Excellent thread idea Randall!
We don't go out to movies anymore but wait til we accidentally catch them on TV.
We do have a few TV channels and certain of their shows we like to watch:
Antique Roadshow (just to see how much stuff our family has thrown out through the years that is now worth a fortune...rats!)
Oak Island - wish they would find something significant - like something the Knights Templar hid there...but we think the Black man servant to the landowner got it all long ago..except for a coin or 2 that was dropped in the bush as they wagged the sack of coins across the woods. Would like to hear conversation from anyone who is actually from this area - just to get a different take on it all. Strange, but when a kid I read that story in the Reader's Digest also - was fascinated but never thought of it again until the series came out.
Fixer Upper - have learned a lot as to what to look for and some design ideas IF we ever get to move from Midland. Appreciate that Chip & Joanna are so laid-back and "Texan". I associate so much of their "Texan" characteristics with my own family.
The Monsters Within Me - also a learning curve. For sure, don't use a wire brush on your BBQ grill!
Also worrisome about Valley Fever as we breathe so much dust out here in Midland. Definitely an eye opener. Did you know that armadillos carry leprosy? And we chased those things through the yard and woods at the farm near Austin. Yikes!
Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives - amazing that there is SO much fantastic food outside of our immediate area. We would be hugely fat if we ever move from Midland - which we hope to do, but hope to not become any more hugely fat than we already are.
NCIS - watching out of loyalty = used to be a really good show when they had the Zeva character...after she left it began to degrade...then the Tony character left ... bummer... it's on the way out. They've had a good run.
NCIS - New Orleans.. getting better. Plots are better, character changes are a plus.
Night in the ER and Sex Sent Me to the ER.
WOW on some of the crap those ER people have to put up with along with WOW on some of the cases they handle. Sex Sent Me to the ER...well, can't believe people would be on TV, in person, and tell what they did. That stuff used to be highly personal. Guess if you pay them a handsome enough sum they'll tell all about it.
American Pickers..amazed that people have collected all that stuff - for years - and there seems to be so MUCH of it everywhere! Recognize a lot of it from childhood. Where did they get the money to just run around buying stuff only to throw it in some kind of storage - From the look of some of them they could have had an easier retirement financially had they saved that money - and now lots of them still don't want to sell it...guess they'd rather deprive themselves than let go of it. Interesting to see what the Pickers find and what they pay for it, if the person will sell it.
Ya'll have fun out there!