Published on 12, July, 2020
Are there any shows that are helping you get through the strange days we're living through?
I like those reality competitions e.g. the Bake Off, Sewing Bee, Best Home Cook, Pottery Throwdown etc. And things like Bridgerton and Winx, which are total fantasy escapes from reality.
I also remembered Detectorists. Does anyone watch that? A nice, subtle series with nothing horrible happening.
The X files Criminal Minds Law & Order Criminal Intent. Man Down (comedy. It's on Netflix) Schitt's creek (comedy also on Netflix) The Killing (the Danish version with subtitles) Trapped (Icelandic with English subtitles is on amazon prime) And at the moment The Forest on Netflix (French with English subtitles)
They all sound a bit scary for me. Haven't seen those comedies yet though.
No, I get scared and imagine it all happening in real life and imagine what if it happened to me or my family? I am scared all the time in real life so I don't need more things to scare me. I need soothing, calming shows...
Also, it's a mystery to follow and trying to guess who the bad guy is in a lot of these shows is half the enjoyment for me. Though I think I clearly watch them too much as I often get it right way before they reveal the bag guy.
I find creepy and programmes oddly relaxing. I think because it's creepy and not real whereas real life is creepy and real. So it somehow becomes quite relaxing for me. I think because ultimately in these shows good guys are on the rescue. And programmes like Criminal Minds and Law & order and the like end with the bad guy caught most of the time.
Yes that was horrid. I think I was tougher when I was younger and things didn't affect me so much. Now I'm older I am more squeamish.
There was a particularly nasty episode I thought by Buffy standards, the one where Buffy was wished away and vampires had succeeded in taking over.
People on a conveyor belt for "mass production" of vampire food.... wasn't this supposed to be a kids show?? (but fun for adults too!)
Ugh I keep away from creepy shows. The creepiest I can do is Buffy and Shadowhunters.
The X-Files had some genuinely creepy episodes - although a lot of them were people wandering round dark warehouses with torches. "Home" was banned from TV for a while - the content was pretty grim.
Fringe was classic sci-fi. Parallel universes and that kind of thing (it appears I'm looking at it through nostalgia glasses - as I watched every season bar the last one and there's episodes I don't remember that crop up on the "creepyist fringe episodes" list.