My friends do this to me, and I actually do give it a shot. I’m always excited to see what they like, because I love them and want them to feel like I’m interested in their stuff. I don’t always like it, but I do try.
I recommend something to my friends and they never even attempt to watch it or listen, or read or whatever.
If someone you care about asks you to take a look at something, you could at least try. If you don’t, you’re just an asshole. Like my friends. Now I don’t even bother looking into anything they recommend. Still love ‘em though. 🤷
Quite some years ago I offhandedly recommended a band to a friend, and like a week later she texted me thanking me for the recommendation, and gave me her thoughts. I thought that was really cool of her, because it’s all too common that recommendations are ignored. I decided then that I would do my best to actually follow up on recommendations from friends and then try to let them know what I thought. It’s a practice that’s generally very well received.
I also then decided to be more honest about whether or not I actually will check something out. For example, I don’t really listen to podcasts so I’m pretty upfront with people that it’s not likely I’ll listen to whatever they recommend. I think it’s had a ripple effect of generally being more honest in my relationships, which has been transformative. I highly recommend it.
I’m as honest as it gets, unfortunately, and they aren’t. So, when I say I’ll check it out, I do, but when they say they’ll check it out, they never even tried at all.
Yeah I just don’t take it personally. I get what it’s like, people have their tastes and aren’t necessarily quick to try something on a recommendation. Honestly I don’t think it’s something you can really expect of people, and certainly it shouldn’t be so transactional.
Oh, no. I hope I didn’t come off like it’s transactional.
See, to me, when I love and respect you, I want to see what gives you joy, what makes you tick and how you think. It makes me happy to see my friends happy when I take part or observe their hobbies and interests. It’s cute. I guess I’m more bummed that I don’t have that kind of friend myself, if that makes more sense?
Ah yes, okay I see what you’re saying. I think I’m very fortunate to have a couple of friends who care about media the way that I do, and we know each other’s tastes and take recommendations seriously. I have a lot of other friends that are absolutely not like that, so I guess it’s an individual sorta thing ya know.
I’m a loner, so the ones I do have are the only ones I could keep. I don’t always have the energy for talking and hanging out long. It’s an issue I am, unfortunately, very aware of. :/
But, hey. Thank you for the actual conversation.
There’s a Julie Nolke sketch about this, but my search skills are clearly on a trip to Bermuda or something.
Ten, minites, lateur…
Found it: Add it to the list?
Irony: People who will not get around to watching this.
Give me a couple specific reasons why it’s good and why I would like it? I’ll absolutely take your recommendation
Hit me with “It’s just so well done”? Yeah no
Now that I have so many requests from friends to watch a specific telly show, the oldest of which is from… idk, 5 years ago now, I don’t know if I’m just too lazy to do anything, if I just hate television (thanks, cable, and streaming too) or if I accidentally betrayed all my friends. Probably all of them at once.
I guess I’m gonna find some new friends now.
I hope the streamin bubble will pop soon and we will have less higher quality shows
I find that I am LOSING shows that I used to enjoy, now that Disney+ and Paramount+ and whatever are gate-keeping them.
But yes, there is indeed a ton of lower-quality shows lining up to take their place…
There be ways to get around those gates, matey!
Indubitably - I have been fairly resistant to that but sadly (to me) it seems a question now of when I get time to research it, not if:-|. It’s been a minute/decade since I was my own captain though, and I don’t want to pay for a proxy service, and I’d want to see if there are Android solutions that are safe, and so on. In the meantime, I’m just 1-2-3-ing my way around, bumming my way on other people’s rides:-).
The simplest method for me is streaming sites.
When it works, yeah:-).
Unfortunately, often it does not. Plus I do legit miss the feeling of being totally legit - like even though it is not illegal to stream, still I truly want some cash to trickle its way back towards the content creators. Also, places like Netflix offer a fantastic streaming service - entirely separately from the content.
So I am not sure what I will end up doing. Maybe I will settle for getting less content, or maybe I will watch less TV entirely and read more books, but I may also investigate going deeper if I need to for a specific series, or even if I never actually use it, just to know what it is all about:-).
The world was better when the same six corporations provided all the entertainment I ever needed
The bubble has produced some of the highest quality TV ever. If the bubble bursts, the quality will go down for sure.
Or things that are already made disappear and are replaced with reality TV, like what’s happening with HBO/Discovery/Max/whatever.
… or just add it to the bottom of the list that you weren’t going to finish before you die anyway.
“If you just suffer through the first 9 episodes it gets REALLY GOOD!”
Yeah or I could not.
There is basically no series that increases in quality over the seasons. Some wave a bit but if you don’t like it in the first few episodes you won’t like it later.
Almost every series decreases in quality after each episode. Game of Thrones. Great series in the beginning a bit slow in the middle and badly rushed in the end. The end is ok quality.
