I HATE the TV shows my wife watches

[treacheroustexan]

Only thing I really watch on my own is football, basketball, jimmy fallon and the news. She sleeps or locks herself in another room with netflix haha.

We watch a lot of shows and movies together and I don't really mind them. Grays anatomy, bar rescue, scandal, gilmore girls (no shame), chicago fire/med/whatever.

It's only tv.

 

[Dirt_McGirt]

My wife has the self-awareness to know and fully admit to me that many of the shows she watches are terrible. She has a high-pressure, cerebral job though, so I understand the desire to watch something that's the entertainment equivalent of junk food for her. I occasionally will poke fun at the silly dialogue or plot holes, but it's in good fun. We have plenty of shows we can agree on, and she doesn't give me too much crap about the dorky animation and video game LP's I watch. So we're even.

 

[treacheroustexan]

My wife has the self-awareness to know and fully admit to me that many of the shows she watches are terrible. She has a high-pressure, cerebral job though, so I understand the desire to watch something that's the entertainment equivalent of junk food for her. I occasionally will poke fun at the silly dialogue or plot holes, but it's in good fun. We have plenty of shows we can agree on, and she doesn't give me too much crap about the dorky animation and video game LP's I watch. So we're even.

Pretty much that ^ Especially the show 90 Day fiance. We both know it's the stupidest thing ever but can't get enough haha.

 

[MVKTR2]

Dear O.P.

Years ago there was a comedian, Sam Kenison iirc, who talked about how lucky men were that our junk isn't detachable. Look it up, memorize it, it is your future.

 

[AZCoolerBrewer]

Pretty Little Liars, Little Women, Once Upon A Time, The Vampire Diaries, How To Get Away With Murder, she watches these when I'm not around because she knows I hate them. The Bachelor, Hell's Kitchen, Sherlock and Lip Sync Battle she watches while I pay attention to something else. I might poke my head up every once in a while. We love to watch Arizona Highways, Bar Rescue and Drunk History and especially Game of Thrones and SNL together. She'll hang with me for Alaska Gold Rush, but doesn't much like Antiques Roadshow. We watch too much TV. Before I married my wonderful and very loving wife, I didn't watch anything but movies, but I wouldn't trade anything for her.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

American Idol, Married at First Site, Supergirl, CSI ..... The list goes on and on. She's a wonderful mother and as wife's go she is very accepting of my brewing hobby but for the love of 1020p HD her idea of good tv just sucks.

We do enjoy Big Bang Theory and Game of Throwns together .... and she likes to watch football and basketball so I'm sure others have it worse....but this American Idol is just painful to sit and listen to

Welcome to marriage. Also you're going to also be warm, and she's going to always be cold. Which means the heat will always be too high for you. Get used to it.

 

[slym2none]

Welcome to marriage. Also you're going to also be warm, and she's going to always be cold. Which means the heat will always be too high for you. Get used to it.

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[Zuljin]

Yeah. Mine's into those true murder shows, too. Murdermentaries, I call them. I go to bed last and wake up first.

 

[Moose_MI]

Someone else posted a very sad tale about his wife cheating......Would you prefer your wife watch those shows with some one else? So stop complaining,
your wife is there with you.... grab your laptop and surf the internet while the shows you hate are on, then go to bed with her and tell her how much you appreciate her putting up with the things you do......be thankful, not resentful.

Easy there big fella.....just having a little fun. You should think about not braking those pills in half....I think you're ready for the full prescription dosage...

 

[Moose_MI]

Welcome to marriage. Also you're going to also be warm, and she's going to always be cold. Which means the heat will always be too high for you. Get used to it.

Been with this lovely woman since '87. I dare say I've achieved a level of "used to it" that most folks can only dream about.... Brew on!

 

[soccerdad]

Blow up your TV
Throw away your papers
Move to the country
Build you a home

 

[NathPowe]

Blow up your TV
Throw away your papers
Move to the country
Build you a home

Well done Sir. Well done.

 

[GrogNerd]

the BigHair and I are about 94% simpatico on what we like to watch.

though she's always complaining there aren't enough comedy shows to watch. I'm sorry, when they start making better comedies, then we can watch them.

