Lots of good shows mentioned here that I haven't seen, but I am absolutely ASHAMED that I forgot to include Burn Notice! It's phenomenal!

@yamibakura8597

5 ай бұрын

Greg, do yourself a massive favor and skip Season 3 of The Boys. It is gross, vulgar and almost entirely without charm.

@skyhime

4 ай бұрын

Burn notice fan club status rejected!

@SteveClark1412

4 ай бұрын

It’s ok homie, Burn Notice is for all. The best of the best dad shows no doubt.

@RustCole01

4 ай бұрын

Burn Notice is my jam. I'd throw in Psych and House M.D. For good measure.

Its almost like there is a huge audience made up of men, aged 30-70 that have disposable income, yet media companies actively avoid them in favor of niche groups.

@Panzer_Runner

5 ай бұрын

it's hilarious how they pander to an audience that doesn't even exist and get surprised when their stuff flops

@rbu2136

5 ай бұрын

Disney Princess Factory: La La La we not listening you racists.

@G-LukeJA

5 ай бұрын

Every single year Hollywood pushes out multiple "dad movies" and tv shows, what the hell are u talking about?

@G-LukeJA

5 ай бұрын

Like, ur watching a list of multiple award winning and highly viewed shows....and ur claiming that Hollywood isn't pushing them...even though its Hollywood that makes them

@ArnezDavid

5 ай бұрын

Aye I'm right with y'all and I'm 20 lol, nobody likes the B's these woke companies keep putting out

I think the emotional appeal of the tropes are: Dads want to protect their loved ones from a world with systems that are easily corrupted Dads want to provide a sense of order and righteousness when the rest of the world makes no sense Dads long for the bonds of kinship they often lose when they’re forced to “grow up” and tackle manhood alone Dads like to have one skill their loved ones can find no where else

@magistersolis.3750

5 ай бұрын

Conclusion Dad’s like to be needed & want someone who they can count on. (It’s sad this seems to need to be found in fantasy but hopefully it encourages people to manifest it into reality with their own drive)

@Tyler_W

5 ай бұрын

It isn't just a dad thing. These are just normal, masculine instincts in general. I think they just get more narrowly focused when men acheive fatherhood.

@lakshaykochhar6799

5 ай бұрын

​@@Tyler_WI think that's just a normal people thing.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Yep. It’s interesting to look at what we gravitate to as “wish fulfillment”. Gives us a good place to look when we are feeling down, perhaps one of these pillars is missing.

@solidflyer286

4 ай бұрын

@@magistersolis.3750was going to comment that Dads just want to be needed

That opening segment hit me so hard, dad culture is real.

@Tyler_W

5 ай бұрын

He's absolutely right about the music of the 70s (and the early-mid 80s). It really is the best. The best of back then is miles better than the best of today, and think there are actual studies about lyrical quality amd reading level that bear this out.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Dad culture is real and it’s awesome. Brothers! Let us revel in it!

@lloydgush

4 ай бұрын

It's not a culture, it's biology. You literally change biologically by just believing to be a parent.

@danielkover7157

15 күн бұрын

It made me laugh, especially the Hi Hungry joke stopping abruptly. 😂

My brother in law is also named Greg, and he showed up to a Halloween party with just bloody type clothes on he kept introducing himself as GreGory. I don't know if you've ruined your family's Halloween party yet with that terrible pun but I trust you'll remedy that.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

I don’t understand how I haven’t used that yet, but that it clearly happening this freaking year!

Gotta give a call-out to "Person of Interest," which hits all the tropes with an ex-special ops operative teaming up with a super computer nerd, a (formerly) corrupt NY detective, and a supposedly-dead female assassin to rescue people that "The Machine" identifies as being in danger. Terrific show with a 4 1/2 season story arc. Just binged it as fast as my eyeballs would let me. Highly recommended.

