Who still watches TV and follows consistent shows?
 

I realize that other than watching AEW every week, I don't really watch TV/Streaming or follow a show consistently. Once work is done the wife and I mostly watch Youtube crime videos or I game with Street Fighter and the like.

I think the last show I watched where I actually tune in week after week was Dragonball Daima since it was released weekly on the streaming services. Before that, and I mean waaaaaay back in the day, it was Agents of SHIELD and the 2012 TMNT show.

I mean one of the plus sides of Daima for me, other than it being more Dragonball and me being curious how it was gonna play out, is that it became the one show that would make me tune in every week, and I missed having that.

I'm not into binging shows, and despite the amount of times the ads during AEW blast it in my face, I have zero desire to watch Peacemaker.

The irony is, if they released some brand new TMNT show that looked good (wether it be a 80's revival while the actors are still alive, or a more Mirage based show), and it was still released on a weekly format rather than a binge-watch format, that would become my new show to watch every week.

Nothing really excites me anymore, the only current show is the new season of Gen V on Prime (also started a rewatch of the Boys and a first time reading the comics). So as soon as a new Gen V drops, I'll watch it.

I was enjoying Doctor Who, but Disney are dragging their feet with renewal and now looking unlikely. I mean Star Wars and Marvel, should be a must watch, but Disney have made those franchies a chore to watch.

I did start watching the Paper (the office spin off, but I lost access to the streaming service). I don't think I'm missing out on much.

If Netflix dropped a new season of Black Mirror, that would be a must watch.

I always thought Star Wars worked best as movies that felt like events. Sure back then there was stuff like Ewoks cartoons or whatever, but everyone knew those didn't matter whenever the next movie would be announced.

But constant shows and other movies not in line with the main series I feel seriously watered down the brand. It's clear it's all about milking it dry at this point.

In terms of actual tv it's just aew. I do watch streaming currently watching peacemaker on max

Only as a kid, as a teen it's when I stopped watching shows as they aired, and would just binge watch them. Nowadays when I "watch TV" it's really that I'm on my computer doing something else and I have something on the background that I watch. It's been like that for like ten years now. The amount of stuff I actually "watch" that gets my full attention is very little.

I usually just rewatch my dvds, but sometimes I'll put on the local channels and flip through it. I recently got a cheap 7 dollar antenna from ebay and now I get like 50 channels. I'll usually just leave it on the cartoon channel which now has the 87 Turtles on it. If I see X-Files, Married With Children, Beverly Hillbillies, or the 3 Stooges on then I will definitely watch those. I haven't had cable and watched a scheduled TV show and kept up with it since Dragonball Z was being played on Cartoon Network when I was in high-school. I remember when they didn't have any episodes past the Frieza Saga for a longtime.

I don't watch on TV as they actually air. What I do is I wait for a season to finish entirely (or sometimes an entire series), and then I watch it all on 1.5x speed on the computer to binge watch it fast. I actually watch far more shows in recent years than I ever did when I was younger, because now you don't have to watch at a certain time on TV, or pay for cable channels, or buy DVD's, everything is uploaded for free on the illegal streaming websites so I have a choice to watch virtually any TV show or movie ever created.

I've basically been doing this for over 15+ years now since like 2013/2014 and I have consumed 1000+ movies, about 50-60 TV shows (and some of these shows go on 100+ eps so they're not short), in addition to watching the cartoons and anime that I like.

YouTube crime videos for the win!

Usually like murder mysteries and such.

Some of our favorite channels are- Coffeehouse Crime, Dire Trip, M7 Crime Storytime, Explore With Us, The Misery Machine, Disturban, Just Thought Lounge, Brief Case to name a few.

I really can't do the youtube thing. I mean sure, I watch the occasional stuff on youtube from time to time, but I never sit there religiously watching a single persons channel or even a group of videos based on a subject from different people.

I guess I must be a boomer, because I only use youtube to watch trailers for movies or videogames, or if I'm looking for a specific clip from a movie/tv show I liked and want to see again, or if I get stuck in a videogame look up a quick playthrough to see how someone got past that part in the game. But that's really all I use youtube for.

I can’t speak for everyone, but in my experience, many people who still watch OTA broadcasts including my parents are the Baby Boomer generation who don’t use streaming platforms very often.

Personally, I only use it if there is an ongoing event such as an emergency weather event where there’s a threat to people or property such as a tornado warning.

I am also subscribed to most of those. However, I couldn't listen to Misery Machine because all of their stories involve children.

Yeah, those can be kinda rough sometimes.

Another type that the wife doesn't like are cold cases since you're stuck wondering what happened and the cases are left unresolved for the time being.

