The Decade in Memorable Television...
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shadowkatBelow is a list of the memorable television series that I watched between 2010-2020, what they have in common is an emphasis on the anti-hero. Missing is the ultimate in anti-hero series Hannibal, House of Cards and The Americans, which in some respects color the second half of the decade better than they should.
In the 10s, the anti-hero was big. Culminating in the election of the ultimate television anti-hero, a reality television star who got off on bullying contestants and declaring them fired. He was so horrible, that everyone who worked on the series was forced to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements. And various sequences had to be re-shot due to his nasty behavior.
That is until the end of a decade...when a shift began in popular culture away from the anti-hero bratty bully entitled white male (see a photo of Walter White and Don Draper) to the heroic/anti-heroic POC male/female characters in series ranging from This is Us, Blackish, Luther, Atlanta, Legacies, Dear White People, Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder, All Rise, Empire, The Good Fight, Nancy Drew, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Flea-Bag, His Dark Materials, Great British Bake-Off, Songland, the Voice, Ru-Paul's Drag Race, Watchmen,and The Expanse.
We went from nasty white guys in reality series like Simon Cowell and Trump to folks like Lionel Ritchie, the lesbian hosts and Paul Hollywood on Great British Bake-Off, John Legend on Songland and The Voice, and Ru-Paul.
Shifted from Walter White and Saul to well, Alicia Florik and Diane, Tyrion Lannister and Ayra Stark. Jumped from Big Bang Theory to Bob Hearts Abishola. Or Roseanne to the far more ensemble not to mention more inclusive, The Connors. The perpetually white male Doctor Who shifted from an entitled old white guy to a compassionate woman.
Commercials began to feature gay couples of all races and creeds. Instead of a white guy leading the group on the Walking Dead, it became a kick-ass black woman warrior.
The anti-hero white male politician was out-gunned, out-manuevered and out-lived by a smart woman (House of Cards, Scandal, and The Good Wife).
The nasty white guy misogynistic/sexist comedy got replaced by the white feminist anti-hero comedys. (Better Things, Fleabag, Broad City, The Marvelous Mrs. Maizel.)
Black sitcoms got upgraded -- Blackish, Mixedish, Atlanta, The Neighborhood, Bob Hearts Abishola.
Dramas with an all-POC cast got produced and aired. Lead characters are now POC. Grey's Anatomy went from being a show with mainly white doctors to a series with a diverse cast that included a transgender doctor, a muslim, and a chief of the hospital that was an African-American Woman with attitude. 9-1-1 - a popular procedural on FOX featured Angela Bassett as a police officer and sgt. along with her ex-husband who is gay, and a black female fire fighter who is a lesbian. This is a major shift from previous fire-fighter series that tended to be rather misogynistic, racist and sexist -- such as Rescue Me with it's anti-hero white male protagonists.
Also, Grey's Anatomy has outlasted the sexist white male centric paranormal noir series Supernatural. Which is being replaced by the far more inclusive Nancy Drew.
Towards the end of the decade actors lost their careers and series were cancelled due to allegations of sexual harassment. And the white male reality star bully who got himself elected President was impeached in a Congress led by women.
What's that song by Bob Dylan? Oh yeah, The Times They Are A-Changing - and nowhere was this more visible than on our television sets.
1. The Good Wife - a complex political/legal procedural/satire featuring a strong and at times, anti-hero, female protagonist. It tore apart the legal procedural at the seems, making fun of every angle, and then when it got bored of that -- tore into local and state politics with glee.
2. Justified - redefines the Modern Western, with star turns by Walter Goggins and Timothy Oliphant as the child-hood friends turned frenemies. Also digs deep into the coal mining culture of Western Kentucky and Virginia.
3. Game of Thrones - redefined the fantasy epic. No Wizards or Elves here, just plenty of frozen zombies and fire breathing dragons. And lots of political manuevering. Think the War of the Roses in Medieval Britain, with well zombies and dragons.
4. Vampire Diaries -- which is notable for spinning off not one but two long-lived series. Also for doing a new twist on the teen vampire soap opera -- in that romances are allowed to flourish, with plenty of hair-pinned plot twists. Fast paced with smart one liners.
5. Breaking Bad - a series that took the disenfranchised middle class angry white male trope to a whole new level. If you want to understand why Trump came about, watch this. It's hilarious in its third season, which is by far the best. It also set AMC on the map.
