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Ashley Spurgeon is a lifelong TV fan nay, expert and with her recurring television and pop-culture column And Another Thing, she ll tell you what to watch, what to skip, and what s worth thinking more about.
Television shows fall into easy categories: game shows, daytime talk, nighttime talk, drama, sitcom, reality, news. Those are the categories invented for marketing purposes, to sell products to you, the happy television consumer. (One time I paused
30 Rock and ran around the corner to buy a McFlurry, which they d mentioned in the show pathetic!) Then there are the categories of how we watch them: This is the background crap I have on when I’m cooking dinner, this is the intense prestige hour-long dramady we watch on Sunday nights to remind us that the weekend is over, and so on. Of these personal categories, one of my favorites is the “Winding down before bed” show.