, How to Get Away with Murder, The Blacklist, and now Blindspot. And Timeless and Frequency are both on the bubble for now.
I feel a little guilty about giving up on “good” shows, but it’s not as if I need them to pass a test for school. If it’s not amusing me sufficiently, what’s the point?
On the other hand, I like long-arc shows, as long as they have a defined ending point. I’m sorry that Murder in the First was canceled after three seasons, and I’m looking forward to the new season of American Crime, even though that one is quite dark (two seasons so far, both with seriously depressing resolutions and ruined lives).
