Mike & Molly – The Doena Journal

March 1, 2014

Purchase Diary 2014 – January / February

DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2014

The Big Bang Theory: Season 6 (2012 – 2013)

Jan 4th – €1.66 ($7.99) @ Amazon.com (paid partially via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12605 – 12607

How I Met Your Mother: Season 8 (2012 – 2013)

Jan 4th – €1.93 ($9.96) @ Amazon.com (paid partially via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12608 – 12610

Justified: Season 3 (2012)

Jan 4th – €1.94 ($9.99) @ Amazon.com (paid partially via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12611 – 12613

Night Court: Season 2 (1984 – 1985)

Jan 7th – €0.00 ($11.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12614 – 12616

Night Court: Season 3 (1985 – 1986)

Jan 7th – €0.00 ($11.49) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12617 – 12619

DJ Doena

February 27, 2014

Chuck Lorre, Where Art Thou?

Short Review

I used to love Chuck Lorre shows.

I loved them back in the days of the first few seasons of Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory and even the beginning of Mike & Molly.

But now? Not so much. But let me break this down by series.

Two and a Half Men

Let me preface this by saying I don’t care what happens behind the curtains. I never did. Not with this show, not with others. What I care about is what happens on the screen.

TaaHM used to be funny. Back in the days when Jake was still a cute kid, back when Charlie wrote things like the Oshikuru theme song, back then when Alan had no success with women.

Long before Angus T. Jones grew up and pulled a sort-of Kirk Cameron, Jake was used less and less and had to endure the fate of many a sitcom character: His character traits were exaggerated until (in his case) he was basically too dumb to live. Does anyone remember that cool kid from the Pilot who out-bluffed grown men at the poker table?

Charlie (the on-screen character) didn’t change all that much over the season until he was killed off-screen.

And Alan? I found Alan never that funny to begin with but his ability too mooch and his inabilty to find a decent job (has he been working at all in the past two seasons?) have just stretched way beyond the breaking point.

All in all, I’m going to cancel TaaHM for myself at the end of the season.

DJ Doena

February 22, 2014

I’m slowly falling behind

Thought Storm

I hate real life. Yes I know, it’s bringing in the money and with it the food and the DVDs but still. There are just…

DJ Doena

August 31, 2013

TV Junkie: A History

Thought Storm, TV Season Diary

I watched a lot of TV shows over the years. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. And I watched accross the board.

Keep in mind that I’m only 35 years old.

I watched The Guiding Light for two years straight (it’s a soap opera whose German title was the Springfield Story). I watched medical shows like Trapper John M.D. and lawyer shows like L.A. Law. I watched the 80s action shows from MacGuyver to Riptide. I even watched Love Boat every weekday on one of the first private channels in Germany: Sat.1. I got up at 6am on every Saturday morning to watch Rawhide (Tausend Meilen Staub, lit. “A Thousand Miles of Dust”) with a very young and pre-Fistful Clint Eastwood. I knew who Daniel Boone was around the same time I met the Cartwrights as well as the men from the Shiloh Ranch.

And last weekend I binge-watched the first Netflix show House of Cards (Big recommendation! Kevin Spacey is a brilliant Magnificent Bastard!) and I got curious as to how many shows I watched intently over the past two and a half decades.

With the help of the list on the German site Wunschliste.de I created a list of “my” shows.

I only counted live-action fiction shows, no animated shows may they be Saturday morning cartoons like Yogi Bear or Scooby-Doo or evening shows like The Simpsons or South Park. No scripted reality (which I’m avoiding to 99% anyway with the exception of Comic Book Men). In this list are only shows which I followed for more than a year unless the show itself didn’t last that long.

And the answer was: ~~244~~ ~~246~~ 247. Two hundred and fourty ~~four~~ ~~six~~ seven different shows I watched with active interest since I’ve started watching television. And the worst thing is: Of most of these shows I watched 90% or more episodes at least once.

DJ Doena

October 31, 2012