Well all my friends have been raving about This is Us on NBC. My Facebook feed on Tuesday nights was full of “Need Tissues” “OMG This is Us” “Crying” “I cry every episode.” I ran into a friend and she was adamant that I watch it. “I seriously cry every episode but it’s SO good. You HAVE to watch it!” I’m not an “emotional” drama kind of person I prefer a good sitcom, but I figured I would give it a try. If it was too overly emotional I’d just stop watching it. So I watched the first three episodes.
Not a tear. Not a single one. No lump in the throat. I briefly thought maybe I was missing something. But no, I think I’m just emotionally defective. The show is incredible, don’t get me wrong. I love it and I have watched all the episodes. The acting is really good, especially that Chrissy Metz. Heck, they’re all pretty amazing and I’m crushing big time on Milo Ventimiglia. But I haven’t cried! The story line and the characters they’ve built are layered like an onion and perfect television. I haven’t cried.
So this all got me thinking. Am I that emotionally defective? My husband cries during movies more than I do. I mean, I get a little teary eyed sometimes when someone makes like a huge accomplishment against the odds, but for the most time I don’t. I did cry when McSteamy died on Grey’s, I’ll give myself that. Like real tears. Messy kind of cry. Not the kind that you can just dab the corner of your eye with your sleeve.
After I had my first son I got all teary during a few romantic comedies that I’d watched over and over throughout the years and NEVER cried during. I’m talking Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan kind of stuff. Crazy. I thought my son broken me, but I eventually went back to my defective ways. I didn’t even have any good pregnant cries, except that one time I really wanted Cheerios and my husband had drank all the milk. What is wrong with me? I feel like Chandler on Friends in The One Where Chandler Can’t Cry.
Although puppies. Yes. I can’t watch animal movies because I’d be a mess. I did cry when Garfield got lost in a Halloween special when I was six. Maybe there is hope for me? So I cry about animals and not humans. That’s normal right?
Are you a crier? What gets to you?
Sheri, you are not defective. It’s a family issue. None of us are emotional. We are not cold. We just hold things in. It must be in the genes. You are not Defective xxx
Thank you. xo
I haven’t watchef this show yet but heard nothing but good things about it.
Nope not a Cryer either. I am definitely emotional defective! LOl!
I don’t know if it makes you defective, but if it does then so is Tammy. I’m usually the one fighting back tears, whether it’s some sappy feature on ESPN about a boy who saved his Mom, or a commercial, or a song (the same song I’ve heard 50 times and makes me tear up each time)… Hell, I’ve even gotten emotional during the national anthem at sporting events.
Tammy just looks at me and says, “Are you crying?”
She can watch the same things I do and it doesn’t hit her emotionally at all. Although she was a babbling mess when McDreamy died. Lord, I thought she had found out that someone had REALLY died.
So not sure if you are defective… You’re just emotionally hardened. LOL
Taps and a good solider coming home video will start the waterworks.
I used to never cry. And then I had kids and now I am a cryer. I hate it. 🙂
Yes, shows can get to me, movies of course too. But some just don’t and I’m never really sure why. Maybe it’s just because they are not for me… they might not really get to me that much…