On 06/25/2013 11:31 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: >> FYI, actually I have talked to people who watched the >> show and didn't like it for that reason. Those discussions >> took place on forums particular to home theater and TV >> viewing. It's a great show, well done but not everyone's >> cuppa tea as no TV program will ever be that. > Just FYI, I managed to watch the first few seasons, > but this year -- what with the travel and all, not > to mention having more fun things to do either at > home in Leiden or here in Paris -- I've just not > bothered with it. > > I've had to become more discriminating about the TV > shows I choose to invest my time in, because there > is so much less time available to invest. :-)
I've become that way to because with streaming options there is much better stuff to watch without investing time. US TV series because the want to order 13 episode seasons require a bit of an investment. I almost prefer just finding a movie I "feel" like watching on Netflix. Problem with Netflix is like last night I selected a film and the link speed showed around 10 mbps but then Netflix could only deliver the film at 1.2 mbps. Too much demand on the service. Same thing happened with several titles I tried. A couple weeks back I looked up "writing for tv series 5 acts" and found an interesting blog by a series writer (he wrote some of the "Charlie Jade" episodes as well as other major series) which was very informative about how series are done these days. He even mentions that networks execs are beginning to get wise to viewers being less interested in serial series which require a time investment compared to episodic series. http://www.craftyscreenwriting.com/TVFAQ.html > > I kinda followed "Mad Men" for a while the same way > one follows a soap opera -- as a "guilty pleasure." > >From Day One I found the characters and the issues > they dealt with kinda boring and mundane, and very > difficult to identify with. I continued to watch it > almost out of habit -- *exactly* the way one does > with a soap opera that one has developed a guilty > pleasure Jones for. You tune in hoping something > will actually *happen* in this week's episode, only > to be disappointed. > > Between Danish TV and much better shows (IMO, of > course) on American TV, I simply haven't felt even > the desire to watch "Mad Men" this season. At one > point I even realized why: If they'd killed off > ANY of the characters, I wouldn't have cared. "Crossing Lines" was definitely a deviation from that. I hope it is a trend.
