What is your #1 TV viewing pleasure?

[coyote505]

Are they tied?

pretty close

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

pretty close

Would one of those two choices still be #1 ?

 

[coyote505]

Would one of those two choices still be #1 ?

Probably news.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

Probably news.

There we go, we solved the problem

 

[tharock220]

Cartoons. They're easiest to watch.

 

[PIPEWRENCH]

Yes yes, we all like watching a variety of TV, but most people tend to lean towards one kind of TV watching, like sports, or daytime soaps, or reality tv.

What is yours?

With so many channels and streaming it is absolutely wonderful. I like a good movie as a first choice. Then I go right to all the educational channels. There is just so much information that is continually changing as new discoveries are made. I love to look back at what I was taught as fact that is no longer fact. I wonder how much being taught today will one day become incorrect and obsolete. It seems the know-it-all of their day get a lot wrong as time continues to prove.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

Cartoons. They're easiest to watch.

Probably the easiest to understand as well

 

[JoeyJoystick]

Yes yes, we all like watching a variety of TV, but most people tend to lean towards one kind of TV watching, like sports, or daytime soaps, or reality tv.

What is yours?

Hi Snowflake,

I did not vote. I have not watched TV in many many years. I do not like advertising. So I pay for YouTube and all movies I want to watch I download. But now, in the spirit of the question.

I often watch war movies. And submarine movies are definitely my favourite. But I also love comedy. So yes, 'Das Boot' is probably one of the very best submarine movies, but I also really enjoy a movie like 'Down Periscope'.

So yes, comedy, but humour is a mater of taste. Mine varies from 'Faulty Towers' to '50 First Dates', but things like 'Airplane' don't cut it for me.

I like mini series. Especially historic ones.

I like watching science and nature videos.

And I like watching comedy series like '2.5 Men', 'Friends', and 'Married with Children'.

And I LOVE 'Tom & Jerry'!!! I have never met a single person who does not like Tom & Jerry'. I am sure they're out there, but there aint many is my best guess. Please stand up if you don't. lol.

And than there is porn... Without a doubt the lowest quality of video, yet it provides an incredible amount of satisfaction. But that may lie in the interactive nature of watching porn. Lol. But while all of the above are on TV, that is much less so the case with Porn. So never mind this one I guess.

Joey

 

[JoeyJoystick]

WWII was the most important series of events in the 20th century. It shaped the world we now live in. Anyone interested in history cannot find it boring imo.

Hi Sweden,

I agree. A lot of my attention is also directed at WWII. But there is one aspect that I lost. and I miss it. When I was young I used to talk to people who lived the war. This may have been people who liberated us, but also people who lived through it, such as most people in the occupied nations. I think it is these personal episodes that make you realize what it has done with people.

- My dad stealing coal from the Germans.
- My mom getting milk from a farmer for her baby sister when she was 10 years old. She walked for 4 hours. When she finally got home after 4 more hours, my grandma told her that the milk had gone bad, so the next day she goes again. She asked him why. He responded because he had to make sure it was for a baby. And that after asking the ridiculous price of 10 guilders in 1943 for 1 litre of milk. 10 Guilders would be about 5USD in todays money. I think everyone agrees that this was a slightly increased price in 1943.
- A family friend who walked home from the Czech Republic (Sudeten Deutschland back than at about 800km from home). His last job in the camp was to burry the dead people. When he looked at the people in the truck he saw they were still alive.
- An other family friend who always proudly told us the story how he carried the gold from the Dutch Bank onto a boat for shipment to the UK when Germany invaded holland. I never had the guts to tell him that the boat ran onto a mine and the Germans captured the gold. He never knew...
- People listening to a small radio hidden away to get the latest news and gossip on what's happening on the front lines.
- My grandma accepting a loaf of bread from a German officer. He later came back to claim the bread back, because it was for the neighbours who collaborated with the Germans. The loaf of bread was of course finished by then. lol.
- And how all the trees in the city had been cut for firewood, except the 2 trees in front of the Gestapo building.

