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

Also with Community feels too

[lizbetann]

I liked all seasons of Community (the last three are all half-seasons, so basically you have 4 and a half seasons total).

While the roots of what the show would be were there in first season, it kind of wasn't until second that it starting really getting its feet under it. Its another one with the massive wackyness (although it never slips out of realism to become magical realism -- unless you count the 6 alternate universes...)

Season 4 (the creater-less half-season) tries too hard to prove it is still The Same Show, but it doesn't suck. But I think seasons 2 and 3 are my favorite -- there is the zombie apocalypse Halloween, the Christmas where they all turned into claymation figures, the day they played D&D to save someone's life, the Blanket versus Pillow Fort civil war, the Law & Order: Community episode, the time they played a crappy 8-bit video game to save their friend's fortune... that's not mentioning the show that DETAILED all the 6 alternate universes, the time they became the school's glee club, the time that the (former) Spanish teacher took over the school and attempted to blow it up (by playing keytair) and any of the paintball episodes. Or Inspector Spacetime. Or the Air Conditioning Annex. Or... *forcibly stops herself*

The thing is, in all that full-out wackiness, there was (usually) a central core of character. People acted the way they acted because of their personalities and because of the stresses they were enduring. Most of the above wackiness followed from friendships with people who were broken but (cue Stitch) still good, still family.

So yeah... I whole-heartedly recommend Community.

Re: Also with Community feels too

[grammarwoman]

My tentative approach to Community (and Parks & Rec, too) is because I have a huge embarrassment squick that comedies tend to poke mercilessly. I did watch the Claymation ep to get a clip for my Fembots vid, but I haven't really touched any of the rest. I also find Chevy Chase really, really annoying, alas. So, maybe? And thank you!