#katie watches tv

[katzell]

How I Met Your Father - Review

Seasons 1 & 2

First, know that I was there in the beginning. I watched How I Met Your Mother starting in season 3 and watched it as it aired until the very bitter end. Everyone has a show that disappointed them and let them down. But I honestly think that nothing compares to the horror of the last episode of HIMYM, because it made everything that came before it worse. Mayyybbee some LOST fans get it. But at least that finale wasn’t a character assassination in the name of one last smug trick. It was a rumination on love and humanity that allowed the characters a moment of grace in a world that denied it. HIMYM’s trashed seasons of character work for Barney and Robin and its own success in actually finding someone to play the Mother who was worth 11 seasons of waiting. But sure, wasn’t it clever they had footage of the kids before they grew too big saying the story was always about Ted loving Robin. Of course nothing that was filmed after season 3 really mattered.

I’m sorry to begin this way, but as Robin Scherbatsky and Barney Stinson appear in HIMYF, clearly in the between times, post divorce but before the titular mother’s horrible death, we have to talk about it.

I hadn’t meant to watch this show. Poor Chris Lowell will forever be Piz. The Veronica Mars trauma is another thing all together and others have written about that better. But as a lifelong Hilary Duff fan, I was curious to see her do a traditional adult sitcom.

In 2021, the pilot didn’t convince me. I agreed with reviews that said none of the characters acted or spoke like millennials. The side stepping of covid felt weird as well. Where HIMYM had a really eerie knack of conjuring NYC from LA, the reboot felt more soundstagey. I chalked it off as another mercenary move to mine IP and play on nostalgia.

But I guess this is why we live on Tumblr! Because the right gifset on your dash at the right time can make you reassess. And the right persons face can make you pause and go, I guess this is happening now.

In 2023, watching a comedy that was in fact pure shenanigans suddenly felt like a gift. As everyone reassess the changes in the US television industry, I hope distributors see the value in greenlighting shows like this again. I love my prestige comedies that want to incite anxiety attacks. But I also love seeing friends living in a city run around having madcap adventures. And I love a show that unabashedly wants me to ship characters and care about romance! Particularly the slow kind that works off dozens of episodes to establish.

And luckily for me, HIMYF has the very dreamy Sid, played by Suraj Sharma. I mean, who doesn’t at some point fantasize about a hot bar owner smart enough to go to [insert highly demanding profession here] but chose instead a cozy place where all their friends can hang. (See also New Girl). I need at least 3 more seasons, 20 episodes each, because I’m invested in the potential between he and Hillary Duff’s Sophie. Its nascent and yet so much more intriguing than Sophie’s other more obvious, but boring options. (Apologies to Chris Lowell’s Piz Jessie). Sophie and Sid have the easy charm to power a friends to lovers for the ages. And with his marriage on the rocks, and her dating his best friend, the melodrama is there too! The stupid concite of the show has its hooks in me again and I am definitely scared. You would be too if you saw the pathos and rawness Cobie Smuthers brings to her cameo. I’ve been kicked in the teeth before by this world. Neither of us are over it.

Fine, a brief word on Barney’s cameo. Awful. He talked about how he learned to respect women thanks to a special girl in his life. It was his fucking daughter and not Robin. I knew this and it still hurts. The electroshock pants weren’t funny. But I did like that he wouldn’t charge a nice girl for smashing his car if she had a fun enough story. That was the character I liked.

#how i met your father #himyf #sophie x sid #katie watches tv

[regalpotato]

I’m on Season 4 of Desperate Housewives and I’m losing my mind

#katie watches tv #desperate housewives for ts #i love Bree and Orson so much and i just want them to be happy #and i know it's going to end horribly #i just don't know when or how #and she's kicked him out #and i'm far sadder than i should be over this stupid silly show

[fuckyeahalfredmolina]

As promised, Bram & Alice 9 episodes on YouTube! Click here to access the full playlist.

#Alfred Molina #Traylor Howard #Roger Bart #Katie Finneran #bram and alice #Michael Rispoli #tv #video #videos #i watched all the episodes #can't say i like it tbh #freddino looks so good tho #i think i am starting to really dig the goatee