6. Mad Men -- yet another anti-hero series. The 2010s was the decade of the anti-heroes on television. This one also depicted how poorly women were treated. Oddly towards the end -- the hero is not Don Draper, but Peggy, his erstwhile secretary turned copywriter turned head copywriter. And the actor who got the most roles after the show ended and went on to fame and fortune, the actress who portrayed Peggy, Elizabeth Moss.
7. Big Bang Theory -- which ended as the decade drew to a close. It featured nerdy white guys who couldn't deal with women and stunk a bit of chauvinism, by the end, the heroes were the women who tolerated them. And the break-out star, not really Sheldon who got the spin-off, but his smart wife, Amy.
8. The Great British Bake-Off - a baking contest reality show from Britian in which the hosts, contestants and judges were gasp, kind. The worst that you saw was an occasional scowl from Paul Hollywood. It was inclusive and focused more on baking than manipulated drama. Soon people were copying it.
9. The Expanse - an inclusive diverse space opera, that is not headed by white men, but by a far more diverse cast. In that respect it is reminiscent of BSG, yet a touch more coherent.
10. Once Upon a Time -- which managed to re-envision the fairy tale, and placed the ladies front and center. It started out good, but got muddled towards the end, and a bit distracted by the writers love of anti-heroes. Yet, when it stuck to it's course, during Seasons 1-3, it was very good indeed. And had a few marvelous and rather subversive twists in that Peter Pan was the ultimate villain, and Hook a misunderstood and sexy rogue with a heart of gold. And the wicked step-mother of Snow White fame, has a heart after all -- if a misguided one.
11. Merlin -- a re-imagining of the Arthur Legend, with a POC Gwen, and a likable Morgan La Fay. The true villains appear to be Arthur's father or the adults of the piece.
12. Doctor Who -- we had Moffat's run, where strong female characters were introduced along with two female anti-heroes in Doctor River Song (the rogue with a heart of gold, and the Doctor's Wife), along with Missy (the female version of The Master) demonstrating that Time Lords could shift gender -- which eventually lead to the first female Doctor Who. Controversy be damned.
13. Scandal - a trippy female take on House of Cards, with the anti-hero being an African-American Female Power Broker or Fixer in DC, who just happens to be in love with the President. The second season is by far the best, with twists and turns that you don't see coming. Unfortunately it began to slowly scale off the rails, as each season the writers attempted to top themselves. But it's worth it for the second season alone.
14. Orphan Black -- watch it for the trippy thrill a minute first season, where there are hair-pin turns and plot twists a-plenty. Also the lead actress successfully pulls off five to six different roles.
15. Fargo - the first season, by far the best, which introduced Allison Tollman in the role of a sheriff that was quite different from the original film version's, and Keith Carradine as her father, Tom Hanks son as her romantic love interest - a post man who accidentally stumbles on a bunch of wayward criminals. Has one of the funniest and most insane shoot-outs ever filmed. A satiric take on the noir crime novel and true crime shows. The second season that went back in time, featuring Julia Stiles as part of a couple of inadvertent murderers...and focuses on Tollman's father, is wonderful as well. One of the better anthology series on record, and perhaps the start of the trend.
16. The Haunting of Hill House -- which re-envisions the ghost story and the mini-series in a way that is series, incorporates family drama, psychological horror, and supernatural with barely a wink or a nod. Forget the over-the-top shenanigans of American Horror Story, and leap full in to The Haunting of Hill House -- which has an episode that is completely shot with one tracking shot.
17. The 100 - a dystopian YA show that well...went about as far as you could possibly go. One of the darkest teen series that I've seen -- nothing appeared to be off limits. I gave up eventually, because watching the torture sequences and the bleak dystopia season after season was more than I could handle. But it had rich and complex characterizations and innovative plotting throughout. The first four seasons were rich in metaphor and worldbuilding, and worth a visit. If only it had ended while it was ahead.
18. Daredevil - the first of the Marvel Television Series airing on Netflix, and possibly the best written. It lead to Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist. Notable Luke Cage - with its mainly all-black cast, and Jones featuring a female superhero with awesome strength, with Doctor Who's Tennant as the villian. Daredevil managed to avoid the mistakes of previous film incarnations -- and started strong with a cat and mouse game between Vincent D'Onfrio's Kingpin and Charlie Cox's Daredevil. Each season made the mistake, at times, of introducing too many new villians as opposed to focusing on one. But Electra, The Punisher, and even Bulls-Eye stand out.
