Three TV Shows I Suprisingly Love
Top Gear from the BBC It’s not a surprise that a British accent and a British sensibility can improve almost anything. But since when do I care about high-performance automobiles? Truthfully, I don’t.
But these guys do. And enthusiasm is even more ingratiating than a British accent. I love watching geeks and nerds dork out about their passions.
Besides, they race cars against fighter planes and roller skaters wearing jet packs. Plus they have a mysterious masked test driver named “the Stig.” Who doesn’t want to see that?
Wonder Pets from Nick Jr. The show is made for preschoolers, but I absolutely adore it. It’s full of charm and laugh-out loud humor.
Three preschool classroom pets—a guinea pig, a duckling, and a turtle—become superheroes when the children leave. Animals from around the world call on them for help.
The kicker though, the magic, is that they sing almost everything. It’s a moralistic and educational adventure opera for kids. Glorious.
The boyfriend introduced this show to me. From the very first Wagnerian notes of “The phone. The phone is ringing,” I knew this was a winner.
What Not to Wear from TLC It’s along the same vein as Top Gear. Who would have thought that I would care about clothes? Although at the heart, I still don’t care that much. The difference is—this show is not so much about fashion as it is about clothes.
Stacy and Clinton, the two experts, don’t teach people how to be fashionable. They teach people how to find and wear the right clothes.
I wouldn’t have thought it possible, but I have learned and am applying a lot from this show. It’s entertaining and lively, but at its base, it seeks to teach. That’s what makes it watchable show after show, year after year.