I find it fascinating what television shows each person gravitates toward and why. A good chunk of my college girlfriends LOVE reality tv, the Real Housewives in particular. The only reality show that I watch is The Great British Baking Show. We had cable growing up. It’s not like I didn’t have access to it then or now. I just don’t enjoy the drama. Maybe because I deal with enough drama in my day to day life. I don’t know.

My guilty pleasure is Law and Order: SUV. That can be on in the background or on the nights that I actually sit to watch TV but am so exhausted that I don’t have to think too much. I used to love CSI, the original, not any of the spin offs. And Criminal Minds. I know, there is a theme. I guess it is the solving a problem that I enjoyed, not necessarily that bad things happen in the world.

But does it matter what movies and television shows that we enjoy? Do our partner or friends have to enjoy the same genre to truly “get” us? I sometimes wonder how some of my friends are my friends because we are so different. Maybe it stems from something so simple as what TV shows we watch?