Favorite TV shows, series, or programs? Or, TV you've hated:

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

Murph,

I never watched it until about 2 years ago, when I started watching the reruns. The theme song and the Sheldon character turned me off initially, but over time I've grown to appreciate all the characters quirks. What I really like are the people they have as guest stars.

IMO, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, and Mayim Bialik who play Leonard, Penny, and Amy, are the show.

I USED to watch NCIS, but they've killed off or run off of all the decent characters, after the woman who played Ziva left I gave up on it.

[v8vega]

I watched Lost from the beginning and it was really good. Later on it got so complicated I read somewhere that even the actors didn't understand it entirely.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Watching Criminal Minds got to the point where it ceased to be entertaining for me and for my wife, just far too brutal, especially in its treatment of women as the victims. I'm not sure if I'm being naïve, but are there actually brutes out there that are so evil and in that number of them? I sure hope not. I'm surprised at myself saying that, but apparently, I have developed a limit to my being entertained by so much cruelty and gore. It gets too nerve-racking. I guess my empathy-count must be pretty high.

[Tom Dempsey]

That's the point of the Sheldon character Murph, he is a caricature of a human being who is "a bit of a broken toy". As the character of Leonard refers to him at one point.

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

I used to watch "The Unit" (2006-2009) religiously until they started including their spouses in on the missions, WTF was that all about?!?!?! Couple that with the writers strike and the show was doomed. Too bad, they had some good actors on the show.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Watching Criminal Minds .............. are there actually brutes out there that are so evil and in that number of them?

Almost certainly and difficult to state since there's no real way to extrapolate numbers from a TV show

............entertained by so much cruelty and gore. It gets too nerve-racking. I guess my empathy-count must be pretty high.

Given the popularity of "horror" blood, gore and slasher movies and their success rates, i.e., income, it would seem that cruelty and gore sell quite well..... It seems for all of the hope & optimism, "family values" (there's a moving target definition!), lying under a thin veneer of the weakest of whitewash that there runs a serious streak of anger, hatred, violence, abuse, cruelty, and retribution in our society coupled with a plaque of self-destructive narcissistic entitlement. Everybody believes that they know best, want you to know it, and want to shout it in your face. Just watch the network news every day if you have the stomach for it.

Wait! You will have the stomach for it since that's when they advertise all of the medications that you need to tell your doctor that you need today!

They need to ban all of these drug advertisements that are on TV now.

[rogruth]

I think I understand why it is done but why would anybody want to take most of the medications that are being advertised after they
tell all of the awful things that might happen to you if you take this drug? Ugh, what an awful sentence.
My local GP tells me that a large percentage of his patients will tell him what is wrong with them and what drug they need based on
their watching of TV. These are not very sophisticated patients either.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

My local GP tells me that a large percentage of his patients will tell him what is wrong with them and what drug they need based on their watching of TV. These are not very sophisticated patients either.

And, there's the reason - advertising works. People actually fall prey to thinking that this is drug of the next 30 sec is just what they need in their lives....when they probably just need to eat better and get a little exercise

[MartyE]

I always stop at a Star Trek series.

Reality TV just does nothing for me. I used to enjoy the History, Learning, and other type channels but even they are no longer what they once were.

Favorites
Star Trek any series but TOS gets top billing

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Somehow, I'm getting the impression we are watching a whole lot more (twaddle?) on tv than we are "admitting" to here.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Somehow, I'm getting the impression we are watching a whole more stuff (twaddle?) on tv than we are "admitting" to here.

I confess to watching another episode of Game of Thrones........and finishing reading another book.....and starting reading another book.......library is full of them!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Ooohhhhhh, books! Yes. Just when I thought I was done reading books, having begun a custom, back when I was still teaching high school ( 2005,) of giving away my books (what good do they do on a shelf,) my pastor gave me Conclave, by Robert Harris.

I began the custom of reading it a little bit each morning or afternoon when the sun was its brightest on our settee in the living room. The whole experience became so enjoyable, I miss it now that the novel has been completed.

[rogruth]

Murph,
Find another book while you can still see good enough to read.
I can only get five to ten minutes at a time before it blurs.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Murph,
Find another book while you can still see good enough to read.
I can only get five to ten minutes at a time before it blurs.

I understand. The bright sunlight of that corner of mine makes all the difference .

(Bette Davis was right about getting older.)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Murph,
Find another book while you can still see good enough to read.
I can only get five to ten minutes at a time before it blurs.

I understand. The bright sunlight of that corner of mine makes all the difference .

(Bette Davis was right about getting older.)

I have a nice goose-neck lamp on a floor stand - old medical exam room lamp - over my reclining chair where I do 95% of my reading parked next to the fireplace so I can stay toasty all winter - power goes out I have LED lamps that hang off the goose neck and I always have a stack of books from the library. Taxes here may be high, but I'm reading every penny's worth I spent on these books!