Now, more than ever in my life, I watch TV. Religiously. Not 24/7, but I have a list of shows I CONSISTENTLY watch. I was reading through Kaeleen’s blog and she writes recaps of Pretty Little Liars (I REFUSE TO CONTINUE TO WATCH THAT FOR THIS MOMENT) and I LOVED reading them. and then I realized… I LOVE twitter during TV airings, so I should just compile my thoughts of the TV shows I’ve watched and post them and then we can all just discuss the stupid things we all waste our time on. but then it’s building community and that’s not stupid.
// #1. THE BACHELOR
Okay let me say that I want to love the idea of this show. Last year I became a woman when I started watching The Bachelorette. and I LOOOOOVED Farmer Chris. So when it was announced that he would be the next Bachelor I was OVER THE MOON. But this show is an absolute snoozefest. and it kind of makes me sad to see all of these women fighting for the affection of a man they don’t actually even know, and feeling so destroyed about themselves when they aren’t validated by a flower.
And the whole parading a group of women through Los Angeles in their bikinis before they do a bikini TRACTOR RACE? No. Anyway. I’m hoping Britt wins and that the two widowed women don’t get their hearts destroyed too badly.
Oh. And POOR KIMBERLY. She convinced Chris to give her a second chance…. and she still got eliminated. Poor girl.
// #2. MTVÂ THE CHALLENGE: BATTLE OF THE EXES 2
Oh my poor heart. Diem is starting to get sick. Even though CT can be a total jerk, I think watching him and Diem together has always been my favorite part of the challenges they’re on together. Knowing that this is the beginning of the end of Diem’s precious, inspiring life on earth is AWFUL. The previews for next week KILLED ME. I’m going to have so so so many tissues on hand for this season. Deep down inside of me I’d always hoped that the two of them would be able to overcome their history and they’d get married and have kids and live forever. Sigh.
The MTV Real World crew seems like a big dysfunctional family, and I cannot imagine how difficult it is for them to re-watch this season, knowing that it is the last time they’ve competed with Diem and Knight. My heart goes out to the whole Real World family in the next few months.
// #3. REAL WORLD: SKELETONS
I’m just behind honest here. I watch this show. I will never in my life be emotionally attached to people like that in my life. The girl, Madison, is seriously the most oblivious person I’ve ever seen in my entire life. I don’t know how the girl in the house are friends with her. And what kind of sick person decided the twist in this season of RW should be to find people the house mates have problems with… and have them move in for awhile? That’s just cruel.
// #4. CRIMINAL MINDS
Oh JJ. Poor, sweet JJ. I’d actually completely forgot about when she was tortured. One of the things I love the most about the show is continuity. They don’t just magically make the characters “get over” rough situations – they might not constantly talk about them, but every so often the side effects of trauma come up.
But Jennifer Love Hewitt – GET OFF MY TV SHOW!!!! Criminal Minds is actually my favorite show, and I just can’t stand JLH. While I usually love the writers’ plots and character development, it feels like JLH was forced on us and I DON’ T LIKE HER!!!!!
// #5. LAW & ORDER: SVU
Woah. Okay first of all, Raúl Esparza is so handsome. He might be the only reason I continued watching the show post-Stabler. Second of all. This episode. Holy Shia LeBouf with the paper bag/#ACCUSED thing. and teenage girls are cray cray, especially when borderline handsome celebrities are involved.
Missing from my lineup is Pretty Little Liars. I seriously just cannot at the current moment. It’s just too much of a burden. I get too mad. Like…. REALLY mad. Because they’re all idiots who just need to call the police when they find a dead body. I’m sure I’ll catch up on it soon. 🙂
Do any of you watch any of these shows? I just want more people to talk to about shows. I already text Kristen about The Bachelor every Tuesday (and in two episodes WE WILL WATCH IT TOGETHER IN NASHVILLE) but seriously. Let’s discuss.
OMG could not agree with you more about JLH – She is annoying me and when she talked down to :spence I thought I was going to punch her through my TV :0
HOW do the writers think it’s okay to keep her on the show!? she is awful and boring and there’s nothing they could do to make me like her more. just saying. glad i’m not the only one who feels that way!!
Reality TV is totally my guilty pleasure. The Bachelor has SUCH petty drama, but I just love it. And it’s pretty great to laugh at. Also, Criminal Minds and Law & Order: SVU are two of my favorite shows! I have a feeling we’d be pretty good friends if we lived closer Stephanie. 🙂
i realized i basically love reality TV and crime shows! haha. the bachelor is like an overdramatic cabin at summer camp 🙂 & when you did your post on criminal minds i was like…. MY PEOPLE!!! haha. 🙂
Visiting from Oh Hey, Friday! I love Criminal Minds, I think it’s one of (if not the best) show on TV right now. I’m with on on JLH, why is she there?? When will they make her go away, get her off my TV. I love a good episode of SVU too! I’ve never watched a single episode of The Bachelor/Bachelorette I remember catching 5 minutes of The Bachelor on TV at one point and being totally horrified at the way the girls were acting!
we should start a GET JLH OFF OUR SHOW petition 🙂 this is my first season of watching the bachelor!!! the girls are breaking my heart. i don’t know if i can watch after this season – though i guess the way they get you is by choosing one of the contestants to be the next bachelorette – and so on and so on.
I haven’t watched Law and Order yet this week, so I skipped over that, but Jennifer Love Hewitt needs to get off the show! I hated her challenging Spencer at the beginning of the episode. Her delivery was cringe-inducing. They have been trying to replace Emily’s character (unsuccessfully) for awhile now. Maybe they should quit trying? Or get someone we don’t already associate with other shows/movies/who can act. Maybe she could act at one point, but too much time on Lifetime probably dulls your skills.
Also, they could have made her look less dowdy and more glamorous, if they were going to go to the trouble of hiring her!
OH YEAH — her challenging Spencer was AWFUL! i was like… who the heck are you?! of course he knows what he’s talking about!!! he’s a genius!! emily’s character was a perfect fit after elle – i never even liked elle, though. emily was just SO PERFECT for the team. LOL @ “who can act.”
I totally agree that Emily was a good replacement for Elle, but they keep trying to replicate without success. Honestly, just cut the extra team member. I worked for the FBI and know that you 1. don’t need that many agents to begin with and 2. Really, they’d take a tactical analyst WITH them in the field to support the locasl for cases like that, in addition to getting support remotely from someone who has access to the databases.
So maybe cut JLH and quit trying to replace Emily/Elle and create an analyst character?
amen!! let’s just stop trying with that void. what would an analyst character do? like who would they be like?
Mercy mercy mercy. I am SO BEHIND on tv shows now. I have been meaning to start this season of Bachelor, but just haven’t gotten around to it yet. Thanks for linking up with us on H54F!!
Katie @ Cup of Tea
oh man — you’ve gotta catch up! farmer chris. hearts out my eyes emoji!