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My favorite San Diego TV show was Simon and Simon. I also liked the A&E reality TV show Family Plots from San Diego.
Simon and Simon, or Seman and Seman as we’d call it as kids, was an awesome show. I still hum the beginning of the theme song from time to time when I’m on the 5 passing downtown or going over the Coronado bridge.
Albuquerque: Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, In Plain Sight -- these come to mind but I'm not sure they would be my personal favorites but they are entertaining. There are tons more...you can't go far without running into a film crew. Breaking Bad has such a cult following that there is a city tour in an old RV going to all the filming sites.
My favorite San Diego TV show was Simon and Simon. I also liked the A&E reality TV show Family Plots from San Diego.
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Simon and Simon, or Seman and Seman as we’d call it as kids, was an awesome show. I still hum the beginning of the theme song from time to time when I’m on the 5 passing downtown or going over the Coronado bridge.
I just wikipedia'd this show. Of course it stopped filming the year I was born lol.
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Albuquerque: Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, In Plain Sight -- these come to mind but I'm not sure they would be my personal favorites but they are entertaining. There are tons more...you can't go far without running into a film crew. Breaking Bad has such a cult following that there is a city tour in an old RV going to all the filming sites.
For all the Breaking Bad answers, I don't think there's gonna be a show that will top that for Albuquerque ever. Such a great series. I love Better Call Saul too, but the pacing of the show is weird. It's starting to pick up now!
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Those living in NY have an unfair advantage.
Actually, I think its sort of underrepresented in terms of video games, if anything. Since 9/11, most first person shooters/action games eschew using New York as a setting for obvious reasons. Same with games like Fallout.
My favorite San Diego TV show was Simon and Simon. I also liked the A&E reality TV show Family Plots from San Diego.
It was one of my favorite shows. SD was a great city for this. It's too bad that no other shows have been set in SD since then. I was very jealous of SD back then since it had the show. Table has turned: San Jose has the great show(The Good Doctor) and SD is jealous!!!
It’s basically about folks and their neighbors drinking in their backyard adjacent the sweet canyons of South Park.
That would be us LOL!
I'm getting old because I'd actually watch that haha. The concept looks cool. Shows should really go back to being more relatable to real life because they're running out of outlandish, Game of Thrones type ideas.
Honestly, I'm surprised San Diego-TJ isn't featured in more movies AND video games (aside from Tony Hawk, off the top of my head) because the element of the Mexican border and a completely different world south of idyllic San Diego would be a pretty cool video game. I know LA sucks up a lot of the San Diego exposure in general, but people still know about San Diego in the rest of the coutnry.
Not much is filmed in Seattle these days. But lots of stuff filmed in Vancouver is set here.
It's usually a surprise to me. I'll be watching something and oh look, it's set here or we have a cameo.
For all Vancouver's greatness as a city, for all its continued prominence, and given its huge film industry, it sure doesn't play itself very often at least that I've noticed.
Chicago's got a few, but some of my favorites are some oldies that I catch once in a while:
Ferris Bueller's Day Off- the ultimate Chicago film
While you were Sleeping
The Lakehouse
The Dark Knight
Ordinary People
The Break Up
The Blues Brothers
The Fugitive
Some TV:
Mike and Mollie
Chicago Fire
Married with Children
Good Times
Fargo is a fantastic film. Though doesn't take place in St. Paul, I may or may not move to Minneapolis soon anyway... either way, Twin Cities!
Agreed — Fargo really is a modern classic!
As for TV, obviously the best pick is the Mary Tyler Moore Show. The opening and closing credits do a good job of highlighting how green and beautiful it is here. Every time I see Mary taking the escalator up to the second level of the Crystal Court, I'm astonished by how well IDS Center has aged. Still looks like it was built yesterday.
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