19. Sense8 - a weird sci-fi superhero series that was part sexual orgy and part thriller courtesy of the Wachowskis and well, the creator behind Bab5. It promoted love and inclusivity, featured a transgender superhero, and subverted various tropes in the process.
20. The Crown - a British Historical Drama that focuses on the facts and character over well costume and setting, although both are there in spades. Three years in, it features strong performances from a wide range of performers, some of which are portraying the same role as previous players had. With Clair Foy/Olivia Coleman playing Elizabeth, Outlander's Tobias/Who's Matt Smith playing Phillip, Greg Wise/Charles Dance playing Lord Mountbatten among many others.
21. This is Us - a family drama told out of order in a series of flashbacks, flashforwards and present renderings. The narrative structure is more circular than linear, and at times you have to work to figure out where you are. Also it features a vastly overweight woman as a lead character and a romantic figure, along with an African-American boy who is adopted by an all-white middle class family in the 1980s. Subverting various tropes and narrative styles, while at the same time exploring cultural issues with kindness -- it's good, except when it goes overboard into sentimentality and preachiness.
22. Stranger Things -- a nostalgic look back at the 1980s, with a sly modern commentary on the works of Spielberg and Stephen King. May work better for those of us who remember the 1980s than those who don't. Scary in places, warm in others, and at times, yes the bickering gets to you. But it has some nice surprises in there.
23. The Good Place -- a philosophical metaphysical comedy that at times meanders into clownish and cliche organizational work place sit-com. But hey, Chidi.
24. Lucifer - a philosophical metaphysical procedural dramedy that at times meanders into clownish and cliche buddy cop procedures. But hey, Tom Ellis Lucifer is not only easy on the eyes, but compelling.
25. Killing Eve -- a flip on the anti-hero male series. A female Hannibal. We have a female MI6 profiler trailing a female assassin and sociopath. In their cat and mouse game, it's not always clear who is the cat and who is the mouse, or who envies who the most.
26. Legion - a trippy three season series. I admittedly only made it through two. From the writer behind Fargo. He plays with narrative style -- and what is great about seasons one and two is how we go inside Legion's mind and get a visual analysis of how sociopath's are made. It's a political and psychological commentary on our times.
27. Barry - a hitman decides to take acting classes -- enuf said.
28. Marvelous Mrs. Maizel -- skip the third season, watch the first two - a historical piece from the writers of the Gilmour Girls and Bunheads, which has some of the same flaws in the latter episodes (S3), but worth it for the first two seasons.
29. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - sort of takes the concept of the musical sit-com to a whole new level. A manic-depressive woman with borderline personality disorder sees her life as a musical comedy of errors. She is constantly imagining herself and her friends breaking out in song and dance numbers. It's a sly commentary on how our culture views romantic relationships, mental illness, and career. With a comical anti-hero in Rebecca Bunch -- who follows (or rather stalks) her ex-boyfriend to his town in Southern California, and infilterates his life. Part parody and part satire, it offends as it amuses along the way. It also helped me understand borderline personality disorder.
30. His Dark Materials -- sort of a teen version of Game of Thrones, but far more innovative in the world building, if a tad less so in the casting and dialogue.
The casting, however, is far more diversified. This is joint BBC/HBO project. And it too is adapted from source material -- although in this case the source material is long completed. Features a fierce white teen girl (the heroine of Logan), and a strong POC teen boy as the leads, with Ruth Wilson and James McAvoy and Lin Manual Miranda in supporting roles. A nice note to end the decade on.
In the 10s, the anti-hero was big. Culminating in the election of the ultimate television anti-hero, a reality television star who got off on bullying contestants and declaring them fired. He was so horrible, that everyone who worked on the series was forced to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements. And various sequences had to be re-shot due to his nasty behavior.
That is until the end of a decade...when a shift began in popular culture away from the anti-hero bratty bully entitled white male (see a photo of Walter White and Don Draper) to the heroic/anti-heroic POC male/female characters in series ranging from This is Us, Blackish, Luther, Atlanta, Legacies, Dear White People, Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder, All Rise, Empire, The Good Fight, Nancy Drew, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Flea-Bag, His Dark Materials, Great British Bake-Off, Songland, the Voice, Ru-Paul's Drag Race, Watchmen,and The Expanse.
