Nov182009
Kill MY television.
Filed under TV by Kim at 6:15 pm on Nov 18 2009
It’s probably no surprise at all that in the past week I have been watching more TV than anyone ever should. In case you were wondering, it is really hard on the soul. Unfortunately the world of books hasn’t been doing me any more favors, and it’s been hard to even hold a book up, and OK so my choices have left a few things to be desired in the reading arena. I’ll get to that later. Right now I will give you the TV rundown, though, because that is all I have to talk about. (Please let this end!)
Mad Men: I was NOT going to watch this. I was not going to do it. And the first moments of this show that I saw were the one with the horrible octopus painting, which convinced me to walk immediately out of the room. But Jack was persistent. He’d wait until I was really, really comfy on the couch, preferably under a cat, and playing games on my iphone, and then he’d say, slyly, “Mind if I watch the latest Mad Men?” and I would be like, “fine” because I was about to beat my best solitaire time, and long story short, I watch this show now. God damnit. I didn’t want to sit around being horrified at how women used to be treated! That did not sound like fun! I’m not sure where things got turned around, I really can’t put my finger on it, but now I’m dying to know how Don handles this. What the hell. (It was probably Jon Hamm’s john ham sketch on SNL.)
SYTYCD: This fall season has been a bummer. No one’s tweeting madly about it, which takes some of the fun away. The new stage is horrible and distracting to me. Ryan the crazy superman is almost too much. They cut all the tappers, who had the most personality of anyone. I couldn’t find anyone to root for. Nobody (that I know personally) is having SYTYCD house parties or doing recaps. Fall is just too busy for this. I think I may be finding a few favorites though. Jakob has been stealth-wowing me with each new thing he tackles. I find Tabitha and Napoleon’s choreography boring, but this week Jakob made it look so good. For the girls, I like them all about the same. I am waiting for someone to stand out. Actually I think you can just read Mightygodking’s recap, for once I didn’t really disagree.
Supernatural: This show can do virtually no wrong. Someday I will trick Telf into coming to an isolated area, trap her, and make her watch it. Wait. I just need to come up with a stunningly irresistible crafting project we can both work on and slide in the DVDs.
30 Rock and Community: These shows also bring back my faith in humor and humanity.
INCIDENTALLY: The best news I got all week is that Telf & Gene, after a long, long struggle, closed on their house. I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU GUYS!!!!!!! There are fireworks going off in my mind and Queen is playing. This is right.
CSI Miami: I just sometimes need a good laugh. And I’m sorry but this has been consistently funnier than the Big Bang Theory.
Grey’s Anatomy: I should just stop watching this show. But, Callie? And Arizona? That’s my only excuse.
Ellen: I love Ellen Degeneres’ show so much and I think it actually has healing powers. Her and Craig Ferguson rule talk shows forever.
Beyond this, the TV choices get really sad and depraved. Forensic Files, American Justice, Cold Case Files anyone? How much true crime can one person take? I have got to get well, and I may have to cancel cable for a year.
1 Meganon 18 Nov 2009 at 7:07 pm
Sigh. Yeah, I’m not feeling SYTYCD too much. I think fall is just too busy. I’m behind by a week. I really do like Legacy. I can’t believe I’m saying that, but there you have it. I want the ballroom guy who wants to be an action hero to go just because he said he wants to be an action hero. I did REALLY like the Warrior group choreography (I think that was last week, but I just watched it today.)
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Kim Reply:
November 19th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I generally love the group choreography, it’s often the highlight of the show for me. Sometimes I get mad at the camera work for being too distracting.
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2 Mariaon 18 Nov 2009 at 8:04 pm
“He’d wait until I was really, really comfy on the couch, preferably under a cat, and playing games on my iphone, and then he’d say, slyly, “Mind if I watch the latest Mad Men?””
Hee hee hee!
My recent adventures in TV shows, besides catching Metalocalypse online, have been limited and mixed. The boyfriend brought Firefly DVDs over, and I really liked that. Of course there was only one season. Then we gave the first season of True Blood a chance, but it got too stupid for us to handle so we quit. I only miss cable for the Daily Show and Colbert Report.
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Kim Reply:
November 19th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Yeah, I didn’t comment on Metalocalypse because I really don’t know what to say about that, you either love it or you don’t.
Hopefully when school starts back up for me I can get Jack to consider cancelling it for a while.
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3 libhomoon 18 Nov 2009 at 10:25 pm
It’s funny that you mention this. Recently, my cable company “upgraded” the software for my remote so that it was incredibly annoying, and some of the subject searches no longer were available. I was so annoyed with it that I got rid of my cable, thinking that it should be all fun or not worth having.
It turns out I haven’t missed it. I still have Netflix, YouTube, and the Internet, so I’m good. When I didn’t have a TV in college, I didn’t miss it at all.
My biggest pet peeve shows were shopping networks, religious programming, and any show whose name was an acronym. When TV is easily available, it seems so indispensable. When it isn’t, it is so disposable. I find it really interesting.
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Kim Reply:
November 19th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Indeed, I have been through several phases of my life where I didn’t have cable and was pretty much better off for it. And nowadays there are way more avenues for video entertainment. We watched half of the TV we watched this week off the laptop through an HDMI cable!
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
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4 PMMJon 19 Nov 2009 at 7:32 am
I’ve only recently gotten into Supernatural, but it’s pretty consistently entertaining.
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Kim Reply:
November 19th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
It has low moments and while I think Jared is the hot hotty, he’s not the most amazing actor ever, but I just don’t think it’s really necessary in this case.
So for the most part, yeah, good pulp TV.
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5 Maiaon 19 Nov 2009 at 12:50 pm
Don’t forget to check out Bones! =p
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6 Jackon 25 Nov 2009 at 7:49 pm
NOTE: This TV overload post was BEFORE the Law & Order SVU marathon in the hospital.
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