{"id":149136,"date":"2020-03-30T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=149136"},"modified":"2020-03-30T10:01:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T16:01:52","slug":"popular-television-that-we-mostly-dont-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/30\/popular-television-that-we-mostly-dont-watch.html","title":{"rendered":"Popular Television That We (Mostly) Don&#8217;t Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one is inspired by Les, who posted his version <a href=\"https:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/2020\/03\/lets-do-a-stupid-facebook-list-thingy\/\">over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You never realize how much\/little TV you watch until you fill this out. Put a \u2714 by the shows you have watched more than 10 episodes of. How about you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>1. Grey&#8217;s Anatomy:<br \/>\n2. Stranger Things:<br \/>\n3. The Vampire Diaries:<br \/>\n4. The Walking Dead:<br \/>\n5. Fear The Walking Dead:<br \/>\n6. Dexter:<br \/>\n7. American Horror Story:<br \/>\n8. Orange is the New Black:<br \/>\n9. A Million Little Things:<br \/>\n10. This is Us:<br \/>\n11. The Simpsons: \u2714 &#8211;\u00a0<em>I&#8217;ve never been a regular viewer, but have certainly watched more than 10 over the years.<\/em><br \/>\n12. New Amsterdam:<br \/>\n13. Manifest:<br \/>\n14. How To Get Away With Murder:<br \/>\n15. Breaking Bad:<br \/>\n16. Sons of Anarchy:<br \/>\n17. Scandal:<br \/>\n18. Riverdale:<br \/>\n19. The Good Doctor:<br \/>\n20. House of Cards:<br \/>\n21. Once Upon a Time:<br \/>\n22. House: \u2714<br \/>\n23. True Detective:<br \/>\n24. Dr. Pimple Popper:<br \/>\n25. Power:<br \/>\n26. Empire:<br \/>\n27. One Tree Hill:<br \/>\n28. Supernatural:<br \/>\n29. Family Guy:<br \/>\n30. Santa Clarita Diet:<br \/>\n31. Shameless:<br \/>\n32. Pretty Little Liars:<br \/>\n33. Secret Life of an American Teenager:<br \/>\n34. Bones:<br \/>\n35. Criminal Minds:<br \/>\n36. The 100:<br \/>\n37. Chicago Fire:<br \/>\n38. Chicago Med:<br \/>\n39. The Resident:<br \/>\n40. Game of Thrones:<br \/>\n41. The Big Bang Theory: \u2714 &#8211;\u00a0<em>we watched multiple seasons on DVD, but eventually stopped long before it ended.<\/em><br \/>\n42. It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia:<br \/>\n43. Lost:<br \/>\n44. The Sopranos:<br \/>\n45. NCIS:<br \/>\n46. NCIS Los Angeles:<br \/>\n47. NCIS New Orleans:<br \/>\n48. Law &amp; Order SVU:<br \/>\n49. Gossip Girl:<br \/>\n50. How I Met Your Mother:<br \/>\n51. Blue Bloods:<br \/>\n52. Two Broke Girls:<br \/>\n53. The Office:<br \/>\n54. Blacklist:<br \/>\n55. Full House:<br \/>\n56. Fuller House:<br \/>\n57. Downton Abbey:<br \/>\n58. Hawaii Five-O:\u00a0\u2714 &#8211;\u00a0<em>this was only ever me, not Margie. Dropped after 3 seasons or so.<\/em><br \/>\n59. Big Mouth:<br \/>\n60. Last Man Standing:<br \/>\n61. Six Feet Under:<br \/>\n62. Wentworth:<br \/>\n63. Friends:<br \/>\n64. That 70s Show:<br \/>\n65. Girlfriends Guide to Divorce:<br \/>\n66. Heartland:<br \/>\n67. All-American:<br \/>\n68. Greek:<br \/>\n69. Yellowstone:<br \/>\n70. Better Call Saul:<br \/>\n71. You:<br \/>\n72. Rescue Me:<br \/>\n73. Scrubs:<br \/>\n74. Community:<br \/>\n75. Letter Kenney :<br \/>\n76. Kitchen Nightmares :\u00a0\u2714<br \/>\n77. The Masked Singer:<br \/>\n78. Robot Chicken:<br \/>\n79. Vikings:<br \/>\n80. Mind Hunters:<br \/>\n81. New Girl:<br \/>\n82. The Good Place:<br \/>\n83. Black Mirror:<br \/>\n83. Lucifer: \u2714<br \/>\n84. Peaky Blinders:<br \/>\n85. iZombie:\u00a0\u2714 &#8211;\u00a0<em>we dropped this after a couple of seasons.<\/em><br \/>\n86. Parks and Rec:<br \/>\n87. Brooklyn 99:<br \/>\n88. Handmaid&#8217;s Tale:<br \/>\n89. Modern Family:<br \/>\n90. Smallville:\u00a0\u2714 &#8211;\u00a0<em>probably at least 10 in aggregate over the course of the series.<\/em><br \/>\n91. Seinfeld:<br \/>\n92. Gilmore Girls:<br \/>\n93. Charmed:<br \/>\n94. Private Practice:<br \/>\n95. Lost Girl:<br \/>\n96. True Blood:<br \/>\n97. Roswell:<br \/>\n98. Haven:<br \/>\n99. Mad Men:<br \/>\n100. Arrow:\u00a0\u2714 &#8211;\u00a0<em>and most of the CW Berlantiverse shows at one point or another, though the only one we still actively watch is\u00a0<\/em>Legends of Tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>A few comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That is a very weird list. Some of the shows are new, some old, some I&#8217;ve never heard of before. There are a number of them I watched an ep or two of before deciding it wasn&#8217;t my (or Margie&#8217;s) cuppa.<\/li>\n<li>I watch even fewer mainstream-pop (or however you would categorize the above list) shows Les does, evidently.<\/li>\n<li>Things we do pretty regularly watch, beyond what&#8217;s listed above:\u00a0<em>Rachel Maddow Show,\u00a0Late Show with Stephen Colbert,\u00a0Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,\u00a0Whose Line Is It Anyway?,\u00a0Supermarket Stakeout,\u00a0The Profit,\u00a0Miracle Workers,\u00a0Forged in Fire,\u00a0The Rookie,\u00a0LEGO Masters,\u00a0Legends of Tomorrow,\u00a0Worst Cooks in America,\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em> (when it returns),\u00a0<em>Columbo<\/em> (reruns). Occasionally we&#8217;ll run\u00a0<em>American Ninja Warrior, Shark Tank, <\/em>or <em>Beat Bobby Flay.<\/em> That&#8217;s the current, rather sad, list, and it contains a lot more &#8220;reality&#8221; TV than I&#8217;d expected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all that TV seems to be on, there are a lot of things we don&#8217;t watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-qa","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/family-watching-TV.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18263,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/waiting-for-the-walking-dead.html","url_meta":{"origin":149136,"position":0},"title":"Waiting for &#8220;The Walking Dead&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Aug-10 4:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As it's one of the best comic books out there, I've been tickled that Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead is coming to AMC as a TV series. \u00a0I didn't try getting into the session at the Comic-Con, but AMC has (finally) released a high-quality copy of the trailer revealed there.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comics &amp; Comic Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comics &amp; Comic Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-comics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27474,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/20\/science-its-neat.html","url_meta":{"origin":149136,"position":1},"title":"Science! 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