The only problem: right now I am supposed to be finishing my thesis (or at least, doing so soon), and I don't want to get invested in a new series, at least not one that requires a lot of energy and investment, which it sounds like The Wire might.
Don't watch The Wire right now. I have to keep rewinding and finally gave up and put it on close-captioning. It's brilliant, but every piece of dialogue matters. David Simon and Ed Burns are genuiuses. By the way Generation Kill isn't David Simon - it's Ed Burns. I think David Simon died during the first season of Treme.
I'd suggest Game of Thrones - it's oddly enough lighter, but also quite violent and very wry wit. Plus...a lot characters to keep track of.
I don't want brainless TV per se -- but maybe something a little less taxing, maybe something a bit lighter. I'm not sure what. Maybe a comedy series. Lots of my f-list are big fans of Community, but I wasn't wowed by the first two episodes.
Community does get better, but like most sitcoms it is uneven. I agree with you, I was less than impressed by it. But I admittedly have a very dry sense of humor and find Community's sense of humor either cringe-worthy or silly most of the time. That said? The paint-ball episode are hilarious. I'll give it that - it has a nice sense of absurdist comedy. There's also a rather funny episode about hijacking a space shuttle which may amuse you.
Not sure if you've tried Big bang theory? It's also uneven, but often funnier than Community.
I think the only Situation Comedy series that weren't that uneven that I watched were pre-21st centurary - News Radio, Frasier, Cheers, Murphy Brown, Seinfeild, MASH. Post -90s is so...over-the-top, I can see the joke coming from a mile a way, also a prevalence of documentary style humor. But if you like documentary humor and haven't seen it already - try Arrested Development - it is sort of wry wit and the precursor to Modern Family (a lot better actually). Another possibility is a spin-off of Beavis and Butthead - Daria. Or...Weeds? Although Weeds got on my nerves after the 3rd season.
I liked Femme Nikita and Covert Affairs - but they may be too light for you. Vamp Diaries and True Blood too soap operaish. True blood has some good satire though - particularly S2. Vamp Diaries is hilarious but it's also very Dawson's Creek - think Scream meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Dawson's Creek.
Terriers is lighter and fun. So is The Walking Dead for that matter. And I loved Justified - if you like Westerns.
Sigh. I watch too much tv - it's my vice, well one of them at any rate. ;-)
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Date: 2011-07-15 10:41 pm (UTC)Don't watch The Wire right now. I have to keep rewinding and finally gave up and put it on close-captioning. It's brilliant, but every piece of dialogue matters. David Simon and Ed Burns are genuiuses. By the way Generation Kill isn't David Simon - it's Ed Burns. I think David Simon died during the first season of Treme.
I'd suggest Game of Thrones - it's oddly enough lighter, but also quite violent and very wry wit. Plus...a lot characters to keep track of.
I don't want brainless TV per se -- but maybe something a little less taxing, maybe something a bit lighter. I'm not sure what. Maybe a comedy series. Lots of my f-list are big fans of Community, but I wasn't wowed by the first two episodes.
Community does get better, but like most sitcoms it is uneven. I agree with you, I was less than impressed by it. But I admittedly have a very dry sense of humor and find Community's sense of humor either cringe-worthy or silly most of the time. That said? The paint-ball episode are hilarious. I'll give it that - it has a nice sense of absurdist comedy. There's also a rather funny episode about hijacking a space shuttle which may amuse you.
Not sure if you've tried Big bang theory? It's also uneven, but often funnier than Community.
I think the only Situation Comedy series that weren't that uneven that I watched were pre-21st centurary - News Radio, Frasier, Cheers, Murphy Brown, Seinfeild, MASH. Post -90s is so...over-the-top, I can see the joke coming from a mile a way, also a prevalence of documentary style humor. But if you like documentary humor and haven't seen it already - try Arrested Development - it is sort of wry wit and the precursor to Modern Family (a lot better actually). Another possibility is a spin-off of Beavis and Butthead - Daria.
Or...Weeds? Although Weeds got on my nerves after the 3rd season.
I liked Femme Nikita and Covert Affairs - but they may be too light for you.
Vamp Diaries and True Blood too soap operaish. True blood has some good satire though - particularly S2. Vamp Diaries is hilarious but it's also very Dawson's Creek - think Scream meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Dawson's Creek.
Terriers is lighter and fun. So is The Walking Dead for that matter. And I loved Justified - if you like Westerns.
Sigh. I watch too much tv - it's my vice, well one of them at any rate. ;-)