Porn Viewing: Do you know what you're talking about?

[RainDog]

63. I'm not a big fan of romance or rom-coms

but sometimes one can get to me. mostly I find rom-coms as unbelievable and superficial as porn.

I'm trying to think of a romance that I've seen recently... that was made recently... I do watch Scandal, tho it's a total soap opera and entirely unbelievable and if it was real life, I would detest the characters - but I enjoy the show just because it's so over-the-top. Doesn't rise to the greatness that was Breaking Bad, but, for me, that's a hard show to top.

And I loved that show, even tho I would never want anyone to use meth, or make it. yet the acting made the characters compelling. And the story of a guy who was in this muddled life who said, "fuck it" when he had played by the rules all his life and got nothing but grief was a story I could cheer for, because I could empathize, even if I couldn't imagine doing the same thing.

maybe the quality of writing/acting makes a difference - or the care for production values, etc. that makes so much porn seem sort of silly to me, like I was watching amateur night at the community center (that would be one strange community center, but, hey..)

What are your favorite romances? I tend to favor stories about crime. I think I like the "puzzle" of trying to figure out what's going to happen - and I'm always happy when I haven't figured out the story as long as possible.