Married to the Media: Fall TV Season
Does anyone else feel married to the new fall TV season? Around this time last year I had a small but managble stable of shows I watched with regularity–Veronica Mars, Grey’s Anatomy, Gilmore Girls, Criminal Minds. I made time for an occasional Simpsons rerun. It left me with maybe an hour of TV viewing in the evening about every other day of the week. Kind of like a lover you have a smokin’ hot time with but is moving to Estonia in a few months so you don’t want to see too often.
race to this September and my casual affair has turned into a full blown committed, I’m-buying-birthday-presents-for-your-parents kind of relationship. There are easily 6 new shows (Kidnapped, Six Degrees, Ugly Betty, Brothers and Sisters, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) that I’ve started following. I’m also flirting with Heroes and can’t help but listen to my friends natter on about Entourage which is only a Netflix click away. Plus, I’ve got the entire second season of House M.D. on my laptop acquired through, eh, uh, some means.
Now I could watch 2 hours of TV, seven days a week and still not be caught up. I know it a temporary condition. Some shows will stay, others fall away, we’ll have different priorities, want separate things out of the relationship. But for now, it’s like being chained to a very large easy chair.
Thank god the Library Book Sale is this weekend. I could use the lack of stimulation.
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Don’t forget Battlestar Galactica starting up next Friday and the second season of Dr. Who, which started last night (it’s not too late, next week’s episode is AMAZING).
Don’t forget Battlestar Galactica starting up next Friday and the second season of Dr. Who, which started last night (it’s not too late, next week’s episode is AMAZING).
I haven’t seen battlestar, but you’re about the 90th person who says I should.
I haven’t seen battlestar, but you’re about the 90th person who says I should.
Not to mention the Office, CSI, Lost. I applaud your restraint, our daily hour of Daily Show / Colbert Report is the *minimum* viewing. Much as I moaned when Arrested Development got cancelled, one less show is quite a relief. You might be feeling the same, now that Kidnapped has gone to that big syndication farm in the sky. Sorry if I’m the first to tell you.
Not to mention the Office, CSI, Lost. I applaud your restraint, our daily hour of Daily Show / Colbert Report is the *minimum* viewing. Much as I moaned when Arrested Development got cancelled, one less show is quite a relief. You might be feeling the same, now that Kidnapped has gone to that big syndication farm in the sky. Sorry if I’m the first to tell you.