When I was younger, my sister and I would good heartedly poke fun at our Grandma. I assure you that it was not mean spirited in any way at all. We used to see if we could get her to say "I was watching my stories" or "I'm going to watch my stories". we thought it was hilarious that she referred to the programs she watched on TV as "her stories". For a long time this usually meant Murder She Wrote and Matlock. We used to see how many times we could get her to say it during one dinner. It honestly wasn't that hard of a game and I think my Grandma probably caught on after about the twentieth time we did it.
Only now that I am getting old (actually I am old) do I understand why she referred to them in such an endearing way. She loved this shows she could watch in one sitting. They were simple. She didn't have to remember what had happened in the last episode let alone some detail way back from season two. She just sat down, relaxed and was told a full... story.
I now realize this is what I do every summer. My summer routine consists of waking up without an alarm (that used to be around noon now it is still before 7:00 AM... because I am an old man and that is what old men do), I work on some investing for a little while, and then i work on some fun curriculum for my classes next year. After that, I eat, exercise and then I sit down to watch my stories. While my grandma had Matlock and Murder She Wrote, I have dun dun... Law and Order.
I am basically addicted to that show. And I don't mean the new episodes of SVU or whatever else is on now. I mean the reruns dating back to 1990. I just love that an entire story from crime to due process can be covered in 42 minutes. I don't even really need to pay that close attention. I already know how they will end so it is just a relaxing thing to have on in the background as I chill after working all morning.
Although Lennie Briscoe and Mike Logan played by Jerry Orbach and Chris North are my favorite duo I will watch any partner duo. By the way, here's a fun fact Jerry Orbach is the voice of Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast. I swear it is true! Next time you see Lumiere picture him as an alcoholic detective who makes bad jokes about someone who was just murdered. It really changes the whole movie.
Anyway, I will watch any duo in the solve the crime then prosecute the criminal formula. In fact I actually used an episode in class to show kids how writing a claim is like collecting evidence and then presenting it to a jury.
But this summer, I have put up a new Law and Order story. Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Even this one does not always involves a court case, it still tells the complete story in one episode. The thing that steered me toward this version was Daredevil. Yep. This is a way to see Kingpin about 150 pounds lighter and slightly less crazy. Vincent D'Onofrio plays Detective Bobby Goren and he is awesome! He is a savant who basically knows everything and uses that to help solve cases. And again, he and his partner do it in a cool 42 minutes. I'll probably make it through the entire series this summer.
So what is your "comfort story"?
There was a short period of relentless teasing when my partner started doing this XD even he called himself an old man when he realised he didn't mind getting up at get stuffed o'clock in the morning (which he does mostly to walk the dog before work) and pottering around in the garden XD
Meanwhile to this day my brain doesn't exist before 7am (and despite coffee doesn't want to exist even then, despite other people's shrill insistence that ALL people are actually diurnal and anyone who claims otherwise has just stuffed up their sleep schedule and "isn't trying hard enough" to fix it, I think I'm just a night owl, I can "fix" it for a short while but the very slightest of missteps has me being a night owl again immediately with zero adjustment required).
I don't have a comfort story, I guess I have a comfort project at this stage x_x
That's a tough one to answer. I actually used to watch Matlock quite a bit when I was home in the middle of the day during the summer. I also really got into the old In The Heat Of The Night show. A Team was always good for a bad guy of the week as well as Magnum PI. I tried to go back and start watching Moonlighting from the beginning since I missed it when it was originally on and I am a huge Bruce Willis fan, but it was kind of cringe...
Oh my god magnum PI is one of my favorite shows ever. I never watched it first run but started the reruns when I was around 18 and watched them all.
They still show it on one of the YouTube TV channels. I had the first couple of seasons on DVD at one point.
Law & Order is one of my favorite series. It's been a while since I heard that name, Bobby Goren, and I think the other one was Detective Eames or something like that, although I must admit that right now I like watching the new episodes with Captain Olivia Benson. It's great that a series lasts so many years and how it changes depending on the cases. And as you say, listening to it in the background while I'm doing other activities is great.
My grandma used to say the same thing about watching her stories, but she was usually referring to soap-operas like Days of Our Lives, which I just learned is now on its 60th season. Kind of the opposite vibe of Law and Order or Matlock, in that you really needed to understand each character's complex backstory to fully appreciate what was going on. It can get annoying when you try to jump back into a show, but need to do homework on everything that happened before. I feel like most new shows are like this now. I am a sucker for sci-fi, so I will put on some old Stargate SG1 from time to time just as comforting background stories.
Omg this brought back memories! My grandma also called them "her stories" 😂 For her, it was Telenovelas in the afternoon and she’d get so into them, like she was part of the plot. I used to laugh, but now I totally get it, there’s something cozy about a show where you know exactly what you're getting. Law and Order is chef’s kiss for that!
When I have more time I will watch the series from my youth "Moonlighting". I watched it when I was a student, but only a few episodes.
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It's that opening song after the intro, the way it ends, and that "dut done" sound during the show that makes it so enduring to want to watch despite you've seen every episode ten times. I can't believe you didn't catch onto Criminal Intent until later, loved that show, but I've always been draw to crime drama where the brains instance of interviewing potential suspects wins out. I was big on the Forensic Files, and from the desk of Dale Hinman, a female profiler, true life cases. I ditched cable awhile ago, always fell to sleep trying to watch it, when I started falling asleep during Dateline, I knew I was wasting my money but I admit it is the only show I miss watching. I got into watching that FBI profiler drama for a couple of years, can't recall the name of it, until it started getting to easy and absurd. I will always pick a crime drama or bad ass chick flick over much of anything else.