BloMo18: Liking TV again while still rejecting it....
I'm beginning to think that a long break from regular TV was just what I needed. I'm still enjoying the few reality shows I will watch. The Voice is making me laugh, which it never used to do. And I'm finding the Amazing Race more wondrous than before.
What I struggle with not watching are prestige shows where women are imperiled in some way. I'm not watching Big Sky, for example, even though the show comes with quite the TV Pedigree, including creator David E. Kelly, whose shows I've enjoyed in the past.
I'm just tired of watching shows about saving women or dead women or kidnapped women or tough women with deeply fatal flaws. I've hit the wall in watching my gender serve plots that feature mostly men and mostly unhappy endings for many of the characters. I'm not being wussy for not wanting to watch these shows. I just feel beyond them. The real world holds enough peril for women. I'm not entertained by it anymore.
So far, the only show I started watching in the "new season" was quickly canceled. I don't have any patience for canceled shows from streaming services - How can I get into a story that I know won't continue and isn't set-up to be closed-ended?
The SO and I are looking for something good to binge-watch over Thanksgiving. My hope is to find something light, maybe even funny, and yet smart, but not intellectual for intelligence's sake. I'm thinking we should finally finish The Good Place, but I'm open to suggestions.
Just, no Schitt's Creek. It's been over-sold to me at this point and will need a cooling off period before I'll feel like approaching it. ^_^
love, lore