Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 11, 2025

Personally I appreciate those productions that can entertain without being obscene. That being said, everything does come with an off switch.

Yay for Cliffhangers!

I was a faithful friday night watcher of Dallas for 14 seasons. I missed dates as a teenager and young adult for that show. The very last episode still sticks in my mind as THE worst.

Can’t. Hold. On. Much. LONGER!!!

Many don’t rely on cliffhangers any more, as proven by every "reality’ show airing, ever.

Walking Dead comes to mind. More soap opera than anything else. Yet somehow it is hypnotic to have to keep watching over the years. Now they have short seasons of offshoots of the show.

“Ready to try something else.” Is this referring to the TV show or – eyes wide – their married life? Step back from the abyss, make some popcorn, stay tuned.

I never watched Dallas because I worked the 3pm-11pm shift. I did enjoy All My Children as I had just enough time to watch before heading to work. Wish I could watch it again from start to finish!

I thought they were referring to their own comic strip.

Like the old serials, Flash Gordon, Commander Cody etc. The stories were sort of lame till they got to the cliffhangers. Questions needed to be answered like are the Rock People friendly or how the heck does Cody fly horizontally? Stuff like that.

LOST. The most random series of all time

A&J are describing the first Batman and Robin series to a “T” (not sure where the expression came from). As a wide eye, naive kid under 10 years old, the cliff hanger at the end of each show was excruciating to experience!

My favs are the six parters that are actually four parters dragged out to absurdity…

Now couples just sit next to each other and stare at their phones

Currently working through “The Love Boat”. Seventies TV was the best!

Back in my “Shut up and give me another beer” days, they started putting this dreck on TV in the bar a number of us drank in. I’m talking professional level drinking. after about 3 weeks of this noise in the background 7 of us politely told the owner we would be back after the show ended for the season. Within another 3 weeks we were told no more Dallas on TV. We wandered back and set about our normal business of getting intoxicated. seems losing 7 really good customers one night a week was far more loss than the three people who came in to watch it one night a week.

You didn’t have much of a life. Watching some make believe life instead of living life.

Sometimes ‘cold turkey’ is the way to go.

My fave was “Soap” with Billy Crystal.

NCIS: Hawaii ended the season on a major cliffhanger, and then was cancelled. I didn’t bother with the series that replaced it.

This is pretty much my experience watching the “Day of the Jackal” series. Three episodes in, I spend most of them rolling my eyes at the music video scenes (montages with the director’s favorite song of the week) and the formula plot turns, but the endings leave just enough hanging that I keep telling myself, okay, I’ll check the next one.

They must be watching Virgin River.

I dunno, maybe it’s just me, but at first “something else” seemed like a reference to, um, marital intimacy, but with these two, it doesn’t make sense that they’d be shocked at the thought and make excuses for going back to watching TV. Maybe slelareader is right in thinking it might reflect on their own existence.

They ARE talking about deciding whether to move, right?

The worst is Tyler Perry’s Oval, yes I’m sure! The most repetitive dialogue I’ve ever listened to…yes I’m sure.

A number of shows we liked, like Alaska Daily and Stumptown, were not renewed. Now THAT’S a cliffhanger.

JayJay, my man, that last panel’s balloon was lame! It should have read “The smoking light is lit”. A repeat from way back when…

Lucifer!!

i watched Peyton Place in my older teens. I think it was on 3 times a week, prime time. Then, every weekend, when mjy older brother came home weekends from college, I told him everything that happened on the show. He never once gave any indication that he had zero interest in it, until many years later, when he told me!

Wife and I got really interested in a series that had a dystopian future, camouflaged by AI generated VR so everyone couldn’t see the world as it really was, a time traveling heroine, implants, intrigue, plot twists and other things. Great plot, lots of action, not much in the way of soapy stuff. Absolutely loved It! Went to watch the next season only to find out the SAG & writer’s strike had killed it. Zero chance of the series to ever get going again. (And the last episode had a zinger of a cliff hanger!!) Oh well, back to Gilligan’s Island reruns…

I watched Blacklist. Talk about silly plots. In one episode, both Elizabeth and Harold sent in DNA samples from Reddington. They both showed that “he” was her dad. Then the next season, they took a DNA sample of some bones and that showed the bones belonged to her dad.

I don’t blame the woman who played Elizabeth wanting to be written out of the show. It kept being sillier and sillier. Then a tease of a letter that Elizabeth was suppose to get, after killing Reddington. Of course, with the orders of “his” body to be disposed of, it led you to believe that her mother had undergone a sex change operation and was Reddington.