Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Thu August 10, 2023 3:45 pm
Jury Duty
I can see women not being crazy about it. I saw the first two seasons like 7 years ago when HBO shows were on Prime, but didn't get around to finishing it before it was removed.wease wrote:I’m trying to talk Mrs Wease into watching Deadwood.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
in my case, I've got my kids every other week, so we've usually got a kid-free weekend with that frequency.tragabigzanda wrote:You watched two seasons of a show in 24 hours?! How do you parents watch so much TV? I’m genuinely curious!
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
That’s my selling point. She likes Justified so I’m leaning heavily into that.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I can see women not being crazy about it. I saw the first two seasons like 7 years ago when HBO shows were on Prime, but didn't get around to finishing it before it was removed.wease wrote:I’m trying to talk Mrs Wease into watching Deadwood.
Disclaimer: If she's hot for Timothy Olyphant she may be more willing.
I would not recommend it unless you absolutely, unequivocally, cannot stand your spouse...I mean you loathe them and who you are when you're with them...nor can you find any common ground on any aspects of your marriage or raising your child/ren.tragabigzanda wrote:I shall get divorced and finally devour Halt and Catch Fire
i finished s1 barely and left it there...i might come back just to have something to put in the background.tragabigzanda wrote:I shall get divorced and finally devour Halt and Catch Fire
Probably my second favorite show ever, after Mad MenVinylGuy wrote:i finished s1 barely and left it there...i might come back just to have something to put in the background.tragabigzanda wrote:I shall get divorced and finally devour Halt and Catch Fire
High praiseThe Argonaut wrote:Probably my second favorite show ever, after Mad MenVinylGuy wrote:i finished s1 barely and left it there...i might come back just to have something to put in the background.tragabigzanda wrote:I shall get divorced and finally devour Halt and Catch Fire
s1 was merely ok. I know it supposed to be good from s2 onwards but for now it seems it could be a good background noise.The Argonaut wrote:Probably my second favorite show ever, after Mad MenVinylGuy wrote:i finished s1 barely and left it there...i might come back just to have something to put in the background.tragabigzanda wrote:I shall get divorced and finally devour Halt and Catch Fire