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I don’t watch shows anymore I just watch serpadesign feed his frogs on YouTube x

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Why does anyone watch new TV when there are perfectly good copies of every season of Gargoyles they could be pirating?

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know why, but this reminds me of my favorite Hank Hill quote: "Why would anybody want to do drugs when you can just mow a lawn?"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can't take the mower to the club, not anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Same energy

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Never seen gargoyles. Only porn of it.

Is it any good?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

This is the lasting legacy of my childhood TV experience...porn 😔

Gargoyles...porn

Tiny toons...porn

Sonic the Hedgehog...porn

It's all porn now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Just as god intended, I'll tell you hwat.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's okay but it's a bit distracting what with all the sexy gargoyles

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How many times do we need to pirate them before we can watch new shows?

Also all anyone needs is The Wire, been watching that recently and it's so good

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can stop watching Gargoyles when the voice of Keith David is available as a default TTS client on every phone.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And then for one, "yeah I like that show!"

"Oh do you remember when x did y?"

...No, I forgot everything that happened a week later.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm so glad it isn't just me. I've been concerned I might have memory issues because this happens in my life so much.

For real, how do people remember such details from the shows they watch.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That's why you wait until it finish airing and then marathon the whole thing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't even mean because it's episodic, it just pops right back out of my brain. Just about to finish watching all of succession, an episode a day, and couldn't tell you half of what happened unless you remind me.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've taken to calling this kind of media "Mandatory Adult Television." I think the first of its species was Lost; there were predecessors with some similar traits like The X Files or The Sopranos, heavily serialized adult content television that was very popular water cooler talk, but Lost was the first one I remember as segmenting the population into those who follow he show, and those who don't. Game of Thrones was THE big one. You either watched Game of Thrones or you weren't allowed to socialize as an adult. "Hey, did you see Game of Thrones last night?" "No, I don't watch that show." "Oh. Bye." For nearly a decade. No one wants to talk about that show anymore. Same with Lost.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People aren't good with small talk and stuff like this is one of the few things you'd be likely to have in common.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See also sports as a method of excluding adults social interaction.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't watch Game of Thrones, and I didn't feel like I needed to. What between everyone talking about it, it was hard to miss what was happening.

I do like that it introduced so many people to fantasy!

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Severance is great. I watched it on my 3-month trial to Apple TV.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah agreed, really enjoyed it! I watched it on uh... yeah, free trial thing as well.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Seen one of those (The Boys). Maybe two if you count the first season of Westworld (don't plan on watching more because it's supposed to be shite).

I only really bother with Mike Flanagan's single season stuff on Netflix, because the man knows how to open and close a story. Others should take note. Don't start a story unless you know how it's going to end and how long it's going to take to get there.

"This is popular, let's make more" is an attitude that has ruined television.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

They don't care about the quality of television. Writing a story that goes on and on and offers the possibility of several spinoffs is the equivalent of micro-transactions in video games : they make more money that way.

Capitalism only maximizes money, it doesn't maximize quality. It eats quality to make more money.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't wanna overanalyze the meme, but it is irritating when you can't have a conversation with someone without their whole identity being based on whatever they've recently watched. Then if you haven't seen it, them uncreatively explaining the plot to you.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (5 children)

TV shows are just an easy conversational topic... that's all it is.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Growing up in the years before and during Cable television, I am positive television was the most talked about topic over any and all aside from basic hello.

And if you didn't have cable, well you'd get filled in on whatever, but were oddly OK with it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

It makes sense, people connect through shared experiences, and TV is an easy way to do that.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Also Mr. Robot and Foundation and Good Omens and Fleabag and the new Beavis and Butthead and Station Eleven and Doctor Who is about to get good again and Irma Vep was great but I don't think that one's coming back

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As someone who very rarely watches series, this really hits home. I just rarely have the patience to do so, and because of that I also don't have any streaming subscriptions. I'd rather play games, because the interaction makes them a lot more rewarding to me. To each their own though, other people don't play games so they'll have the same problem with me

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The Bear is very very good

I still haven’t recovered from a certain Season 2 episode

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I honestly believe half of these shows are fake and you can’t change my mind

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

I haven't even watched breaking bad, much less anything on that list or anything else between now and like 2008

walter-breakdown

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel this way about video games.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

... Still haven't seen The Wire 🥲

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fellas, is it a crime to want to share something you enjoy? As long as you aren't demonizing people who haven't seen it, who cares?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not about demonizing the person sharing. It's about the feeling of being overwhelmed because there's so much shit you haven't seen and will never see. You will never have enough time to get through that list and that can feel bad.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (10 children)

The Last of Us and The Boys.

Haven't seen anything (or even heard of a lot) of the others. Not that they are bad shows. I just like to waste my time in other activities.

Like video games. Not shows, but still wasting time.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it really wasting time if you're having a good time?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just rewatch futurama for the 30th time like a normal person (i.e. me, the normalest of all)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Imo we should limit these to one every 5 years.

I'm just now watching the 20 year old tv show "the wire" and its better than the 5 of these I have watched (of those 5, I'd only recommend the "the bear")

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've watched like two of the ones listed.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Between shows and my steam backlog who has time for it all? Then there is all that other stuff like work, making dinner, getting outdoors, family...

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Haven't watched any of these and I don't feel like curling in fetal position. What's wrong with me, doctor?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Oh, he’s doing that because he feels like he’s missing out? I thought the joke was that he curled into fetal position because the guy is peppering him with questions and is feeling overwhelmed.

I had a boss that’d always try to talk about films, TV, and frequently referenced actors to me, and I’d always feel a bit bad that I never got it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Then there's me, on my 4th rewatch of Mash this year.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait until you hear about these things called "books"…

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