Osprey
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- Feb 18, 2005
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I’ve shut so many shows off after 15 minutes. Usually pilots. Most shows crater and die, but some just keep rolling. Mostly cop shows, medical dramas, and lawyer shows. I bail hard on traditional American one hour dramas. But I bail on most superhero shows now too. I guess they’re not my thing. A lot of people obviously love them. They’re not all wrong, obviously.
I can't stand real life dramas (shows about cops, doctors, lawyers, firefighters, politicians, etc.). I don't want to watch those things when I'm trying to escape from the real world for a few hours every night. I don't understand why so many other people love spending their free time watching those types of shows, but everyone has different tastes.
That played a big role in me giving up on The Wire so early. I knew, going in, that it was the kind of show that I tend to hate. There was almost no way that I was going to like it, but it was HBO and I had been binge watching a lot of their shows that I really liked (Game of Thrones, Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Rome), so I gave it a chance, albeit a very small one. Only 15 minutes in, I could tell that it was the kind of show that I don't like, so I didn't need to see any more. Naturally, if I liked real life dramas, I would've been much more patient with it, as I am with shows that are more the kind of thing that I like watching. Heck, I watched the entire first season of Star Trek: Discovery, even though it's terrible, simply because I like sci-fi.