Lost great concept medium quality. Should have ended after season 3.
Steins;Gate amazing first season. Very sad second season. Third season only for real fans.
Gintama… Well gintama is gintama and there is no rating hate it or love it, no in between.
The office?
Better Call Saul was one that I found started slow but eventually I was hooked, after two or three tries to get into it.
Idk, I think it depends on the type of show maybe? Or the presumed prestige of it. I feel like a lot of procedurals I’ve watched get better once they get their legs under them. They not bad in the beginning but once the characters have been established and the writers get the hang of doing crime/mysteries they get more fluid.
I forced myself to watch through the first season of Breaking Bad, the second was meh, but starting from the third and until the end it became the best series I ever watched. The same happend to a friend, he wanted to stop watching, I told him to go on and at the end he loved it.
Better Call Saul also got better as episodes went on.
The Foundation series had terrible pacing in the first season, and they massively improved on that in the second.
Many Star Trek series take some time to find their tone and pacing. Granted, some never manage to do so…
People kept raving about Schitts Creek, so I muscled my way through two seasons and just didn’t care.
Same here. I didn’t care after watching the 1st season. It was very meh.
Same, I watched it when it first came out and gave up after the first season.
apart from Bojack and The Good Place, those are worth it
Except both of those had good first seasons. They get way better, but doesn’t mean they were bad to start with.
Yeah but Bojack s1 wasn’t great… There I said it :x
that was my experience as well! but I’ve heard people complaining that the first seasons of both nearly didn’t grab them
Yeah I’ve had people that try to get me into anime and they’ll say some shit like “it’s really boring but after season 7 ITS AMAZING, oh and also season 192 is the best”
Spy Family is a good one to try. Good from the start, good in the middle and on track to be good in the end.
A lot of anime is goofy and absurd and you have to roll with it. Some good ones will have a seemingly goofy premise but end up dark as hell and keep you up at night.
If you want somethibg more relaxing and less time commitment, the Studio Ghibli movies are good. “Castle in the sky” is fun. If you like action spy/theif type movies “Lupin III Castle of Cagliostro” is a good one from the 70’s.
Like american/western shows, there’s a lot of garabage mixed in, and sometime even the popular stuff might not be to your taste. (I never got into dragon ball, despite it being one of the most popular anime)
Ok I’ll add it to the list
see above comic
Yeah, I meant to give one maybe two ideas…then I went overboard. Sorry about that. I did at least avoid anything that took 7 seasons to “get good”.
Don’t worry. Not OP, but I think he was just joking in the context of this comic. You obviously love those and liked your recommendations
Not too worried, but appricate the reply.
I added a lot of text to each thing when I read someone else say something like “recomendations without giving any reason to watch are annoying”, and I thought good point!
I’m just buggin’ :p
Have a great day!
I do that too, but with tech stuff. Someone asks me about something, and next thing I know I’ve written three paragraphs.
Sadly this is true for some shows…The Office (US) is like that… That said I guess you wouldn’t miss that much if you skipped that first season…
This is why I have my three to six episode rule. If a TV show cannot capture my interest in three to six episodes depending on its run time, whether it’s an hour or 30 minutes. Then it’s not worth my time. If a TV show cannot prove to me why it’s interesting or worth watching in the same amount of time that a movie takes to tell a complete story, then what’s the point of even watching it?
If you leave it long enough the same person will recommend a new TV show and say it is much better than the first one they recommended.
I’m one of those people who don’t watch almost any movies or TV series. Oppenheimer was the only movie in a long while that I was slightly interested of. Watched it yesterday only to be reminded why I don’t watch movies.
So, you’re using some form of social media, therefore you know that Oppenheimer was generally well received. What was your expectation from posting this with no further explanation of what you did or didn’t like, as if it was self-evident?
Since I’m forced to infer what exactly you didn’t like about Oppenheimer, and all movies in general, I’m going to assume you have an attention span of less then 40 minutes. As being longer than that is basically the only thing that every movie has in common.
Now what does my attention span have anything do with this? I just sat thru a 3 hour movie… The movies I do like are often around the same lenght. Inception, Django, Fury and Martian to name a few.
This isn’t a movie review. I just said I didn’t like it exactly like I didn’t like most of the previous movies or tv shows I’ve given a chance to either. If you do then good for you.
Acshewally, Oppenheimer is the single greatest work of art known to man. Since you’ve failed to provide even the faintest sliver of evidence as to how you could possibly find such a masterpiece “unenjoyable”, Occam’s Razor leaves us with no option but to assume you are simply so monumentally stupid you couldn’t begin to comprehend even 4th grade level long division, much less the subtle nuances of the mathematics necessary to the creation of the atomic bomb. What other outcome could you possibly have expected posting such baseless, inflammatory drivel? I hope you stub your toe on your couch every morning for the rest of your life, you doddering ignoramus.