OMG, Dr. Ken. the least funny show ever produced, but she insists on watching it. my eyes hurt from rolling so much at the stupid jokes and canned laughter

a lot of shows I DVR and watch on my lunch break (and sometimes during work. shhh! don't tell the boss) I LOVE the How it's Made and How do They Do it? shows. watch those over and over.

who mentioned Dogfight? that was a great show. they should do the same thing for tank and sea battles

 

[drainbamage]

Someone else posted a very sad tale about his wife cheating......Would you prefer your wife watch those shows with some one else? So stop complaining,
your wife is there with you.... grab your laptop and surf the internet while the shows you hate are on, then go to bed with her and tell her how much you appreciate her putting up with the things you do......be thankful, not resentful.

I get what you're getting at, but if liking different TV shows is all it takes to get your spouse sleeping around, the basis of your relationship probably isn't all that strong in the first place.

 

[JonM]

Know what show I really miss? Deadliest Warrior.

 

[kombat]

American Idol, Married at First Site, Supergirl, CSI ..... The list goes on and on. She's a wonderful mother and as wife's go she is very accepting of my brewing hobby but for the love of 1020p HD her idea of good tv just sucks.

I'm not trying to be a one-upper, but here's our list:

My Wife's: American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars, Galavant, X-Factor, The Voice, Supergirl, Outlander.

Mine: COPS, Jail, Border Security, The League, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, any UFC/Bellator, Mayday, How it's Made, Hell's Kitchen, Catch a Contractor, Bar Rescue, Naked and Afraid.

Joint: Castle, The Simpsons, Brooklyn 99, Big Bang Theory, The Biggest Loser, Making a Murderer (finished last night), Suits, Survivor, Last Man on Earth, Game of Thrones, The Blacklist, Marvel's Agents of Shield, The Expanse, SNL, Sherlock.

Huh. I never realized, I guess we watch quite a bit of TV. Can you tell we don't have kids?

Conspicuously absent: Any sports. At all. OK, we're going to watch the Superbowl, but that's literally it. Unless you count the MMA stuff.

 

[hunter_le five]

I can't fathom the appeal of many of the garbage tv shows she watches. All that dumb scripted "reality" crap.

But I guess I watch some dumb sh!t sometimes.

When we're watching TV together, we try to make sure it's something we'll both enjoy.

 

[Homercidal]

My wife likes those "Dramas". I don't. I don't care to watch any drama based on:

Courts
Cops
Hospital
Rich People
etc
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And in most cases she doesn't like the quirky, silly, geeky things I like. BUT when she does watch them, she's usually got her face in a tablet, so I don't really count that as watching. She says she's "multitasking", but there is no way she's appreciating the show to a respectable level.

Anyone catch that new show out on the "Science" channel? I tuned in last night as I was just about to stop watching TV. The show basically takes satellite images that are pretty ambiguous and tries to spin them so they appear to be something "amazing". They have random pseudo-experts give statements that support the theory, or at least lend credence to it, without actually making any such bold claim.

It's like "Ghost Hunters" but with satellite imagery. Here is a sample of what some so-called "expert might say about a satellite image:

"That's just GOTTA be his body buried right there under everyone's noses!"

or

"Of course 'some people' don't want the public to know about it."

Is this what the Science Channel is all about? There's a satellite image of some trenches in the Brazilian Jungle, and that's "pretty much definitive proof" that El Dorando, the famed city of gold, was located right there?

 

[hunter_le five]

Anyone catch that new show out on the "Science" channel? I tuned in last night as I was just about to stop watching TV. The show basically takes satellite images that are pretty ambiguous and tries to spin them so they appear to be something "amazing". They have random pseudo-experts give statements that support the theory, or at least lend credence to it, without actually making any such bold claim.

It's like "Ghost Hunters" but with satellite imagery. Here is a sample of what some so-called "expert might say about a satellite image:

"That's just GOTTA be his body buried right there under everyone's noses!"

or

"Of course 'some people' don't want the public to know about it."

