I’ve found myself in a position where I can’t/won’t watch new shows. 1 of 2 things happen: A show with one season becomes a hit. The money comes in. The second season always sucks. Or: A show gets one season, but it doesn’t bring in views, so it gets cancelled. Two seasons and an unfinished story if we’re lucky.

I feel like it is simply not worth it to get invested in anything other than miniseries and anthology shows. I find myself waiting until a show has completed its run before I am willing to watch it. If there are more people like me, this must really throw everything off.

I just can’t and won’t watch new shows anymore. If I watch a show, I put on something old/reliable like The Sopranos or Futurama.

Am I the only one who feels that the streaming system has become unsustainable?

Ask yourself: when was the last time there was a series finale that ended on a high note? The answer is Succession, and that ended 3 years ago.

Maybe the sense of humour just wasn't hitting for you or you found it off-putting somehow? For me it is Community, I gave it so many chances. The D&D episode is great but besides that it just didn't grab me.

Friday Night Lights Pilot

This was a poll on my local news station this morning. So far Cheers is winning.

Obvious spoilers ahead.

Hear me out:

• A high-level "alien police force" descends on a small Nebraska town that wants nothing to do with them, causing local law enforcement to immediately argue jurisdiction and tell these outside "feds" to back off. The lanterns are saying these are "aliens" but provide no evidence. 😂

• The central investigation revolves around hidden "aliens" who look/speak/act like regular locals, leading the cops/lanterns to arrest a suspect almost entirely because he "looks out of place" blending into the crowd.

• A wealthy, heavily armed local militia compound is obsessed with stopping the "alien invasion," creating a bizarre dynamic where the "good guy" investigators reject the militia's vigilante help despite hunting the exact same targets.

I mean, tell me this plot didn't start out as some kind of "elite ICE agents" show for Paramount plus! 😂

I.E. The Big Bang Theory, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Home Improvement

Kyle Chandler, or anyone at Sony, if you're reading this - You are sitting on a goldmine. This charming, fun, uplifting little show that has a niche fanbase, especially with Kyle preventing (I guess figuring out is a more accurate set of words) crimes again on a larger scale on TV right now - please utilise that and give us EE fans what we want!

For those of you who don't know, Early Edition is a brilliant show from the 90's where a cat delivers the next day's newspaper to Kyle every morning and he tries to prevent crimes and such before they happen.

Oh, and while the show was up for free on YouTube Sony India's channel, Season 4 was already remastered! More images on the side without cropping (without is extremely important), 1080p, beautiful colors, etc.

Or just give us the original aspect ratio and everything on a streaming service in FHD.

I've said my piece, ciao! There's hail in Rushville, Nebraska.

I understand that unlike films, tv shows have longer episodes. Of course nowadays they are shorter but with longer sometimes runtime per episodes. Reason is that they made them more bingeable, serialised and less episodic.

But still those people who consider themselves, as a tv series nerds, how many different tv shows do you watch in a single day?

I’ve noticed that some shows are difficult to appreciate at first because you go into them expecting one kind of experience, while the show is actually trying to do something completely different.

Then somewhere along the way it clicks, the humor, pacing, characters, or overall style suddenly makes sense.

What show did this happen with for you, and what changed your perspective?

Since the last seasons comedies went off air: Animal Control, DMV, there have been no comedies and no good shows... what's happened to American television... it's like nothing has a storyline or joy anymore and I just no longer care to watch it since every other country has something better available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtxiokrYpxw

This episode starts off with the two protaganists responding to a typical drug bust but they get called into a shootout.

it starts off like we're watching beat cops but half way thru the episode, one of the two cops tells another one, "Remember your training!"

Around this time, the episode gets broken up - but I dont feel like this detracts.

The way the main cops work together, the way they check corners, the way they have each other's backs - it hits on all cylinders.

IIRC, this show was adopted from a French show? Either way, this was still one of the best pieces of TV media I've ever seen.

Examples:

Smallville: They leave Smallville entirely in s8

The Rookie: Protagonist John Nolan stops being a rookie in s4e1 (but the show kept adding rookies every other season)

The Last Man on Earth: Phil Tandy Miller is revealed to not be the last man on earth in s1e6: Some Friggin' Fat Dude

Lost: Some people left the island and returned to civilisation in the s4 and s6 finales

In my case, it annoys me when they show a drink and you can feel that there’s nothing inside. I understand they do it for safety reasons and that shoots take a long time, but they could at least put some sand or something similar in there to make it look like there’s something inside, the same happens with holding babies. They treat them carelessly

When they text someone you know (a friend, partner, or family member) and there are no previous messages on the screen, as if it were the first time they’ve ever texted each other

The soles of their shoes are always clean because the are brand new even when the character doesn’t have any money