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Post by awesomemixtape10 on Apr 19, 2014 23:31:31 GMT -5
I have heard that A LOT lately. In my opinion ,In a lot of ways, tv has never been better-except There are not many family shows on. A lot of these shows that are getting all this praise are dark. VERY DARK. I thought it would be interesting to ask that question here because this is a forum about a great OLD show. The writing on a lot of these shows is great. Might even be better than Movies. Dang, I would love to ask Earl how he feels about this subject-especially-abut the writing aspect. Somebody should ask him that at a reunion. I linked up some articles about it , so you wont think I am making it up. If you google it you will find a lot of articles about this "Golden age" www.cnn.com/2013/05/06/showbiz/golden-age-of-tv/www.cbsnews.com/news/welcome-to-tvs-second-golden-age/ |
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Post by Sussie of Teckelhut Acres on Apr 20, 2014 10:10:04 GMT -5
Television shows of today are the very reason I dumped cable years ago and stick with Hulu, YouTube, Netflix and DVD's of my favorite TV shows.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2014 11:09:23 GMT -5
My personal opinion is no. I gave up cable several years ago coz there was nothing I liked. The humor is too sexual or crude, too much violence or very dark shows. I have zero interest in all of that..
Doesn't mean they aren't good, they just do not appeal to me.
Give me hit or classic TV shows from the 1960s or 1970s any day of the week.
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Post by e knight on Apr 20, 2014 12:44:36 GMT -5
More like a Brass Age!
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Post by patriciaanne on Apr 20, 2014 14:23:13 GMT -5
I have heard that A LOT lately. In my opinion ,In a lot of ways, tv has never been better-except There are not many family shows on. A lot of these shows that are getting all this praise are dark. VERY DARK. I thought it would be interesting to ask that question here because this is a forum about a great OLD show. The writing on a lot of these shows is great. Might even be better than Movies. Dang, I would love to ask Earl how he feels about this subject-especially-abut the writing aspect. Somebody should ask him that at a reunion. I linked up some articles about it , so you wont think I am making it up. If you google it you will find a lot of articles about this "Golden age" www.cnn.com/2013/05/06/showbiz/golden-age-of-tv/www.cbsnews.com/news/welcome-to-tvs-second-golden-age/ |
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Post by married2oldfool on Apr 20, 2014 15:35:27 GMT -5
Out of the 20 shows listed, I watched 9: My So Called Life Frasier Chappelle's Show Louie The Sopranos Breaking Bad The West Wing Battlestar Galactica 30 Rock ER, St. Elsewhere and The Wonder Years were also great shows (gotta love anything with George Clooney) Breaking Bad was awesome. Anyone who ever saw Brian Cranston in Malcolm in the Middle, he was good in that show, but it didn't do him justice. He is such a great actor. The same for James Gandolfini--awesome in The Sopranos. Louie C.K and Dave Chappelle are hilarious. My So Called Life had Claire Danes and Jared Leto; great combo and the storylines were great. I'm a big TV watcher but the last few years with the influx of reality shows, it's gotten pretty bad. But I do like The Incredible Dr. Pol (vet) and Alaska: The Last Frontier with Jewel's family, the Kilchner's. I'm still an avid Amazing Race, Survivor and Big Brother fan. I've never missed a single episode of these three shows. All these cable channels and still nothing to watch LOL! But at least there's channels like INSP and Hallmark that airs family shows. Do you remember where there was only CBS, NBC, ABC and PBS? Boy, the pickins' were really slim back then! Believe me, I suffered through many episodes of Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw!  |
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Post by patriciaanne on Apr 20, 2014 16:01:04 GMT -5
Out of the 20 shows listed, I watched 9: My So Called Life Frasier Chappelle's Show Louie The Sopranos Breaking Bad The West Wing Battlestar Galactica 30 Rock ER, St. Elsewhere and The Wonder Years were also great shows (gotta love anything with George Clooney) Breaking Bad was awesome. Anyone who ever saw Brian Cranston in Malcolm in the Middle, he was good in that show, but it didn't do him justice. He is such a great actor. The same for James Gandolfini--awesome in The Sopranos. Louie C.K and Dave Chappelle are hilarious. My So Called Life had Claire Danes and Jared Leto; great combo and the storylines were great. I'm a big TV watcher but the last few years with the influx of reality shows, it's gotten pretty bad. But I do like The Incredible Dr. Pol (vet) and Alaska: The Last Frontier with Jewel's family, the Kilchner's. I'm still an avid Amazing Race, Survivor and Big Brother fan. I've never missed a single episode of these three shows. All these cable channels and still nothing to watch LOL! But at least there's channels like INSP and Hallmark that airs family shows. Do you remember where there was only CBS, NBC, ABC and PBS? Boy, the pickins' were really slim back then! Believe me, I suffered through many episodes of Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2014 16:33:58 GMT -5
