Top 5 TV Shows About Which No One Else Gives a Damn
I am famous among my friends for falling head-over-heels in love with books/movie/bands that no one else likes or cares about. Nowhere is this more obvious than in my television choices: I obsessed over Buffy for years before I managed to convert any of my friends (all of whom now admit that it is the greatest show ever, and who claim to have loved it from the start. Posers.). And I still tend to like shows that none of my friends like at all.
mustbebunnies88's TOP FIVE SHOWS ABOUT WHICH NO ONE ELSE GIVES A DAMN
5. The Vicar of Dibley: Admittedly, it's not so topical anymore, but it's still hilarious. And the episode in which Hugo and Alice (the "Cactus-People," as the Good Vicar herself calls them) get together is so consistently amazing that I once waited five hours to re-watch the 10:30 episode at 3:30.
4. Sinchronicity: So it aired on BBC3, and there were only six episodes. That's no excuse for my friends not knowing every plot detail. Any show that includes a scene where a man has a heart attack while having sex with a hooker, and then dies before his happy ending (and where the hooker's...muscles clamp around the john, necessitating surgical removal) is prime water-cooler material.
3. So Notorious: I was fully prepared to hate this show, because I'm no great fan of Tori Spelling. But I loved it. Every snarky, D-listy second.
2. Campus Ladies: The fact that this show might not be renewed for a second season keeps me awake at night, because it is maybe the funniest thing I've ever seen. Two forty-something women enroll in Midwestern University, move into the dorms, and experience college life firsthand? Genius.
1. Cold Case: Okay, so it's incredibly popular, and consistently finishes in the Top 20 in the Nielsen ratings. But just try bringing it up when your friends are all Grey's Anatomy this and Dancing With the Stars that. "...So yeah, last night Lilly slapped the cuffs on an eighty-five-year-old man who murdered his wife's lover in a fit of passion in 1972!" Doesn't work so well.
mustbebunnies88's TOP FIVE SHOWS ABOUT WHICH NO ONE ELSE GIVES A DAMN
5. The Vicar of Dibley: Admittedly, it's not so topical anymore, but it's still hilarious. And the episode in which Hugo and Alice (the "Cactus-People," as the Good Vicar herself calls them) get together is so consistently amazing that I once waited five hours to re-watch the 10:30 episode at 3:30.
4. Sinchronicity: So it aired on BBC3, and there were only six episodes. That's no excuse for my friends not knowing every plot detail. Any show that includes a scene where a man has a heart attack while having sex with a hooker, and then dies before his happy ending (and where the hooker's...muscles clamp around the john, necessitating surgical removal) is prime water-cooler material.
3. So Notorious: I was fully prepared to hate this show, because I'm no great fan of Tori Spelling. But I loved it. Every snarky, D-listy second.
2. Campus Ladies: The fact that this show might not be renewed for a second season keeps me awake at night, because it is maybe the funniest thing I've ever seen. Two forty-something women enroll in Midwestern University, move into the dorms, and experience college life firsthand? Genius.
1. Cold Case: Okay, so it's incredibly popular, and consistently finishes in the Top 20 in the Nielsen ratings. But just try bringing it up when your friends are all Grey's Anatomy this and Dancing With the Stars that. "...So yeah, last night Lilly slapped the cuffs on an eighty-five-year-old man who murdered his wife's lover in a fit of passion in 1972!" Doesn't work so well.