Small screen suggestions?
Feb. 10th, 2014 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrissaI 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?
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Date: 2014-02-12 03:12 pm (UTC)Um. I don't know what I have in the 45 minute or 90 minute range. But my usual recs that you aren't already in the middle of include Justified, Suits, Call the Midwife, Hannibal (which has lots of dream-like artsy gruesome murder but no sexual violence, yay), Shameless, Orphan Black, Orange Is the New Black, Longmire, Lost Girl, and Weeds. You may well bounce off Weeds pretty hard; I am undecided on whether I think it might work for you. I'm afraid that these are all in the 50 minute category, though, because that's almost exclusively what I watch. Hopefully someone will have better ideas for half-hour shows. :(