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Hubby and I were having a conversation yesterday about shows you watch once or twice, shows you watch several times but then stop watching, and shows you would watch again and again - never getting tired of them.
So, give me an example of your three:
1: Watch once
2: Watch several times
3: Watch again & again
Here are mine:
1: Fraser - I liked it but didn't watch it more than once
2: Bones - I catch the reruns on TNT sometimes and rewatch them but I don't have to see it
3: Stargate SG1 - Love it - whenever I have a bit of time to kill I pull up an episode on Amazon and watch it.
Watch once: Dexter (great show, but not one I will watch again), Breaking Bad (great show, but don't see myself watching it again),
Watched a few times: Gilmore Girls, House, The Walking Dead (usually we re watch previous seasons right before the new one comes out), Little House on the Prairie, Gidget (this was such a cute show), Pushing Daisies,
Watch over and over: Community S1-4 (my family and I watch this in marathon mode a lot), Freaks and Geeks, Seinfeld, Bates Motel (it's still going, but I know this is a show I will revisit often once it ends)
So, give me an example of your three:
1: Watch once
2: Watch several times
3: Watch again & again
If I only watch a show once, it's probably because I didn't like it very much. So ...
1: Almost all sitcoms.
2: If I really like a show enough to rewatch it, it's probably in category 3. But there are shows that I really liked for a while that eventually lost my interest. BONES and SONS OF ANARCHY come to mind. BONES started great but is just the same episode over and over and over and over and over. SOA also started great, but by the end of Season 4 it had become too dark and depressing to watch. THE WALKING DEAD started good, and I can still rewatch the first few seasons. But it turned horrible. It's basically torture porn.
3: BREAKING BAD, FARGO, JUSTIFIED, THE X-FILES, GILMORE GIRLS, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW, WKRP IN CINCINNATI, MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE, WONDERFALLS, PUSHING DAISIES, GAME OF THRONES, FRAZIER, FREAKS AND GEEKS, SCOOBY DOO, WHERE ARE YOU?, SEINFELD, ALIAS (Seasons 1-2 only), KING OF THE HILL, THE SOPRANOS, and the WONDER WOMAN TV show from the '70s (so bad that it's awesome).
1. watch once, not again: True Blood. I saw a rerun of one of the more shocking, memorable episodes and expected to have that same "OMG!!" feeling, but since I knew what was coming, it wasn't nearly as enjoyable. I realized a high-octane show like that is best watched once (un-spoiled), and remembered fondly.
2. watch a few times: I'd place 90% of what I watch in this category, but narrowing it to one--Doctor Who . There are occasionally things you miss in the original airing, so re-watching episodes are occasionally necessary. Overall, though, I'd say two/three times at most or it becomes repetitive.
3. can watch over and over: The Golden Girls. Dear lord I can practically recite the dialogue in some episodes, but every time I see an episode airing, I have to stop channel-surfing. Just so enjoyable.
1: Watch once - "Dexter", "Chuck", "How I Met Your Mother"
2: Watch several times "Bones", "Big BangTheory"
3: Watch again & again "Suits", "Motive", "Flashpoint"
I watched Dexter once.
Big Bang Theory I watched several times, but it's starting to lose appeal.
Again and again.... Suits, Lost, The Blacklist, Sopranos, Desperate Housewives, Jericho, Deadwood, Battlestar Gallactica.
I am certainly looking forward to someday five or tens years from now, when the details of Breaking Bad - aside from how freakin' awesome it is! - have faded from my mind enough that I can discover it all over again.
It's been about a decade since I finished Six Feet Under, so I might watch that again soon. The Sopranos again, someday, certainly.
Watching a series again works for me because I do not enjoy fiction in order to 'find out' what happens - I enjoy it for the way the storytellers present their tale. Like listening to a song many times, I can enjoy a story over and over.
Watch once
some competition reality tv show (Survivor, Amazing Race, Skin Wars, Face Off kinda thing). I can't do "regular" reality tv like Real Housewives or Keeping up With...
Watch several times
Big Bang Theory; The Animaniacs; X Files; Fresh Prince of Bel Air; Forensic Files
Watch again & again
Veronica Mars; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Angel; Lost; Scooby Doo, Where are You; the orignal uncut Looney Tunes
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