T.V. Shows I’ve Watched Recently

I’ve watched way more television than normal in part because I had a free trial of Hulu. I’ve watched old favorites like Drake and Josh and Sonny with a Chance, plus Fixer Upper and Jeopardy, but I thought I’d feature the most notable items.

Boy Meets World . . . and this is why I don’t usually like television series. Can you get any more repetitive?!!! So, after making myself sick of Parks and Rec (whenever I watched that, two years ago?), I thought that I’d do better, so I planned to selectively binge, picking what I wanted from each season based on the Wikipedia summary. Yeah, that didn’t work for this show. The same types of events happened every season: Cory and Topanga break-up (and these break-ups followed the same one or two formulas), Shawn has drama (again, a few formulaic types), etc. Also, Shawn’s life mimicked Cory’s in a boring, pathetic, generic way. Come on, he’s got a totally different situation and personality, why does he have to do everything Cory does? Eric was my favorite character (actually favorite part of the show, really) later on; he was the only person who I wasn’t totally sick of (and he’s hilarious). I actually disliked Shawn by the end. Anyway, the writing/plot etc. of the show is really repetitive to the point of disbelief plus it’s not as funny (at least at the end) as I was expecting (which always seems to be the case, since I learn about a lot of television shows from highlights).

Full House. I decided to pare down my watching even further for this show by looking at some best episode lists, so basically I just watched few episodes per season (and none for the last, I think), and sometimes I didn’t even watch all of the episode. I quickly realized that this show isn’t all that interesting (and Joey is simply awful) although it has a ton of sweet moments (Uncle Jesse moments). I was essentially watching it for Jesse (John Stamos) who is all around gorgeous (especially after Stephanie cuts his horrible mullet off) and has such and attractive voice and attitude. A super attractive man with his cute ways with kids?!!! I mean, wow.

The Olympics. Well, we thought we had a handle on recording (we are not the most tech-savvy people), but we didn’t really. So I missed a lot of ice-skating (which is the main/only event I care about), and I just kind of wasn’t really feeling it. I did get some of the skating, but really, it isn’t as interesting when almost all of the American skaters are terrible (except for the Shibsibs).