[dbphantom]

me every day

#i am in the MOOD to watch s1 again #will put it on while i get ready for bed i think #H2O Just Add Water #H2O: Just Add Water #H2O JAW #cruddy rambles #this meme is subliminal messaging... watch H2O... watch H2O........ #this is so much funnier with the Jerric icon. but you KNOW he would sit down and watch it with Katie and get irrationally upset at Zane and #SPOILERS to the point he's yelling at the TV and Katie is like dad it's not real. please stop i can't hear what they're saying #Jerric who has a Master's in biology: oh my god they did not just- ohhh my god... [calling Holly] Belinda you are not going to believe what #just happened in this children's TV show. Holly is like 'Kedves I cannot emphasize enough how much I don't care' and hangs up #I guess we're at the point where this has unintentionally become a #Veneer #post so I'll just tag it as such #Jerric Kedves #Holly Belinda #these tags are so much funnier with the secret knowledge that I have an H2O au of the crestfall scientists #thankfully nobody reads these no one will EVER KNOW #Holly is too busy turning herself into a snake lady to care about the children's TV show #She will hear about it tomorrow in the break room so it's no big loss to Jerric

[remythologise]

people say nobody does queerbaiting like they used to but I do think 911 releasing an episode called ‘Buck Bothered and Bewildered’ about Buck being jealous Eddie is close with someone else is certainly something. Easiest answer usually the correct one that nobody did more than (1) second of thinking about the title implications. Still. Kudos where it’s due to the only show still continuing a grand tradition

#I sporadically watch 911 because being queerbaited is still fun #usually though I only tune in when Erin-Katie-Mel say it’s a gay episode. #truly baffling to me how popular this show is genuinely. but good for them (?) #kira for ts #if there’s other shows out there in American TV that are explicitly queerbaiting (this is VERY specific.) well. tell me I’m curious #there’s a lot of Japan adjacent media that queerbaits ofc but that’s a different grand tradition #and queercoding / censorship different again

[perplexingluciddreams]

Time to watch the rest of Supergirl (I am at S5 E2 right now, so this season and one more left).

Then after that I think I might do a full Buffy rewatch! (At some point).

But I also have a new fixation on the actress Zoe Boyle (plays Grace Emberly in Frontier, which I just rewatched), so I want to watch as many things she is in as possible...

This is a way I end up watching most things, actually! I get a fixation (or sometimes due to a long-term special interest, like how Katie McGrath - AKA Morgana in Merlin - is the reason I watched Frontier to begin with), and I binge watch many things that actor/actress is in! I get exposed to a lot more media through this.

Then I may get a new fixation (short-term OR long-term), and through that stream of linking interests I watch many more things and can enjoy much more media! Leaning into the way my brain fixates on things and has metaphorical "tunnel vision" in terms of awareness and interests, is the way that leads to the most of enjoyment of things, for me!

Occasionally, like this time, I will do a rewatch of something that I originally watched for a fixation, and my narrow attention becomes pointed elsewhere... which then leads to this cycle starting all over again.

My new interest in Zoe Boyle (who does a rather good fake Scottish accent, by the way! Not perfect, I can still tell as a Scottish person that she is not really Scottish, but it is very impressive! One of the best fake Scottish accents I have ever heard on TV), has made me take a renewed interest in watching Downton Abbey. I tried to start it a while ago, but didn't have a "point of attention" to keep me watching and focused. Now, I think I might be able to use my own brain's processes to my advantage, and try again!

I have a list in my notes app of TV programmes/films, in three categories; want to watch, want to rewatch, need to finally actually finish/give it another chance. It is getting SO long... 😅

#ezra watch #zoe boyle #katie mcgrath #supergirl #frontier #frontier tv #frontier netflix #buffy the vampire slayer #downton abbey

[mariocki]

Katy Manning, in her second screen role (see her first here), as Julia Dungarvon - full-time typist, part-time coffee shop waitress, and member of more than one love triangle - in Man at the Top: The Prime of Life (1.4, Thames, 1971)

#fave spotting #katy manning #man at the top #doctor who #jo grant #classic doctor who #1971 #classic tv #thames #kenneth haigh #mark mcmanus #keith skinner #i recently picked up s2 of Man at the Top after several years of looking; i got the first series and then network promptly deleted both #individual releases in favour of a complete set and as i wasn't in LOVE with the series i refused to double dip... patience finally #(finally!!) paid off. but it had been so long since i watched s1 that i legit just didn't remember it and thought i should rewatch before #starting series 2. two things came back to me on revisiting: Joe Lampton is a serious contender for old tv's Biggest Bastard and also the #scripts are really actually very very strong (particularly the first few‚ written by novelist John Braine who was the character's original #creator way back when Room at the Top was published in 1957). anyway. one thing i hadn't remembered... and SPOILERS INCOMING FOR S1 OF THIS #OLD SERIES NOBODY WILL BE THAT INTERESTED IN EXCEPT ONE MUTUAL I KNOW HAS SEEN S2.. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED #while i remembered Katy turned up (in 2 eps iirc) i had completely forgotten the absolute ick of a storyline she has. she's Joe Lampton's #15yr old son's 18yr old girlfriend... who Joe then starts sleeping with. blergh. like i said Joe is a piece of work and honestly pretty #unredeemable at times (this a prime example). it's all pretty gross but Katy does well and has a much meatier role than in the Softly #Softly: Task Force she'd done the year before. she was about 25 but convinces as an 18yr old (just as Skinner convinces as a 15yr old but #he too was in his 20s im relieved to say; there's some heavy macking that made me squirm when i knew Katy was 25 and thought he was 15) #shudder. anyway. despite everything I've said this series is better than i remembered‚ mostly bc of those pin sharp scripts that belong to #the power game and the brothers world of big business bitching mixed with familial melodrama. just.. try to be a little less creepy joe. #or a lot less‚ ideally

