I know I promised to post parts 2 and 3 of "Cancel, Renew, Bubble and Working My Last Nerves" shortly after I posted part 1. I still plan to. "Renew, Bubble, and My Last Nerves" are still on the agenda, but first I have to react an episode of 'Batwoman', and an article I read. Be forewarned. My thoughts and opinions will probably not be well received. Especially since I'm going to talk about gays and women, in television.
According to a mostly recent Gallup poll, (Summer, 2019), the average American guesses that around 20% of people identify as LGBQT or whatever. I guessed 10%. According to the same article, the actual number is closer 5%. For the sake of this conversation, I'm going to double that, to account for those still that choose to keep their orientation private. So let's call it, 1 out of 10 people are LGBQT.
My personal background and upbringing should confuse you. I'm Black and Puerto Rican. My wife is Sicilian and Welsh, our son is all of those. My sister married a white boy. My brother is half black, half white, married a white girl and made 5 kids. I'm conservative, Republicaan, but not a Trumper.
Are you caught up yet?
The articles I read explain the discrepancy between perception and reality. Over the past few years, it has become cool, trendy, and socially responsible to over-represent the LGBQT in popular culture. It's like, "Look at us producers! Look how 'woke' we are!
Here's where the whole thing falls apart. I'm a conservative, registered Republican, and I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR SEXUAL ORIENTATION! Ellen, who I think is amazing, dswas the least entertaining right after she came out of the closet. We get it. Every other joke doesn't have to be a joke. It's lazy writing. Do better.
Batwoman, for cryin' out loud!!! Talk about heavy handed. This is the first episode after the Crisis, a 5 episode crossover event, spanning all 5 Arrowverse shows, and at least 6 other iterations of the DC Universe, culminating in them all joining forces in the last universe. And what do you suppose the first new episode is about? Batwoman's sexuality. Really?
"I'm gay," will never in a the multiverse beat out "I'm Batman's cousin, and yesterday I helped saved the Justice League. #GetTheFuckOutOfHere
I don't care if you're a gay, Batwoman. I don't care if you live in a ghetto #BlackLightning. I don't care if you're a black woman raised by Vulcans. I don't care if you're a black, lady, ,Ghostbuster. I don't care if you're a fake blonde, mad-person in a derelict police box.
All I care about is the 30-60 minutes I'm gonna watch tv, and whatever extra sleep I can squeeze in over the next 2 months.
Monday, January 20, 2020
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Cancel It, Renew It, On the Bubble, and 3 Franchises Working My Last Nerves: Part 1
To quote a famous American from Detroit, "Back to reality, oh there goes gravity..." If you read this blog and know me, you know at least these few things about me. 1) I write in my journals, or text myself almost daily. 2) I then promptly forget to blog about it. Please email, text, tweet, or contact me via social media "#JustWrite". I need the encouragement. 3) I watch A LOT of tv, and movies and it's one of my favorite things to talk or write about it.
I'm not exaggerating when I say I have around 80 programs saved on my DVR, and several others watchlisted on various platforms, ie HULU, CBS, Netflix, etc. Now, some of those are sports teams, and some are programs that are on every day like The Tonight Show and Sportscenter. But what I'm going to #JustWrite about now is the shows I think need to go away forever ASAP, the shows that need to be renewed ASAP, some shows on the bubble, and a few franchises that have been working my last nerves. I'll try and keep this to a reasonable length. Actually, scratch that. I'm gonna break it up into parts, because it's just after midnight, and I have to be up in 5 hours.
SHOWS THAT NEED TO GO AWAY
-Bob Hearts Abishola
I've only seen a few minutes of this show. But the title is stupid. The premise is tacky, cliche and probably offensive. And frankly, nobody has given a rat's ass about Billy Gardell since Mike & Molly. Even then, Melissa Mccarthy carried the show, and as a result she's a Hollywood leading lady, and Billy is, well, Billy.
-God Friended Me
Another example of an absolutely off-putting television series title. It screams "Hey, Millienals! We're aiming this show at you. Hey, everyone else! You will hate this. If it had been named "The God Account" possibly it would have been slightly less annoying. But even then, it'd still be a show about some millennial getting Facebook messages from God. Cancel this show yesterday.
-Supernatural
I actually love this show, and am #SPNFamily in the twitterverse. The 15th and final season is now winding down and let's be fair. There doesn't see to be much more story to tell, except for the final wrap up. So tell Jeffrey Dean Morgan to take a couple of days off The Walking Dead, and let's send the Winchester boys off to Tahiti for a much deserved and needed vacation. (But maybe not Tahiti. Not sure if Coulson #Avengers would sign off on Tahiti, but who cares since that's in the Marvel universe.)
-Evil
Here's a show about a forensic psychologist, an almost priest, and a computer nerd investigating demon possession and psycho-pathology. It needs to have a less absurd premise, or some humor. Because I already laugh about how stupid this show is, so they may as well do it on purpose.
