Here’s how I know the Drew Carey Show is totally forgotten: nobody in Cleveland ever mentions it. Like when it was on, it was such a thing here, but then it just disappeared.
Was always kinda annoyed because the first season used Moon Over Parma as the theme song, which implied he lived in Parma, a suburb of Cleveland, and technically a separate city (like at the time, it was in the top ten for population in Ohio). And the bar they go to is like…on the border between the cities.
Yes, it is I, the Clevelander, who also gets prickly about the burbs around here and still remembers this shit years later.
s1: what if there was a reacher
s2: what if reacher had friends
s3: what if there was a bigger guy
I enjoy the show but I always have to watch the mcquarrie movie after every season to remember what reacher with actually good action scenes could look like
Man, I loved Mad About You. And still do. The first 4 or 5 seasons anyway.
Iirc, they signed an exclusive rerun agreement after a few years of post-airing syndication with a cable network—Oxygen, I think—that was probably quite lucrative but effectively took it out of one of the places best at cementing something in the public consciousness in the mid-00s
Or maybe it was more of its moment than it seems to me rewatching it even now, and I just can’t see it cause I’m 41 and have watched the show with some frequency over the years. Or maybe people really just don’t like the characters—a while ago, I found a whole lot of commentary that suggested a lot of audiences found Hunt’s Jamie awful and maybe not quite so many but quite a few Paul obnoxious
That their revival season aired exclusively on a Spectrum on-demand service that most Americans don’t even have as an option was weird and bad. The first half of that wasn’t very good but I get like the last half figured out what to do with itself, even if it did more or less undo one of my favorite series finales
I remember some critic talking about the new season and referring to the old series as more or less designed to be a pleasant, nonconfrontational frictionless background noise, like a white noise machine for folding your laundry, which is such a bizarre view of a show that was almost always about frictions and fissures in a relationship where the main couple almost break up twice
Anyway, Mad About You is definitely forgotten, though I think about it often
two rural amateur cops accidentally fail their way upwards/towards bigger and bigger fish, and it is such a blast!
make sure to watch the OV with dubs for the real treat, and if nothing else, holy trifecta of cool cars (see Fading Brakelights), catchy rap-song (see song stuck in head rn) and comedy cops action, what else could you want?
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of course, a faux interview with ze star of the show, Mdm Valmira
you just have to love the Swiss for leaning into it so much
they probably shoulda cancelled what we do in the shadows 3 or 4 years ago but if you’re watching it for the first time i bet a comfort food binge of the whole thing would rule
rewatching sopranos after seeing it for the first time seven years ago and oh my god it is so much funnier without the tension and WONDERING WHATS GONNA HAPPEN NEXT CONSTANTLY except for tonys mother i cannot WAIT for her to die oh my god she is too much like my mom
i think ill try what we do in the shadows next becuase i like funny vampires
I have almost never felt as precipitous a drop in my enjoyment of a show as WWDITS. Loved the first two seasons, have watched them both a few times. Couldn’t even finish the third. The whole tone and style just shifted so hard, the characters flanderized sharply, and it started doing way too many callbacks.
