Things You Just Don't Care About

Succession or any discussion of it. I don’t care.

Well, fortunately for all of us that window is almost shut. That is not a show that's gonna have a cultural half-life like the Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad etc. 95% of its fans were people required to Have Opinions About The New Thing for a living, and their attention will be on the next new thing by Friday.

Hopefully that next new thing for everyone (which also just wrapped its season) is Somebody Somewhere.

OTM on Succession ... Or any other TV show I haven't seen.

i also don't care about tv show that i don't watch. but i am trying to think of the show i've never seen that i care about the most. care as in notice it as part of pop culture or something, i guess. it's probably either girls or how i met your mother

A glance at the season's most-watched shows is pretty much at a saturation point of things I just do not care about:

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/most-popular-tv-shows-highest-rated-2022-2023-season-yellowstone-football-1235623612/

Rank	Title (Network)	VIEWERS (000)
1.	NFL Sunday Night Football (NBC)	18,136
2.	Yellowstone (Paramount Network)	11,550
3.	NFL Monday Night Football (ESPN)	10,138
4.	NCIS (CBS)	9,833
5.	FBI (CBS)	9,524
6.	NFL Thursday Night Football (Amazon)	9,446
7.	Young Sheldon (CBS)	9,287
8.	Chicago Fire (NBC)	9,253
9.	Blue Bloods (CBS)	9,242
10.	Ghosts (CBS)	9,085
11.	60 Minutes (CBS)	8,805
12.	Chicago Med (NBC)	8,486
13.	The Equalizer (CBS)	8,286
14.	Chicago PD (NBC)	8,272
15.	Fire Country (CBS)	8,252
16.	FBI: Most Wanted (CBS)	8,006
17.	FBI: International (CBS)	7,726
18.	NCIS: Hawai’i (CBS)	7,507
19.	The Voice — Monday (NBC)	7,306
20.	The Voice —Tuesday (NBC)	7,213
21.	9-1-1 (Fox)	7,092
22.	Law & Order: SVU (NBC)	6,873
23.	American Idol (ABC)	6,798
24.	East New York (CBS)	6,791
25.	Survivor (CBS)	6,714
26.	S.W.A.T. (CBS)	6,681
27.	The Rookie (ABC)	6,484
28.	The Neighborhood (CBS)	6,456
29.	So Help Me Todd (CBS)	6,378
30.	Jeopardy! Masters (ABC)	6,359
31.	The Good Doctor (ABC)	6,236
32.	NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)	6,152
33.	Bob Hearts Abishola (CBS)	6,107
34.	American Idol — Monday (ABC)	6,063
35.	NBA Playoffs: Conference Semis (ESPN)	6,014
36.	Will Trent (ABC)	5,989
37.	Law & Order (NBC)	5,867
38.	9-1-1: Lone Star (Fox)	5,646
39.	CSI: Vegas (CBS)	5,640
40.	AGT All Stars (NBC)	5,499
41.	Law & Order: Organized Crime (NBC)	5,390
42.	NBA Playoffs: Round 2 (TNT)	5,309
43.	Station 19 (ABC)	5,215
44.	Night Court  (NBC)	5,209
45.	The Masked Singer (Fox)	5,142
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)	5,142
47.	New Amsterdam (NBC)	5,118
48.	The Price is Right at Night (CBS)	4,966
49.	The Conners (ABC)	4,964
50.	Big Sky (ABC)	4,818
51.	La Brea (NBC)	4,758
52.	The Amazing Race (CBS)	4,647
53.	America’s Funniest Home Videos (ABC)	4,619
54.	The Resident (Fox)	4,396
55.	The Rookie: Feds (ABC)	4,310
56.	Celebrity Jeopardy! (ABC)	4,304
57.	Shark Tank (ABC)	4,275
58.	Saturday Night Football (ABC)	4,020
59.	Abbott Elementary (ABC)	3,947
60.	Accused (Fox)	3,936
61.	Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (ABC)	3,921
62.	Quantum Leap (NBC)	3,892
63.	20/20 (ABC)	3,873
64.	Alert: MPU (Fox)	3,787
The Bachelor (ABC)	3,787
66.	Next Level Chef (Fox)	3,699
67.	A Million Little Things (ABC)	3,671
68.	Dateline-Friday (NBC)	3,600
69.	NBA Playoffs Round 1 (TNT)	3,597
70.	The Cleaning Lady (Fox)	3,494
71.	Not Dead Yet (ABC)	3,352
72.	College Football Pac12 Prime (Fox)	3,228
73.	That’s My Jam (NBC)	3,225
74.	MLB NL Division Series L (FS1)	3,207
75.	The Goldbergs (ABC)	3,115
76.	Bachelor in Paradise — Tuesday (ABC)	3,045
77.	Hell’s Kitchen (Fox)	2,948
78.	Bachelor in Paradise — Monday (ABC)	2,942
79.	Home Economics (ABC)	2,923
80.	NBA Saturday Primetime (ABC)	2,847
81.	House of the Dragon (HBO)	2,717
82.	Special Forces (Fox)	2,692
83.	WWE Friday Night Smackdown (Fox)	2,594
84.	Sister Wives (TLC)	2,575
85.	The Walking Dead (AMC)	2,493
86.	90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After: Tell All: No Limits (TLC)	2,394
87.	Lego Masters (Fox)	2,246
88.	College Football Prime L (ESPN)	2,177
89.	90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After (TLC)	2,171
90.	The Simpsons (Fox)	2,089
91.	WWE Monday Night Raw (USA)	2,059
92.	Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Bravo)	1,975
93.	Below Deck (Bravo)	1,779
94.	Vanderpump Rules (Bravo)	1,727
95.	Family Guy (Fox)	1,653
96.	Monday Night Football — Manningcast (ESPN2)	1,477
97.	NHL Conference Semi-Finals L (ESPN)	1,457
98.	NHL Playoffs Quarter Finals (TNT)	1,438
99.	NBA Basketball (TNT)	1,409
100.	Bob’s Burgers (Fox)	1,402

i care about the new quantum leap, even though i haven't seen it. i hope it lives up to the quantum leap level of excellence we've all come to respect

Ok.