We went from nasty white guys in reality series like Simon Cowell and Trump to folks like Lionel Ritchie, the lesbian hosts and Paul Hollywood on Great British Bake-Off, John Legend on Songland and The Voice, and Ru-Paul.
Shifted from Walter White and Saul to well, Alicia Florik and Diane, Tyrion Lannister and Ayra Stark. Jumped from Big Bang Theory to Bob Hearts Abishola. Or Roseanne to the far more ensemble not to mention more inclusive, The Connors. The perpetually white male Doctor Who shifted from an entitled old white guy to a compassionate woman.
Commercials began to feature gay couples of all races and creeds. Instead of a white guy leading the group on the Walking Dead, it became a kick-ass black woman warrior.
The anti-hero white male politician was out-gunned, out-manuevered and out-lived by a smart woman (House of Cards, Scandal, and The Good Wife).
The nasty white guy misogynistic/sexist comedy got replaced by the white feminist anti-hero comedys. (Better Things, Fleabag, Broad City, The Marvelous Mrs. Maizel.)
Black sitcoms got upgraded -- Blackish, Mixedish, Atlanta, The Neighborhood, Bob Hearts Abishola.
Dramas with an all-POC cast got produced and aired. Lead characters are now POC. Grey's Anatomy went from being a show with mainly white doctors to a series with a diverse cast that included a transgender doctor, a muslim, and a chief of the hospital that was an African-American Woman with attitude. 9-1-1 - a popular procedural on FOX featured Angela Bassett as a police officer and sgt. along with her ex-husband who is gay, and a black female fire fighter who is a lesbian. This is a major shift from previous fire-fighter series that tended to be rather misogynistic, racist and sexist -- such as Rescue Me with it's anti-hero white male protagonists.
Also, Grey's Anatomy has outlasted the sexist white male centric paranormal noir series Supernatural. Which is being replaced by the far more inclusive Nancy Drew.
Towards the end of the decade actors lost their careers and series were cancelled due to allegations of sexual harassment. And the white male reality star bully who got himself elected President was impeached in a Congress led by women.
What's that song by Bob Dylan? Oh yeah, The Times They Are A-Changing - and nowhere was this more visible than on our television sets.
1. The Good Wife - a complex political/legal procedural/satire featuring a strong and at times, anti-hero, female protagonist. It tore apart the legal procedural at the seems, making fun of every angle, and then when it got bored of that -- tore into local and state politics with glee.
2. Justified - redefines the Modern Western, with star turns by Walter Goggins and Timothy Oliphant as the child-hood friends turned frenemies. Also digs deep into the coal mining culture of Western Kentucky and Virginia.
3. Game of Thrones - redefined the fantasy epic. No Wizards or Elves here, just plenty of frozen zombies and fire breathing dragons. And lots of political manuevering. Think the War of the Roses in Medieval Britain, with well zombies and dragons.
4. Vampire Diaries -- which is notable for spinning off not one but two long-lived series. Also for doing a new twist on the teen vampire soap opera -- in that romances are allowed to flourish, with plenty of hair-pinned plot twists. Fast paced with smart one liners.
5. Breaking Bad - a series that took the disenfranchised middle class angry white male trope to a whole new level. If you want to understand why Trump came about, watch this. It's hilarious in its third season, which is by far the best. It also set AMC on the map.
6. Mad Men -- yet another anti-hero series. The 2010s was the decade of the anti-heroes on television. This one also depicted how poorly women were treated. Oddly towards the end -- the hero is not Don Draper, but Peggy, his erstwhile secretary turned copywriter turned head copywriter. And the actor who got the most roles after the show ended and went on to fame and fortune, the actress who portrayed Peggy, Elizabeth Moss.
7. Big Bang Theory -- which ended as the decade drew to a close. It featured nerdy white guys who couldn't deal with women and stunk a bit of chauvinism, by the end, the heroes were the women who tolerated them. And the break-out star, not really Sheldon who got the spin-off, but his smart wife, Amy.
8. The Great British Bake-Off - a baking contest reality show from Britian in which the hosts, contestants and judges were gasp, kind. The worst that you saw was an occasional scowl from Paul Hollywood. It was inclusive and focused more on baking than manipulated drama. Soon people were copying it.
9. The Expanse - an inclusive diverse space opera, that is not headed by white men, but by a far more diverse cast. In that respect it is reminiscent of BSG, yet a touch more coherent.
