TV obsessions—come on, admit it!

[Lalaith]

It does suck, doesn't it?

I watched one episode of Santa Clarita Diet (Netflix show). That was not to my liking whatsoever. Drew Barrymore is one of those people whom I think is super nice and seems like she'd be a really fun, awesome friend, but I don't know if I've ever liked her in any role she's played. In any case, I'm not into grossness for the sake of grossness, and the whole concept just doesn't work for me. (Other than the asshole cop neighbor. )

Besides:

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Mal/Castle is a douche who gets eaten at the end, and nah. That's not cool with me.

[Alatar]

I'm actually loving the Santa Clarita diet, against my better judgement. Can't help it, I just think its funny!

Anyone watching Crazy ex-Girlfriend?

[Lalaith]

I wanted to like it.

I'm not watching the other show. Is it any good? On Netflix? What's it about?

(I'm still bingeing through Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, which I keep typing as Miss Fisher's Murdery Mysteries. It's nothing super amazing fantastic, but I like the characters.)

[Alatar]

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? The clue is in the title... Its a musical TV show about a high powered lawyer who gives up her career to move to West Covina to follow her high school crush!

On another tack entirely, I've decided I'm getting tired of the same quirky characters with snappy self deprecating comebacks that have become ubiquitous since Joss Whedon pretty much created the archetype in Buffy. I'm halfway through the second series of the excellent "Humans" and really enjoying properly written normal human beings.

[Lalaith]

Both sound intriguing.

[Maria]

Humans sounds good, I think we'll try it.

[Frelga]

While my son was coming down from sedation, we tried a few things, and settled on 30Rock. It was sufficiently entertaining for a few episodes. He said it was funnier if you imagined Fey and Baldwin as their SNL versions of Palin and Trump.

Still haven't found a show to rival Agent Carter, just saying.

[Alatar]

Its not really the same, but try Man in the High Castle Frelga.

[Frelga]

I... can't. I really can't right now.

[Maria]

The first episode of Humans was really quite good.
Thanks, Alatar!

[Lalaith]

First episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend done. I wasn't sure at first, but by halfway through I was . It's quite funny!

The Sexy Getting Ready Song was hilarious!

[Nin]

Westworld.... wow.

[Primula Baggins]

Not brave enough for Westworld. But I sure am enjoying Stranger Things. (I know, it's so last summer, but our streaming device died more than a year ago and we didn't get a replacement until Christmas—when we got two. And the Amazon one has voice search!)

[Frelga]

It seems that all the new shows that people like are the ones that feature graphic violence, and I don't need that in my life right now.

I keep hearing about Stranger Things, how traumatizing is it?

[Primula Baggins]

My filters are wearing a bit, but I don't think the scares in this show come from violence. For one thing, most of the main characters are children. It is quite scary, but mostly in the old fashioned way, where something is frightening because you can't quite see it and it looks ... wrong; or there's some danger the viewer knows of that the characters don't; or something jumps out of the dark. It's horror because it sends chills down your spine. Not because it makes you feel sick.

[Lalaith]

FWIW, I stopped watching Stranger Things because it kept getting scarier and scarier, and I am not a fan of that. It is very well written, though, and I wish I could make myself keep going with it. But that's just not the way I work (or Sarah, either).

I'm not a fan of graphic violence either, even when it's campy or supposed to be funny, like Santa Clarita Diet. I won't watch TWD or GoT either (the latter more for the rape stuff, which I also don't do).

Real life sucks enough; I don't like to make myself miserable on purpose. YMMV.

(That being said, if I recommend something, you can be sure it's probably pretty benign. )

[Nin]

What is TWD and what means YMMV? (Sorry I know that I am the only non-english speaker left, but this is the kind of stuff that makes it really difficult sometimes)

I found Stranger Things way scarier than Westworld, precisely because it was so much more real and so much more close to my reality as a child in the eighties (although, of course the American suburb setting makes it very fictional again). Westward is so clearly fiction that the violence does not touch me. I watched a few episodes of Mr Robot and found it very sickening because it was so real and the behavior which was depicted could take place right next to me.

But I think I just have a butcher's soul. The psychological and philosophical interrogation of Westworld is clearly worth it for me and I think that living in a sugarcoated world is not a solution.

[yovargas]

TWD = The walking dead
YMMV = Your mileage may vary; phrase used to say "here's how I feel, you may feel differently"

[Sunsilver]

I just don't get the whole zombie thing...too gross, too scary.

And the vampire thing just got RIDICULOUS!! Sparkly vampires!! Oooh! Aren't they supposed to COMBUST in sunshine??

[Inanna]

TWD = The walking dead
YMMV = Your mileage may vary; phrase used to say "here's how I feel, you may feel differently"

I didn't know these either, Nin....