or, A Television-Related Word Association Experiment With the Love of My Life
Here’s a list of every current show I watch, and my boyfriend’s instant reaction to each.
- 30 Rock “Oh, Tina Fey…” (smiles)
- American Horror Story “Thrills me.”
- Boardwalk Empire “Costumes…”
- Breaking Bad “Oh, I don’t know. I don’t know. Come back to me with that one.”
- Burn Notice “Never saw it… oh, but that guy is hot.”
- Californication “Gah… can’t get into it… but I want to.”
- Community “Growing on me.”
- Cougar Town “Stupid.”
- Covert Affairs “Oh, Piper Peek-a-boo. That’s what my dad calls her… looks pretty stupid, though. It looks like a dumbed-down Alias, if Alias could be any dumber.”
- Curb Your Enthusiasm “I hate Seinfeld.”
- Damages “I don’t know anything about that show. What is that show?”
- Desperate Housewives “Ugh… desperate.”
- Dexter “Love it. Those cat eyes.”
- Fringe “Ugh… it has that guy from Dawson’s Creek.”
- Glee “Oh, I love Lea Michele. Oh! Mercedes! What’s her name in real life?”
- Gossip Girl “Ed. Westwick. Two words.”
- Grey’s Anatomy (gags ) “Menopause.”
- Justified “I wanna watch that. It has that guy with the French last name that sounds like ‘elephant.’ E-le-phant. You should use those French accents.”
- Louie “Say that again?”
- Mad Men (sighs) “Upsets me.”
- Modern Family “Oh my god. I could watch that all day.”
- Nikita “Oh my god… the CW…”
- Once Upon a Time “I love Ginnifer Goodwin. Godwin. Goodwin.”
- Parenthood “I adore that show.”
- Parks and Recreation (smiles admiringly and shrugs)
- Private Practice “Ugh… keep it private.”
- Raising Hope “Babies.”
- Revenge “Oh, that’s the girl I’m gonna see soon in ‘Bros and Hos’ [our nickname for Brothers and Sisters]. Living in the Hamptons is so nice. Except I hate those people.”
- So You Think You Can Dance “The judges really think they can talk”
- The A-List: New York “Not a list I want to be a part of. Not ‘a list‘.” (laughs)
- The Buried Life “Oh. That’s like a bucket list for adult people. Or, or for kids. I do want to watch that.”
- The Glee Project “I really hated those kids. And I did not like the results.”
- The Good Wife “Always hesitant to start, but I love it by the end. That Kalinda: she can seduce everyone, and she’s really not that hot. But she’s cunning. She’s kind of like an animal actually. Don’t you think so? She just kinda fills her animalistic needs.”
- The Office “Ugh… never got into it. I love Steve Carrell. And I love that British dude who insults everyone.”
- The Sing-Off “Nick Lachey is a really dumb host.”
- The Voice “Oh, we were on that.”
- The Walking Dead “I really don’t like anything that has to do with zombies, except for 28 Days Later.”
- True Blood “Oh my god. ‘Sookie.’ That is also one of the first shows to make a gay person of color a main character, and in a really positive way. People respect him.”
- Top Chef “My dream career. That show tantalizes me. That shows tantalizes my every vittle.” (laughs) “What do you want for dinner tonight?”