The way TV has changed over the decades is definitely fascinating as it works a kind of natural evolution at times, from live productions to pre-recorded and then the slow coming seasons and seasonal runs for them, with some being … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 11: The Longest-Running Series You Watch
Being born in the early 70s and growing up watching cartoons on Saturday mornings, which was where you usually could only see them on some of the half dozen channels you had access to, was one of those glorious times. … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 10: Your Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoon
The miniseries isn’t what it used to be but we do see some coming up from time to time. Also known as a limited series, they’ve been around forever with classics like Roots and Shogun and events like the original V movies that … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 9: Your Favorite Miniseries
With the international readership that these questions can have, this one is just awkwardly phrased in order to capture the breadth of things. What we want to know here are your favorite ‘foreign” shows that aren’t native to where you … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 8: Your Favorite Non-Native Show
There was a time, not that long ago, that opening sequences for TV shows were practically forbidden. A few shows had something resembling on, especially if they were an older show that did their best to retain it, but advertisers … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 7: Your Favorite Opening Sequence
We’re leaving a lot of wiggle room here but what we’re looking for is what you felt was the best larger ensemble cast to come together that really nailed it through and through. One where you felt there really wasn’t … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 6: Your Favorite Ensemble Cast
This one may actually be tougher to answer this year than most other years, especially if you’re like a lot of folks and went through lockdown/quarantine and watched a LOT of shows. We’re going to do this in two ways … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 5: Your Favorite New Show Of 2020
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
Comfort shows are a big thing and we all have them to varying degrees. They’re the series that we can just pop on at any point and watch, ease into the familiarity, and simply enjoy. So we want to know … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 4: The Show You Can Rewatch Over & Over & OVer
Politics are in almost every show when you get down to it but we’re talking about ones focused on it and things surrounding it pretty clearly. I had grown up watching shows like Benson and seeing politics through that 80s … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 3: Your Favorite Show About Politics
There are a whole host of shows that fall under this category and I would normally pick what I picked for yesterday’s show but I try to avoid the same answer on my part day after day. The Syfy series Deadly … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 2: The Show That Should Never Have Been Canceled
With as much TV as I consume it can be hard to remember a lot of shows once you get a little distance from them. For our opening day question, there’s one show that I push on folks whenever I … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 1: The Show You’re A Booster For
With the conclusion of our 30 Days of Horror Challenge yesterday, we’re getting ready to move onto the next phase – after we recover from Halloween! We’ve had a lot of fun running the last couple of these with the … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 31: Epilogue
And here we are, at the last question of our horror challenge, and we’re going to go a little nostalgic. We’ve mixed in some Halloween themed items over the month because it’s all tied together but we want to go … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 30: Your Favorite Halloween Memory
I’m trying to figure out how to word this properly and this is very much coming from an American-centric perspective, so forgive me there. While most of us grew up with the “traditional” creatures of darkness with vampires, werewolves, zombies, and … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 29: Your Favorite Non-Traditional Creature
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
One of the more unnerving things that shows up in way too many horror films for some people’s tastes are clowns. Goddamn clowns. There are a lot of different types out there and when they populate a horror film of … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 28: Your Scariest Clown
We haven’t talked too specifically about shows in this month’s challenge though we’ve covered the TV side once or twice before. For this question, we want to look at one of the longer-running shows that delved into the horror side … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 27: Your Favorite Treehouse of Horror Episode
We haven’t talked too specifically about shows in this months challenge though we’ve covered the TV side once or twice before. For this question, we want to look at one of the longer-running shows that delved into the horror side … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 26: Your Favorite X-Files Episode
The fact you can do a horror movie with just a house and people in it and never show any actual creature or being causing the problem shows one of the many ways the mind works to handle stressful situations. … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 25: Your Favorite Haunted House
The spooky side of horror revolves around some familiar types but one that permeates it the most in the minds of many are ghosts themselves. There’s something haunting about the idea depending on your views of the afterlife and the … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 24: Your Favorite Spooky Ghost
