inspired by certain discussions i've been having...

[lirazel]

Okay, if y'all could force all of your friends (define "force" however you want: emotional blackmail, actual blackmail, duct tape, guns, whatever) to watch certain shows, what would they be? Here are my top 10.

1. Friday Night Lights, because it is a work of art and will make you a better person. I know I am given to hyperbole, but when I say that it's a work of art, I mean that it is a work of art.
2. The last three seaons of Buffy. I mean, I guess you need to see the first four to really get why the last three are so important, but I really just love the last three and they're the ones I watch over and over lbr.
3. Coffee Prince, because I genuinely think everyone in the whole wide world would like it. It's so lovable.
4. Parks and Rec because of happiness.
5. Press Gang, because no one but redsilverchains has seen it, and I have a lot of feelings I would work out in fic/flail form if there was a fandom for this show. Also: Lynda Day.
6. The Black Donnellys because best pilot ever and also heartbreaking brothers and Jenny Reilly is the best.
7. Designing Women because I'm pretty sure it's what made me a feminist. Also: best characters ever.
8. Miranda, because it is delightful and will make you all happy.
9. Shut Up! Flower Boy Band! because I want all the fic and I don't understand why there isn't a fandom.
10. The Good Wife, to convince you that it's possible for a lawyer show to be good. A lawyer show on one of the main networks, no less.

Play with me!

Comments

[snickfic]

I have seen alarmingly few of these. Just BtVS and Coffee Prince, basically, although I watched part of a Miranda episode once. Oh, and 1 1/2 eps of P&R.

Some of those I have on my list of things to see, and some of them I have no idea why I should watch. I don't even have any idea what Press Gang is about.

You should write motivational posts for some of them, like you did with the kdramas (because those totally worked on m!).

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

P&R rewards investment. It's just okay in the first season or so, but when it becomes good it becomes so good. I love it because it's the opposite of ironic: it's genuinely fond of all of its characters and loves them and their quirks. It's optimistic and upbeat and just makes me feel good when I watch it.

I have a lot of rambles about Press Gang here, though you have to scroll down past other things to see them. Basic premise: a big-time newspaper editor moves back to his hometown and decides to sponsor a youth newspaper run by students at a nearby school. It's a "kid's show," except that it's not at all. By which I mean that it doesn't feature anything parents would find objectionable, and yet it is very adult in the way it views the world.

I do like motivational posts! I should do more of those!

[snickfic]

So, not about a bunch of men impressed into the navy against their will. That's good to know. :D That actually sounds pretty intriguing! I should look it up when I'm in the mood for something like that.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Haha, no! Though I have it on tracked tags on tumblr and I always get confused for a second when it's not about British teenagers working on a newspaper and it is about a bunch of men impressed into the navy against their will.