And to illustrate how much of an impact it has had on people:

This must have been in 1992 or close to it. I played 'Frankie Goes to Hollywood', The song was 'Two Tribes'. I played it at full blast. The start of the song is the air raid sirens. In less than 1 minute my mom came running in my room in complete panic and tears in her eyes. Nearly 50 years later... Seldom I felt so bad and so sorry for my mom.

And than on the other side of the water people think it is ok to vote for someone like Trump. They have not got a ****ing clue what they are getting themselves into with that Nazi. Ok, one could argue the world needs a little reshaping after 80 years, but not this way.


Joey

 

[Hello My Son]

My top favorite are existential sci-fi dramas. Other high-concept and deep story dramas after that, and then documentaries/history/nature/crime, comedies/sports after that, and that's about it. I don't watch reality shows or news at all.

 

[JoeyJoystick]

Yes yes, we all like watching a variety of TV, but most people tend to lean towards one kind of TV watching, like sports, or daytime soaps, or reality tv.

What is yours?

Hi Snowflake,

A fair comment that applies to me as well.

Here is the thing though. I do not watch mostly what I would like to watch mostly. What I mean is; yes, submarine movies are my favourite movies to watch. But if you do a binge-watching session, you probably covered every submarine movie in less than a week. So as to the other options I listed, I think view time is shared fairly equal between them.


Joey

 

[noonereal]

My top favorite are existential sci-fi dramas. Other high-concept and deep story dramas after that, and then documentaries/history/nature/crime, comedies/sports after that, and that's about it. I don't watch reality shows or news at all.

Sounds great BUT what do YOU consider existential sci-fi dramas? Can you list five or 10 movies that fit this category to you?

Thanks

 

[Risky Thicket]

My zombie aversion actually comes from an overly saturated diet of zombie mayhem via AMC and my internet/streaming service. Eleven seasons of The Walking Dead was more than enough for me. The franchise seems to be self-perpetuating.

But on the other hand, I enjoyed the battles waged by the wights reanimated by the White Walkers against human defenders in Game of Thrones. The Others gave the mayhem a sinister, directed intelligence that kept me interested.

I hear you. The Walking Dead series itself devolved into a zombie. Not at all easy to kill long after it should have been dead.

 

[Bum]

Nature, science, etc..
Blue Planet, National Geographic, Cosmos, Planet Earth (or anything narrated by David Attenborough), Samsarah, Wonders of the Universe, Frozen Planet, Through the wormhole with Morgan Freeman, Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking.....I could go on, but, you get the idea.

 

[Perotista]

I love sitcoms followed closely by reality tv.

My TV watching consists mainly of the history vault, discovery plus, paramount plus, amazon prime plus some of TUBI and Yahoo when it comes to old TV shows and movies. As for watching live TV, I haven’t done that in at least 10 years or more. Probably more. The good thing about watching TV the way I do is no commercials along with I can hit pause when I must do something else and comeback and finish either the movie or episode of a TV program I was watching whenever I want or just move on to something else.

 

[Evilroddy]

I am happiest when the lobotomy box is off. So my favorite viewing experience is seeing a blank, black screen in the background while reading or working around the house. I used to like watching news shows but the tailspin that the world is in these days has made that far less edifying and less enjoyable.

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.

 

[Gaius46]

Why'd you comedy and romance together? They aren't remotely related. Love comedies - which is why I selected the comedy/romance option but don't ever watch romances.

and what no Sci-Fi?

 

[Sweden]

Hi Sweden,

I agree. A lot of my attention is also directed at WWII. But there is one aspect that I lost. and I miss it. When I was young I used to talk to people who lived the war. This may have been people who liberated us, but also people who lived through it, such as most people in the occupied nations. I think it is these personal episodes that make you realize what it has done with people.

