Every few years I'll learn that there's a show called, like, "Baggage" where Greg Kinnear plays a TSA supervisor with a troubled past, and that my parents have watched 150 episodes of it.
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This is so real. Every time I tell my mom about a show I discovered on some platform, her response is always…”oh yes! That is a good show! Your father and I watched it a while back” 🤣
That was me with NCIS and my dad. I have no idea how many times he watched that show but the main tech girl I guess looked similar to my daughter's friend and dad told us, I know he told my daughter several times as well, every time he saw her about it
My wife and I are your parents. We just discovered a show called Banshee on MAX.
If you liked Pulp Fiction when it came out, it's right up your ally. The dude who plays Homelander in The Boys is the lead, and it's from Alan Ball, the guy who did True Blood.
Okay but have you watched Sam Rockwell as the psychiatrist of the sewers in "UNDERstanding" yet? Groundbreaking. Literally. CBS/Paramount tore up 20% echo park's streets to make the sets.
I totally forget network TV still exists and apparently still has a hold on certain demographics. Which I find strangely comforting even though I don’t see any shows that interest me. Just nice to know there’s still something to watch and you know you’re not the only one at that moment.
This was my experience with Yellowstone. Came home for a visit to a mom who was saying "fuck" and "motherfucker" more than I'd ever heard in my life. Came to find out about her new favorite show and how a woman named Beth is her favorite character. Beth swears a lot, I guess.
"Baggage" is also a Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode where a baggage supervisor is doing mail fraud to fund his fake playboy lifestyle, and kills his employee because she's about to expose his scheme, and also because she likes him and he hates being liked by a woman who's a plain jane like him
I love most of the Law & Order franchises - Trial by Jury was not for me - but CI remains my favorite. Vincent was teasing a few years ago it may return, but I see he’s busy with other projects.
I used to watch SVU reruns back in the day, but then fell in love with Criminal Intent. I prefer shows with a lot of exciting guesswork and a "happy" ending (one reason I also dig Criminal Minds). Plus Goren's awesome psychological footwork (and Eames' great one-liners).
Then they do the full Thursday night trifecta L&E crossover with Mariska's SUV, Stabler's Organized Crime, and resurrecting on a loop the 22 episodes of Law & Order L.A. series that lasted a hot minute (and still on streaming.)🤣
Most parents are somehow watching every single episode of NCIS, Blue Bloods, SVU, Chicago PD and all of the Chicago spinoffs and they've watched every episode 3 or 4 times
It's crazy when you see an old SVU or Criminal Minds and you see someone like Michael B. Jordan or Aubrey Plaza in one and think, they must be a little embarrassed that this still exists
My mom got me into watching Tracker. Honestly when every other show is like 8 episodes long with 3 years in between a mystery of the week is comforting
I will check it out! Tracker reminds me of those classic 2010s USA shows like Burn Notice and White Collar. We need more what I call “folding laundry” shows like that
Well you see this guy was burned by the CIA and now his best friend is Bruce Campbell wearing a Hawaiian shirt. Yeah that’s all I remember too. It was pleasant and there were explosions sometimes.
His ex-wife, the HR director of most of the staff, married a pilot (played by Joel McHale). There's a flashback of Greg and a colleague/fling doing coke in a supply closet.
For the longest time my fiancé was convinced that movie Tag was just a made-up movie that actors could pretend they were doing press for when they didn't actually have something to promote
We recently learned about "Crashing" - the Pete Holmes one - and ate, like, all three seasons in a week and a half. It had some delightfully light "before times" energy.
I just realized that the entire NCIS universe of procedural television shows is built around an investigative team that *works for the US Navy*
What the hell?
You should tell them about the "Baggage" podcast "Unpacking" hosted by Kevin Smith and Jennifer Schwalbach Smith.
Last week they had Retta as a special guest, and they just ended up talking about Joseph Manganiello.
I'm not sure if NCIS is even still on the air anymore, but it's always on at my parent's house, and there were at least ten seasons after I stopped watching some years ago, remember when shows got like fifteen seasons
Season 4 is when he hit the big time and had to deal with the stresses of the Detroit Metropolitan Airport and not the hinterlands of the Western Nebraska Regional Airport.
I mean, right? All types of talented people who could take on a comic relief role, someone with Emmy caliber credentials perhaps. A beloved character actor of multiple “foundational” modern comedy shows maybe?