Out of the 20 shows listed, I watched 9: My So Called Life Frasier Chappelle's Show Louie The Sopranos Breaking Bad The West Wing Battlestar Galactica 30 Rock ER, St. Elsewhere and The Wonder Years were also great shows (gotta love anything with George Clooney) Breaking Bad was awesome. Anyone who ever saw Brian Cranston in Malcolm in the Middle, he was good in that show, but it didn't do him justice. He is such a great actor. The same for James Gandolfini--awesome in The Sopranos. Louie C.K and Dave Chappelle are hilarious. My So Called Life had Claire Danes and Jared Leto; great combo and the storylines were great. I'm a big TV watcher but the last few years with the influx of reality shows, it's gotten pretty bad. But I do like The Incredible Dr. Pol (vet) and Alaska: The Last Frontier with Jewel's family, the Kilchner's. I'm still an avid Amazing Race, Survivor and Big Brother fan. I've never missed a single episode of these three shows. All these cable channels and still nothing to watch LOL! But at least there's channels like INSP and Hallmark that airs family shows. Do you remember where there was only CBS, NBC, ABC and PBS? Boy, the pickins' were really slim back then! Believe me, I suffered through many episodes of Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw! View AttachmentFrasier was OK...most of the rest on your list I tried to watch...but didn't interest me. I guess I feel as Patricianne does. The Wonder Years I loved tremendously. Great show, esp when Kevin was little. |
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Post by awesomemixtape10 on Apr 20, 2014 18:27:41 GMT -5
Out of the 20 shows listed, I watched 9: My So Called Life Frasier Chappelle's Show Louie The Sopranos Breaking Bad The West Wing Battlestar Galactica 30 Rock ER, St. Elsewhere and The Wonder Years were also great shows (gotta love anything with George Clooney) Breaking Bad was awesome. Anyone who ever saw Brian Cranston in Malcolm in the Middle, he was good in that show, but it didn't do him justice. He is such a great actor. The same for James Gandolfini--awesome in The Sopranos. Louie C.K and Dave Chappelle are hilarious. My So Called Life had Claire Danes and Jared Leto; great combo and the storylines were great. I'm a big TV watcher but the last few years with the influx of reality shows, it's gotten pretty bad. But I do like The Incredible Dr. Pol (vet) and Alaska: The Last Frontier with Jewel's family, the Kilchner's. I'm still an avid Amazing Race, Survivor and Big Brother fan. I've never missed a single episode of these three shows. All these cable channels and still nothing to watch LOL! But at least there's channels like INSP and Hallmark that airs family shows. Do you remember where there was only CBS, NBC, ABC and PBS? Boy, the pickins' were really slim back then! Believe me, I suffered through many episodes of Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw! View AttachmentFrasier was OK...most of the rest on your list I tried to watch...but didn't interest me. I guess I feel as Patricianne does. The Wonder Years I loved tremendously. Great show, esp when Kevin was little. Loved Wonder years, but Kevin was a jerk a lot, and if I was Paul, I would have kicked Kevin's butt. |
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Post by awesomemixtape10 on Apr 20, 2014 18:39:12 GMT -5
Don't get me wrong , I think The 1st couple of seasons of The Waltons are just as good as today's shows.
Little house probably couldn't make it though.
I just cant watch a lot of these dark shows. I use to watch A LOT of dark movies( Scorcese ,Kubrick,etc) but now I cant. I like to keep it light these days.
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Post by married2oldfool on Apr 20, 2014 18:49:09 GMT -5
Yeah, Frasier was good the first few seasons but after a while, I didn't watch it as much.
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Post by Honeybee on Apr 20, 2014 19:02:35 GMT -5
When growing up, we never gotten cable. It was always regular channel. Some of the tv shows, on the regular channel, isn't good at all. I don't watch them at all. Theirs some shows, I'll watch. Today's comedy shows, are not good at all. Isn't like comedy shows, back in the olden days.
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Post by sdw on Apr 20, 2014 19:17:28 GMT -5
I liked reading those articles,they were very interesting.
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Post by coriscapnskip on Apr 20, 2014 21:39:31 GMT -5
Not unless things have really changed since I quit watching 10 or 12 years ago.
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Post by carol on Apr 20, 2014 22:16:40 GMT -5
If all the sex and violence and reality shows like The Kardashians that is on TV now is the second golden age I sure don't want to see what the third golden age will be around twenty years from now.
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