bunyip
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All soap operas should be lined up against a wall and shot regardless of country of origin
TV shows...the good, bad and the ugly...
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At least half of the shows already mentioned in this thread (including prime time dramas) are nothing but thinly disguised soap operas...only these days they should be called drug and insurance operas as that is what they try to sell the most of when they air...!
flyerdan
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This year's best new network show so far is Big Sky, about young girls who tend to go missing in a section of Montana. Kind of has a bit of a Twin Peaks / Fargo vibe to it.
Also like the big wrecker shows from CA, and Graveyard Carz, Mopar restoration show shot just down the road in Springfield. GYC is one of those shows that has no middle ground, you either love it or hate it, much like Mrs. Brown's Boys.
Silent Witness (limey CSI)is about to launch its 24th season, and, like their counterparts here, the lab rats undertake duties far outside their orbit, which in reality would earn them a sheaf of writeups, if not the sack.
Also like the big wrecker shows from CA, and Graveyard Carz, Mopar restoration show shot just down the road in Springfield. GYC is one of those shows that has no middle ground, you either love it or hate it, much like Mrs. Brown's Boys.
Silent Witness (limey CSI)is about to launch its 24th season, and, like their counterparts here, the lab rats undertake duties far outside their orbit, which in reality would earn them a sheaf of writeups, if not the sack.
k0ua
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Well at first blush, that seems a little harsh. But upon reflection, I can't say I disagree with you.
rangerfredbob
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I'm running out of stuff to watch on Netflix, they only put a few episodes on of anything worth watching it seems but you get a whole bunch of episodes of junk. Forged in fire was good but they only put up 30 episodes... most of the car shows got like 5 episodes, most of the movies don't look that great and I don't always have movie time to kill and they always only have the second or third in a series of movies, not all of them when I missed the first!
I liked Longmire, watched all of NCIS unless they added more episodes in the last year, I liked Hawaii 5O when it was on, walking dead wasn't bad but got a bit too dramatic... Just finished Luke Cage, wasn't bad, now I'm watching Iron Fist. I tried watching breaking bad but couldn't get too in it for whatever reason.
I only have Netflix, of all the streaming options it seems to be the only one that will cooperate with my slow internet and I'm not paying $120 a month for TV so I can have just as little to watch...
I liked Longmire, watched all of NCIS unless they added more episodes in the last year, I liked Hawaii 5O when it was on, walking dead wasn't bad but got a bit too dramatic... Just finished Luke Cage, wasn't bad, now I'm watching Iron Fist. I tried watching breaking bad but couldn't get too in it for whatever reason.
I only have Netflix, of all the streaming options it seems to be the only one that will cooperate with my slow internet and I'm not paying $120 a month for TV so I can have just as little to watch...
Diggin It
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TV shows...the good, bad and the ugly...
While it was a classic spaghetti western, I don't think that was ever a TV show.
The greatest TV dads of all time, Al Bundy and Fred Sanford could never be aired today. Well, except in reruns.
While it was a classic spaghetti western, I don't think that was ever a TV show.
The greatest TV dads of all time, Al Bundy and Fred Sanford could never be aired today. Well, except in reruns.
2LaneCruzer
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And then there's Carrol O'Connor as Archie Bunker, in "All in the Family".
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You should learn to discern when words are written as descriptive adjectives and not as proper titles...
dmccarty
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By some strange coincidence, I have turned on the TV the last couple of evenings and it happened to be on MeTV which happened to be playing an Adam 12 episode. I could only handle a 30 seconds are so before I had to change the channel. It was just so corny it made me cringe. :laughing: The first night they had pulled over some young kid riding a dirt bike and they were having a heart to heart talk about making friends or some such.
I did recognize the child actor but can't remember a thing about him. Then last night, same thing, turn on the TV and there was Adam 12. Again, they had just got out of the car and were talking to a woman. She was "hippy" and went off when they said they had a call about a Peeping Tom. The woman had a spy glass in her hand and she said what can't they say Peeping Person. :laughing: Changed the channel. These old shows do have some real value though as they are now history. That "hippy" was documenting the start of PC Culture. We bought the compete collection of Colombo movies years ago and started watching the early episodes. Two big things stand out, the HUGE cars, we did call them Land Yachts for a reason, and the horrible air pollution. People in the US talk about air pollution today and they don't have a clue how bad it used to be...
We canceled pay TV years ago, maybe a decade or more at this point, and talked about stopping for years before we finally did. There just was not a d...d thing on worth watching. The channels that used to be good had just turned into reality shows. We have been doing a bit of traveling over the last six months or so and have stayed in places with cable. Cable has gotten worse. A gazzilion channels and nothing worth watching. :shocked:
We do watch some programming on over the air, but guess what, they are all old reruns. :confused3::laughing: The only thing "new" we watch is Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon.
YouTube is where we spend the most time watching content. There are a couple of guys, one being The History Guy, who have done more history shows, with better content, than the History Channel ever has done. Somehow I found a YouTube channel from the Battleship New Jersey. Their content seemed to have been, surprise, surprise, about the ship but they have branched off into other historical areas as well. Seeing the various spaces in the ship, places the public cannot go, is really interesting. Seeing spaces that were just left as they where when the ship was decommissioned decades ago is amazing. Watched an episode last night about the machine shop spaces. The machines had to have been put into place as the ship was built, in the early 40's, because they were too big to get through the hatches in the armored deck. The machines still work.
There is just so much good content on Youtube, new stuff being produced by individuals or a few people, to old TV shows. With Youtube and some of the streaming services, we just don't watch over the air shows that much. Oddly, our over the air viewing pattern for much of the pandemic has been Big Bang Theory, followed by Star Trek or Andy Griffith if Shatner is out of control :laughing:, followed by Star Trek Next Generations. Maybe watch something on PBS if there is something interesting. Mostly not much on PBS worth watching.
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Dan
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I tried watching this show...it was just too much over the top...I really expected better from D. Kelley based on his past productions...It is an hour show on broadcast TV and each episode is only a tad bit over 40 minutes...meaning there is almost 20 minutes of commercials for the hour long episode...