What was the last TV show you watched?

[Touchofevil]

Another episode of The Exorcist

 

[Fading Fast]

Funny, as a life long Mets fan (saw em in the Polo Grounds with my father), I spent the last game of the '86 Series pacing back and forth in my bedroom while friends watched the game on my T.V. in the living room. I couldn't take it. Thought I was gonna wind up in the Cardiac Ward. Still can't take stressful games. My son watched the Cubbies win downstairs while I diddled in the computer room upstairs. When the Cubs blew the lead in the late innings that was ALL I could take.

Worf

We all have our crazy. I have watched tense parts of games through the openings between my fingers - what the h*ll is wrong with me. I don't leave the room, but the cable went out once on a late-in-the-season, could-mean-going-or-not- to-the-playoffs Giant's game and I was secretly happy as I was an emotional wreck at that point and the loss of signal was a relief.

To be honest, I care less now as free agency, steroids, teams leaving cities, etc., has turned me off somewhat so I'm less passionate about it all. It probably is healthier as last year when the Jets were doing well, I enjoyed it and, this year, as they are not, I'm not upset - it is what it is. But at a bigger-picture level, it's sad as it is enjoyable to be commitment and passionate about a team - but the aforementioned just took a bit of that away from me over the years.

 

[Fading Fast]

Apropos of our conversation (and to prove we are not alone in being nuts):

The Chicago Cubs Fans Who Can’t Bear to Watch
Why one nervous diehard goes to extreme lengths to avoid the stress of a World Series

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-chicago-cubs-fans-who-cant-bear-to-watch-1477435491

It's a paid site, so if you can't Goolge your way to it (sometimes if you Google an article, it will let you read it), PM your email to me and I'll send it to you as that is allowed as I have a subscription - it's just not allowed to post publicly.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Life in Pieces. I really wish shows could resist episodes focused on the topic of the day. All these sitcoms and goofs with their episodes dedicated to voting. It doesn't make you come across as informed and active, or tell me you're aware of this great obligation or public service. It makes you look like a trendy toolbag.

The Big Bang Theory. They ran out of material a few years ago, but it has really been showing lately.

Westworld. Hey hey HBO, we get it. Gratuitous nudity is your thing. Sorry to tell you, but it rarely serves any purpose, and we don't believe for a second Wood or Newton don't have body doubles or CGI in their place. I'm still not anywhere near where I'd hoped to be with this series.

Bill Maher. Indeed.

 

[Touchofevil]

UFC: Dos Anjos vs. Ferguson

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

Just watched an episode of "Yancey Derringer" from 1959. this was one of my favorite series when I was a kid. this episode was "Panic in Town" and it was about --- wait for it--- a Scary Clown! what could be more topical? Incidentally, Dr. Bishop in this episode is played by Ed Kemmer, who played Commander Buzz Corey on Space Patrol! another of my faves from the old days.

 

[MisterCairo]

The Habs beating the Flyers (barely) 5 to 4. This was an improvement over their 10-0 loss the day before. To somebody called the Columbus Bluejackets...

 

[GoetzManor]

Finally caught up on the latest episode of American Horror Story: Roanoke. This season has renewed my interest in the series after I was disappointed with seasons four and five.

 

[Touchofevil]

UFC: Dos Anjos vs. Ferguson

A nice card despite most of my liked fighters not winning.

 

[Touchofevil]

The Habs beating the Flyers (barely) 5 to 4. This was an improvement over their 10-0 loss the day before. To somebody called the Columbus Bluejackets...

Shutout. Gave up 10. Columbus. Yeah, how did that happen? Otherwise, starting the season nicely.

 

[MisterCairo]

Shutout. Gave up 10. Columbus. Yeah, how did that happen? Otherwise, starting the season nicely.

First regulation loss, okay. BY TEN?!?!?!

 

[MisterCairo]

Episodes six and seven, third and final season Penny Dreadful.

Oh my goodness...

 

[Touchofevil]

Episodes six and seven, third and final season Penny Dreadful.

Oh my goodness...

Yes. Yes, indeed. Eva is phenomenal.

 

[Touchofevil]

Some NFL

 

[Worf]

If I ever get drunk enough (I don't drink) or bored enough... I'll tell you how a kid in the "40 Projects" in South Jamaica, Borough of Queens, City of New York... became a life long Oakland Raiders fan. Hint it involves a little girl from the Swiss Alps.

GO RAIDERS!!!!!

Worf

 

[Touchofevil]

If I ever get drunk enough (I don't drink) or bored enough... I'll tell you how a kid in the "40 Projects" in South Jamaica, Borough of Queens, City of New York... became a life long Oakland Raiders fan. Hint it involves a little girl from the Swiss Alps.

GO RAIDERS!!!!!

Worf

Heidi?

One of the highlights of my youth was when Jim Otto visited our school. I had a front row seat.

 

[Touchofevil]

The Walking Dead, episode two.

 

[Fading Fast]

Heidi?

One of the highlights of my youth was when Jim Otto visited our school. I had a front row seat.

Heidi was the connect my mind went to as well. That said, the Raiders had such an outlaw swagger in that era that they were kind of like the anti-Dallas Cowboys which gave them a "subversive" national following.

 

[Fading Fast]

Watched a couple of episodes of "Good Girls Revolt" an Amazon original series set in the late '60s in the newsroom of a national news magazine (fictional magazine, but presented as a competitor to Time). While the series is trying to show all the social / cultural / legal upheaval of the late '60s, the driving story is how the women at the magazine were barred from the writing and management jobs and, instead, were relegated to research and secretarial positions.

So far, this is playing out like a poor-man's "Mad Men." The period style is pretty well-done and fun to see, but also feels a bit off. The story is engaging enough, but hardly must-see TV. And even though I support the theme - equality of opportunity for women (my depression-era grandmother kept our family from starvation in '30s and '40 - there was never a "women-can't" or women shouldn't" attitude in my house, not because my parents were or were not socially progressive but because of the practical reality of our family history) - I'm turned off (as I often am) by the smugness and condescending manner in which these historical challenges are presented through an oh-so-superior 2016 lens.

Most situations had a lot of grey and a lot of history for why, what today, looks stupid, mean, cruel, wrong and not everyone who thought, in this example, that women should play support roles and focus on family were evil incarnate or stupid beyond the pale. I am pretty sure if you took 100 of us today - 100 who firmly believe in women's rights - and raised us in the 1950s, not all 100 of us would have been on the women's rights bandwagon in the late '60s. My point is not to defend what was wrong (I hope I made that clear), but to highlight that being smug and judgmental today when looking back at what was misses the full context and the social and cultural norms of the time - yes we should judge that time period (as ours will be some day), but bringing a little humility to that isn't a bad thing.

With that off my chest, I'll probably continue watched for the style alone and - now that the show's three episodes in - it seems to be hitting a bit of a groove and becoming a little less preachy.

 

[MisterCairo]

Walking Dead episode three and Talking Dead. Great episode, but I hate it when they humanize someone I consider the devil.

Makes it slightly tougher to kill 'em.

Slightly...