Is this what the Science Channel is all about? There's a satellite image of some trenches in the Brazilian Jungle, and that's "pretty much definitive proof" that El Dorando, the famed city of gold, was located right there?

The History Channel is no longer about history.
The Science Channel is no longer about science.
The Learning Channel is no longer educational.
MTV hasn't played music in god knows how long.

Nothing is anything anymore. Niches are dead. Everything is aimed at mass appeal and the lowest common denominator.

I don't watch a whole lot of TV anymore.

 

[drainbamage]

My wife likes those "Dramas". I don't. I don't care to watch any drama based on:

Courts
Cops
Hospital
Rich People
etc
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I don't mind Dramas (I watch/watched TWD, Breaking Bad, Dexter, etc. and consider them all dramas), but I can't stand melodrama: love triangles and soap-opera-y BS.

Is this what the Science Channel is all about? There's a satellite image of some trenches in the Brazilian Jungle, and that's "pretty much definitive proof" that El Dorando, the famed city of gold, was located right there?

Well, have you seen what "The Learning Channel" has come to in the last 10 years? How many people remember when it actually was The Learning Channel?

 

[treacheroustexan]

I'm not trying to be a one-upper, but here's our list:

My Wife's: American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars, Galavant, X-Factor, The Voice, Supergirl, Outlander.

Mine: COPS, Jail, Border Security, The League, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, any UFC/Bellator, Mayday, How it's Made, Hell's Kitchen, Catch a Contractor, Bar Rescue, Naked and Afraid.

Joint: Castle, The Simpsons, Brooklyn 99, Big Bang Theory, The Biggest Loser, Making a Murderer (finished last night), Suits, Survivor, Last Man on Earth, Game of Thrones, The Blacklist, Marvel's Agents of Shield, The Expanse, SNL, Sherlock.

Huh. I never realized, I guess we watch quite a bit of TV. Can you tell we don't have kids?

Conspicuously absent: Any sports. At all. OK, we're going to watch the Superbowl, but that's literally it. Unless you count the MMA stuff.

I used to love The League up until the final season, it was awful. Every other season though... my fantasy league even had our own shiva trophy made haha.

 

[Homercidal]

The Wife is now watching a show called "Billions" and watching it makes me madder than when I watch candidate debates. Not even the sex scenes can save it.

But me and the kids watch Galavant and Angie Tribeca, so....

 

[m00ps]

big bang theory is an abomination and needs to be stomped out. it has the most painful, intrusive laugh track ive ever heard. i wouldnt be surprised if the actors are now trained to pause for a laugh break after every sentence in real life. most shows i can stand being on in the background if im not watching. i need to leave the room when it comes on if i dont have control of the tv

 

[aprichman]

Our favorite show is Star Trek TNG - yes we are cool . SWMBO also likes home improvement shows on HGTV while I watch NBA and NFL.

 

[kombat]

big bang theory is an abomination and needs to be stomped out.

Oh come on, that's a little harsh, isn't it? It's a cute, harmless diversion. It's one of the few shows my wife and I can watch together.

Admittedly, it's gone downhill a little as the seasons wore on, but what show hasn't?

 

[blizz81]

big bang theory is an abomination and needs to be stomped out. it has the most painful, intrusive laugh track ive ever heard. i wouldnt be surprised if the actors are now trained to pause for a laugh break after every sentence in real life. most shows i can stand being on in the background if im not watching. i need to leave the room when it comes on if i dont have control of the tv

We need to move on from the laugh track as a society.

 

[kombat]

We need to move on from the laugh track as a society.

We're getting there... Modern Family, The Office, The League, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Children's Hospital, Brooklyn 99, Last Man on Earth....

I'd say we're well past the tipping point where there are more comedies without laugh tracks than with.

 

[hunter_le five]

We need to move on from the laugh track as a society.

But, but, but then how will I know when I'm supposed to laugh?

How will I know when something funny has been said?

 

[blizz81]

But, but, but then how will I know when I'm supposed to laugh?

How will I know when something funny has been said?

When the other people in the room with you laugh!


Duh!

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I rarely watch TV so I don't care what she watches.