Like many, I would rather tune in a television show that I’ve seen before rather than try a new one that’s been promoted with trailer snippets. Some armchair psychiatrist might think I don’t like to be disappointed, hence, my preference for already knowing the outcome. Wrong.
I don’t watch TV like I used to. The key here is “watch” which infers that I am paying attention to the screen. TV has become background music for me while I do other things. “Law and Order” is my favorite because of the minimal music that introduces new scenes and the rhythm of the courtroom near the end of the show. “Perry Mason” is especially effective given that Perry always wins and, again, the guilty person always confesses in the courtroom. And I have these two long-running shows on DVD, so I am armed 24/7 with commercial-free arrests and courtroom drama.
Maybe an advertiser would want to know what new TV shows do I watch and why? This year the response is “none to date.” The last series that intrigued me was “Mad Men.” Season Five ran three short months in 2012 and, frankly, I started losing interest in it. But the show’s sixth season begins this Sunday with a two-hour return to the struggles of people finding themselves in the 1960s. I am ready to try again, although the two hours is a scary time commitment like a blind date. Or, there is always ” Law and Order.”
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