@jackochainsaw

4 ай бұрын

A great series. Michael Emerson and Jim Caviezel were in top form. Amy Acker, Sarah Shahi, Kevin Chapman and Taraji P Henderson were also great cast mates. Jonathan Nolan makes some great TV. I'm looking forward to the Fallout series on Amazon Prime.

I (a 20-something yr old female) have watched almost all these shows and I love them! It just goes to show that, if something is truly written well nearly anyone will like it, no matter the supposed “target audience”

@imallwin

5 ай бұрын

14:50

@lloydgush

4 ай бұрын

14:50

@MrBenMcLean

4 ай бұрын

I think that the phenomena of women liking movies and TV that are made for men is far more common than the reverse being true. Media made for women focuses a great deal more on relationships and romance, while focusing far less on action and technical prowess. I think it's a lot easier for a show focusing on what appeals to men to also draw in women than it is for a show that appeals to women to also draw in men. It happens sometimes but the two tasks are not equal in difficulty for the creators.

The funny thing is that it's 'Dad TV', but it's absolutely also marketed towards women (lots of handsome actors with shirts off 'tending to their wounds' and steamy historical romance novel moments). These are shows everyone can get into and not worry about anything but being entertained.

@no.1spidey-fan182

5 ай бұрын

Tbh a lot of Dad TV...is just Family TV, meaning ANYONE can watch it😂. Once it isn't TV MA or R rated of course

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Yep. It’s funny that media is “rediscovering” this genre when it’s a pretty classic formula. And yeah, Reacher s2 got hilarious with the shirtless bit. He got cut in the stomach just so he could dab at in the mirror, and it was a scratch, lol

"Hi hungry." Is a classic.

@bros4654

4 ай бұрын

I used to use this one because I thought it was clever. Now I use it because I know fully that it's not. And I am not sorry.

This used to be NORMAL TV. Back in my teens NBC Tuesday nights were A-Team, Riptide, & Hunter. Shows like Airwolf, Blue Thunder, Knight Rider, Street Hawk, MacGuyver, Magnum, Simon & Simon filled hours of TV times lots every week. Men loved watching those shows. And the women actually liked them as much as the guys (though for rather different reasons).

@bossfan49

4 ай бұрын

Incredible Hulk, Kunk Fu, Greatest American Hero, Rockford Files, The Fall Guy, Dukes of Hazzard. Hill Street Blues...

@liljenborg2517

4 ай бұрын

@@bossfan49 A lot of that list reaches back into the 70s when my family didn't have a TV (we were pretty poor back then and couldn't afford one). And you can go further back to all the Great TV Westerns like Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Maverick, Rawhide . . . It used to be understood by Hollywood that half their TV audience was guys falling asleep on their couches after a long day at work. I guess that around 2010, they just figured that all those guys were watching ESPN now and they didn't need to bother making dramas for them anymore. (Or maybe it was because you stopped making GOOD shows for them, and they left for other places looking for good shows to watch.) And, don't forget that all of these shows had large WOMEN audiences fanning themselves every time Magnum or Rick Hunter or Bo Duke smiled at the camera (as much or more than the guys drooling over Daisy Duke's shorts). Magnum's audience was actually more WOMEN than men because of Selleck's sex appeal. Hollywood also used to make shows for the older audience (like Matlock and Murder She Wrote). Did that audience disappear, or did Hollywood just assume those people watched Fox News or Turner Classic Movies so they didn't bother trying to make shows for them anymore, either. By that logic, Hollywood should bail on all the "woke" stuff for "modern audiences" because that particular audience doesn't watch TV at all. They're here on KZread, or more likely over on TicTok.

"Hidden in your town or city, are the poor, the addicted, the imprisoned, and the loney." And I'm the only one that can beat them into submission!? "And they need saving." Ah... I need to apologize to a few people real quick.

@ryanleatigaga7596

5 ай бұрын

I'm in the same boat, too. Sorry, Cecilia.

