The year in TV meme
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next_to_normalSnagged from ruuger, though it's pretty much making the rounds again.
Which TV shows did you start watching in 2014?
This question. Ugh. SO MUCH TV. New series: The Leftovers, True Detective, Undateable, You're the Worst, Married, The Strain, Finding Carter, Outlander, Transparent, Black-ish, The Flash, The Affair, The Librarians, and sneaking in juuuuuust under the wire (literally - I started binge-watching on New Year's Eve), Mozart in the Jungle. I will probably stick with most of those for season 2.
The dearly departed Enlisted. The less dear, but equally departed Killer Women, Selfie, and A to Z.
New-to-me series: Arrow. I think I started Hannibal in 2014? Or possibly late 2013, but I didn't mention it in last year's meme, so we'll go ahead and throw it in here. I gave Brooklyn Nine-Nine a second shot in 2014 and liked it better this time. Does 24: Live Another Day count? Technically I started watching it in 2001, but it did come back this year after a long hiatus.
Which TV shows did you let go of in 2014?
Psych, The Bridge, Suburgatory, Trophy Wife all ended this year. And How I Met Your Mother came to a spectacularly terrible end.
I finally gave up on Scandal and Revenge. I also kinda lost interest in Elementary and Justified, after just starting them last year, and noped out of Sleepy Hollow after half a season.
Which TV shows did you mean to get into but didn't in 2014? Why?
LOL I still have my crazy long list. Jane the Virgin and Review kind of stood out as new shows I heard a lot of great things about, but just haven't had time. The "why" - as always - is that there is just TOO MUCH TV for me to get to it all.
Which TV shows do you intend on checking out in 2015?
I'd like to knock off a couple from that list. New shows I plan to check out are: Galavant, 12 Monkeys, Better Call Saul, Battle Creek, and Younger.
Which TV show impressed you least in 2014?
I kind of want to say HIMYM here, because on the one hand, "impressed me least" is kind of the understatement of the century with regard to that show, but then again, the final season actually DID kind of impress me with how COMPLETELY TERRIBLE it managed to be? So maybe I'll go with The Strain and The Affair, both of which I had kind of high expectations for (the former because I liked the book, the latter because of the unreliable narrator split-POV premise), but ultimately left me kind of meh.
Which TV show do you think you might let go of in 2015 unless things significantly improve?
I am very slow to dump TV shows, as you can probably tell. I'm pretty ambivalent about the second season of True Detective, though, and if The Strain and The Affair don't get better, I may be okay with dropping them.
Which TV shows do you think you'll never let go of no matter how crappy they get? Why?
The Vampire Diaries. I am in this till the bitter fucking end. Also Homeland, because as this season has proven, it is capable of being really good when it wants to be - for about 3 episodes, and then it inevitably veers back into silly/terrible/boring territory. But the promise of those few good episodes keeps me watching, even though I know it can't sustain it.
Which TV show did you enjoy the most in 2014?
Oh man, that is a tough call. I think Transparent was probably the best show I watched, but honorable mentions to The Americans, Shameless, Hannibal, and Orange is the New Black for also having outstanding seasons. In terms of just sheer enjoyment, though? I might be tempted to go with The Flash, because it brings me such joy to watch Barry Allen and his adorableness.
ruuger, though it's pretty much making the rounds again.Which TV shows did you start watching in 2014?
This question. Ugh. SO MUCH TV. New series: The Leftovers, True Detective, Undateable, You're the Worst, Married, The Strain, Finding Carter, Outlander, Transparent, Black-ish, The Flash, The Affair, The Librarians, and sneaking in juuuuuust under the wire (literally - I started binge-watching on New Year's Eve), Mozart in the Jungle. I will probably stick with most of those for season 2.
The dearly departed Enlisted. The less dear, but equally departed Killer Women, Selfie, and A to Z.
New-to-me series: Arrow. I think I started Hannibal in 2014? Or possibly late 2013, but I didn't mention it in last year's meme, so we'll go ahead and throw it in here. I gave Brooklyn Nine-Nine a second shot in 2014 and liked it better this time. Does 24: Live Another Day count? Technically I started watching it in 2001, but it did come back this year after a long hiatus.
