Netflix, hulu, and DVR have really changed the way I watch TV completely. Because I work crazy hours, I'm usually either still at the office or on my way home when primetime TV starts, so I watch everything that isn't on the weekend after it's aired. This often leads to me being a couple weeks behind and just marathoning even when it's a show I enjoy. At the end of the day, this makes it very obvious to me which shows I really care about and which I don't. If I watch it that night on DVR, no matter what? It's the top of the list. And some like Smash I just... never got back around to.
I also really love using netflix to go back and give a show another chance, because I really do give up on them very, very easily. There are just too many good options out there to hang on week to week if I'm not completely in love with it, personally. But if it's just an in the background marathon thing on netflix? I'll give things a try, and I'm glad. This is how I consumed Seeker and The Tudors, how I'm catching up on Parks and Rec, giving The Vampire Diaries a chance after the first two episodes bored me (because I still have a huge fondness for the Scream films), and it's how I came back to watching Lost after quitting it in season 2. I've enjoyed all these shows to an extent -- and in the case of Lost, it became one of my all time favorites -- and I'm absolutely certain I never would have watched them in the old television paradigm. As much as it scares the networks, the new way of consuming media is a good thing. It seems like the UK has accepted that much faster than we have, from what little I understand of how TV works there.
I'm still so disappointed about Frontier.
After I watched enough of Seeker to know this was going to be a THING for me, I googled Bridget's name and went through a very short but intense emotional roller coaster of, "OMG A NEW SHOW ... WITH COWBOYS :O :O ... on NBC oh well at least she'll be paid for a year... maybe. :(" Basically like that. On the bright side, she's free to keep looking for work that could theoretically last more than one season without a false sense of security. (Other than Grimm and Smash -- which are both fairly sanitized in their own ways -- I can't name the last NBC one hour that got renewed that wasn't about a cop or a doctor.)
As for The Office, I always liked Pam and Karen both way more than Jim. They both could've done better and now Rashida Jones is on a better show anyway, so it all works out in the end, I guess. But yeah, I stopped watching The Office right after all that bullshit to end season 3.
Remind me why I watch TV again? Because sometimes attractive women emerge from the water in slow motion? That's probably why.
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Date: 2012-06-02 09:55 pm (UTC)Netflix, hulu, and DVR have really changed the way I watch TV completely. Because I work crazy hours, I'm usually either still at the office or on my way home when primetime TV starts, so I watch everything that isn't on the weekend after it's aired. This often leads to me being a couple weeks behind and just marathoning even when it's a show I enjoy. At the end of the day, this makes it very obvious to me which shows I really care about and which I don't. If I watch it that night on DVR, no matter what? It's the top of the list. And some like Smash I just... never got back around to.
I also really love using netflix to go back and give a show another chance, because I really do give up on them very, very easily. There are just too many good options out there to hang on week to week if I'm not completely in love with it, personally. But if it's just an in the background marathon thing on netflix? I'll give things a try, and I'm glad. This is how I consumed Seeker and The Tudors, how I'm catching up on Parks and Rec, giving The Vampire Diaries a chance after the first two episodes bored me (because I still have a huge fondness for the Scream films), and it's how I came back to watching Lost after quitting it in season 2. I've enjoyed all these shows to an extent -- and in the case of Lost, it became one of my all time favorites -- and I'm absolutely certain I never would have watched them in the old television paradigm. As much as it scares the networks, the new way of consuming media is a good thing. It seems like the UK has accepted that much faster than we have, from what little I understand of how TV works there.
I'm still so disappointed about Frontier.
After I watched enough of Seeker to know this was going to be a THING for me, I googled Bridget's name and went through a very short but intense emotional roller coaster of, "OMG A NEW SHOW ... WITH COWBOYS :O :O ... on NBC oh well at least she'll be paid for a year... maybe. :(" Basically like that. On the bright side, she's free to keep looking for work that could theoretically last more than one season without a false sense of security. (Other than Grimm and Smash -- which are both fairly sanitized in their own ways -- I can't name the last NBC one hour that got renewed that wasn't about a cop or a doctor.)
As for The Office, I always liked Pam and Karen both way more than Jim. They both could've done better and now Rashida Jones is on a better show anyway, so it all works out in the end, I guess. But yeah, I stopped watching The Office right after all that bullshit to end season 3.
Remind me why I watch TV again?
Because sometimes attractive women emerge from the water in slow motion? That's probably why.