@sarasunshinemt4444

5 ай бұрын

😂

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

😂😂 Oh that took a bad turn!

I personally love it how there are so many shows and movies today, trying to subvert the tropes, or reverse the tried and tested storytelling principles in some way only to fail miserably. Sure, thise things can be done well, but its extremely difficult to do so, since tropes aren't tropes because of some arbitrary guy in a suit said so. Tropes are tropes because they work, and because people like seeing them.

@613harbinger316

5 ай бұрын

"..but it's extremely difficult to do so..." Either it looks that way because it's extremely difficult or current writers are so bad that understanding the standard hero's journey material enough to effectively subvert it, is beyond them. I like to think it's a bit of both, but heavily leaning towards the latter.

@Azrael178

5 ай бұрын

@@613harbinger316 subverting something well is always more difficult than just making it. The necessity to understand the material being subverted it's really separate from the difficulty of subversion, since you don't only need to understand it, but basically know everything there is to know about a trope to subvert it well.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

YES! I’m glad someone else agrees that tropes are not always bad. They can be used lazily, but really trope is just short for “thing that gets used a lot because it freaking works”.

"Can we roll something to make him happy?" [cuts to ad] Lol

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Haha, technically, the ads make me happy, but I need to get that moved. KZread is ruining my joke!

@sueme8170

4 ай бұрын

Great job as a Dad of 5…3 girls and 2 boys….I approve.. new subscriber

As a dad of 2, and a veteran... Every. Single. Store we go to, I'm running scenarios on "what if an attacker comes in. What If they have a knife? What if there's a bomb?" Etc. I have anywhere from 10 to 40 different scenarios on speed dial for a situation. And before I was a dad? Before I joined the military. 5-10 plans. Protecting my mom or my sisters was my job back then. It never goes away.

@bros4654

4 ай бұрын

Clothing racks. There's someone hiding inside each and every one of them.

@dresdenlancer9012

4 ай бұрын

@bros4654 as a kid, my parents lost me cause I hid in one to pop out and scare them. I'm acutely aware of the "hide for safety" potential, as well as "check for hostiles" potential. Lol

They used to simply call shows like this "entertainment". It was universally understood how to make good, action-packed, heroic, moral stories.

i love the "men saving the innocent" trope i still love the "prince saving the princess trope" too. I also enjoy it when a women and man take turns saving each other with their respective skills, and they don't even want to give us that. Hollywood is gaslighting us trying to convince us that we don't like it.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Indeed, and the gaslighting is the worst part. It’s very clear that none of the audience, even the women, are into the girlboss, yet they refuse to believe it and tell us we’re wrong. The stubborness is almost impressive

Favorite dads movie: "Nobody" with Dad Odenkirk and Granddad Christopher.

@adamrad2220

5 ай бұрын

I just watched this recently and it is instantly one of my favorite movies. Also, am a Dad in his 40s.

@honeymustardcheerios1808

5 ай бұрын

Mine is the Equalizer.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

I need to bump that up in the queue. It’s like an everyman who gets screwed by the mob so he goes crazy on the whole operation right? Sounds amazing already

@rebeccaclementz3756

4 ай бұрын

I'm A female who was in high school when the original Equalizer was on. They screwed us fans by putting it and Stingray on at the same time. I'm one of the fans who think they should have gotten Edward Woodwards son to be the new Equalizer.

"if you make a sound I will rip your vocal cords out before you can think omg he actually did it" was the best line in the whole season. lol

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

100% that line had me laughing and impressed all at the same time! It was so damn cool

Its just entertainment that is grounded in traditional storytelling and archetypes. Everyone wants to think they are super original and can do literally anything and it will be good as long as it has representation and bashes you over the head with its message. Things stand the test of time for a reason. Also literally got my oil changed 30 mins ago!

