This sort of thing happens all the time. Billions of light years from earth some white dwarf of a star finally collapses, its immense gravity and mass inverting until it forms a singularity in space, pulling all things, including light, into itself. These singularities, popularly known as Black Holes, remain distinctly unobserved by people except for the part of my home where a singularity resides inside a thirty two inch flickering box on top of an entertainment center.
Just about every day my wife and I are irresistibly drawn to our living room. We try to do other things, live life like always, maybe get to sleep at a decent hour but then beckons the Box.
Monday: Heroes, Journeyman, Prison break, Chuck; Tuesdays: NCIS, The Unit, Law & Order: SVU; Wednesdays: Pushing Daisies, Life, Bionic Woman; Thursdays: Ugly Betty, The Office, 30 Rock, Scrubs, Without A Trace; and Fridays: Ghost Whisperer, Numbers, Star Gate Atlantis. Worst these aren
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Not that you need something else to watch on Mondays, but have you dropped HIMYM? And no Simpsons or Family Guy on Sunday?
I’m surprised to see Bionic Woman listed; I thought I was the only one giving it a chance. It has been getting better, and it cracks me up when they try too hard to be Alias. It has its moments though. Favorite quote: “How’s your British accent?”
Reaper’s another show you’d like. It’s Chuck meets Buffy meets Ghostbusters. The first few episodes were a little formulaic and one-shotty, but now they’re starting to break formula and develop the mythos.
For some reason I didn’t realize Morgan was hispanic until his boss SAID it in that one episode. Now I see the name “Joshua Gomez” in the credits and think, “duh”.
The Office is great. My boss loves that show and was hanging out in my office for like 20 minutes talking about old episodes the other day. They’ve really been on point this season and that last episode until who-knows-when left me wanting more. I love Michael’s irrational dislike of Toby like when he shoves his tray while Toby’s trying to connect and have a heartfelt conversation. It’s great when Toby gets to crack up later while the board is reading about “that Ryan woman” and how she’s “hot in a different way” in Mike’s journal.
I think you’d also dig Supernatural; it’s a solid X-files/Buffy/Hardy Boys hybrid. Thursdays are crazy for me with that, Smallville, and NBC sitcoms. Smallville is either laughably bad with soap opera cheese, or amazingly “why isn’t it like this every week?” good. They finally added Supergirl this season, and both Dean Cain and Helen Slater have made some great guest appearances.
B13 told me we won’t see 24 until 2009 now, so that’s one less show for your black hole. Don’t forget BSG: Razor premieres tonight. SO much to watch, SO little life…
Oh I didn’t mention all the shows. DVR’s are great because you can just tape the junk and decide when to go through it. Heck, 30Rock takes about 15 minutes to watch without commercials!
And snippets like that (Dean Cain/Helen Slater) make me so want to tune in but then when I do its either a cheesy repeat or a cheesy original: that show is just cursed for me.