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Post by majestic on Sept 20, 2021 19:03:02 GMT -5
Name a TV show that your Spouse watches that you got "hooked" on watching that you normally wouldn't watch. Currently for me it is Heartland. It is about a horse farm in western Canada and I was pulled in by the beautiful country. Then I got hooked on the characters both human and equine.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 19:34:54 GMT -5
Property Brothers.
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Post by brutalis on Sept 20, 2021 21:21:25 GMT -5
No spouse, but as a teen watching TV with my mom I got hooked on Soap Opera's General Hospital (I was there watching the whole Luke/Laura phenomena) and One Life to Live. And mom got me hooked on prime-time Soaps Dallas and Dynasty. And every Saturday at 6pm was Hee Haw.
And in return I got mom hooked on Star Trek, Incredible Hulk, Vegas with Robert Urich, Miami Vice, Benny Hill and Doctor Who.
Hooked on watching with my grandfather on mom's side: Dragnet, Adam-12, Emergency, Wide World of Sports and Wrestling.
Hooked on watching with my grandfather on my dad's side: Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Rodeo's whenever they would air and Lawrence Welk from him and grandma.
In my early 20's in the 80's I was hooked on some of the Spanish/Latin Telenovels while dating a senorita.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 21:29:07 GMT -5
nothing. . but all he watches are Car Shows and football.
on the other hand, I got him hooked and watching with me: Walking Dead (but on the original series), Meerkat Manor (BBC). . as well as most of the animal/nature shows, and most embarrassing for him? I got him TOTALLY hooked on Family Guy years ago (back when it was funny more often than not. . these days, we still watch, but there are way fewer funny episodes (and I much prefer Bobs Burgers, which he won't watch)
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 20, 2021 23:18:33 GMT -5
Name a TV show that your Spouse watches that you got "hooked" on watching that you normally wouldn't watch. Currently for me it is Heartland. It is about a horse farm in western Canada and I was pulled in by the beautiful country. Then I got hooked on the characters both human and equine. My 16 year old daughter loves that show! I've watched a spattering of episodes... enough to make fun of her when the plot recycles for the 10th time. My wife is not very diverse in her tv viewing.. she mostly watches PBS and British mysteries.. both of which I like on my own, so not alot of to go on there, though I did probably watch more Inspector Lynley than I would have on my own. Not sure this counts, but she had a brief infatuation with the Alaskan Bush People show, which I greatly enjoying heckling/looking up the nonsense they did off camera online while she was watching  She had no idea about sci fi as a kid, so I got her hooked on Star Trek (TNG only) and Doctor Who (the modern one, which she now is more of a fan of than I am). No luck with Wrestling, though, sadly (though the aforementioned 16 year will sometimes watch ) |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 21, 2021 3:48:57 GMT -5
Any number of cooking shows, including a few 'reality-ish' competition shows, like the Great British Bake Off and a locally-produced Croatian one with a similar format, except the contestants prepare three-course meals rather than just baked goods.
Earlier, when we first met, she turned me into regular viewer of Murphy Brown, of which I had maybe watched one episode when I was still living in the States, as well as Northern Exposure, which was unbelievably popular in Croatia in the early 1990s, and also Darling Buds of May, a sort of comedy/drama show from the UK that's a bit syrupy but still charming and funny thanks to a really strong cast (which included Catherine Zeta Jones, basically her first major acting gig).
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 21, 2021 5:33:36 GMT -5
District 31.
It's a daily Canadian police procedural show, the first season of which I missed entirely. My wife got me to watch an episode of season two, and...
We record it and binge on several episodes when time allows. Good thing too, because all those cliffhangers would be the death of me!!!
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Post by MWGallaher on Sept 21, 2021 8:29:31 GMT -5
My wife Dana doesn't care for many of my favored genres, so our shared TV time is mostly her choices. During the pandemic, she's gotten me into Glee, The Crown, Big Little Lies, Anne With an E, and Land Girls, all things I didn't expect to like but I did.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 21, 2021 9:31:07 GMT -5
Not much. We are usually pretty in synch on TV. I think she is the one who found the original Iron Chef from Japan. And she probably is the one who started watching Chopped.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 21, 2021 12:17:12 GMT -5
We have almost virtually nothing in common when it comes to TV. Mostly because I watch hardly any TV shows myself. Spend my down time on video games and reading. That said I would say the two things I probably never would have found without her that I like is Fringe and Supernatural. Now the later I don't care for most of the show, but there are some excellent episodes that I repeat watch. And while I didn't like the entirety of Fringe what I do like I really like.
And yes over the 21 years we've been together I've watched entirely too much General Hospital to the point that I actually know most of the characters, the people that played them and their backstories. In fact I have a book by Maurice Bernard where he talks about his life and dealing with his mental illness that I still have yet to read.
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Post by howardm416 on Sept 27, 2021 10:54:26 GMT -5
Last night my g/f wanted to watch the season premiere of Supermarket Sweep. Of course, it had to be on at the same time as The Walking Dead. Fortunately, AMC runs a replay of The Walking Dead later in the evening, so we watched Supermarket Sweep at 9 pm, and The Walking Dead later. I usually enjoy game shows anyway, so I did get into Supermarket Sweep.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2021 11:12:35 GMT -5
^ it was (by far) the best episode of TWD this season.
likely because it was so unlike anything they've done prior.
the current season is just . . . BAD. The decompressed storylines - stretching it out to make the last season supersized - is a mistake. and the Reavers are terrible characters who should (if they must appear) be in a 1 and done episode. Stretching them out across a multiple episode arc is not working. I want them off my screen and would rather be following the rebuilding of Alexandrea and what's going on in the Commonwealth
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 27, 2021 12:24:33 GMT -5
We don't watch broadcast, cable or satellite TV at home. My wife borrows DVDs from the library. I've just gone thru her records on the library's website; these are the TV series that we've seen most or all of in the last decade. Without her, I might not have seen any of them (except for the older ones that I watched when they were first on).
Mad Men
The Good Wife
Once Upon a Time
Murder, She Wrote
Magnum, PI
Grace & Frankie
Bones
NCIS
Numb3rs
Father Brown
Murdoch Mysteries
Columbo
Law & Order
Prime Suspect
Rosemary & Thyme
House
White Collar
The Last Detective
George Gently
Blue Murder
Vera
Rizzoli & Isles
The Closer
Winter
The Brokenwood Mysteries
Diagnosis Murder
Agatha Raisin
Midsomer Murders
Father Dowling Mysteries
Jake and the Fatman
Nash Bridges
Blue Bloods
Cagney & Lacey
Pie in the Sky
Lord Peter Wimsey
Cracker
Murder in Suburbia
Sanctuary
No Offence
Garrow's Law
JAG
Chicago PD
Line of Duty
Chicago Fire
DCI Banks
Last Tango in Halifax
The Vicar of Dibley
Scott & Bailey
The Fall
Mystery Road
New Tricks
The Good Doctor
Brothers & Sisters
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Game of Thrones
The Good Fight
Dalziel & Pascoe
Inspector Lynley
Chicago Justice
19-2
Silent Witness
Janet King
Sharpe
Doctor Blake
The 100
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Ballykissangel
Major Crimes
Luther
Wallander
Billions
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