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Right? You’re spot on, everyone wants to be unique, but most of these modern formulas have been tried and failed in one way or another. It’s the curse of the creative person, I guess, they don’t want to be seen as copying

Man, the 'I wanna throw you out of a helicopter' was my favorite line of the year. Just laugh out loud badass.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

It was a damn cool line. My #1 of the season was “Don’t make a sound or I’ll rip your throat out and your last thought will be ‘holy crap he actually did it’”. Amazingly badass line, had me laughing

Another great dad TV show that ended a decade ago was USA's Burn Notice. It's a show about a burned spy stranded in Miami who uses his espionage and McGuyver-like problem solving skills to help the innocent with a hot former IRA member and Bruce Campbell as he investigates and hunts down the people in the CIA who betrayed him and ruined his life, and maybe he learns to be a better person along the way. Jeffrey Donnovan was awesome in that series. He really gave off that fun, personal, but also kinda scary and intense vibe that is integral to dad TV leads. I'd even include The Walking Dead into that category too considering the way the main character Rick Grimes (and later Daryl Dixon) was portrayed. It was fundamentally all about finding/protecting his family and community and rebuilding a rightly ordered society amidst the chaos. Falling Skies was on at the same time as the other two. When the main character isn't a freedom fighter defending the world and his community from an alien invasion, he's trying to keep his family together. The main characters of all three seasons fit neatly into the dad TV/masculine hero archetype.

@DEMONRaziel

5 ай бұрын

Came to the comments just to mention Burn Notice. Thanks for saving me the trouble. And to everyone else: Watch it, it's great.

@allenoverall7361

4 ай бұрын

Seriously me and my wife have watched this show atleast twice

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

I have no idea how I forgot Burn Notice when it’s such an amazing show. Wife and I are now revisiting the classic USA lineup. Burn Notice, Psych, White Collar, Monk. All top tier

“I might look like the Michelin man.” That broke me 😂

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

I’m just trying to keep it honest. I have mirrors, lol

Not a father, but I'm definitely a "dad." I love all of these shows. Bullseye, my friend.

Saw the video title and immediately thought of “The Terminal List”. Glad to see it was mentioned. Bonus points for including B99 clips of Holt.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Terminal list was the most “hell yeah” show I’ve seen in a long time and I’m so thrilled it’s getting another season

As a woman in her late twenties, I adore this genre. I watched the Beekeeper yesterday, and I really enjoyed it! I think it fits into this genre as well...

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

I’m seeing a lot of recommendations for that one, and I was going to pass it up but now I’m interested. I think it’s just the name that threw me, I was thinking “how are they going to make a beekeeper an action star like in every Statham movie?”

When I watched Reacher I would always have a glass of whiskey, my wife started to affectionally call it my "Whiskey Soaps."

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Hahaha, whiskey soaps is such a cooler name than DadTV!

The Boys is cool for me because of how in-depth a lot of its advertising is. Vought International (the massive company in The Boys universe that creates all the superheroes) has their own KZread channel where they create ads that take place in their universe, and EVERYONE'S in on it. It's interesting. It's also funny how you mentioned a lot of women like these shows. I recall the "dad bod" being hailed as great and it's also reassuring seeing that half the guys you mentioned just look like people I'd see at my local Target (Pedro Pascal being one of them)

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

I do love the spin The Boys took, I just have to take the gore in small chunks. Heh, chunks. Yeah, it’s pretty nice that a lot of women aren’t looking for a Grecian statue. Obviously they don’t want us TOO soggy, but I was quite surprised to learn the dad bod craze was not an elaborate prank

You hit the nail on the head. I recently discovered you and........ you are now my favorite movie breakdown/critic/person on youtube. And...... without it being weird I feel like you are my friend too :D Thanks for making great content.

@newmancl0

5 ай бұрын

HEY, just because you or I cant kick a car hard enough to set off the airbags doesnt mean Reacher couldnt. So......... you back right down, go touch some grass or something :D

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Haha, what’s important is that Reacher can so I have hope that one day I can. I’m glad you’re here! And I hope we CAN be friends!

