That one didn't age well with me, or at least not for binge-watching. I liked it well enough in the 90s (when every episode was separated from the others by a full week), but 3 or 4 hours a day, days on end, it just turned me off.
One thing I always disliked about it was that it was so heavy-handed, preachy, predictable... the noble, lofty speeches... the snappy, incredibly witty and clever dialogue... in every episode, the principle character would face a moral dilemma, spend most of the hour agonizing between doing the easy or politically convenient thing or the morally appropriate thing. And of course, they'd always make the morally appropriate choice. Binge-watching just made those flaws way too much to watch.
Plus, the more you see of Jed Bartlett in one sitting, the more of an arrogant, pompous ******* he turns out to be.
Where are you finding that? I'd like to give it a look too.
That's us, too. We really haven't watched network television shows in 15 or 20 years. Our TVs are just about movies, documentaries, science, nature, and history programs, Youtube music videos, hockey or Packer games.
But we do binge-watch older network series. I've introduced Amy to a lot of the older series I grew up with, like Dck van Dke, "What's My Line", "I've Got a Secret", Twilight Zone and Outer Limits... she wasn't born until 1978, so to her those programs are like Milton Berle and Alfred Hitchcock to me. She likes learning more about the things I grew up with.
She does struggle with the quality of some of the writing on the older shows; like "wait a minute - why isn't Flipper making more of an effort to tell his humans that the smugglers planted dynamite on the reef? He's supposed to be smarter than that." You can't slip much past her.
But mostly, we binge on newer series, like Treme, The Wire, Sopranos, and Game of Thrones. We enjoy bingewatching Amazing Race, too. We're impatient people; we just don't like waiting a whole week between episodes.
