Here in Some like it Watched, we the ScreenSnark staff attempt to examine why a particular show is popular, and inevitably come to the conclusion that people are stupid.
90 Day Fiancé, TLC Let’s just say I am not making any friends here at the screensnark offices with my Some Like It Watched picks. Do I have a mean streak? Not in the least bit. I just happen to watch a lot of crap TV as a result of marrying someone from Buffalo,…
Joe: HBO’s Girls has been a bit of an enigma for me. I’ve seen the marks of high praise given to it by critics, I’ve seen the awards given to the show, and Lena Dunham has been next to inescapable over the past six months. But with all of the praise and public appearances, I…
Joe: Nerd culture is pervasive in modern American society. It dominates the box office, has a solid foothold in television, has a heavy hand of influence in both literature and music, and of course in large part chooses to allow the Internet to function. So as with anything else, when something wields so much socio-economic power,…
It was my turn to choose this installment of “Some Like It Watched”, so I pulled up a recent Nielsen Ratings list and decided to pick a highly rated show that I had never seen. Castle was #9 on this particular list. I wanted to get some witnesses and figure out what the big deal…
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is on its 14th season. It’s been on since the fucking nineties. Clearly it’s doing something right. It’s also spawned off two successful sister series in Miami and New York, but the OG Vegas version is the last man standing. I’ve seen a few episodes of the program and much like…
Braxton Family Values, We Network, Thursdays 9PM The reality TV landscape is a crowded one. Incidentally, in a society such as ours, where the entry fee for fame has been reduced to a couple of “leaked” nude shots, in the midst of the unlimited data age, this particular currency is not hard to come…
Jam knows damned good and well that I dislike monster shows and by forcing me to watch Grimm, which isn’t even a good monster show, he left me no choice. I was on the button and wanted to be nice. I really did. But then I drew Jam and Shelly and Cam. I know Shelly…
Grimm, 9pm NBC Fridays For this week’s installment of Some Like it Watched we switched things up a bit. One contributor is now chosen at random to select the show while three poor schlubs are chosen at random to watch whatever is selected. In this case, yours truly was giving the power of choosing, and…
VAMPIRES! EEEK! This week’s installment of Some Like It Watched has us exploring the The CW’s The Vampire Diaries. The Vampire Diaries | The CW | Thursdays 8PM Jam: I was really looking forward to making a “man it’s about time someone came up with a vampire show” joke, but after a cursory Wikipedia search, apparently this…
Welcome to the first installment of Some like it Watched, the segment where we, the ScreenSnark staff, attempt to examine why a particular show is popular. This week, Joel our Chief Editor, in his infinite cruelty assigned Dancing With The Stars as our focus of examination. We will break this post down per contributor Jam:…