I love how Greg naturally mixes in genuinely good advice, especially for men, in almost every video, regardless of what's being discussed. It really helps me check myself and refocus on improving instead of falling back into the depressive, selfish, childish funk that modern culture is encouraging with 3rd/4th wave feminism and redpill stuff. I've never intentionally subscribed to those holistically (that said, I've fallen for a few red pill lies in the past), but those ideas still like to weasel in and drag my ability to grow and function as a proper man down into the mud. Getting a friendly reality check with each video is honestly one of my favorite parts of Greg's scripts at this point.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

I’m so happy they are helpful because those are some of my favorite parts as well! Being a man can be a tough job, and we have to build each other up

I still hold that Quigley Down Under is the ultimate dad movie

I was watching Leverage back in the day when you had to wait a week for the next episode. Every single one was so unique it was actually insane by todays standards.

The power washing and lawn care segment got me. I caught myself a while back and I thought, am I old now? Is this equivalent to generations before me watching golf? I’m 39.

@sarasunshinemt4444

5 ай бұрын

It's works on women, too; they pop up in my feed and before I know it, it's 2am and I've watched 20 videos of carpet cleanings.

@michaelahurt

5 ай бұрын

The pinnacle is guys building shelters out of dirt, leaves, grass, branches, etc. Every video his millions and millions of views and I'm convinced the entire audience is middle aged men who are convinced they are going to need to know how to do that one day.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Yes! Watching power washing before and afters and carpet cleaning is so satisfying. Also, bird watching is sneaking up on me. I don’t know what kind they are, but I DO like to just look at them now.

@sarasunshinemt4444

4 ай бұрын

@@gregowen2022 I used to be cool. Now I've bought a birdseed feeder AND a hummingbird feeder, a book on North American birds and binoculars. Tho I've also put our cat tree in front of the windows overlooking the feeders...

Justified is my 🐐 I’m 35 with no kids, but been watching a lot of those since the shows dropped. Guess that means I was destined to be a dad…?

I couldn't make it past 3 episodes of Jack Ryan (too unbelievable and I would have smashed the TV if I heard him say "I'm an analyst" one more time), but Harrison Ford does reach peak Dad Film as Jack Ryan in Patriot Games. Seriously, if you did a Dad Film list, that should absolutely be at the top.

@kbren1

5 ай бұрын

Jack Ryan is a woke POS that panders to the Left. Unworthy of anyone's time.

I gotta be careful not to think about defending my family when I'm trying to sleep or else I get so jazzed up I can't sleep

Rockford Files, classic dad TV

World always needs dads shows and dad shows will always find a market. My oldest favourite dad show that I watched as a nephew and now as a uncle is The Rifleman and that’s from the late 50’s and it is Literally the base of all that’s brought up in this video

While I'm not the prime audience for these shows I still really enjoy watching you review them.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

I greatly appreciate that!

Honestly, I think it's largely a competence kink. Mainly because in this time and age it's really difiicult to BE competent, or more likely to be periceved as comperent. But these guys are the deffinition of a competent man. And who wouldn't want to be like that, or to be with someone like that? And you are absolutely right that labeling their actions as "toxic" is bullshit. Like from an everyday female point of view: I would rather a Reacher to save me from mugging than to have to fight myself and most likely get injured if not killed because I don't know how to effectively take down a person. I could just as easily injure the attacker as to injure myself. And also, these protagonist don't do what they do for a payment, they do it because of their strong morals. Reacher didn't wait around to be thanked or repayed for stopping the highjacking. But unfortunatelly this is not that common nowadays. Guys often expect to be repayed for their help and if they arent, they become agressive. Reacher would never!

One of my favorite "dad" tv shows was Defiance, back when the SyFy channel was still a thing. I loved the dynamic between the war hero main character and his adopted alien daughter.

