We dumped TV in 1997. I admit that if I liked TV sports it would have been a problem.
I had so much free time that I picked up a few new hobbies. I became a bass player and have been in 12 bands since then. We’ve always had a TV but used it to watch dvd’s and BlueRays.
Then we got a “smart” tv about 18 months ago and also discovered that our Amazon prime membership came with free video. So now we stream stuff on demand, when we feel like it. We’ve rediscovered a lot of old TV and movies and caught up on “good stuff” we had never seen. We just watched Phenomenon a couple of nights ago. I had no idea what an awesome movie that was.
We tried to get into some of the modern TV shows but most of them are just time wasting soap operas. I suppose that has a draw if you have to wait a week between episodes. But when you can watch an entire season at your leisure, it becomes pretty apparent they take WAY too long to tell the story.
Case in point: I had heard about a show called “Walking dead” that people rave about. I decided to watch the very first episode last night. I watched most of it. It was well done, but the story took too long to progress. And when I considered how many episodes there would be I shut it off. Same thing happened early on with The Dome. Looked pretty cool in the first half hour, but it quickly turned into a “relationsips based” soap opera, with a bit of sci-fi thrown in every 20 minutes or so to keep the males watching.
I mostly stick to movies.
We completely leapfrogged the cable era.
“Phenomenon”
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A very poignant movie. IMHO, Trivolta’s best.
We recently got a Firestick. Haven’t cut cable, Direct TV , yet. May keep the minimum pkg for local channels. I do have an antenna that could do that though.
Amazon has a couple shows we really like.
Bosch, based on the Michael Connolly detective book series. Five seasons
Jack Ryan, based on the Tom Clancy character. One season.
Both favorite authors.