Small screen suggestions?

[mrissa]

I watch a bunch of TV to get me through my workouts, and right now I don’t have a default thing of the right length that I’ve got momentum on, so I thought I would take the opportunity to ask for recommendations. I’ll list a bunch of things I’m in some sense “currently in the middle of,” and you can either suggest other stuff you think I might like or else ask what I like about the things I’ve listed. I am not current on anything: I watch DVDs or Netflix, so “current season” stuff will be spoilers for me.

Oh, and: I am a tough sell for sexual violence. It’s not a hard, fast line for me–for example, I watch Criminal Minds–but it’s pretty easy to hit my “this is no fun any more and I’m taking my marbles and going home” threshold on things like a certain popular soapy historical drama this season.

Shows I’m watching: Arrow, Avatar: The Legend of Korra, The Bletchley Circle, Elementary, The Good Wife, House of Cards, Inspector Lewis, The Killing, The Mentalist, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Ripper Street, Scandal, Sherlock, White Collar.

I am not at all limited to English language stuff, but the pacing of 22-minute episodes has to hit me right–some anime does and some doesn’t. Almost no live-action English-language stuff does. 55-minute shows can work, but they frustrate me because they’re pretty much exactly the wrong length for what I need for workouts. 40-to-44 are great, as are the 80-to-90 blocks.

Thoughts?

Originally published at Novel Gazing Redux

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

M*A*S*H is sadly in the 22-minute range. More like 24-26 because commercial breaks were shorter then, but still: I have tried watching it, and I do love it, but the pacing is all wrong for my workouts, alas. We have all the DVDs, though. Classic for a reason.

[guppiecat]

I'd hoped two of them back to back would work for you. They do for me.

Ah well.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

See, two of them might, if 44-48 minutes was enough. But it has to be twice that every day, and four of them is just too...bumpy, is I guess the best approximation I can give for the pacing problems with that.