The New Balance call-out was triggering... I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT WAS THE BRAND I WORE!!! 😭 Also, Longmire is a great example too! (Netflix). He is the epitome of a taciturn, manly cowboy sheriff. Like if Maurice Walsh's Quiet Man was a sheriff in 21st century rural Wyoming.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Hahaha, they are so comfy, right?! Yeah, I’ve heard very good things about Longmire

Greg for a second I thought you were gonna have a problem with the quips at the end of Reacher. I apologize for doubting you, I should’ve known better. Lol😂

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Nope. Even as I heard them I knew they were cheesy and I didn’t care because they were so cool. I should have cut it in the video, but the top line of the season was “make a sound and I’ll rip your throat out and your last thought will be ‘holy crap he really did it’”. I was dying with that lien

I'm a woman and I guess I've enjoyed Dad TV best of all genres my entire life.

I dont have kids, but all the shows that you listed that i watched, i loved it.

The only part I'm stuck questioning is what if it's not Dad TV but just Man TV? I'm a 20 year old student but god I love most/all of these shows and tropes, as well as reading Lee Child and David Baldacci- I cannot be the only one

Literally some of my favourite shows all listed 😅

Being a dad is great, - you get to be a dad to your kids, you enter a kind of brotherhood with other dads, that brotherhood all kind of understand and share the same priorities & values, you also have a nice positive role in the world. Thats the good dads of course, bad dads dont fit in with all that. It also teaches you to be more dependable, responsible, compassionate and consistent. Thats all good stuff. Us dads just want to jave our home nice and look after our families. We deserve a bit of dad tv, thats not too much to ask for surely?

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Agreed. Being a dad is easily one of top 3 best things to ever happen to me. I’m 100% convinced I’m better because I have little people I have to be better for

The “basic dad” skit was a killer! 😂 *shows mowing and power washing to calm down* double killer! 😂😂

I never get tired of watching you bring your dad energy to your videos. Great video, Greg, and I couldn't agree more on some of these recommendations, especially Ted Lasso.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

I appreciate your continued kind words and watching! Ted was so great. Even when they tackled themes that I would have rolled my eyes at in another show, they still pulled it off so well. I’m glad they didn’t overstay their welcome, but a part of me could use a fourth season….

My recommendations is to look back in time, preferably with your dad, if possible. I'm in my 20s, and growing up, my dad would show me the classics from his day, Terminator, Rocky, Rambo, Bladerunner, Conan, Highlander, various Westerns (often Clint Eastwood and John Wayne classics). There was also some "newer" material like the Bourne series, the Expendables, and Escape Plan. At my grandparents' place, I would watch shows like Gunsmoke, the Andy Griffin Show, and Wagon Train. Just last month, my dad and I watched the Soldier with Kurt Russell and (because it's a Christmas movie) Die Hard. My point is, don't underestimate the existing library of material that stand the test of time.

My 75 year old mother loved Reacher.

@Billy-ro5ws

5 ай бұрын

That means she's your dad now. I don't make the rules, I just live by them.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Haha, she just has good taste.

I don't watch much TV, but my favorite dad MOVIE is "Frequency."

I love your comment about men and boys wanting to go super deep into some subject to learn everything about it, as that's exactly how I'm wired.

I've watched videos from this channel for a few months now. But I gotta sub just to show gratitude for identifying my tv show preference with a name and formula. And definitely for the suggestions. Well done.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

I’m glad you’re here!

I actually have gone back and I'm rewatching White Collar

Not a dad but I enjoyed Tulsa King, I cannot wait for season two also I really think Martin Starr's character is just gilfoyle laying low because he tries to hack the wrong person lol. Honestly a good cast for Tulsa King AND it's actually diverse, something another streaming show with an aging action star could learn from *cough FUBAR *cough*. Although honestly they're two very different things but I feel like they're both trying to capture the same audience, just one does it better.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

I’m going to check it out. It was on the list, but weirdly I’d never even heard of it. Watched the trailer and it looks so great!

