Plot, Please?

While out to dinner with some girlfriends a while back, we discussed the need to sometimes watch mindless television to decompress. For me, it is just necessary. Even watching beloved shows like the Daily Show or Colbert Report, funny though they are, isn't stress-relieving because the issues they talk about are real, sad, infuriating, etc. So, when it's just me and baby J, I need something I don't care too much about to be on the TV while I do chores, feed her, stuff diapers and generally multitask. Or sometimes it's nice just to hold her while she sleeps (though she's getting heeeavyy) and watch something mindless. Sometimes there's just nothing else on. Here are some random thoughts on recently (or not so recently) watched shows or movies:

• The Wolverine: A spin off movie in the X-Men series. I loved X-Men as a child and still enjoy seeing them being brought to life in film, corny comic-book-ness and all. However, this movie was only half thought out, as if the plot was constructed by 5th graders. It was layers of rescuing, fighting, fleeing, which in the end just seem like complete nonsense. Why would the evil villain go through all the rigmarole of {Spoiler alert, if you care, but you shouldn't} getting his granddaughter kidnapped just to entrap Wolverine to suck out his self-healing ability? He didn't even have a relationship with her at the beginning. Also, how may times can Wolverine pass out from his heroic fighting?  
• The Red Band Society: Dawson's Creek for sick kids? Something like that. It has all the melodrama of a teen show, though I appreciate that it does explore some very real health issues for kids: bone cancers, eating disorders, cystic fibrosis... I think I keep watching because I want to see what they do with the storyline on the girl with anorexia. So far they've actually done a pretty good job of developing it. But don't get too carried away, it's not a very good show.
• Selfie: Watched on demand just because there was some talk about it being unusual to have a non-typecast Asian male lead, which is great. I was also curious about the play on My Fair Lady. Not so great? The writing. The episodes have silly plots, the dialogue often tries too hard, a lot of the attempts at smart humor just don't work... Don't bother.
• That Awkward Moment: I swore I wouldn't watch this soley because of the horrible title, but I did in a moment of weakness. It was actually okay for a romantic comedy. I think it was a romantic comedy for dudes, a little bit? There wasn't anything particularly special about it, but I did feel like the dialogue felt very authentic to the mid-twenties to mid-thirties crowd. Shrug. It entertained me enough. 
• Girl Meets World: I loved Boy Meets World growing up! Girl Meets World brings back Corey and Topenga as parents of a teenage girl. I know it sounds like fun but it's not. The writing is terrible, the episodes I watched had really lame plots- really it seemed like each episode started with a one sentence idea, like "Daughter wants to be her own person!" and then a bunch of writers threw scenes together around the idea that are uncoordinated and supposed to be funny. Yikes.