Right now I am watching Terror in Resonance. Good so far.
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My father and I used to love watching the original GLOW. I remember how wacky it was, with corny skits and crazy characters. My dad liked watching forā¦ other reasonsā¦ most likely the skimpy costumes. 
When the new GLOW comes out on DVD Iām going to have to catch up. Iāve heard some very good things about it.
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I think Iām going to try and convince the family itās time to watch this next (we just wrapped up iZombie).
And if you havenāt seen it, this is a great documentary about GLOW (and @Nightflyer) which is also on Netflix (there seems to be a ton of documentaries on pro wrestling in the past couple of years, actually):
I used to watch GLOW as a kid. I loved how campy it was.
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It was SO GOOD. My daughter and I binged it. Then watch the documentary about it and itās SCARY how accurate it is to the actual show.
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Same here, ladies.
I remember disliking some of the obvious bigoted stereotypes, but overall I enjoyed the show for itās campiness.
Iāll have to check it outā¦
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God, pro wrestling in general was filled with them. I could probably write a dissertation on that topic, honestly speaking.
Oh, thatās neat that they did that!
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The women were very touching in their relationships.
There were a couple of older women who made money doing āprivate wrestling videos.ā Couldnāt figure out if this was a kind of fetish thing or if it was just straight up a thing people liked to have a video of them wrestling a GLOW star.
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True, enough (fuckinā Junk Yard Dog & the Iron Sheik) but I guess it was more noticeable when the characters were female, and therefore supposedly more ārelatableā to me as a woman.
More than anyone else I remember Mount Fiji and Dementia (whom I guess the character āSheila the She-wolfā is based off.)
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Itās just as dumb as it always has been and Iām fully expecting the current story line to end with Goku winning thanks to a new hairstyle like always and then him wishing everyone back to life, but Iām actually enjoying Dragonball Super.
I think itās because the fighters from the other universes (Itāll take too long to explain) are somewhat more interesting than the heroes weāre familiar with.
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Itās the sort of thing Netflix shoves in your face and I always skip over, but I read a couple of glowing (ahem) reviews so I watched an episode. It really is good, with good dialogue and a great cast, especially Alison Brie. Iām up to Episode 8 or thereabouts.
Most of the shows I was watching recently have ended for the season. Itās a long seven days between Orphan Black episodes, but at least GoT has started again. Does anyone have a suggestion for a good drama series? Based on good reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, I watched the first episode of Wynonna Earp, but I was unimpressed, to put it mildly.
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My current guilty pleasure. Donāt judge. Any show that has cooking-show montages of brain preparation, or chapter headings like āBloodbath and Beyondā appeals to my juvenile tastes. Iām about halfway through Season 3.
Okay, folks, Iāve shown you mine, now show me yours. What shows have you been too embarrassed to cop to so far? Weāre all friends here, right? Mockery will be kept to the bare minimum.
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Time Team. Possibly my favourite reality show ever. Thereās something truly endearing about a bunch of people digging up a field and finding all this cool historical stuff ā or, sometimes, they donāt find any cool historical stuff and talk about why archaeology is still such a crap shoot. That the show went on for twenty years and that they worked in all sorts of weather adds to the appeal.
It does make me wonder why every British farmer just doesnāt have all their fields scanned with ground radar to have done with, though. Seems life you canāt walk more than 500m without stepping over a Roman villa.
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I binge-watched all 20 series a few years ago. The early episodes were pretty rough but the team were pretty human in that they showed stress and sadness. By the end they were phoning it in and probably could have just used cardboard cutouts of themselves.
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We watched that for years. My kids can mock it perfectly:
āThat looks like a posthole, Phil.ā
āNo way, Mick, itās not brown enough.ā
My favourite line from the show (I forget who said it): āOne rock is a rock. Two rocks is a Norman castle.ā
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Just binged like the first 4 episodes of the show. Itās great so far. Theyāve changed just enough that I recognize them all!
I KNOW! How about Abdullah the Butcher, too. Iām sure I could think of more if I put my mind to itā¦ I think in the show the executive producer sort of nails the intent of employing those stereotypes, but the director sort of wants to try and make it social satire. It wasnāt surprising that the wrestler playing Welfare Queen was uncomfortable with her persona. Cherryās husband seems to think that the director is more sexist than racist. The actual GLOW director (Matt Climber) must have had similar pretentions - he directed a bunch of blaxplotation films, including (apparently) Samuel L. Jacksonās favorite (The Candy Tangerine Man, which Iāve never seen).
It sort of puts me in mind of a documentary called Machette Maidens Unleashed, which is aboutā¦ I think Liberty might have been the production company? who made exploitation films of various kinds in the Philippines. They interviewed the great Pam Grier in it, and she noted that, yes the films were exploitative (she did some women in prison type films for the company), but there was literally no one else who would cast 4 women (especially women of color) as leads in hollywood at the time (late 60s into the 70s). Oddly, Iām getting the same vibe from this show - the main character (Ruth) is struggling in hollywood to find decent roles, but she and the other women finds opportunities in a place which has some questionable ideas.
Anyoneā¦ so far, so good!
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I love it.
Honestly, I donāt know if there is any show Iām embarrassed to admit watchingā¦ I mean, I just admitted that I used to love pro wrestling as a kid, soā¦ 
If I think of something people would find embarrassing, Iāll note it!
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I watched the whole first season of Lucifer, even though it is absolutely, even deliberately, terrible.
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Hey, I like Lucifer! Itās definitely not the comic book, and itās not the smartest show by a long shot. I never intended to get into it. But I was cooking when the first episode came on, and I didnāt have a chance to change the channel right away. Tom Ellis was enjoying himself so much chewing the scenery as the lead, I got hooked.
Yeah, itās all about the performance. Riiiiiight. 
The mystery parts of the show tend to be sadly predictable. The season arcs deal more with the supernatural-soap-opera angles, and I like them better. I guess itās my guilty pleasure. 
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I didnāt see your answerā¦ but itās okay if you donāt agree, or wanna tell me Iām wrong. Iāll admit it, I have no taste. That showās a guilty pleasure of mine, thatās all. It really is kinda crappy. But I have fun watching it.
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I was trying to compose something about how adorable Tom Ellis is 
and how without him the show is nothing.
Season 3 should just be Tom Ellis reading a phone book. It would be cheaper to produce.
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