24 is the quintessential dad TV. Holy sh**** I can't seriously get enough of that series.

These are the kinds of movies my Dad usually watches. Pretty interesting to find out about these just now. Will recommend these to him for sure.

I got a muslim father in his early sixties that believed that American film has been since the 2000s, I have even seen this man binge a show so quick in my life and then told me to watch it. They must did something right with this one, hopefully it becomes a trend

I just added this video to my playlist of movies/shows to watch.

Didn’t know there was a name for this type of genre. Now I’ve got a few more shows to add to my list. Your analysis for why these shows are so enjoyable is spot on, and I would also add that they appeal to a desire to be needed/valued.

Yes, I have changed my oil. I'm so Dad, I have an oil change spreadsheet for the Jeep... :)

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Hahaha, oil change spreadsheet is PEAK dad, I love it!

Great video. I did not realize this was a genuine genre and i thank you for introducing me to it. I've seen several shows already from this list and can confirm that if others are in the same vein i will give some a go.

I look forward to more videos from you!

The sense of fulfillment when you do something your family can't do without you is great!

Person of Interest was my favourite!

I think about the fall of the Roman Empire and Greece. Like, what led to their downfall? Are we on the same path? Those who don’t learn from history and what not.

Grew up on a lot of "Dad TV" like NCIS, CSI, anything on USA, Burn Notice, Walker Texas Ranger, Magnum P.I. and so. They are timeless universal shows that are at their core, pretty simple. My dad would have LOVED the shit out of The Terminal List and Reacher.

Kicking a car hard enough to set off the airbags... NOT taking that bet... EITHER way. Years ago, I worked with a guy who accidentally hit a mid-sized dog, at about 60mph... It set off the airbags.

This was a fun vid. My Dad TV go-tos are sports docs and war movies and tv shows. I am very excited for Masters of the Air.

Your content is the best on the internet

You just played my favourite moment of Ted Lasso so far! The way he barged into that room hitting the door with two hands for some reason had me in tears

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

It was so damn good. That show is endlessly quotable

Excellent analysis on every level. I hate predictable, cliche, or unintelligent writing yet i still loved Reacher because of the reasons you gave.

That is the most adorable mug 🥰

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! My son painted it for me!

Dadtastic is my new go to phrase

Great video!

Here's my comment contribution to the cause. Best video on your channel so far. If loving DadTV is basic, then I'm a pH of 14.

@nyetzdyec3391

5 ай бұрын

Based. 😁

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Haha, downright caustic! The algo help is always appreciated

@nyetzdyec3391

4 ай бұрын

@@gregowen2022 Ah! Fun with puns! Since I'm not a dad myself, I guess I'll just have to stay neutral.

When my Mom was alive she used to watch Magnum PI reruns, NCIS, the new Hawaii Five-O, Blue Bloods, Swedish detective show Wallander (w subtitles) and Hercule Poirot.

Fantastic video! Just found your channel .... Very gad I did!

Shadow Riders - peak Dad TV. Older Western movie starring Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, and Katharine Ross. Released five years before i was born, but I'll watch that movie over and over again.

That has got to be the best intro all the way up to the pro youtuber move that I have seen you do yet 😂 I don't know how you do it but keep it up!

On Reacher setting off the airbag: An airbag sets off when the car's acceleration exceeds about 40g. An SUV has a mass of about 2,000 kg. F=mass x acceleration = (2000 kg)(40x9.8 N/kg)=784,000 N=176,000 pounds of force. Reacher's kick, strong as it might be, is unlikely to exceed about 1000 pounds of force (4x his weight).

