Freaks and Geeks, however...

Ehhhh, what little I've seen leaves me cold. To be honest, I wasn't a big fan of My So-Called Life, either.

waits for JZ to disown her

Family Guy bored me to death before I could watch enough to hate it. Selma Blair leaves me cold, as does that other chick she reminds me of that everyone here seems to love. Invisible Girl, also on Heroes. Starts with a C? (So bland I can't even remember her name!)

Freaks and Geeks was fine, not great. Had an offputting smugness that reminded me of My So-Called Life. [HA - FG/MSCL xpost!]

Love Futurama and Eternal Sunshine.

To be honest, I wasn't a big fan of My So-Called Life, either.

I wasn't when I first started watching, either; I wanted to love it, because a writer I loved at Sassy had fallen in love with it, but I saw the first two episodes and was merely, "Ah, kind of nice." Then I went away, came back around "The Zit," and fell hard.

Re-watching from the vantage point of 40 and child-having? I still fell hard, but in a completely different way. All the places where I'd thought the mom was shrill...well, she was still shrill, but I recognized all the shrillness, and the raw terror for her kids, and how brave Bess Armstrong was in her terrified unlikeability.

And, holy fuck, but its documenting of the slow catastrophic collapse from within of an apparently solid marriage was devastating.

It's one of those things that rewards rewatching at different points in life. For all values of "rewards" that equal "makes you feel like your nerves are being scraped raw with a razor, but in a good way." You know, like that.

If you give it a try a few years from now and still don't like it much? You're TOTALLY disowned. Or, pfft, as if. I'm a freak whose favorite novels are things like Moby Dick, Lolita and The Man Who Was Thursday, which love has completely inured me to lots of people passionately disliking some of my best beloveds.

The list of things I dislike that people I respect think are fantastic is long. Futurama, Freaks and Geeks, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...

Plei! I...do not know what to say!

as does that other chick she reminds me of that everyone here seems to love. Invisible Girl, also on Heroes. Starts with a C? (So bland I can't even remember her name!)

Clea Duvall!

[HA - FG/MSCL xpost!]

high-fives Jessica

Part of my dislike is that I was in HS (senior year) when MSCL was on, and all of my fellow outcasts were identifying with it SO HARD that it was annoying. That, and I was focusing on getting out of the suckiness of that life and didn't want any reminders of the current reality. I think. It was a while ago.

OK, let's just air all our potentially heretical TV proclivities.

For instance, Millennium was a better show than the X-Files (at least for the first two seasons, and the third was far less damaging retroactively than the last few seasons of X-Files).

OK, let's just air all our potentially heretical TV proclivities.

I don't think I have any! I have the misfortune of liking just about everything.

I can't think of any shows I love that I'd be afraid to admit in this crowd, but I'm left completely cold by Arrested Development, The Office, 30 Rock, and The Colbert Report. The alleged humor is completely imperceptible to me.

OK, I did watch Charmed pretty regularly, but I knew it was utter crap even as I fast-forwarded from one Julian McMahon shirtless scene to the next.

I watched New Amsterdam and Moonlight. And kind of enjoyed both.

For instance, Millennium was a better show than the X-Files (at least for the first two seasons, and the third was far less damaging retroactively than the last few seasons of X-Files).

Wheeee! I loved Millenium.

Family Guy has made me giggle a few times, but mostly it's watch-from-the-hall for me. I think I've only seen Futurama maybe twice.

I watched My So-Called Life way back in first run, but I don't think I caught the whole run. I did like it very much, though.