Welcome to Thursday Movie Picks, the weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves. Each week we are asked to pick three to five films (on the last Thursday of the month we pick TV series this year) to fit the week's theme. We are closing the year with another Television edition and what a better theme than friendship?
Cougar Town (2009-2015)
I guess at first this was supposed to be about Jules, a recently divorced, 40-something year-old mom, and her attempts at dating very young guys (hence the title), but it ended up being about her friends and her struggles to rediscover herself. I loved this one and I cried when it ended. The characters are awesome and the cast has such a nice chemistry.
Friends (1994-2004)
I'm pretty sure you all know this one, but in case you don't, it follows the personal and professional lives of six 20-something year-olds living in New York. This is one of my favourite shows ever. I love every single thing about it. It's probably the funniest show ever made. And I cried with this one too. Actually, this was the first sitcom that made me cry.
The Big Bang Theory (2007- )
It follows a group of brilliant but socially awkward physicists whose lives are changed when an attractive waitress and aspiring actress becomes part of their lives. This is another of my favourites. It has decreased in quality over the years, but I still enjoy watching it. And it's still pretty funny.
It's so nice to find someone else who likes Big Bang! People always make fun of this show and I still watch it
ReplyDeleteWait, what? People make fun of it?! I had no idea!
Deleteoh yeah everyone always calls the show stupid :/
DeleteThey are the stupid ones.
DeleteI miss watching The Big Bang Theory. I watched it for years then started hating it after Amy became more prominent.
ReplyDeleteI like Amy but I have to admit she can be a little annoying.
DeleteLike about 90% of the population I was and am a huge Friends fan and never missed an episode during its entire run. It had seasons that weren't as good as others but overall it was pretty consistently good and often great. The strength of the core six was key of course but it had wonderful satellite characters as well, I was particularly fond of Monica and Ross's parents Jack & Judy Geller. They added much background to who M&R were whenever they showed up. Actually the show did great in casting all the families of the leads, LOVED Reese Witherspoon and Christina Applegate as Rachel's sisters!
ReplyDeleteI could never get into Big Bang Theory, maybe I sampled it too far into its run, and when I tried to watch Cougar Town I was too distracted and horrified at what Courtney Cox had done to her face to follow the storyline.
I went all female centered friendship shows this week.
Desperate Housewives (2004-2012)-On a quiet day on the quiet suburban street of Wisteria Lane housewife Mary Alice Young picks up a gun and blows her brains out. After that less than lovely introduction Mary Alice becomes our guide and narrator through the wacky often chaotic lives of her group of women friends Susan, Lynette, Gabrielle, Bree and for a while their fremeny Edie (Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria, Marcia Cross and Nicolette Sheridan) who all reside on the same street. Through the eight years the series ran the women at times were at odds but when push came to shove their friendship remained strong.
The Golden Girls (1985-1992)-Four mature women (three widows & a divorcee), man hungry Southerner Blanche Deveraux (Rue McClanahan), naïve Midwesterner Rose Nyland (Betty White), New Yorker Dorothy Zbornak (Beatrice Arthur) and her mother Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty) share Blanche’s home and each other’s lives in the Miami suburbs. Over many cheesecakes the quartet talk about everything under the sun including aging, sex, artificial insemination and a myriad of other things interlaced with Rose’s often idiotic hometown Saint Olaf stories. They bicker, argue and fight but consistently support each other when it really matters. What makes this so special and constantly rewatchable is that four of the best comedic actresses that ever lived interact in every episode like a well-oiled machine.
Laverne & Shirley (1976-1983)-Slapstick shenanigans of two Milwaukee brewery workers and best friends Laverne DeFazio (Penny Marshall) and Shirley Feeney (Cindy Williams). A succession of predicaments happen weekly which require the girls to extricate themselves from in some outlandish fashion as their strange upstairs neighbors Lenny & Squiggy (Michael McKean & David Lander) pop in and out along with Shirley’s sometimes boyfriend Carmine “The Big Ragoo” Ragusa (Eddie Mekka).
I've always wanted to watch Desperate Housewives but I just never got around it.
DeleteI really like The Big Bang Theory. Oddly, I almost never watch new episodes, though. I almost always catch it in syndication. I remember Cougar Town coming out, but I never saw even one second of it. I have seen a number of episodes of Friends. Unfortunatley, that show doesn't work for me, at all.
ReplyDeleteWhat?! You don't like Friends? I didn't know such people existed haha
DeleteI watched Friends all the time and loved it. I loved when Ross had some major screw ups like his leather pants and I loved it when Monica and Chandler got together. I wanted to see Cougar Town but I could never find it on regular tv and it seemed to jump around. I can’t stand The Big Bang Theory because I went to University with these guys...it is too irritating to watch.
ReplyDeleteLol and how about when he whitened his teeth and they were glowing in the dark? Haha Ross is the funniest.
DeleteAt the moment, most of the quality TV is drama, so imprtant that good comedies last. TBBT makes me laugh so much. Friends was exceptional too. Which bits made you cry? Did you like HIMYM?
ReplyDeleteWhen Chandler declared his love to Monica. I loved HIMYM and I can't believe it didn't even cross my mind. I really loved Neil Patrick Harris there.
DeleteFriends is always going to be the big won for this theme PLUS its now all on Netflix! Not seen Cougar Town but I loved how it was referenced so much in Community. Big Bang I lost interest, but every now and then I'll watch a new episode.
ReplyDeleteI need to catch up on Community.
DeleteCougar Town - Haha yeah, I think in the beginning they were trying to bank on the term cougar being in.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad they did something else with it.
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