I blame Thom Beers. He started it all.
We were babysitting my wifes little brother last night and he was askin when we were gonna get cable.
Im going to get internet this winter but plan on simply getting a smart tv and just doing stuff over the internet, then I can watch what I want when I want it. I like cable/dish when I didnt have to pay for it but the more I think about it, theres really nothing good on ever and the few things that are good we just simply get the box set of that season. Honestly the past 2 years we have kept ourselves entertained with nothing more than DVD box sets which I pay much less than I would per month for cable. It helps that we barely watch an hour a day though.
Some of the shows we have,
White Collar (best show of all time)
Burn Notice (not as good after season 5)
Suits (Im liking it alot, she hasnt warmed up to it yet though)
Big Bang Theory
How I Met Your Mother
Two Broke Girls (hilarious)
Two & a Half Men (sucks without Charlie)
Hot in Cleveland (not my pick but tolerable)
Leverage
Also have some classics.
That 70's Show
Home Improvement
Grounded for Life
Reba
8 simple rules.
Honestly though I like documentary stuff more than anything. I especially like documentaries about f-ups. Engineering Disasters and Aircrash Investigation are two of my favorites. Modern marvels is a favorite as well. How its made is kinda boring but interesting, megafactories ia cool but full of way too much "filler".
I honestly think TV programming shows us the current state of our civilization. People/kids dont want to have to think anymore, they dont want to learn anymore than they have to, they.want eveeything now and do not want to put any effort into it.
Im not that old but I still remember the days that TLC still stood for The Learning Channel, and the history channel.and discovery channel both still had educational stuff. I even remember music on MTV not all day but still some. I remember VH1 and CMT both as pure music video stations. It seems like everything has been taken over by reality TV that isnt.even real.
Maybe im a nerd, but I didnt have video games or cartoons and I am glad. I may not have been a "cool" kid back in the day because of it but I dont think I turned out too bad. I still got the hot girl with flotation devices so I must have done something right.
I sound like an old guy but I really wish kids these days would learn what outside is.