We also watch 'Why I Never' which seems to deal with historic cases (a lot of women poisoning people back in the day it seems) and one I think is called Crime A to Z where they take a look at cases but also adds in modern day follow ups or 'where are they now' type things.

I still watch shows if I’m interested enough. I usually DVR a few episodes first so I can watch a mini marathon.

Last show was Murder in a Small Town. I like murder mystery (fictional not into true crime shows). Thought it looked good and I like Kristin Kreuk. Her last show Burden and Truth was great. Watched all 4 seasons.

Unfortunately I thought Murder in a Small Town was really dumb. So many things were completely unbelievable and her and the main character (detective) just had sex all the time. Obviously they didn’t show it but their whole relationship was immature. Her character specifically acts stupid. It really does Kristin a disservice.

It’s based on a book series. I’m assuming those are much better and adapting it to 1 hour episodes is rushing story and character development. Season 2 just started but I’m not watching it.

That’s the most recent. Other than that I watch game shows, and other non-scripted stuff. Cartoons of course. I wanna watch more things but I don’t really have time. Ill check out new sitcoms now and then.

I do watch quite a bit of YouTube but I’m very selective now. So much clickbait and YouTubers just making videos for every little subject for the revenue. Ads in general are awful. It’s like malware. I always back out until I get shorter ads.

I think the problem is you guys aren't watching the right shows. I have recently consumed or rewatched:

Buffy
Angel
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
The Sopranos
Mad Men
The Wire
The Shield
Boardwalk Empire
Dexter (both original and sequel series)
24
Lost
Deadwood
Queens Gambit
Cobra Kai
Stranger Things
The Boys
Squid Game
All Star Trek shows past and present
The Orville
Daredevil
Jessica Jones
All modern Star Wars shows, although some are worse than others
All modern MCU shows, although again some were terrible
True Detective
Dollhouse
Firefly
Battlestar Galactica 2004
Babylon 5
Mr. Robot
Black Mirror

I don't really watch comedies, although I've watched all of Curb your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, The Office, Malcolm in the Middle and some of Married with Children. I'm not a sit-com/comedy show guy, so I just watch a few of them.

And this is not even counting cartoons or anime, where I could pile on another 100 shows to this list.

What do you mean by recently? Your list is like a ten year project to me :tlol:

For me recently I was able to binge all of the DCEU but it took me more than a month perhaps 2, I dunno I was watching about an hour of content each day so I'd finish a movie every 2 days or so.

I literally watched or rewatched most of these shows in the last 5 years. :lol:

Depends on the show. If it's something I really wanna see then Ill wait for a few weeks to pass before binging it, or if its a 30 minute show and I can knock out a couple episodes a day I will.

Out of all those shows I only watched season 1 and 2 of Stranger Things and kinda lost interest after that.

None of the MCU shows interest me, I still say all of that should have stayed in the movies. And it looks like the Gunn DCverse is gonna start making the same mistakes as they're mixing Superman2025 stuff in with Peacemaker and who knows what else.

I hadn't watched most of those shows till the last few years, only shows I saw when they originally aired was Buffy/Angel and some of the Star Trek shows although I missed a good chunk of eps of the latter and never saw them in proper order till recently. Buffy was my show as a teen.

But other than that I started watching them all in the last 5-6 years and got through them all, they're considered some of the top TV shows of the last 20+ years.

I saw the later eps of Buffy back when it was on. Similar to Charmed and MK Conquest and WCW.

My advice is to watch shows on the 1.5x speed setting. You'll get through all these shows in no-time flat. You can still understand what the characters are saying pretty easily and maybe lower it to 1.25x speed during the action or fighting scenes to see it properly.

When I watch shows on normal speed it now feels like slow motion to me, the characters talk like they're mentally retarded, slurring their words or stunted or something.

1.5x is my default for youtube videos, anything less is annoying, they purposely speak slow and add filler words to make the videos longer. 1.5 is the right speed where they start to sound normal, the really bad ones you have to go to 1.75 or 2x to be able to make it through so much nonsense.

I can't do it with tv shows since I'm already not paying full attention to what is going on since i'm on my computer or whatever so it's already at the right pace, any faster and I'd be missing information.

I watch over-the-air tv about once a year, when the ball drops on New Year's Eve.
Before kids, my wife and I streamed shows regularly. We probably will again once the kids get older. Currently our schedule rarely allows us time to relax.
I did manage to watch the latest season of Black Mirror and Daredevil: Born Again this year. If there's something I really want to watch, I'll find some time.

I'm now going through Game of Thrones for the first time, I know it ends badly but I've never seen the show before so I'm going through it. Blows my mind this show started way back in 2011, I had no idea it was like 15 years old now. Wasn't this one of the earliest big streaming/HBO hits? That didn't just air on TV? At least as far as I remember. unlike say The Sopranos which aired just on TV in 1999.

