When i find someone who likes Game Of Thrones
When I find someone who has never watched Game of Thrones
Wait, holy shit, Mayor Tommy Carcetti is on Game of Thrones? OK, now I need to start watching this show.
I’ve been meaning to post something about The Big Bang Theory for a while now but it’s taken me ‘till now to really understand what it is about the show that makes me uncomfortable. I’m not exactly a believer in the whole “only write about the things you like, don’t trash the things you don’t” trend which seems to be plaguing comments sections in negative articles lately, but I wanted to be able to really examine why I don’t like TBBT rather than just slagging it off. My main questions being - Why don’t I like this anymore? Why do I feel uncomfortable watching it? And why do I get so annoyed when I see people sing its praises online? The thing which really sparked this post was seeing a raft of comments on Facebook, below the last round of voting in Television Without Pity’s Tubey Awards, claiming The Big Bang Theory to be “the best comedy on TV”. This made me angry so instead of posting an impulsive comment calling out their bad taste which I’d probably regret later, I decided to really analyse why seeing comments like that made me so mad when previously, although I didn’t really love the show, I’d never considered myself as disliking The Big Bang Theory.
Hell, I even have season one on dvd, it’s sitting right between Battlestar Galactica and Bored To Death in my alphabetised collection.
And here, I think, is where my problem with The Big Bang Theory lies…
I stopped watching The Big Bang Theory a couple of seasons ago for the very same reasons — this person just outlines them in great detail. The salient points:
Why don’t I like The Big Bang Theory anymore? I think at first I was so happy to see people like me represented on mainstream television that I ignored the cruelty behind the humour. As I continue to watch the programme […] it’s become much clearer that actually I’m not being represented. I’m being ridiculed.
Why do I feel uncomfortable watching it? Because whenever I laugh at a joke, and I do sometimes find it funny, I feel like I’m laughing at my friends, like I’m putting myself and the people I identify with down. And that’s not a nice feeling, that’s not how I want to feel when I watch a comedy.
1000% done with you idiots.
WHAT THE WHAT
YOU GUYS WANNA COME OVER?
This is amazing.
I WANT TO GO TO THERE
Love it.
sade:
Why Doesn’t MTV Play Music Videos Anymore?
This is so fucking spot on that it hurts to laugh at.
unfuckingreal
Watch this.
yuuuuuuuuup
The description of the last episode of the last season of Malcolm in the Middle and the description of the first episode of the first season of Breaking Bad.
gasp
NO EFFING WAY
In Case You Missed It of the Day: Conan’s broadcasting this week from Chicago, so naturally he and guitarist Jimmy Vivino visited a local elementary school to introduce some first-graders to the blues.
The whole clip is terrific — just what you’d expect when Conan is combined with little kids and a guitar.
[uproxx]
Awesome.
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I’m Samit Sarkar, a 26-year-old reporter for Polygon. You may also know me from my four-plus years as an associate editor at Destructoid.
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