Top Ten TV Decisions that Make Me Want to Punch Someone

[aunt_deen]

So since misreallhad to go out of town this weekend she did three lists in a row.

(You should really check out her Ways My Life Should Be Like a Sitcom list. It rocks.)

Anyway, my turn now. We'll be back on our regular schedule on Tuesday.

Comments

[tomfoolery815]

3. The laugh track on the first season of Sports Night
So annoying. It was an anachronism even then.

[aunt_deen]

It was incredibly annoying, especially since they used it on the lines that weren't that funny.

[tomfoolery815]

People that think a laugh track is a good idea are probably also clueless with regard to its deployment, right?

[tuesday_suit]

8. The finale of Lost
You fucking assholes. Really?

Replace "Lost" with "BSG" and you pretty much have my top ten all in one place. :-P

[tuesday_suit]

P.S. 10. Shows gone too soon

Once & Again! And more recently, Chase and The Whole Truth. C'mon, NBC/ABC, those shows were awesome!

[flippet]

Once & Again! Yes! That show never got the respect it deserved...and then it pushed a few edges (to gain eyeballs) that I don't think it should organically have pushed.

....heey look, it's Sela. My list of women I'd switch teams for is very short, but she's on it.

[flippet]

8. The finale of Lost
You fucking assholes.

If I'd have managed to watch the full run of Lost, I'm sure I'd agree with you.

But since I didn't, I'll just insert the season finale of House in there and then shut up about it because I've ranted too much already.

Totally with you on the rest...especially my beloved Pushing Daisies.

[aunt_deen]

I'm not even into House to the degree I once was and that finale was such total WTF.

[marymary]

I agree about Deadwood. And all the other shows: Life, Pushing Daisies, Sports Night, Firefly, Veronica Mars, Boomtown, Dresden Files. I must add Better Off Ted to the list. I get especially irritated when networks cancel truly innovative shows (PD, Firefly, BoT) and then launch CSI: Grand Rapids or something.

I don't get too worked up about a show that gets at least 3 seasons (VM), but Deadwood was a totally different situation.

And, as you know, I totally agree about Lost. I had dropped out from sheer exhaustion at least a season before, but I watched the catch-up show and the finale and I was flabbergasted (not in the good way). They took a premise with such expansive promise and ended it in...a church? In an afterlife that fits so neatly inside our present-day sensibilities I could have written it in 1/2 hour. (Let's have stained glass windows with symbols of all the major world religions! And Ben won't come inside...yet. Get it?) That's where we ended up?

[aunt_deen]

I know what you mean about VM having three seasons, but the fact that it spent all three teetering on the brink of cancellation and then ended on something of a downer... Makes me sad.

And oh my GOD I would like to slap those Lost writers around. With a cricket bat. It kills me because that last season was so fucking good. Right up until the last twenty minutes.

[tomfoolery815]

I must add Better Off Ted to the list.
The world was insufficiently Teducated. It's true.

I get especially irritated when networks cancel truly innovative shows (PD, Firefly, BoT)
If the current SOP was in place in 1990, NBC would've cancelled Seinfeld after two truncated seasons. Because its ratings were terrible. Risk-takers and champions of creativity seem to have been replaced, or at least been marginalized, by bean counters.

and then launch CSI: Grand Rapids or something.
Sadly, that approach seems to work for the networks. For CBS, anyway: Ashton Kutcher's debut on Two and a Half Men drew that show's biggest audience ever, and was the best fall comedy premiere episode in 10 years. I've watched three or four episodes of that show. It's not funny.