Not exactly what this thread is going for but..
I don't deliberately watch any TV shows with actual actors, sit-coms, dramas, crime-shows.. what have you. In fact, the only 'TV' I watch is different sports, and the occasional property or cooking show when my girlfriend gets to the TV first.
So, with that said today I'll be watching Champions League soccer, and throughout the summer I'll be watching MLB baseball. You can imagine what that's like to watch so I'll let you form your own opinions about it instead of giving it a rating. What I like about watching sports like this though, is watching athletes who have spent their entire lives mastering their respective sport. I'm not a typical sports fan in the sense that I don't pick teams and go into depressive spells when they lose, instead I just like watching important matches between skilled teams with skilled players. There is nothing more exciting to me than the seventh or eighth inning of the seventh game of the American league championship. Watching that unfold is much more interesting to me than cheap jokes or formulaic drama.
That said, I have heard that there are a good number of great shows floating around these days, and in the past 5 years I watched a lot of 'Mad Men' and 'The Wire'. I liked both of those a lot, but after a while it seemed like the producers of them kept producing more episodes for the sake of profit, rather than an actual solid story-line. In other words, once you've seen 4 seasons of Mad Men or The Wire, you've seen them all.
I think in a way that's why I still prefer film to TV. When someone makes a film it's usually confined to a few hours, so the story is naturally self contained, and if it's aiming to be a work of art it usually works a lot better.
I don't deliberately watch any TV shows with actual actors, sit-coms, dramas, crime-shows.. what have you. In fact, the only 'TV' I watch is different sports, and the occasional property or cooking show when my girlfriend gets to the TV first.
So, with that said today I'll be watching Champions League soccer, and throughout the summer I'll be watching MLB baseball. You can imagine what that's like to watch so I'll let you form your own opinions about it instead of giving it a rating. What I like about watching sports like this though, is watching athletes who have spent their entire lives mastering their respective sport. I'm not a typical sports fan in the sense that I don't pick teams and go into depressive spells when they lose, instead I just like watching important matches between skilled teams with skilled players. There is nothing more exciting to me than the seventh or eighth inning of the seventh game of the American league championship. Watching that unfold is much more interesting to me than cheap jokes or formulaic drama.
That said, I have heard that there are a good number of great shows floating around these days, and in the past 5 years I watched a lot of 'Mad Men' and 'The Wire'. I liked both of those a lot, but after a while it seemed like the producers of them kept producing more episodes for the sake of profit, rather than an actual solid story-line. In other words, once you've seen 4 seasons of Mad Men or The Wire, you've seen them all.
I think in a way that's why I still prefer film to TV. When someone makes a film it's usually confined to a few hours, so the story is naturally self contained, and if it's aiming to be a work of art it usually works a lot better.