My therapist like never talks. But recently he launched into an (admittedly relevant) synopsis of a full scene from Chicago PD. And I thought, oh shit, I might need a new therapist. (Started seeing him 15 years ago.) Sorry but I didn't know where else I could share this.
The number of people who watch these shows and think some aspect of it is real life is scary. It's why our policy is so terrible. Everybody saw something in an episode of a tv show and thought, "yeah, that's how that works."
Great show, but I hate when all of a sudden there’s a really sad dramatic episode, like when Stavros’s crew all got radiation poisoning from the defective X-ray machine.
The show runner kills off the characters of actors who want too much money or get an attitude with her. By season 6 it’s basically a completely different cast.
Years ago my mom told my grandparents to watch Homeland and they accidentally watched a show called Heartland and at a family holiday my grandma kept talking about how much she loved all the horses.
About a year ago I saw a job posting for a writer focused on the CSI franchise, and I thought, "how many CSI episodes could there possibly be?" I've never seen one.
I watched about 5 minutes of one once, the CSI chaps could determine the killer through an enhanced CCTV image of the victim's eye - it reflected the face of the killer!
I have seen this in at least 6 different shows. For me the ultimate moment forever will be when they were being hacked and TWO people started using the same keyboard to counter hack. The boss solved by... turning off the monitor????
I had a "first thing in the morning" medical procedure and the TV in the waiting room was showing one those shows and it opened on a woman's body laying in a huge pool of blood and I'm just thinking "who the hell is watching this at 7AM?"
It's the fact they're often major network shows, I think. The things everyone used to watch, but are now for "normies." I'm trying to get back into network shows, and there's actually good stuff there.
I'd say I'm bothered by the implication that body language expertise is real, but I'm loving High Potential right now. Lol. I need to catch up on Elsbeth and see if that Watson show is any good.
My parents know all of the NCIS series, and all I can do is try to be funny and make stupid jokes about “NCIS Boise,” which for all I know is an actual real life show now
My Mum was badgering me to watch the Christmas Gavin and Stacey to much resistance from myself. I have never nor will watch it. She finally gave up when I said politely "Just fuck off, Mum" and went out for a walk.
As Meatloaf was known to say, "I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)".
Given their attitude and general lack of personality, I suspect ALL TSA agents have a 'troubled past.'
That'd be the ONE department I wouldn't mind Darth Muskrat cutting or eliminating altogether.
Given how often mentally disturbed people are putting firearms in their carry on I'll give that idea a hard pass. Imagine every on-board fight you've heard about in the last 5 years but with firearms. No thanks.
Did you forget what we had before? Much worse than the TSA at doing their job and costing us a fortune. Don't trust our security to corporations who are just there to maximize profit. Personally since I got TSA-Pre I've had zero problems except when they aren't staffing those lines appropriately.
Strawman. Didn't say corporations either. I travel all over the world and the USA is the ONLY country with rude, deliberately provocative bastards working security. It's a systemic problem that needs overhauling from the bottom up.
Not intended to be a strawman, but if you do like MAGA does and just say you'll eliminate it you have to have an alternative or nothing at all. Since you claim you don't want the government to administer it what's the alternative. If you simply want a better TSA then say so.
Yes it was! My husband used to watch it with his best friend years ago for laughs. His best friend’s mother wanted him to try out for it since this was waaaay before we met when he was single lol
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it's an updated hunchback of notre dame i should have started with that
If you liked Pulp Fiction when it came out, it's right up your ally. The dude who plays Homelander in The Boys is the lead, and it's from Alan Ball, the guy who did True Blood.
Trust me.
It'll be like a Cool Kids Club.
I loved that show too damn much.
That said, consider "Paradise" if you have Hulu. It's effing amazing.
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Isn't broadcast TV crazy?
Boooo this man!!
What the hell?
Last week they had Retta as a special guest, and they just ended up talking about Joseph Manganiello.
Yep I think, I’d smile and slip out the side door.
So disappointed!
There are 1000+
I rolled my own eyes out of my head.
CSI Miami is so bad that it is awesome.
My favorite was when the 2 computer geeks both typed on a keyboard to stop a hacker.
Complete and utter garbage.
Such perfection.
https://ew.com/fbi-international-fbi-most-wanted-canceled-cbs-new-spinoff-fbi-cia-still-moving-forward-11690782
As Meatloaf was known to say, "I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)".
That'd be the ONE department I wouldn't mind Darth Muskrat cutting or eliminating altogether.