Friday, April 04, 2014

"I lost Ed Truck and it feels like somebody took my heart and dropped it into a bucket of boiling tears."

This post contains spoilers for The Good Wife, How I Met Your Mother, The New Girl, and Hannibal. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. If you get spoiled and get mad about it, take it up with this guy:

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If this doesn't scare the shit out of you, you're not watching Hannibal and you must remedy that immediately.


You guys. I'm having a problem. TV is betraying me and I'm not sure I can take part in it anymore. The TV. None of it. It's gotten so bad that I've taken refuge in old episodes of America's Next Top Model, over twelve seasons of which is on Hulu Plus, which is yet an other reason I should cancel both our Hulu and Netflix accounts because I'd get SO MUCH DONE. But we already got rid of cable, so I suppose Hulu and Netflix are acceptable vices. It's healthier than binge drinking, probably. I don't know. I'm not a scientist.

When I was in college, there came a point in my classes where I was reading the following three books at the same time: Moby Dick (for a class on transcendentalism), Hamlet (for my Brit Lit class), and Crime and Punishment (for Russian Lit). These are all...dark, depressing works, so much so that reading the three at one time began to affect my mood. That's how I feel about my favorite TV shows lately. Watching TV hasn't been the joy of all joys that it should be, and it's making me want to stop watching TV FULL STOP because why am I even watching TV if not to enjoy myself?

1. The Good Wife

I've already written about this but it's still SO DEPRESSING. Will Gardner died two episodes ago, and in the latest episode, we got to watch everyone hear the news and cry a lot. FUN. I mean, it was very well done but if the rest of the season is going to be like this, I don't really want to watch it. I wish regular TV shows would stop going all Game of Thrones on their characters.

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GOOD BECAUSE IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT I NEED ONE

2. HIMYM

UGH. About 20 minutes into the finale, I realized I probably wasn't going to like how it ended. The internet has been speculating for months that A) the Mother is dead and B) Ted's going to end up with Robin anyway, even after realizing he wasn't the guy who was in love with her anymore and after both he and Robin had grown so much. I admired the time and thought put into the theories but brushed them off (much like I did when someone posited that Will might die on The Good Wife), because why would they do that? After all this time? After making us sit through that horrible scene where Robin freaking FLOATS AWAY ON THE WINDS OF UNREQUITED LOVE:

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Seriously, what?

In the end, however, that's exactly the path the creators took, because that's the one they'd planned at the beginning of the show. And it was terrible and I hated it. Some clever person, however, cut together a new ending, one that will wash away (a bit) of the foul taste the finale may have left in your mouth.


3. The New Girl

Look, I haven't even watched the episode where Nick and Jess break up because A) it happened right after Will Gardner died and B) I DON'T WANT TO BELIEVE IT. NO DON'T MAKE ME.

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Me too, Jess.

4. Hannibal

Bev died. Bev! I loved Bev! And she died in a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad way!

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I screamed.

Sigh. I mean. I know I shouldn't get attached to people on this show. Everyone is going to die and be made into a fancy pies and Hannibal is going to eat it and maybe throw out some food-related puns and we'll all cringe-laugh into our wine, wondering why we continue to watch these shows when all they do is break our damn fool hearts.

THE END

PS: But don't worry, you can wash your tears away with Captain America: Winter Soldier because it was AWESOME. Seriously. It was this good:

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The story was good, too, if you're into that sort of thing.

7 comments:

  1. Dat. Ass. Doe. (Captain America)

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  2. ALL.OF.THIS.

    I don't watch any of these shows, but I completely understand where you're coming from. When Ripper Street got revived by Amazon for season 3, I was deliriously happy for about 5 minutes because now maybe they can fix the terrible, terrible heartbreaking ending to season 2. But then I thought about the trend in most drama writing now of just stomping on fans' hearts, but I'm actually questioning whether or not I can handle watching a third season if my two favorite characters don't get a happy ending.

    And then it's like, how much time and energy have I wasted worrying about this? Don't try to answer that.... (backs away slowly)

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    1. JULIE. This is completely off topic but have you watched THE HOUR? I think you would love it.

      Also, don't worry, I spend many, many hours worrying about fictional worlds.

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  3. Julie, you should watch The Good Wife. And Hannibal. Definitely Hannibal.

    Hannibal appearing behind Bev is terrifying, but for me the most terrifying thing was when she drew her gun and he bolted out of frame at super-human speed.

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    1. HE IS SO SCARY WHY IS HE SO SCARY?

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  4. Mindy and Danny broke up last night also!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY IS TV DOING THIS TO ME.

    I SHOULDN'T BE CRYING OVER SITCOMS.

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  5. I DIDN'T KNOW THEY GOT TOGETHER BUT I'M SORRY.

    I think crying over sitcoms is totally normal. I cried over The Office like a bagoddamnjillion times.

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