With real friends I tend to commit and stay loyal. But with TV friends? Not so much. I have a huge history of falling truly, madly, deeply (that was a good movie btw) in love with a TV show, only to dump it somewhere down the road.
Sometimes I even turn on it. I offer Downton Abbey as Exhibit A. I loved, loved, loved it. Until I didn't. And then when I didn't, I said snarky things about it and bullied it online.
But mostly I just make a new plan, Stan, and slip out the back, Jack. Generally there are no hard feelings when I do this, so that when I run into my former TV friends again--like Phil and Claire Dumphy, for instance--I'm happy to see them for a bit. But I don't feel compelled to take up our relationship on a regular basis again.
Meanwhile--and I do hate to say this--I am perilously close to breaking up with The Good Wife this year. I'm not sure why. Maybe I'm just bored with the Alicia-is-running-for-office-and-turning-into-Peter-in-the-process story arc. Maybe I know that Kalinda is going away at the end of the season, which makes her appearances now almost seem beside the point. I don't know. I have loved this show dearly and think it's super smart. And I like that we've see Alicia grow and change.
But whatevs. The break-up could happen.
Anybody want to comment? Or talk me down?
I might write a column about this, actually.
3 comments:
DO NOT BREAK UP WITH THE GOOD WIFE. I'm being entirely selfish here. I need to be able to talk to you about it. Also, I think you just need to see an episode that doesn't have that wife-murderer in it. Frls. But re Downton Abbey: I concur.
I still like the Good Wife, but I sense the writers are reading some of their clippings and to be clever for the sake of being clever. I also agree. I don't like Alicia running for State AG.
You nail it: I've broken up with the characters on all three of these shows. I was sad to say goodbye but they got tiresome and silly. And heaven knows I do not need tiresome and silly TV friends...must save that energy for a few real life friends and family who can't be dumped.
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