My significant special lady of interest girlfriend has taken like a fish to water to this show called Greek, an ABC Family original from 2007. There are four seasons.
The writing is good. The acting is good. The actors don't overplay their roles, and the characters aren't cut and dry good and bad. As my significant lady of interest girlfriend has said, "Shades of gray." It's important to have characters avoid caricature.
I sat down with a beerski while Megan was watching and I started to question the fact that two guys playing beer pong at a party means everybody stops and watches and cheers and such. But then I realized that questioning these parts of the show is a) useless and b) doesn't make the show any worse. Like, my pointing that out doesn't call the show out on anything. It is what it is, and it does it unflinchingly, and that's honorable.
Even though it is about sororities and fraternities. It seems like the creators wanted to challenge themselves by taking a group of people who aren't that interesting in real life and making a show about them work. Definitely going for a Gilmore Girls thing, too. Dramedy to the max.
My biggest problem with the show is that all the characters are sniveling little rich kids that don't deserve anything they have, but ... .
(sudden startling Jack Bauer voice) Shifting gears here.
My sudden special lady of lasting interest girlfriend and I are on season seven of 24. It is taking fucking forever to get through this show, but there's one reason we're sticking it out: IT KICKS ASS.
24 is a ride through some intensity! And always done respectfully, leaving no room for humor because the subject matter is so serious. There is always a body count. Every episode someone dies or gets shot. Pretty much. Hell, there are terrorist attacks on the country in every season.
Some shows lose it after the first couple seasons. You know, they get less interesting. But not this show, man. They've really gone through some severe changes, but have kept it right on track, and kept some awesome recurring characters that I always end up rooting for. Aaron Pierce. Tony Almeida. Jack Bauer. Bill Buchanan.
Janeane Garofalo really works well on the show. I also recently saw her on Greek. I liked her there too. Jon Voight, too.
I am still higly interested mostway into season 7. And I'm gonna be sad there's no more of it when I'm done watching season 8.
But now that buttshit Netflix is changing their pricing scheme to make you pay more for streaming is just a bastard of a move, and it's impetus for my special girlfriend lady interestingly enough to jet stream threouw the rest of 24 and then just do single dvds at a time, so's we can watch The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad season 3... o I drool.
#ButtshitNetflix.
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