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(Without getting heavily into poltics). For example as a consequence, nowadays the only way to achieve any sense of "privacy" of yesteryear (like 15-20+ years ago) is that you have to literally "hide in plain sight" today. As "paradoxical" this may sound.

For that matter, quite a lot of tech/hacking stuff which would have been considered laughable and/or paranoid 15-20+ years ago, is now today completely mundane and no laughing matter anymore. This became very visible after the snowden revelations. For example, the sort of surveillance depicted...

For example, one show which quickly became a "comedy + action" show for me was the MacGyver reboot. A lot of the crazy ad-hoc devices and computer hacking, immediately triggered my laugh/gag reflex that I couldn't suspend any disbelief after the first few episodes.

With all that being said, I've found it was easier to "suspend disbelief" when it comes to tv shows/movies in niches where I have no expert (or quasi-expert) knowledge in. I strongly suspect this ^ is the primary reason why I continued to watch shows like the NCIS franchise, Magnum PI, SWAT...

Thinking about this more, the biggest reason why I find a lot of science fiction tv shows (or movies) end up being really disappointing for me, is that I have an extremely hard time "suspending disbelief" no matter how hard I "try to think" otherwise. For example, such as a lot of the...

I got the impression Red was the ultimate "underworld rolodex" who knows where all the "bodies are buried". The real world offline non-criminal equivalent might be a likeable person who is very good at person-to-person networking, and likes to talk a lot . Basically the local gossip type of...

For the longest time, my genre of choice was science fiction (scifi) type stuff. The biggest reason why I don't have sci-fi shows in my top favorite lists, is that I tend to hold sci-fi to much higher standards than other non-scifi shows. When there's things like unresolved cliffhangers or...

(This is a more general question about one's show choices). When it comes to your top favorite shows, do you find there is a pattern to them (besides nostalgia) ?

(On a meta-tangent). This is actually not odd at all, for some folks. :) Some folks genuinely enjoy indulging in "crap flooding" on threads, whether consciously or unconsciously. No different when it happens offline in conversations with folks who like to interject with funny / amusing /...

I highly disagree with this ^ assertion. ;) (On an offtopic tangent). Since this is a message board which is likely to be attracting a hardcore crowd, it is highly likely there exists posters who are the types that pay close attention to details in an obsessive manner. Basically to the...

Frankly over the past few years whenever I watched through first-run episodes of The Blacklist which were really boring, I usually fast forward over the segments which didn't have James Spader. If I ever purchase the complete series dvd set of The Blacklist for whatever impulsive reasons in the...

In spite of James Spader's brilliant performances as Red on The Blacklist, the later revelations seem to paint Red as a badguy/criminal/evil version of a "Mary Sue" or "Marty Stu" type of character. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue

Nowadays I only find the first two seasons of Blacklist to still be "watchable". This was when the show was still a "numbered badguy of the week" style of procedural. After watching season 3, I thought the show largely jumped the shark. (Such as being on the run and the wedding).

In spite of how laughable a lot of the computer stuff was depicted back in their first-runs on television shows like CSI, Criminal Minds, NCIS, MacGyver, etc ..., it turns out real world computers + hacking have become more and more like such "laughable" capabilities as time goes on. As a known...

Back when "Person of Interest" was on the air, I watched every new episode and also watched each episode several times during the week(s) between new episodes. Though after the show ended, I found it didn't have much replay value for me. The technical stuff I was familiar with and/or had...

For almost half of the past 20-30 years or so, I either did not have a tv at home or I only had a rabbit-ears antenna in areas with poor reception (such as hilly areas or next to power lines). So large portions of my tv viewing + knowledge is spotty over the 1990s and 2000s decades.

Plenty of shows, but unfortunately very few had any replay/rerun value for me. The only show which had any consistent replay/rerun value for me over the past decade or so, was Criminal Minds.