-Emergence
A little girl is apparently some kind of artificial intelligence. There's a cover up about it. No part of this show makes sense, and it should have been cancelled after the pilot. I only still watch it because I'm curious to know if they'll just quit with no real ending, or if they'll come to their senses and wrap it up before a completely disastrous extra season.
-Grown-ish
Imagine a spinoff television show about obnoxious millennials. Now imagine you really like Black-ish, the show it spun off of. Now imagine every single character is 10 times more useless, and obnoxious than the most detestable millennial you've ever met. Lastly, imagine it's on Freeform, a cable channel that almost no one watches. And that's Grown-ish. It's appalling they could have filmed the pilot without saying, "Screw it. We'd rather spend our money on Gilligan's Island reruns.
-The 100
I read the books and have seen every episode of this CW show. I can still only vaguely explain what it's about. I think a bunch of the last remaining humans, that aren't the actual last remaining humans, crash land on the last habitable human planet, that isn't actually the last human habitable planet. Also, they can transfer their consciousnesses to other bodies using magic. Or something. I don't know.
That's gonna have to do it for now. Thinking about these terrible shows makes me tired. Tomorrow I will work on parts 2 and 3 of this post. Shows that need to be renewed, shows that are on the bubble of figuring out what they're doing, and some current franchises that I like but are really pissing me off.
Thanks, as always for reading, and
I'm not exaggerating when I say I have around 80 programs saved on my DVR, and several others watchlisted on various platforms, ie HULU, CBS, Netflix, etc. Now, some of those are sports teams, and some are programs that are on every day like The Tonight Show and Sportscenter. But what I'm going to #JustWrite about now is the shows I think need to go away forever ASAP, the shows that need to be renewed ASAP, some shows on the bubble, and a few franchises that have been working my last nerves. I'll try and keep this to a reasonable length. Actually, scratch that. I'm gonna break it up into parts, because it's just after midnight, and I have to be up in 5 hours.
SHOWS THAT NEED TO GO AWAY
-Bob Hearts Abishola
I've only seen a few minutes of this show. But the title is stupid. The premise is tacky, cliche and probably offensive. And frankly, nobody has given a rat's ass about Billy Gardell since Mike & Molly. Even then, Melissa Mccarthy carried the show, and as a result she's a Hollywood leading lady, and Billy is, well, Billy.
-God Friended Me
Another example of an absolutely off-putting television series title. It screams "Hey, Millienals! We're aiming this show at you. Hey, everyone else! You will hate this. If it had been named "The God Account" possibly it would have been slightly less annoying. But even then, it'd still be a show about some millennial getting Facebook messages from God. Cancel this show yesterday.
-Supernatural
I actually love this show, and am #SPNFamily in the twitterverse. The 15th and final season is now winding down and let's be fair. There doesn't see to be much more story to tell, except for the final wrap up. So tell Jeffrey Dean Morgan to take a couple of days off The Walking Dead, and let's send the Winchester boys off to Tahiti for a much deserved and needed vacation. (But maybe not Tahiti. Not sure if Coulson #Avengers would sign off on Tahiti, but who cares since that's in the Marvel universe.)
-Evil
Here's a show about a forensic psychologist, an almost priest, and a computer nerd investigating demon possession and psycho-pathology. It needs to have a less absurd premise, or some humor. Because I already laugh about how stupid this show is, so they may as well do it on purpose.
-Emergence
A little girl is apparently some kind of artificial intelligence. There's a cover up about it. No part of this show makes sense, and it should have been cancelled after the pilot. I only still watch it because I'm curious to know if they'll just quit with no real ending, or if they'll come to their senses and wrap it up before a completely disastrous extra season.
-Grown-ish
Imagine a spinoff television show about obnoxious millennials. Now imagine you really like Black-ish, the show it spun off of. Now imagine every single character is 10 times more useless, and obnoxious than the most detestable millennial you've ever met. Lastly, imagine it's on Freeform, a cable channel that almost no one watches. And that's Grown-ish. It's appalling they could have filmed the pilot without saying, "Screw it. We'd rather spend our money on Gilligan's Island reruns.
-The 100
I read the books and have seen every episode of this CW show. I can still only vaguely explain what it's about. I think a bunch of the last remaining humans, that aren't the actual last remaining humans, crash land on the last habitable human planet, that isn't actually the last human habitable planet. Also, they can transfer their consciousnesses to other bodies using magic. Or something. I don't know.
That's gonna have to do it for now. Thinking about these terrible shows makes me tired. Tomorrow I will work on parts 2 and 3 of this post. Shows that need to be renewed, shows that are on the bubble of figuring out what they're doing, and some current franchises that I like but are really pissing me off.
Thanks, as always for reading, and
J
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