- My dad stealing coal from the Germans.
- My mom getting milk from a farmer for her baby sister when she was 10 years old. She walked for 4 hours. When she finally got home after 4 more hours, my grandma told her that the milk had gone bad, so the next day she goes again. She asked him why. He responded because he had to make sure it was for a baby. And that after asking the ridiculous price of 10 guilders in 1943 for 1 litre of milk. 10 Guilders would be about 5USD in todays money. I think everyone agrees that this was a slightly increased price in 1943.
- A family friend who walked home from the Czech Republic (Sudeten Deutschland back than at about 800km from home). His last job in the camp was to burry the dead people. When he looked at the people in the truck he saw they were still alive.
- An other family friend who always proudly told us the story how he carried the gold from the Dutch Bank onto a boat for shipment to the UK when Germany invaded holland. I never had the guts to tell him that the boat ran onto a mine and the Germans captured the gold. He never knew...
- People listening to a small radio hidden away to get the latest news and gossip on what's happening on the front lines.
- My grandma accepting a loaf of bread from a German officer. He later came back to claim the bread back, because it was for the neighbours who collaborated with the Germans. The loaf of bread was of course finished by then. lol.
- And how all the trees in the city had been cut for firewood, except the 2 trees in front of the Gestapo building.

And to illustrate how much of an impact it has had on people:

This must have been in 1992 or close to it. I played 'Frankie Goes to Hollywood', The song was 'Two Tribes'. I played it at full blast. The start of the song is the air raid sirens. In less than 1 minute my mom came running in my room in complete panic and tears in her eyes. Nearly 50 years later... Seldom I felt so bad and so sorry for my mom.

And than on the other side of the water people think it is ok to vote for someone like Trump. They have not got a ****ing clue what they are getting themselves into with that Nazi. Ok, one could argue the world needs a little reshaping after 80 years, but not this way.


Joey

My war was less dramatic than the events you record but had its memorable times. Escaping from France in June 1940 and living in London for the little blitz and during the Vi and V2 attacks. What still lives for me, the day before my 89th birthday, is the memory of the Britain of those days and a quite joy that I experienced it.

 

[JoeyJoystick]

My war was less dramatic than the events you record but had its memorable times. Escaping from France in June 1940 and living in London for the little blitz and during the Vi and V2 attacks. What still lives for me, the day before my 89th birthday, is the memory of the Britain of those days and a quite joy that I experienced it.

Fortunately we were not on the receiving end of the V1's and V2's. They were launched from near where my parents lived. They both remember their unmistakable sound. Very different between the 2 though.

But, you're talking about when Britain was still a super power. Never quite figured out why that kinda stopped after the war though. Or at least they lost the status they had back than.


Joey

 

[Sweden]

Fortunately we were not on the receiving end of the V1's and V2's. They were launched from near where my parents lived. They both remember their unmistakable sound. Very different between the 2 though.

But, you're talking about when Britain was still a super power. Never quite figured out why that kinda stopped after the war though. Or at least they lost the status they had back than.


Joey

Britain bankrupted itself to fight WWII it sold off all its assets and was then deep in debt to the USA. It did not finish paying back the US loans until 2006

 

[Hello My Son]

Sounds great BUT what do YOU consider existential sci-fi dramas? Can you list five or 10 movies that fit this category to you?

Thanks

Sure! I was thinking more specifically about TV series, though. Movies would be in the vein of Inception, Donnie Darko, or The Butterfly Effect.

Some examples of my favorite shows would be The Leftovers, Severance, Dark, Lost, Fringe, Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, The Man in the High Castle, Silo, and From. There are others that are great too, but this is just off the top of my head.

 

[ALiberalModerate]

Yes yes, we all like watching a variety of TV, but most people tend to lean towards one kind of TV watching, like sports, or daytime soaps, or reality tv.

What is yours?

I watch very little TV anymore, but when I do, I typically watch Nordic crime dramas on Netflix.

 

[mrdeltoid]

Yes yes, we all like watching a variety of TV, but most people tend to lean towards one kind of TV watching, like sports, or daytime soaps, or reality tv.

What is yours?

Older westerns like Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Have Gun Will Travel, Bonanza etc. There are some good newer westerns but not as good as the older ones. JMHO

 

[mrdeltoid]

I also have been binging UK/Aussie crime fiction/dramas. I like them a lot. I wouldn't mind living there actually.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

I also have been binging UK/Aussie crime fiction/dramas. I like them a lot. I wouldn't mind living there actually.

Preferrably Australia, UK is kind of damp.