My wife also is a nerd, and we like a lot of the same things or at least we're amenable to a lot of each other's likes. Our first date was 28 Days Later, and I laugh to myself when I hear men bemoaning whatever chick-flick they're dragged to see.
My wife and I have a never-ending list of things to watch. That bastard Netflix taunts us, as does our personal video collections. Each nerd friend tells us about 15 things we haven't seen. So we have short-term and long-term viewing projects.
Among them is The Wire, which my wife never saw in its original 2002-08 run. As we delve deeper into the world surrounding the Baltimore drug trade, she is stepping into something I call fanboy convergence.
As Hollywood continues to mine nerd genres for box office and TV gold, nerds keep benefiting and we get more nerd convergence.
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