MetaChat - Breathtaking T.V.

MetaChat is an informal place for MeFites to touch base and post, discuss and chatter about topics that may not belong on MetaFilter. Questions? Check the FAQ. Please note: This is important.

19 December 2009

Breathtaking T.V. Today I was watching two shows (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and Cowboy Beebop) that I love because of the stories they tell and the way they are told.→[More:]

I hold my breath at important moments, when characters die I cry, and my whole being is concentrated on what is happening. When the end arrives I just sit and think "wow".

Do you guys have some favorite shows that give you these moments?

post by: Betony at: 08:49 | 11 comments

Maybe cause it happened a very troubled time in my life, but start the Prom scene from Prom and I will be a little vaklempt by the end.

posted by The Whelk 19 December | 10:15

Let me be the first to predictably say "The Wire".

Especially resonating because a decent amount was shot in my neighborhood when I lived there. (yes, I lived in a shitty part of the city. West side!)

posted by gaspode 19 December | 10:43

ER frequently used to affect me that way. The episode with Ray Liotta, I cried for ages after the closing credits.

posted by essexjan 19 December | 11:08

Gaspode, dammit, you're right, yet again. The Wire. Predictably. Jesus Moishe, is that show ever good. 'Pode, you lived in the Western? Man, what I wouldn't do to run into McNulty while he is walking his beat in the Western.

posted by msali 19 December | 11:09

Oh man, The Wire "Does my hair look alright?" Haunting.

posted by The Whelk 19 December | 11:24

We're just starting to watch The Wire and aren't really getting sucked into it. We watched the first two DVDs (five episodes) and thought it was sort of "meh". We were big fans of Homicide but so far The Wire hasn't done much. Does it get better?

posted by octothorpe 19 December | 12:29

Millenium is like that for me (season 2 is fantastic). I'm still pissed at Fox for canceling it. The last scene of season 3 makes me cry all the time.

Parts of The Wire and there's even a few parts of Buffy that get me every damn time.

posted by sperose 19 December | 12:30

Octothorpe, i wasn't taken with The Wire right away either and was wondering what the big deal was. I let it grow on me and now i have some amount of indignant rage about big let downs in season five. It's still fairly recent, with me with just one go round.
I can't think of anything current that has me enraptured, but i think it's more me. There's no big Six Feet Under event tv on right now for me. Better Off Ted is pretty funny, though, the first season.

posted by ethylene 19 December | 12:53

I felt that way about "Wonderfalls".

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 19 December | 13:02

The scene in Buffy where she and Riley are sitting across from eachother on at the end of Hush, neither knowing how to start. Also in Buffy, that Christmas episode where it starts to snow in So. Cal. rather than the sun rising thereby Angel does not get toasted.

posted by danf 19 December | 19:06

(Best line in Wonderfalls - hands down -)

*talking to a plastic monkey)

"Are you God? Are you the devil? If you don't say anything I'm gonna assume devil."

*beat*

"Oh god ...I'm a crazy person."

posted by The Whelk 20 December | 10:26

← It's Amro's birthday! || THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD →

HOME || REGISTER || LOGIN