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<\/p>\nWhy is it that I don’t give a damn about television these days? <\/p>\n
Is it me, or is it TV? I think it’s me.<\/p>\n
I strive not to be one of those people who drone on and on about how much better stuff was back in the day. I\u00a0definitely<\/strong> don’t feel that way about television. I watched TV irregularly, and went for long periods without owning a set, before the mid-90s, and although I saw enough of shows such as\u00a0Star Trek<\/em> and\u00a0Seinf<\/em>eld<\/em> and other sitcoms and dramas to know what they were about, I’m not nostalgic about any of it.<\/p>\n My TV consumption picked up when I met Zachary, who likes crime dramas and watches a lot of sports. For a decade or more I watched much TV with him, but I’ve lost all interest in the dramas. In sports, I now watch only bike racing and the occasional soccer game.<\/p>\n As for my own favorite TV genres and shows, decades ago I adored Blake’s 7,<\/em> and I liked Babylon 5<\/em> and Firefly,<\/em> Buffy<\/em> and Angel<\/em>.\u00a0I’ve watched Doctor Who<\/em> intermittently and enjoyed it, but never so much that I cared whether I saw or missed a particular episode, and it’s fallen off my radar since the end of the Amy and Rory era. There have been and still are shows I like–Archer<\/em> and Futurama, <\/em>Community<\/em> (well, until the last season), documentaries about travel and nature, some of the Masterpiece things–but I no longer feel the urgency and excitement I used to feel when I discovered a new episode of a favorite show. Several recent shows interested me for an episode or two,\u00a0 maybe even a season or two, and then not: Fringe,<\/em> Dexter,<\/em> Castle,<\/em> The Walking Dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n The same thing has already happened with two new shows I had hoped to like: Agents of SHIELD<\/em> (boring, too teen-angsty and cutesy) and Sleepy Hollow\u00a0<\/em>(biblical horror, yawn, although the Ichabod actor is fun). If I have nothing to do and they’re on Comcast’s On Demand menu for free, I might watch an episode while I eat lunch . . . but I might not.<\/p>\n No compulsion, and I kinda miss it. Maybe I’ll feel it again when Z and I start working our way through Breaking Bad<\/em>, which we never watched in its run.<\/p>\n Or maybe I’m simply no longer capable of feeling that “must see” excitement. As I mentioned to a friend the other day, the Game of Thrones<\/em> shows have been amazing, but I never watched past the first half of the first season because I’ve read the books, and it seemed like so many hours of TV to see a story I’d already spent so many hours reading. I watch movies on Netflix, Comcast, and Amazon Prime, but even in that realm my viewing has fallen off a bit in recent years.<\/p>\n Maybe I should regard this lack of enthusiasm as liberating rather than troubling. More time to read and write. Or maybe a new show will come along and reignite it. Unless, that is, I convince Zachary to cut the cable cord completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why is it that I don’t give a damn about television these days? Is it me, or is it TV? I think it’s me. I strive not to be one of those people who drone on and on about how much better stuff was back in the day. I\u00a0definitely don’t feel that way about television. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}