I have a confession: I do not like Bridgerton, nor do I like Downton Abbey. For that matter, I don’t really like British period dramas at all—except for maybe Call the Midwife. Another controversial opinion: I don’t care to keep up with the Royals—with the exception of Prince Andrew, whose life after the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has become one of the best train wrecks I’ve ever watched. And not to go off on a tangent, but seriously, bring on the popcorn, because for me, anyway, Andy’s life story deserves to score at least in the high 80s on Rotten Tomatoes. Once a Royal? Yes. Flushed his “career” down the toilet because he’s a pedo? Also yes. (And I put “career” in quotes because, let’s face it, being a Royal is no more a career than being a nepo baby who was only cast in Fifty Shades.) Which brings me back to my earlier point, which is to say I don’t care to watch anything, really, about royalty, real or imaginary. (Sorry, BritBox and Netflix.)
My sister, on the other hand, loves that kind of shit. High drama romances set in huge castles in the British countryside, and pretty much anything pertaining to Prince William and Princess Kate.
I suppose this admission of guilt makes me a pariah in many social circles.
You know what I do like, though? Shows like Forensic Files, The First 48, and Hoarders. Anything about serial killers. Gritty documentaries, whether they were originally filmed in Czechoslovakian and later dubbed in English or shot entirely in English. Traffic, Contagion, Erin Brockovich (or any movie directed by Steven Soderbergh, for that matter). A24 films… So what category does that put me in, exactly? I guess with people interested in watching how someone killed their hoarding royal pedo Czechoslovakian-speaking mother-in-law as she’s being chased by a serial killer until she gets sick because she lived her entire life next to a petroleum company, which is the only place she can afford to live because she spent her life savings on heroin and cocaine, all shot using a brown filter and filmed on location in Mexico? (And for the record, yes, I would 100% watch that movie or limited series.)
I always say I like that stuff because I was a journalism major, because I like to think I lived a fairly normal childhood, so I don’t think it’s that…
But I can’t be the only one who likes watching those shows, even though my husband would beg to differ. I mean, there are whole channels built around them. (Investigation Discovery, anyone?) What about you? What kind of shows do you watch? Because if it’s the same kind of weird shit I do, LFG.
Absurdities and Fires 