Great vid! I need to watch Reacher

Don't know if this counts as "Dad TV", but I've been recently rewatching The Punisher and, as a woman, I can tell you that Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle is exactly the the kind of dad and husband a lot of women want. I miss when Marvel was good and full of good, strong men with capable women like Natasha and even Wanda (before Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness).

@bossfan49

4 ай бұрын

Natasha, Wanda, Agent Hill, Pepper... all great. Natash was the heart of the Avengers. She tried to help everyone on the team, and kept them in line when they got nuts. She tried to keep the team together and reason with both sides during Civil War.

A brilliant take! I would add that the hero also has a damaged family life, and so must turn his energies outward. See Ted Lasso, or Timothy Bottoms' lost wife and dead son in Leverage, or the lone Jack Reacher. The BBC detective series "Shetland" is also exactly Dad TV, and poor Jimmy Perez can't hold onto any of the gorgeous women who throw themselves at him. See also "Doc Martin", where the brilliant but Asperger-ish doctor must save everyone he can even as the beautiful school teacher is attracted and repelled by him.

Somewhere, deep inside my heart, there's a part of me that believes that I could kick a car hard enough to set off the airbags, if I was angry enough and the cause was righteous enough. So *this* is what it feels like when story writers actually see you.

My grandmother loves the jack reacher series

Burn Notice was my favorite Dad TV show back in the day. Reacher is the current one.

I'm so happy you guys have "dad culture" 😊

Season 2 of "Reacher" felt like a CBS procedural with cursing and a lot more violence.

@MrVvulf

4 ай бұрын

Season 2 suffered from the same problem "The Boys" season 2 did - the writers/director added too much "Aren't we cool / We'll win because we're the good guys / Wink-nod > time to do hero stuff". > As you say, a low budget procedural level of writing. In essence there was way too much self-congratulatory behavior almost to the point of fourth wall breaking. When writers/directors do that, they lower the stakes involved for the characters and hence the tension and enjoyment of the viewers - the show becomes somewhat farcical. By episode 4 it was clear the main villain would die by being thrown out of a helicopter by Reacher. Season 1 was superior because it maintained the serious tone throughout. Shows should always maintain the risk that (at least some of) "the bad guys get away with it".

Im glad im coming here for dad content that i didn't get growing up.

I am a dad. And I don’t like The Eagles. Though you are right about the 70’s. I’m more of a Styx, Yes, and Zeppelin guy.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

A little more rock and roll, I can appreciate it. What makes the 70s king is that it had it all

@thecornerkid402

4 ай бұрын

@@gregowen2022 You, sir. Are correct.

I checked the title and I got The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. From what I heard from an older video is that the movie is basically a rehash of Inglorious Bastards a bit.

Awesome video! I love being a dad! However, my wife is the one who watches these shows, not me lol. And yes, the lead dudes do bring in the ladies. My wife can concur 😂.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Hahaha, same for my wife. They know the audience. ALL the audience

There is a reason why The Punisher is so popular and why Marvel comics hate him and tried to kill him off.

FLIGHT OF THE FREAKING CONCORDS.... YOU KIDDING ME???? best references

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

I love that song so damn much!

you sound as if getting drunk with you would mean non stop dad jokes. Let's go!!!

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

Non. Stop. Jokes. And hugs. I’m the friendly drunk. I’ll compliment the shit out you

@tequilaghoul

4 ай бұрын

@@gregowen2022 Let's GOOOOOOOOO!!!

Sent this to my dad because back when I had him and my stepmom watch episode 1 of Reacher I told him people were calling it “dad tv”

Lol, my dad is the one that got me to watch Leverage. He loved it so much he sat my sister and I down one time just to show us the pilot.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

It’s so damn good! And the episodes were so varied. Just excellent

thank you for that quote. i had recently said "now that the testosterone is not ringing in my ears, i can hear myself think." but the quote said it much better.

@gregowen2022

4 ай бұрын

I don’t know, your quote sums it up nicely as well. Let’s trade and we’ll both have two good ways of saying it!