Chicago Fire (NBC) 9,253 Chicago Med (NBC) 8,486
Chicago PD (NBC) 8,272

When I had a TV I used to watch those Chicago shows. If they were still streaming on Hulu I'd probably catch up with them, but they're on Peacock so they no longer exist for me.

I'm still sort of coming to terms with this being even remotely possible

2.	Yellowstone (Paramount Network)	11,550

I think I might watch Succession but just the final season, as the head of the gang died only halfway through the final season.

It's like watching a golf major, a lot of the time you can just tune in halfway through the final round and it's fine.

whats a spoiler anyway

amazing how much crime there is in the u.s. navy

Three FBI shows to deal with crimes

Happily surprised that Ghosts is doing so well

THE MOST-WATCHED NETWORKS OF 2022-23 (BY TOTAL VIEWERS)
Network (Total viewer number; Year-to-year comparison)

CBS (5,888,000; down 5%)
NBC (5,218,000; down 13%)
Fox (4,419,000; down 1%)
ABC (4,111,000; down 1%)
ESPN (2,186,000; up 2%)
Fox News (2,109,000; down 15%)
Univision (1,279,000; down 14%)
MSNBC (1,185,000; up 2%)
TNT (1,073,000; down 9%)
Hallmark (1,012,000; down 13%)

BTW ...

22. CNN (605,000; down 19%)

My posts today on this thread are a thing I just don't care about

You're not to be had for the price of a cocktail. Or a salted peanut.

i don't even own a care about television

the Barbie movie

Naps.

Jeez, I only care about sleep

ppl who don’t care about succession are denying themselves great writing and acting and i guess that’s fine

Jeez, I only care about sleep

― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.),

It won't play

That is not a show that's gonna have a cultural half-life like the Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad etc.

as usual you are wrong

I'm not sure how anyone can make that prediction!

A radical shift from my younger days but: keeping up with new media. Music, literature, film, television--if it's worth experiencing, I will get to it sooner or later.

Put another way: I may or may not care about Succession months or even years from now.

(I should have said "I may or may not end up caring about the show; I have not yet seen any of it)

as usual you are wrong

This is my reaction to pretty much all your posts, but I don't type it out.

*pins medal to own chest*

Seriously, though, Brad, that's why you're one of my favorite posters, because you are always floridly enthusiastic about the stuff you like, and it's always 180 degrees removed from my taste, so it's fascinating to observe.

you aren’t talking about your taste though, you are projecting the kind of reputation this show will have in the future

anyway i know you love being an obtuse dickhead about everything and will never change so that’s fine too!

Have to say, unperson, Succession will definitely go down in history in the same breaths as all the ones you mentioned. There's no reason it wouldn't. But I guess the point of this thread isn't to make people care about things they just don't care about

Succession's half-life will be long in an annoying way for nonwatchers because people are going to be quoting lines and posting memes from it for a long time. As they do with the Wire, GoT, etc.

But to keep things in the spirit of the thread, something I just don't care about is Martin Amis.

lol “shows”

I like how this thread has become “things that annoy me”

At a certain point, the way the shows saturate pop culture means I don’t have to waste my time watching them.

ok snobby mcsnoberson

i avoid a lot of shows bc they're popular and i'm waiting for them to get bad or end before wasting my time, but succession is just like... as good as writing for a visual medium gets, it is such a rich text and i will be thinking about the characters for the rest of my life (cf. novels)

succession is just like... as good as writing for a visual medium gets

This is what people told me about Deadwood and a) it wasn't true of the two episodes of Succession I watched and b) it wasn't true of Deadwood either. I ground my way through the first two seasons without finding a single character to give a fuck about. On the other hand, I just re-watched Season 5 of Justified, the one everybody hates because of Michael Rapaport's accent, and that was a very entertaining story about a disgusting criminal family flailing around and lashing out at each other in the wake of their patriarch's demise.

Brad, it’s not snobbery to want to do other things with one’s time.

It's snobbery when you inflect posts so that you belittle the people who like the things you scorn.

I think between Succession and Martin Amis I just don’t understand what other people mean when they say “good writing.”

yeah that’s probably it

Brad, it’s not snobbery to want to do other things with one’s time.

― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, May 29, 2023 7:02 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

fair enough! it just depresses me when writers don’t respond to or don’t want to engage with a well-written thing that happens to be popular but i’m sure you’ve got no shortage of good writing to engage with

It's snobbery when you inflect posts so that you belittle the people who like the things you scorn.

I don’t really care if people don’t care about stuff I care about unless they are actively preventing me from accessing it. Life is too short.

Brad, it’s not snobbery to want to do other things with one’s time.

― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, May 29, 2023 7:02 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

fair enough! it just depresses me when writers don’t respond to or don’t want to engage with a well-written thing that happens to be popular but i’m sure you’ve got no shortage of good writing to engage with

Are you saying you never went back and watched the first 3 seasons?