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shadowkat ([personal profile] shadowkat) wrote2018-02-11 06:58 pm

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1. FB is dangerous. They keep posting political stuff and I have to keep refraining from commenting.
(Suffice it to say, I hate the white male assholes who abuse women and get elected to office. In the immortal words of the Red Queen? Off with their penises (actually it was heads).]

2. Riverdale just keeps getting darker -- it's really trying to be Twin Peaks this season except without David Lynch's surreal wackiness. In which case, it will never get the diehard Twin Peaks nerds.

3. The Good Doctor...is another one of those feel good hospital series with no nurses in the cast.
Honestly, less focus on the frigging surgeons and more on the nurses. It's focused on a bunch of competitive surgeons, one who is autistic. Weirdly the autistic doctor is the most empathetic and caring of the team.

My suspension of disbelief took a nose dive. But it's a medical show, so I can handwave a lot of it.
Does remind me why I dislike hospitals and the medical profession.

4. The Resident has grown on me. I like it better than The Good Doctor. More realistic. Also it has nurses in the cast. Male and female nurses. Who actually are responsible. The hospital also looks like hospitals that I've been in, with cots all over the place. And chaos. Also asshole doctors.

It also reminds me of why I dislike the medical profession and in particular doctors who make too much money for their own good. I've discovered since moving to NYC that the more money and better the doctor's facility the worse their treatment and care. In short -- if your doctor has a state of the art facility and makes over 450,000 per year -- run don't walk to the nearest exit.

There's a reason insurance and medical malpractice is so high.

It is however, due to the above, not as light and user-friendly as Greys and Good Doctor. Much darker series. More painful to watch at times.

5. This is US is getting a bit too smulchy for its own good. Tone it down a bit. Maybe now that we've gotten past Jack's death, it will? I didn't cry. I knew Jack was going to die. I didn't know how exactly, but managed to guess. Found it painful to watch, but also contrived. So, no tears.

Their better episodes don't deal with Jack and Rebecca, but focus on the three kids -- who are amazing.

6. Still raining. Frigging tired of the rain. Tried to do my nails, failed miserably. Gave up and pulled off the nail polish.

Made cookies instead.

Yeah, I know.

I blame the menopause. And the rain.
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[personal profile] anoyo 2018-02-12 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I meant to keep watching The Good Doctor, and then I didn't. It stopped being compelling almost immediately. As someone with Asperger's, the autistic kid? Was really hard to believe. It's like they took "not understanding" on an intellectual level rather than an emotional one. No - interpersonal communication is what suffers the most. They did a good job of representing that for, like, one episode, and then the female doctor was like, "HOW CAN I RELATE TO YOU?" and it was like some sort of weird magic. Nixed it.

The Resident. ♥ I like Chicago Med for similar reasons to what you listed above. There are nurses (male and female) who are just as important as the doctors and residents. It's way more melodramatic than the Resident, which has me liking the Resident more right now, but it's better than The Good Doctor, and definitely more realistic than Grey's.
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[personal profile] anoyo 2018-02-13 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha! Yeah, fair enough. He seems off to me, too, for the reasons I mentioned. *shrug*

Chicago Med pulled me in with Colin Donnell's character, but he's actually annoying me this season? Which means I'm like four episodes behind. Whoops? Same with Blindspot this season: the characters are just making me angry.

And, yeah, I hear you on too many series. I really need to just drop some, leave them for eventual marathons or something.
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[personal profile] anoyo 2018-02-13 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It's how I phased out of One Tree Hill back when it was still on the air. I just wanted to punch everyone. I made it through the first season after the time skip, but not the next. And apparently there were several more. Yikes.