[bitchapalooza]

Larry always tuns into Iono's streams but its only because its so loud and bright it keeps him up enough to get work done that he should've gotten done weeks ago

#while i love the idea thst larry is an iono zone fan #i also really really love the idea of larry just blindly supporting her in the same way that parents #support their kid's confusing interests: by just consuming it but not really paying attention to it #he buys her merch but he gives it to giacomo because he does watch her streams with interest #her puts her streams on but its only as background noise #he actually HAS been on her mini streams(think like instagram live) but most of the time hes not recognized #by fans or is actively aware of being on stream because hes not paying attention hardly #its just not his thing really #he doesnt watch much stuff in the first place he has a tv for the background noise too hell he #has one in his bedroom to turn on while he sleeps(which katy learned to get used to she sleeps with a mask now the noise is fine) #hes the most normal average weirdest fucker youd ever meet(hes fucking autistic /pos <3) #pokemon #pokemon headcanons #pokemon scarlet and violet #gym leader larry #gym leader iono

[fruitybuck]

it’s actually insane the way they brush over inej’s trauma… like when that creep in ep2 pins her down during their fight that must have been so triggering, why aren’t they addressing her trauma too

#and then the hard cut from that to wesper being cute…. jarring #katie watches #well rewatches #shadow and bone tv

[karel-luthor]

" SHE IS BEAUTIFUL " - RED DAUGHTER

#the ceo of l-corp #lena luthor #she didn't have control only of her kryptonian #but for this fandom as well #she is the reason the tv show was worth watching #katie mcgrath

[inafieldofdaisies]

Walker: Independence (2022) | Season 1, Episode 8 “The Death of Mary Collins” | Favorite scenes

/ Not Hoyt yet again swiping Abby's ring... Matt Barr is serving impeccable humor in every scene and I'm living for it.

#walker independence #walker: independence #abigail walker #hoyt rawlins #windy spoilers #walkerverse #matt barr #kate carver #katherine mcnamara #katie findlay #lawrence kao #tvshows #tvshow #tv shows #currently watching #tvshowedit #my gifs #animated gifs #gifset #gifs #perioddrama #perioddramaedit #perioddramagif #western #my edits #favorite scenes #favorite shows #favorite actors #favorite characters #dialogue snippet

[jovenshires]

ik its just quiet bc ians mic'ed and its live but jesus christ the lack of laughs is awful

#im watching it on a tv tho so maybe thats just me #katie liveblogs #anthony is dead #anthony's funeral

[meteoritesystem]

me every winter when rhe dissociation hits knowing i can do whatever i want and i wont remember it in 6 months

#guy at my school looks cool and i want to tell him he looks like an extra from lord of the rings (compliment) (he will understand this is #a conpliment he dresses this way on purpose i’m sure) but i cant remember the plot of lord of the rings like at all. #WHICH FUCKING SUCKS BC I KNOW I LOVED IT #waughhh. maybe ill ask katy to binge watch it with me again #or i’ll just do it myself. well that would be easier with a tv but i dont have one :(

[katyobsesses]

"you know after i was attacked we never really talked about it" "well i always got the sense you didn't want to" "no i mean we never talked about what it was like for you"

If i didn't know better I'd think this exchange was from a buddie fic. but it's not. it's Athena and Bobbie talking in 4x14.

fucking foreshadowing Buck and Eddie never talking about the shooting in the episode right after the shooting

#help #god i love rewatching stuff looking for foreshadowning #i love it even more when it just hits me on the head instead #i was only watching because i needed noise while i made lunch #but nope now i'm over analysing a tv show #911 #9-1-1 #911 meta #9-1-1 meta #buddie #buddie meta #katy metas

[tundrakatiebean]

Hm I think my new obsessive media is going to be Hercule Poirot.

#Katie is rambling 2k23 #someone uploaded almost all of the old tv series to YouTube #and I want to watch this funky little freak (affectionate) solve crimes #I have also placed a hold on the first book at the library

[cravethesky]

when you got war at 11 but a yacht to catch at 12

#pls this man showed up in PLEATED LINEN SHORTS?? #katy watches tv #kinnporsche the series