Can anyone tell me why women watch this garbage? Every time wifey pulls it up on the DVR, I get angry chimp rage at how there’s simply nothing good that happens to these people, and they are just crying all the time like sad sacks.
Similarly, shows like Grey’s Anatomy can cause my fist to unconsciously tighten up, George McFly style pre-the Biff knockout. Nobody survives in Grey’s hospital, the mortality rate is like 100%, and still patients come to watch grown-@$$ doctors act like teenagers and obsess over s#!t they should have squared away by the end of puberty, bickering like catty bishes while the patients flatline in the background. In a real hospital, all of these doctors would be summarily suspended from practicing medicine, and their licenses furiously cut up with scissors in front of them by medical board officials.
It just makes me insane that grown up women watch this utter trash, just concentrated and distilled s#!t.
My wife watches it. I watch it with her because Tuesday’s are sort of our free night each week, so we typically go to the gym together and then watch her trash shows. It’s terrible. The people are all horribly cliched, they couldn’t find a guy fat enough for the romantic interest of the one dump truck of a woman, so they have a guy wearing a poorly hidden fat suit, Mandy Moore is 32 and playing a 65 year old woman and the time shifting gimmick means that they’re getting all these women weepy over the deaths of main characters, but they can always bring them back in a flashback scene. The dead grandpa(spoiler alert, the old black guy died) can make all sorts of cameos next year on “A very special episode of This Is Us” and my wife and her girlfriends will just gush about how great it is.
The only redeeming value the show has is that I’m like 8 for 8 in getting laid after watching it.
Not a good sign with touting “getting laid” with your wife. But I’m married as well, so I can empathize.
After some initial resistance and arm twisting from the wife, I gave this show a try and didn’t think it was too bad. I actually like the work storyline for the one brother that trades commodities.
You know, Sweep, I’ll remember your indifference to my very real struggle the next time you try to pitch me one of your firm’s fourth-quartile strategies.
I’ve never seen this show and I really dont think I want to. I can’t stand these melodramatic reality shows. All they do is fight, hook up, shop, fight and in general just all around act trite. The worst part is these shows take themselves seriously like it some sort of legitimate reflection of society when they are nothing more than garbage.
Although, I’m not completely innocent. I’m always watching LMN movies (lifetime move network). The difference is that they know how ridiculous the movies are and the own it. Totally have the whole "so bad its good " thing going on. I mean, their promotional tag line is “leave the crazy to us”. It’s actually almost campy in a subtle way. They have a movie called “Babysitters Black Book” about these high school girls who had a babysitting business but it turned into a prostitution ring when they started sleeping with the dads! How are you not going to watch that! It’s so dumb… so relaxing
KMD, I didn’t think this thread would do a 180 and result in me wanting to watch anything on LMN, but the movie you mention has catapulted to the top of my “must watch” list…
There is also a really good one called “Bad Sister” about a woman who impersonated a nun in order to work at a catholic boarding school and suduce/ sleep with a male student. I’m not making this up.
I told you, it’s only in the fourth-quartile for the 1, 3, and 5 year time periods. It’s still a top decile fund over the last 10 years. Don’t be so myopic!