It's kind of funny, I never watched any of these shows before because you needed either cable or a subscription to HBO or netflix or whatever to watch it all. But now thanks to the illegal streaming websites all those barriers are gone and everything is uploaded in one place. I've literally been watching hundreds of TV shows and movies I would have never watched if I actually had to pay money for them.

Sopranos was only on HBO.

I only watch live-broadcastings like sports when they air.

Current shows? Let's see. I still watch the new episodes of South Park and Saturday Night Live. I'm watching the first season of Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage on Paramount. I didn't watch Young Sheldon, which preceded it. But I was a big Big Bang Theory Fan, and Emily Osment is pretty hot. I like HBO MAX'S Harley Quinn. Is that getting another season? And I'll definitely be checking out the Scrubs and Buffy reboots when they come out.

People tend to watch the wrong shows or old shows and complain there's nothing worth watching. Also almost every show in the pre-2000's except for maybe like 3-5 shows have aged worse than anything in the last 25 years.

I disagree, while I do think shows were getting better and better over time, I think the 2010s saw a decline in storytelling and now we're at a pretty low point.
-In the past seasonal arcs were rare and the few shows that did it were so much better because of it, thanks to HBO shows and dvds/recording serialized shows became more of a thing. But then the worst happened shows became the seasonal arc, each individual episode now seems worse than they were before. In the past they tried to make each episode great since they didn't care to make a continuous story, sometimes they succeeded sometimes they didn't. But now it almost seems like they don't care, especially if it's filler, only a few episodes whithin the season matter and the rest are all trash, and even ones that move the storyline they are doing it so slowly that it kills any interest. I feel with newer shows that it's basically a 3 episode storyline being stretched to 10 episodes.

- In the past we had 20+ episode seasons and you'd get a new season every year. Sure not all 20 episodes were bangers but whatever. Nowadays you get 10 episode seasons and not all episodes are bangers. Perhaps the % of bad episodes is similar but you're still left with less great episodes. Also seasons are no longer every year, they can take 2 or 3 years before another one drops. These long breaks means the actors change, especially if they're young, the style of the show feels completely different between seasons, you don't see a slow evolution of season after season. Less episodes and longer wait doesn't mean higher quality, in fact since they have less experience doing the show.

-Writing has taken a downturn, now politically polarized people will say it's DEI, but it's deeper than that, not the real root of the problem. We have a whole generation of writers who didn't grow up reading the greats of the past, they grew up reading social media andwhatnot. You also have a generation of fans who are writing for the franchises they like giving us their version of what they think the franchise is. Writing has gotten worse because of it, there's actually a lack of great writers.

I won't say old shows are flawless but they have a different feel. For example, right now I'm watching the Addams Family 60s series, it's very basic but it's comfy, can't say that for some current shows and it's not like I have nostalgia for a show that came out 3 decades before I was born.

Now when people say current shows are crap and prefer to watch ****ing He-Man, knight rider or some 80s slop then yeah I'd agree we have plenty of better stuff now.

That's not incorrect. I could say it's a problem that these showrunners are filling their writers rooms with left-leaning activists and not actual writers -- and it is -- but if these activists actually versed themselves in the greats (sci-fi authors if we're talking about sci-fi) then maybe at least under all of the activism there could at least be quality writing and well crafted characters. Or maybe not. Maybe "the message" is all they care about delivering.

A lot of those old 80's and 90's TV shows, speaking strictly about non-sitcoms or comedies were pretty awful. There's a reason sitcoms were the most popular shows on TV back then, it was the only thing TV was good at, at the time.

Shows had poor budget, barely any continuity between episodes (there was hardly any season long arcs because the eps were meant to be watched randomly out of order on reruns on TV), shows were often canceled randomly without a conclusion, etc. Also a lot of shows back then relied on really tired writing tropes that were dated even for the time, or the good guys always winning and the villains always losing no matter how absurd the plot was.

I realized after marathoning all of TV over the last 10 years on 1.5x speed that very few shows from the 80's or 90's even hold up. Only ones I still like are Buffy and the Star Trek shows, Bablyon 5, and probably 1-2 others I'm forgetting at the moment. Old 70's shows aged even worse, like the 70's Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Planet of the Apes TV series, Time Tunnel, V (this is ok to be fair), The Six Million dollar man, all those awful cops and law and order shows, lol.

When you look back at shows back then, the most popular shows were sitcoms like Seinfeld, Married with Children, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Full House, Home Improvement, 90210, Melrose Place, etc. Comedies were cheap to make and were easy crowd pleasers, so it's why TV was filled with them back then.