{"id":1345,"date":"2014-02-22T17:49:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T16:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:44:13","slug":"im-slowly-falling-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/1345\/im-slowly-falling-behind","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m slowly falling behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate real life.<\/p>\n<p>Yes I know, it&#8217;s bringing in the money and with it the food and the DVDs but still.<\/p>\n<p>There are just so many seasons I still want to watch but I don&#8217;t find the time.<\/p>\n<p>And every year there are new shows coming out that seem interesting and you discover old ones that also appeal to you.<\/p>\n<p>But you can&#8217;t watch them all so you have to make the tough choices.<\/p>\n<p>For me that means I&#8217;m dropping everything I&#8217;m only still watching out of habit.<\/p>\n<p>From this year&#8217;s batch I dropped <em>Mom<\/em>. I started to watch it because it was a Chuck Lorre show but I just don&#8217;t find it to be that entertaining. I&#8217;m also dropping <em>Trophy Wife<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And even though I enjoyed the pilot episodes I probably won&#8217;t continue with <em>Almost Human<\/em> and <em>Intelligence<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If it weren&#8217;t the last season of <em>How I Met Your Mother<\/em> I would drop it as well because it hasn&#8217;t been truly funny for a couple of years now. I&#8217;ve also axed <em>Bones<\/em> from my personal schedule last year because I became bored with the characters and the setting and the evermore gorier corpses. <\/p>\n<p>And another casualty from the Chuck Lorre team is <em>Mike &#038; Molly<\/em>. I really enjoyed the first three seasons but this year they&#8217;ve changed their tune and every episode seems to be focused on Melissa McCarthy&#8217;s slapstick humour and the charm of the show seems to be evaporated. I will probably cancel <em>Two and a Half Men<\/em> after this season as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I also dropped <em>Supernatural<\/em> after its fifth season. I always intended to catch up on that but postponed it year after year after year. Now I&#8217;m four years behind and I think I will just let it be.<\/p>\n<p>There are two shows that are standing on the edge: <em>Dexter<\/em> and <em>24<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><em>Dexter<\/em> did get worse towards the end and when the last season started I waited &#8217;til it was over so I could watch it in one go. But then I read the reviews (and also accidentally the spoilers) where everyone was trashing the last season and I asked myself: Is it really worth it spending 12 hours watching a show when you&#8217;re probably going to be pissed at it?<\/p>\n<p>With <em>24<\/em> it was pretty much the same. Season 7 was good again (IMO) but it had become repetitive over the years. But now with the new mini-series coming out I&#8217;m reconsidering to watch it after all.<\/p>\n<p>As far as old shows go, I still need to watch the last five(!) seasons of <em>The West Wing<\/em>, six(!!) seasons of <em>Gilmore Girls<\/em> and almost all(!!!) of <em>Friday Night Lights<\/em>. I had never seen these shows on live television but from what I&#8217;ve seen I can tell that they speak to me and that&#8217;s why I want to watch then &#8211; when I find the time.<\/p>\n<p>And this is what I still need to watch in regards to current shows (in alphabetical &#8211; not preference &#8211; order):<\/p>\n<p><em>Breaking Bad<\/em>: Season 4 + 5<br \/>\n<em>Burn Notice<\/em>: Season 7<br \/>\n<em>House of Lies<\/em>: Season 3 + 4<br \/>\n<em>Justified<\/em>: Season 4 + 5<br \/>\n<em>Mad Men<\/em>: Season 5 + 6<br \/>\n<em>White Collar<\/em>: Season 4<\/p>\n<p>But for now, I&#8217;m going to finish season 2 of <em>House of Cards<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate real life. Yes I know, it&#8217;s bringing in the money and with it the food and the DVDs but still. 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