Television

We get fewer and fewer actual tv shows nowadays, we’ve seen a monumental rise in 6 to 8 hour movies cut up into roughly hour long chunks and packaged as tv shows … and that’s great and all … but let television be television, let episodes be episodes and not just a chunk of an extremely long movie.

Let us sit with the characters, let us explore more of the world than just the main plotline, let us have a beginning a middle and an end to each episode, let us have a little filler here and there, let us have a full season of tv, not just an overly long movie cut up into chunks.

Edit: a lot of people are getting stuck up on the short season vs long season stuff. I’m not against a six episode season, as long as it feels like 6 episodes and not just 6 chunks of a movie. There’s some great shows with 6 episode seasons but there’s also far more shows where those six episodes only serve to move you from the previous chunk to the next chunk.

The NBA on ESPN and ABC is ass, ass. Not only do they not have a quality pregame show or NBA show, but the games don’t come on antenna tv enough. There’s no excuse for a game not to be on every Saturday and Sunday, while the NFL is away. There should be morning and afternoon games.

When the NBA used to be on NBC, it was exciting to see Bob Costas go through the headlines leading up to the game. It was exciting to see the sitdown interview and hear the theme music. It was exciting to see NBA Inside Stuff with Ahmad Rashad and Willow Bay. It was professionalism across the board.

Nothing is done right at ESPN/ABC — absolutely nothing. There is nothing I look forward to when I watch their content. Mike Greenberg was the closest thing to professionalism, and they took him off the pregame. Perk and Malika is not cutting it for me, and JJ is stale. Richard Jefferson is good.

I’m so sick of trying to watch a football game and hearing “the body and the blood” from a possessed eight year old fifteen fucking times during commercials. If I had young children I definitely wouldn’t want them hearing/seeing these, and they should just be removed all together from tv. Put them online and before other horror movies in theaters.

Edit: I have no children and I never will. It was just another reason I thought was valid for taking them off tv

Both of these shows were unwatchable. The writing was terrible. The characters were not relatable, the laughs were forced. I tried giving both programs a chance multiple times but I could not get past how terrible they were. Neil Patrick Harris being a gigolo was probably the most pathetic theme out of both shows.