{"id":10834,"date":"2015-07-13T01:23:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T09:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=10834"},"modified":"2015-07-13T01:23:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T09:23:39","slug":"sunday-night-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/sunday-night-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Night TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyway, Sunday night is packed with Cable series<\/a><\/strong> that are always ending or beginning a new season. One show will have its season finale, leaving me feeling anxious and abandoned, but another one will start up. Mostly they’re crap but we watch them faithfully.<\/p>\n

Tonight we watched True Detective<\/a><\/strong>, Ray Donovan<\/strong><\/a>, and Ballers<\/strong><\/a>, all stupid and disappointing, but we’ll be back for more next Sunday. Despite the stupidity of these particular shows, we feel we have standards. I will never, and I mean never, watch Game of Thrones<\/em>. I know in my heart that I don’t want to see dragons or women on horseback yelling at their armies.<\/p>\n

Likewise, I didn’t watch Madmen<\/em> because I can’t stand that guy’s face and I’m not interested in advertising or period irony.<\/p>\n

True Detective was so magnificent last year! This year, it’s a big mess that’s hard to follow and doesn’t make sense anyway. No one can act, the dialogue is lame and stilted, and the Chinatown<\/em> aspects are forced and idiotic. Plus, I miss every other line of dialogue because no one will fucking enunciate.<\/p>\n

Ray Donovan is a truly terrible show but I’ve come to appreciate how bad it is. The best part is how Liev<\/strong> Scheiber<\/strong> refuses to make a facial expression. All the characters are repellent and all the accents are laughably inept.<\/p>\n

Ballers is new but it seems promising in the stupid department. There’s a lot of male posturing and a lot of girls in bikinis, since it’s a Mark Wahlberg production. But it stars The Rock<\/strong>, who is always compellingly strange: Is he black or Mexican or Asian? Why is his head so small that he looks like a dinosaur? Is he gay or what? What is the source of his obscure charm?<\/p>\n

During the week, we try to find things on Netflix that might actually be good but it’s hit and miss. If nothing is on, we are happy to play with our computers or read.<\/p>\n

But Sunday night is special because Our Shows are on, and we hate to miss a single unintelligible moment.<\/p>\n

What shows do you guys like to watch?<\/p>\n

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