10. Once Upon a Time -- which managed to re-envision the fairy tale, and placed the ladies front and center. It started out good, but got muddled towards the end, and a bit distracted by the writers love of anti-heroes. Yet, when it stuck to it's course, during Seasons 1-3, it was very good indeed. And had a few marvelous and rather subversive twists in that Peter Pan was the ultimate villain, and Hook a misunderstood and sexy rogue with a heart of gold. And the wicked step-mother of Snow White fame, has a heart after all -- if a misguided one.
11. Merlin -- a re-imagining of the Arthur Legend, with a POC Gwen, and a likable Morgan La Fay. The true villains appear to be Arthur's father or the adults of the piece.
12. Doctor Who -- we had Moffat's run, where strong female characters were introduced along with two female anti-heroes in Doctor River Song (the rogue with a heart of gold, and the Doctor's Wife), along with Missy (the female version of The Master) demonstrating that Time Lords could shift gender -- which eventually lead to the first female Doctor Who. Controversy be damned.
13. Scandal - a trippy female take on House of Cards, with the anti-hero being an African-American Female Power Broker or Fixer in DC, who just happens to be in love with the President. The second season is by far the best, with twists and turns that you don't see coming. Unfortunately it began to slowly scale off the rails, as each season the writers attempted to top themselves. But it's worth it for the second season alone.
14. Orphan Black -- watch it for the trippy thrill a minute first season, where there are hair-pin turns and plot twists a-plenty. Also the lead actress successfully pulls off five to six different roles.
15. Fargo - the first season, by far the best, which introduced Allison Tollman in the role of a sheriff that was quite different from the original film version's, and Keith Carradine as her father, Tom Hanks son as her romantic love interest - a post man who accidentally stumbles on a bunch of wayward criminals. Has one of the funniest and most insane shoot-outs ever filmed. A satiric take on the noir crime novel and true crime shows. The second season that went back in time, featuring Julia Stiles as part of a couple of inadvertent murderers...and focuses on Tollman's father, is wonderful as well. One of the better anthology series on record, and perhaps the start of the trend.
16. The Haunting of Hill House -- which re-envisions the ghost story and the mini-series in a way that is series, incorporates family drama, psychological horror, and supernatural with barely a wink or a nod. Forget the over-the-top shenanigans of American Horror Story, and leap full in to The Haunting of Hill House -- which has an episode that is completely shot with one tracking shot.
17. The 100 - a dystopian YA show that well...went about as far as you could possibly go. One of the darkest teen series that I've seen -- nothing appeared to be off limits. I gave up eventually, because watching the torture sequences and the bleak dystopia season after season was more than I could handle. But it had rich and complex characterizations and innovative plotting throughout. The first four seasons were rich in metaphor and worldbuilding, and worth a visit. If only it had ended while it was ahead.
18. Daredevil - the first of the Marvel Television Series airing on Netflix, and possibly the best written. It lead to Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist. Notable Luke Cage - with its mainly all-black cast, and Jones featuring a female superhero with awesome strength, with Doctor Who's Tennant as the villian. Daredevil managed to avoid the mistakes of previous film incarnations -- and started strong with a cat and mouse game between Vincent D'Onfrio's Kingpin and Charlie Cox's Daredevil. Each season made the mistake, at times, of introducing too many new villians as opposed to focusing on one. But Electra, The Punisher, and even Bulls-Eye stand out.
19. Sense8 - a weird sci-fi superhero series that was part sexual orgy and part thriller courtesy of the Wachowskis and well, the creator behind Bab5. It promoted love and inclusivity, featured a transgender superhero, and subverted various tropes in the process.
20. The Crown - a British Historical Drama that focuses on the facts and character over well costume and setting, although both are there in spades. Three years in, it features strong performances from a wide range of performers, some of which are portraying the same role as previous players had. With Clair Foy/Olivia Coleman playing Elizabeth, Outlander's Tobias/Who's Matt Smith playing Phillip, Greg Wise/Charles Dance playing Lord Mountbatten among many others.
21. This is Us - a family drama told out of order in a series of flashbacks, flashforwards and present renderings. The narrative structure is more circular than linear, and at times you have to work to figure out where you are. Also it features a vastly overweight woman as a lead character and a romantic figure, along with an African-American boy who is adopted by an all-white middle class family in the 1980s. Subverting various tropes and narrative styles, while at the same time exploring cultural issues with kindness -- it's good, except when it goes overboard into sentimentality and preachiness.
