Just skimming an article about Charlie Sheen's legal trouble (don't ask me why)

[frameofmind6]

Ugh -- I can't believe Two and a Half Men is the top-rated sitcom on TV right now. That's just depressing. But then I still can't get used to the idea of NBC being pretty much in the tank these days either -- all through the nineties they had all the best stuff (Friends, Seinfeld, Frasier, Will and Grace...), so I'm just used to them being "the good channel" and all the others struggling to keep pace. Actually, I guess I would still call NBC "the good channel," personally -- a lot of their stuff is crap, but the only show I actually follow these days (The Office) is on there, as well as a couple of other shows I sort of wish I followed but have never gotten into, like 30 Rock. Sitcoms are in a bad way overall right now though -- it's sad, for a sitcom junkie like myself...

(*sigh*)

Ah well -- the genre will regroup and rebound eventually, better than ever. It always does. Meanwhile, I think I'll put on an old episode of M*A*S*H...

Comments

[replicantangel.livejournal.com]

The Office is too neurotic for me. (I also disliked Seinfeld, so yeah - I'm just weird about my humor, lol.) I'm divided about whether longer or shorter series are better, but I think that it's best not to have it really involved from beginning to end like some series these days. I am never going to watch Lost. I'd have to start from the beginning and go in order. That is a freaking *chore*. On the other hand, I desperately wish that there was more to some of the BBC shows I've watched - even if they ended well, which they often don't. LoL.

I watch such diverse shows. It's probably more about the characters for me than anything. That, and it can't be heavy-handed with the writing. That drives me nuts.

Either way, I seem to find something to watch, regardless of what's on! LoL. I'm just a couch potato. Ah well... :)

[frameofmind6.livejournal.com]

Lol -- yeah, I guess I take to the neurotic stuff, being rather neurotic myself (*grin*). I feel the same way about Lost though -- I watched Alias, and it was like a weird sort of love/hate obsession. I mean, I'm obsessive to begin with, but JJ Abrams taps into that quality in a dangerous way. Even after the show turned bad (which was after the first two seasons), I was like a junkie tearing through the rest of the seasons just because I always "had to know." There were good moments, but ultimately I was mostly disgusted with how manipulative and contrived the whole underlying construction of the show was. Haven't had much patience for JJ Abrams ever since.

I always have something to watch too, but these days it's pretty much either old sitcoms (I don't know how I lived before they started selling full seasons on DVD) or something that falls into one of my weird obsessive tangents, like anything remotely related to Monty Python or Michael Palin... (*grin*)