Profiling

I do not fancy myself as having impeccable taste, but the tastes are my own.  What I choose to view may not be particularly refined, and I tend to moderately enjoy most things I watch.  So if there's a show that is widely known in critics circles to be "I'd-rather-stab-my-eye-repeatedly-with-a-white-hot-spork," I am probably going to say, to say, "Meh, it wasn't my jam per se, but I'm more of a trippple berrry lover and this was straight up choke-cherry." It boils down to taste.  So, if I don't rip on a show that you hate because it's "tasteless and crude," my feelings are generally more lukewarm than lobster-boiling-hot or snow-queen-heart-cold.

That's not to say I don't have strong opinions, but I am generally more likely to love something than to hate it.  Honestly, my life is pretty pitiful and depressing, so if a TV show makes me feel something it has done its job.

During the summer and during network lulls, I tend to marathon TV via DVD, HuluPlus, or Netflix, but once the fall premiers start up, I'm going to watch week by week like most people, but probably a day or two behind.

The types of shows that I tend to watch:

-I general, I really enjoy a lot of sitcoms -- animated and live action.  They're short, funny (I won't watch them if I don't laugh), and generally have great character development.  I like the heartfelt sitcoms as well as the raunchy -- double points if they are both.

-I tend not to get caught up in very many hour long (42 minute) dramas because I cannot be bothered to watch TV shows sequentially when they first air.  If I do watch these types of shows week to week, it's because of something very special (an actor/actress that I adore, or some amazing plot device).  Most of the time I will binge watch dramas though.

-Seriocomedies, I tend to like more than straight up drama. And if you can add mythological elements, or space travel, I will be all over that like Ricky on Meow Mix.  (He likes the cheapest food you can possibly buy.) Science-fiction and fantasy dramedy's are my trippple-berrry jam.

-Very select police procedurals.  Generally, the only ones that catch my eye is if they have some sort of unique element to them.  Specific examples after jump.


Read on to the truly boring part, where I list the television shows currently in production that I try to stay up to date on...


Current TV:
Revenge
Once Upon a Time
Parks & Recreation
New Girl
The Walking Dead
Game of Thrones
Glee
The Mindy Project
Downton Abbey
Doctor Who
Sherlock
Pretty Little Liars
Being Human (UK & US)
Modern Family
How I Met Your Mother
Ripper Street
The League

Shows I love, but have fallen prey to other television/life priorities:
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Raising Hope
The Simpsons
Archer
South Park
Castle

And to just a few of the dearly departed that I can dredge up from the locked cavern in my heart:
30 Rock
Merlin
Ugly Betty
ER

Next Up:
A love note to Broadchurch