For 30 seconds it was hilarious…and then I couldn’t take it anymore and switched off. Not because the episode was awful (it was), but because MeTV is seriously speeding up the syndicated video transfers of M*A*S*H (to insert more commercials), giving the show that dreaded “soap opera effect” smoothing that makes it look like the actors are 4k Sims characters acting out scenes in your living room. However, I hadn’t seen the finale in years and years, and not being a fan of it at all, I thought I’d tune in and confirm how right I always am about these sort of things.Ĭouldn’t watch it. Now…I never watch M*A*S*H anymore, probably because any show will eventually stick in your craw if you watch it too many times, and hoo boy does that describe M*A*S*H for me. So recently I tuned into MeTV because every other alert on my Facebook account was screaming that the 1983 series finale of M*A*S*H was going to air, and if I knew what was good for me, I’d better tune in or else. Your purchase helps pay the bills at this website! One of the many benefits of their addled attention spans.Ĭlick to order M*A*S*H : The Complete Collection at Amazon. Wanna know why? All the breaks allow them to screw around on their phones. ![]() And this is even weirder: my younger kids, who only caught the very tail end of cord-tied TV, have fun watching commercial TV, too. That’s right-it turns out it’s kinda fun to watch television the way we used to, commercials and all. ![]() Right? So…why regress? What’s missing? Ah…the nostalgia factor. Twenty years ago, if you had told me I’d actively seek out television showing edited classics interspersed with commercials, I’d have said you were crazy.Īfter all: that was the whole point of the evolution of cable, VHS and DVDs, and now streaming: unedited, uninterrupted classic content when you want it. If you’re like me (poor you), you keep your remote handy to check out the local digital stations that air old-timey television, channels like MeTV, Cozi, and Antenna (don’t even mention Retro TV to me-they ditched my city right when the Althea and Nick Bellini fights were getting good on The Doctors).
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