22. Stranger Things -- a nostalgic look back at the 1980s, with a sly modern commentary on the works of Spielberg and Stephen King. May work better for those of us who remember the 1980s than those who don't. Scary in places, warm in others, and at times, yes the bickering gets to you. But it has some nice surprises in there.
23. The Good Place -- a philosophical metaphysical comedy that at times meanders into clownish and cliche organizational work place sit-com. But hey, Chidi.
24. Lucifer - a philosophical metaphysical procedural dramedy that at times meanders into clownish and cliche buddy cop procedures. But hey, Tom Ellis Lucifer is not only easy on the eyes, but compelling.
25. Killing Eve -- a flip on the anti-hero male series. A female Hannibal. We have a female MI6 profiler trailing a female assassin and sociopath. In their cat and mouse game, it's not always clear who is the cat and who is the mouse, or who envies who the most.
26. Legion - a trippy three season series. I admittedly only made it through two. From the writer behind Fargo. He plays with narrative style -- and what is great about seasons one and two is how we go inside Legion's mind and get a visual analysis of how sociopath's are made. It's a political and psychological commentary on our times.
27. Barry - a hitman decides to take acting classes -- enuf said.
28. Marvelous Mrs. Maizel -- skip the third season, watch the first two - a historical piece from the writers of the Gilmour Girls and Bunheads, which has some of the same flaws in the latter episodes (S3), but worth it for the first two seasons.
29. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - sort of takes the concept of the musical sit-com to a whole new level. A manic-depressive woman with borderline personality disorder sees her life as a musical comedy of errors. She is constantly imagining herself and her friends breaking out in song and dance numbers. It's a sly commentary on how our culture views romantic relationships, mental illness, and career. With a comical anti-hero in Rebecca Bunch -- who follows (or rather stalks) her ex-boyfriend to his town in Southern California, and infilterates his life. Part parody and part satire, it offends as it amuses along the way. It also helped me understand borderline personality disorder.
30. His Dark Materials -- sort of a teen version of Game of Thrones, but far more innovative in the world building, if a tad less so in the casting and dialogue.
The casting, however, is far more diversified. This is joint BBC/HBO project. And it too is adapted from source material -- although in this case the source material is long completed. Features a fierce white teen girl (the heroine of Logan), and a strong POC teen boy as the leads, with Ruth Wilson and James McAvoy and Lin Manual Miranda in supporting roles. A nice note to end the decade on.
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Date: 2020-01-02 05:43 am (UTC)Ohhh, are you ever right about that, but sadly such is true of almost everything on the CW, and the big nets aren't much better these days. The most recent season of The 100 was one I had mixed feelings about-- didn't think it was bad, just kinda.. Meh? Uninvolving?
But... when I got the DVD set a few weeks back, and had a chance to re-view it without the commercial interruptions a fascinating thing happened-- it got way, way better, flowed better, made more sense, etc. I have become convinced that all of the frequent, and worse, lengthy commercial breaks are messing with my head in a way that both analytically and emotionally detract from the story.
Arrrgh, no DVD player? If I come up with one at a decent price, I'll let you know. There's a store in our area called Ollie's Bargain Outlet, where they buy up overruns and other stuff stores and manufacturers are trying to unload. Last spring I picked up two refurbished Sanyo DVD players for-- are you ready?--- $17.00 each!!
I use one in my shop to test run repaired units, and the second is now in my TV system, replacing an old player that was wearing out and kept glitching at odd intervals.
I'll keep a lookout! :-)
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Date: 2020-01-02 01:40 pm (UTC)I have a free one at the office -- the problem lies in hooking it up to the new TV. No idea how - it has multiple connections, tv has one. And it would probably have to be hooked into the cable box. It's not an issue, I seldom if ever watch DVDs any longer. I tend to stream or watch things off the DVR now.
And I've been sliding towards less and less violent shows. GoT was also easier -- because it was 10 episodes once a year. And there were two years between the last two seasons. Big difference between watching 22 episodes of increasing violence back to back with a maybe a 6-8 month break between seasons, and 10 episodes, once a week, with a 12 -35 month break between seasons. That said? I'd have probably stopped watching it if it hadn't ended when it did.