Media confessions

[grammarwoman]

My husband has given up being surprised when I know all about a movie or TV show despite having never seen it, because being fandom adjacent is a sort of omniscience.

However, I feel compelled to confess the gaps in my fannish experience, ie the things I haven't finished or never got around to seeing that it seems EVERYONE else has:

Leverage
Due South
Fringe (though this one is less my fault, as I was specifically asked to not watch it so my TV killing curse would spare it, and then never got back to it)
Orphan Black, season 3ish and onward
The Librarians, season 2 and onward
Avatar: TLA, season 1sh and onward
Legend of Korra
The Clone Wars
Star Wars Rebels
Slings and Arrows
Person of Interest
Supernatural
Parks & Rec
Community


At some point, I would love to get around to working my way through this list. It'll probably mean watching less HGTV, for starters.

So which do you think I should start with? And what fannishly popular media have you missed yourselves?

Comments

[grammarwoman]

I am loving the varying responses to this list, and where everyone seems to be in agreement. :)

I think I've grokked the essence of Supernatural enough that I probably don't need to watch it, but I will definitely keep your recs in mind. Sames goes for Parks & Rec. The others definitely need to bump up to the top of my list.

X-Files! Oh, I loved that show so hard. I used to get together with a roomful of friends to watch the later episodes; I miss that camaraderie.

However, as gorgeous as people have presented Hannibal to be, it is far too gore-geous for me to watch, alas.

[umadoshi]

I agree pretty strongly with the above re: Supernatural. IMO, S2 was by far the strongest (of what I saw); S3 made me angry with the extra-rampant casual misogyny in the dialogue (even more of a shame than usual, because it had interesting female characters), and then I broke up with the show abruptly mid-S5 after it did something that made me too angry to continue. (It was a really well-written episode, too, IIRC--and beautifully performed by the cast. If the show had given me any reason to TRUST it, I might not have fled screaming.)

[grammarwoman]

I would definitely want to set down with a specific episode watch list before even attempting SPN. Heaven knows I could probably find 10 of them without trying very hard.