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Thank god this is the last week of February because I've had more than enough of these love-related themes. I guess it's the future spinster in me that's saying that. Anyways, as always, the last week of the month we pick TV series and, without further ado, here are my three picks + a special mention for the week.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015-2019)
Gossip Girl (2007-2012)
I was a teen when this was a thing so of course I watched it and loved it. I'm not sure how I'd feel about it today though. I'd probably drool all over the place when Sebastian Stan, Chase Crawford and Penn Badgley are on screen. Which is something I'd done at the time too. So I guess people don't really change, do they?
Grey's Anatomy (2005- )
Plot: It follows a group of surgical interns and their residents and the challenges they go through, both professionally and in their personal lives. The latter essentially meaning romantic entanglements.
It used to be one of my favourite shows for a while — I caught up with 13 seasons in 2 months — but eventually I got tired of it and stopped watching because it was too much about romance and very little about other I guess.
Special Mention: Formula One: Drive to Survive (2019- )
It is such a compelling series and the reason I picked it, although it doesn't fall in the romantic genre, it's that it made me fall in love again with Formula One and, especially with Daniel Ricciardo. The things I reply to him on Instagram... one of these days he's either going to block me or sue me lol
oh God I cannot believe Grey's Anatomy is still on
ReplyDeleteNeither can I. I stopped watching a couple of seasons ago because characters I loved kept leaving and it wasn't that compelling anymore
Deletelol future spinster. I love that word. I haven't seen any of your picks this week. I feel like I'm going to be saying that a lot today. I don't watch a lot of romance-y shows. I used to love looking at photos of the costumes on Gossip Girl though, they are gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteHaha I just had to use it since people keep pointing out that I should be married with kids
DeleteI'm familiar with all three of these but was never a follower of any. Almost my entire family were regular Grey's Anatomy but when it premiered I was still a faithful ER viewer and this looked like more of the same and I never caught the bug.
ReplyDeleteThat final choice is an interesting one but I simply can't abide auto racing so I'll never see it.
I'm a romantic sap so I'm always open to a good rom-com or drama which made it tough to winnow down to three but these three were ones I watched faithfully when they were on and I still am a sucker for reruns of the first.
The Nanny (1993-1999)-Fran Fine (Fran Drescher) is working in a bridal shop in Flushing, Queens when her boyfriend kicks her out in one of those crushing scenes. What is she to do, where is she to go? She’s out on her fanny. So it’s over the bridge to the Sheffield's door, she was there to sell make-up but the father saw more….she had style, she had flair, she was there! That's how she became the Nanny. And for the next five years Fran and her widowed commitmentphobe boss Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy) flirt, fight and fall in love while she raises his three children and causes dozens of calamities assisted her dizzy friend Val (Rachel Chagall), brassy mother Sylvia (Renee Taylor), forgetful Grandma Yetta (Ann Morgan Gilbert) as well as Niles, the butler (Daniel Davis) and Max’s brittle, cynical partner C.C. Babcock (Lauren Lane) who share a love/hate relationship while she too pines for Maxwell.
Pushing Daisies (2007)-Pie maker Ned (Lee Pace) has the ability to bring dead things back to life with his touch. He yearns for his childhood crush Chuck (Anna Friel) who he has brought back from the dead but at a cost. They cannot touch or Chuck will perish. While they try and find a solution they work with private investigator Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) and co-worker Olive Snook (a scene stealing Kristin Chenoweth) with Ned using his abilities to solve murder cases. Quirky, unique series was cancelled far too soon.
Love, American Style (1969-1974)-Comic anthology series that each week presented a series of vignettes featuring the various trials and tribulations of falling in love, marriage, falling back in love etc. With a constantly changing cast the show provided an early start for many future stars including Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, Bernadette Peters, Burt Reynolds, Martin Sheen and many others.
My mother is the same. She loved ER and kind of never recovered when it ended.
DeleteI haven't seen any of your picks this week, but it doesn't surprise me considering romance isn't my genre.
Awesome list! I still can't believe that Grey's Anatomy is still running. Has it been on since 2005?
ReplyDeleteYep. Season 16 is airing right now.
DeleteI've only watched the first two seasons of Gossip Girl, and I don't remember much from it. I've heard great things about Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, it's another show I've been meaning to watch.
ReplyDeleteCrazy Ex-Girlfriend is really good. It's a bit too musical for me but it's good.
DeleteSeen all the shows in a sense that I've yet to finish My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and will probably never finish Gossip girl or Grey's Anatomy. I think I stopped watching Gossip Girl a few seasons before it ended, after it got boring :D
ReplyDeleteI'm curious about the Formula One series though, I think I saw Ricciardo in a Youtube video or something and he seemed so nice. And I'm a sucker for anything sports related here and now. Thanks for giving it a special mention.. though I mean, next month is docu series edition so you could have kept it until then :D
I stopped watching Gossip Girl too because of that reason but then rewatched the whole thing and watched the missing seasons.
DeleteOh, Ricciardo is like the nicest guy ever! And so funny!
You went more than 3! I had a hard time coming up with 3 but I like your picks even though I never watched these. Greys Anatomy seemed to go on forever
ReplyDeleteI think it will go on forever.
DeleteI love Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, it's a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteI watch all of Gossip Girl too. So much drama! All of the characters have all dated each other at some point or another.
Grey's Anatomy. I still watch this since it is on Netflix and it's one of those shows that you slip right back in even if you've missed episodes or whole seasons.
I'm afraid I will never go back to watching Grey's Anatomy. Too many favourites of mines kept leaving the show. And it just got so boring.
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