Indefinite rewatchability is my revealed top criterion for a TV show to be on my favorites list. Surprisingly, this maps to a certain mediocrity and inefficiency in storytelling. Fat narrative over lean. So shows can fail to make my list by being too bad OR too good to rewatch.
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Forgot South Park as a big one in the sweet spot. Some shows I need longer between rewatches. If shortness of refractory period between rewatches is the metric, my top shows are Futurama and Psych. The Simpsons fails this scheme due to zombification.
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The mediocrity manifests as a 2d character arc, lots of undeveloped little bits of fat, non sequitur jokes. Narrative comfort food.
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Probably surprising, but The Office is not among my favorite shows. Never rewatched after it finished airing and I finished my blog series on it. Futurama otoh is my most rewatched show. Probably 6-7 full watch-throughs. But it’s never really fueled any writing.
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Yes Minister was on a big rewatch rotation, but the Great Weirding killed it for me. Maybe it will be rewatchable again in a few years if the world improves.https://twitter.com/swarroup/status/1312609610537164800 …
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No Hindi shows from before I moved to the US are on the list.
Partly lack of access, but mostly just poor quality. Indian TV 1980s-90s was... not good. And I think it got worse after I left in 97, not better.Show this thread
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I feel like Deadwood is the only show good enough to watch indefinitely.
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Ooh I really like Castle
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Lucifer is not bad to rewatch But in general I don’t rewatch TV shows
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Your essay about the office was a mind blower. Very well done. I tried to extrapolate outside of work but I’m not sure it totally applies.
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Psych was the first show I watched where I finally figured out that the overall plot wasn’t as big a factor in what makes tv series appealing as everyone pretends.
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