I have, buy, and make a bunch of clothes that run the gamut from “Ms Frizzle” to “serious career woman” but 99% of the time I’m in yoga pants or jeans and a t-shirt with Spock on it. My fashion ambitions fall short before my inherent laziness.
Same with shoes. I love heels and I have loads of funky ones, but if I have to be on my feet for more than an hour I’m wearing sneakers.
You sound like me complaining about Fuller House. 
I had a great time working on W&G and it’s probably the show on my resume of which I’m proudest. I was never a big fan of multicamera sitcoms, especially since gems like I Love Lucy, All in the Family, WKRP in Cincinnati, and even Sanford and Son had given way to the likes of Charles in Charge and Full House by the time I was out of high school. But I was surprised by W&G. The cast is immensely talented and the writing was, much more often than not, really intelligent and hilarious. It also turned out to fulfill an important role in increasing tolerance and understanding of the gay community in mainstream American culture. That wasn’t really its job; more than anything else, the show needed to be funny, not preachy, to keep its audience. I think it succeeded quite well, and though the show was very much of its time (which may not seem like it was all that long ago, until one realizes that the time Will kissed a shocked and outraged Jack in front of Al Roker really was the first “gay kiss” on primetime broadcast American television), the characters and the actors who play them are so strong and entertaining, I can’t wait to see how they’ll work in 2017. Last fall’s reunion put any doubts I may have had to bed. It’s gonna be a hoot.
As for stuff my loved ones watch that I can’t stand, I have three words: American Horror Story. My wife and I watched Season 1 together, and every episode just ramped up the utter preposterousness until my eyeballs just about rolled out of my skull. I couldn’t take it and bowed out. She kinda loved it, and enjoyed the subsequent seasons immensely while I found other things to do.
She’s finally tired of the show now, thank the Maker.
For a lot of shows, when I can’t stand them, i come up with a certain style of title.
Like for Deadliest Catch, I called it Men With Crabs
and those logging shows are "Alphas With Axes"
the duck show "Bros With Birdcalls"
so the NYWS to me is “Old Men With Sawdust”
It’s a super snorefest
*lolz
Even though I binge watched the entire series, I called Sons of Anarchy “Hamlet on Harleys.”
My housemates and I used to occasionally watch shows like “Mountain Monsters” for a laugh — all of those “stereotypical hillbillies hunt 'squatches” shows are utterly ridiculous.
Every episode of Mountain Monsters is exactly the same:
• hillbillies go into some woods to hunt such-and-such monster.
• One guy shows us the trap he’s building, which has somehow been customized for that monster’s weaknesses.
• The other hillbillies go off hunting, it gets dark, we go to night-vision.
• We hear silly fake monster sounds off in the distance. Hillbillies freak out.
• The trap-builder guy yells over the walkie talkie that the monster took the bait and is in the trap! The other hillbillies run through the woods, sometimes “pursued” by other monsters making silly sounds.
• We get to the trap. it’s destroyed. The trap builder guy sorrowfully says that he didn’t make it strong enough and describes how the monster ferociously escaped.
• On next week’s episode: a different monster!
My cousin was the chaos demon in Buffy. Cool, eh?
ITA; I only liked S3, and only then because of all the FIERCE overload, despite the shitty, nonsensical writing.
Angela Bassett, plus Jessica Lange, plus Kathy Bates, plus Frances Conroy, plus killer designer fashion?
##Witch, please…
I don’t have cable, just Netflix and Amazon on Roku, so I never get to see the trash tv stuff except at the gym. I was hospitalized a few years back and got to watch Real Housewives. I was looking forward to indulging in a guilty pleasure. The concept seemed fun. But then it was just so awful. Really hate reality tv because it could be so great if it were more documentary style (Project Runway’s team has a documentary background and the best seasons show it). It just turned out to be people who can’t act given their own soap opera.
Extreme Fishting with Robson Greene.
Gah, Big Bang Theory.
Some fans claim there is no laugh track. I honestly cannot fathom how there couldn’t be. I might enjoy this show, I might be able to watch the first season or so, but I’ll never know. I absolutely cannot make it past the constant, irritating laughter, let alone get into the characters enough to be annoyed by the portrayal of nerds.
Nice, but nothin’ like the real thing!
got a little shiver anyway
Do you woodwork? If not, maybe that’s why you don’t like it…
Anything that falls under the category of “incompetence porn”.
Competence porn (which I love) is shows where people (fiction or no) who are really, really good at what they do, doing it really, really well. Incompetence porn is the opposite.
Big Bang Theory is a good example of incompetence porn. We are not getting to see these guys be geniuses and change the world, instead, it’s a showcase of all the ways they can’t function. A lot of sitcoms are relying on this genre now as well as many reality shows. It’s a winning formula for ratings, I guess, but my eyeballs won’t be willingly among them (the rest of my family loves this stuff… I truly do not get it).
Jessica Jones. I just couldn’t watch 13 episodes of someone being that controlling and terrible to everyone, the Purple Man made me so horrified by everything about him.
Any of those shows where they rebuild cars or houses. “We don’t have enough money or time!” “Looks like we did!”
I do. Haven’t made any furniture in the last few years though. I think it’s that it’s 4 guys (white guys) opinions more than anything else. All the new yankees I know are multicultural and of all the genders. I’m not upset by it, it’s not my cup of tea.
Well, the new yankee workshop is just Norm Abram doing workworking projects… I assume you mean This Old House? But sure… not the most multicultural of shows. And they often work on houses of very well off people (which my husband and daughter constantly mock when they watch it). But yeah, I can understand that.
Oh yeah, IIRC he started that one not long after when Bob Villa left this old house. I mean both shows, and whatever home show Bob Villa is working on currently, too. It’s a well represented POV. I don’t begrudge them the airtime, but I’ve run out of interest for those shows, myself.
Bob Villa was a jerk, actually. I can’t stand the guy. When he left, the show got much better, IMHO.
I’d put a lot of the “reality” shows in that category as well.
