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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
Had been in the garden under brilliantly blue skies but was chased in by hard rain and skies that looked like Mordor.
Warming up while watching recorded TV. I've been watching Helix, but it continues to get more and more bizarre to the point of, is it worth it anymore?
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I thought Helix lamed-out last year. I tried it this year, and made it to the point of the bees-honey, and just gave it the hell up. It's like...all drama, no plot. There's too much soap-opera for my tastes, and worse, it's shallow soap, too. Everybody is a psychopath--the modern tastes in TV (SOA, The Tudors, I mean, I could go on and on and on). And it's DUMB as crap, with all sorts of plotholes and idiocies. Shows all seem to start out well--for example, Suits, with a lot of repartee and wit--and then descend to the usual tropes, stereotypes, and the dreaded 8th grade plot-lines. (Another show that went in my trashbin, for which I'd had high original hopes. When I started hoping that the girlfriend character would get murdered, I figured, enough's enough. It's like they switched writers and started writing for 8th-grade girls).
In fact, even with my Roku, Directv, Acorn, Netflix and Amazon Prime, it's increasingly difficult, IMHO, to find anything new that's fun. We're not comedy fans; we mostly like mysteries, sci-fi, that sort of thing. Soapy soap is definitely out. I admit that my inner kid had high hopes for Netflix-Marvel's new Daredevil, but so far, it's not blowing my skirt up. That other new MFN (Made for Netflix), Bloodlines? Man, I thought that was going to be a mystery, and that's just pure nightime soap, from the jump. (When you start rooting for them ALL to die in a Hurricane, that's a sign that it's not for you.)
{sigh}. I guess that's the downside of a billion channels, and so little content, when you think about it. And if you're old enough, you've seen everything.
Hitch