Which TV shows did you let go of in 2014?
Psych, The Bridge, Suburgatory, Trophy Wife all ended this year. And How I Met Your Mother came to a spectacularly terrible end.
I finally gave up on Scandal and Revenge. I also kinda lost interest in Elementary and Justified, after just starting them last year, and noped out of Sleepy Hollow after half a season.
Which TV shows did you mean to get into but didn't in 2014? Why?
LOL I still have my crazy long list. Jane the Virgin and Review kind of stood out as new shows I heard a lot of great things about, but just haven't had time. The "why" - as always - is that there is just TOO MUCH TV for me to get to it all.
Which TV shows do you intend on checking out in 2015?
I'd like to knock off a couple from that list. New shows I plan to check out are: Galavant, 12 Monkeys, Better Call Saul, Battle Creek, and Younger.
Which TV show impressed you least in 2014?
I kind of want to say HIMYM here, because on the one hand, "impressed me least" is kind of the understatement of the century with regard to that show, but then again, the final season actually DID kind of impress me with how COMPLETELY TERRIBLE it managed to be? So maybe I'll go with The Strain and The Affair, both of which I had kind of high expectations for (the former because I liked the book, the latter because of the unreliable narrator split-POV premise), but ultimately left me kind of meh.
Which TV show do you think you might let go of in 2015 unless things significantly improve?
I am very slow to dump TV shows, as you can probably tell. I'm pretty ambivalent about the second season of True Detective, though, and if The Strain and The Affair don't get better, I may be okay with dropping them.
Which TV shows do you think you'll never let go of no matter how crappy they get? Why?
The Vampire Diaries. I am in this till the bitter fucking end. Also Homeland, because as this season has proven, it is capable of being really good when it wants to be - for about 3 episodes, and then it inevitably veers back into silly/terrible/boring territory. But the promise of those few good episodes keeps me watching, even though I know it can't sustain it.
Which TV show did you enjoy the most in 2014?
Oh man, that is a tough call. I think Transparent was probably the best show I watched, but honorable mentions to The Americans, Shameless, Hannibal, and Orange is the New Black for also having outstanding seasons. In terms of just sheer enjoyment, though? I might be tempted to go with The Flash, because it brings me such joy to watch Barry Allen and his adorableness.
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Date: Jan. 3rd, 2015 02:08 am (UTC)Man, my sister just started watching HIMYM. I warned her in a general sense that it had a finale to rival Dexter's.
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Date: Jan. 7th, 2015 06:04 pm (UTC)I think they really screwed themselves, because they'd spent all these years building up the Mother as someone who's so incredibly perfect for Ted that it was almost impossible that they'd be able to find an actress to live up to the ideal.
BUT THEN THEY DID. And we fell in love with the character (like we thought we were supposed to, since this ship is what the entire series has been building toward), and it's like, "Whoops, sorry, she's too charming. You shouldn't have gotten attached - we've been planning to kill her since season 3."
I really wish the writers had had the courage to scrap the ending they had planned when it was clear that it didn't fit the show anymore.
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Date: Jan. 9th, 2015 04:44 pm (UTC)Of course they also needed to show (rather than just having one of the kids mention) Ted and Robin developing a renewed attraction and circling around the idea of dating (while being oblivious to the fact that others are actually noticing this happening).
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Date: Jan. 13th, 2015 09:18 pm (UTC)They couldn't show Ted's mourning and then his and Robin's renewed attraction AFTER Ted meets the Mother, because apparently 10 minutes was all they were willing to devote to the post-"met your mother" developments.
Maybe if they'd been willing to sacrifice the ~shocker~ ending and revealed early on in the season that the Mother dies and Ted and Robin end up together, they could've included flashforwards with those developments.
In other words, in order to make the ending work, they'd have had to rewrite the entire final season. (Then again, they really should've done that anyway, since the season was terrible even before the finale.)