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

[gwyn]

I'd pick Community and Due South, but I hate the last season/two seasons (it was shown as one season, but all the fans of it seem to insist it's two) so I can never recommend it (I felt Paul Gross had no idea what made that show so great when he took the reins of it after it was rebooted, and reboots of shows really rarely do what made them great in the first place). So you might want to take my advice with a grain of salt. Still, man, I loved those first two years of Due South. I love Leverage, too, and Slings and Arrows is really unlike anything else you'll watch on TV. Fringe was fantastic but they changed the focus from the female character to the male, and it kinda went off the rails--still, Olivia will always be a favorite character.

[grammarwoman]

Due South has certainly inspired some fierce responses in people; I'm relieved I got to miss the Ray wars. :)

Leverage and S&A seem to be the strong contenders for favorites across the board, and the common theme of Fringe falling down in later seasons makes me sad.

Thanks for your advice, and the peek into your fannish opinions!