TV Recaps

Even with the writers’ strike, we’ve managed to keep up our steady diet of brain rot TV shows. I think that’s because we have so many conflicts that caused us to cut out shows. So now that most everything is repeats, we are able to watch things we’ve missed. That and we watch a bunch of shows on the “other” networks that were taped and in the can well before the strike. So I thought I’d give you a rundown of what we’re watching. I’d love to hear what else you guys are watching.

Mondays: Can I just say how much I love Medium? I have never missed an episode. I don’t really know why I like it so much because Patricia Arquette is kind of annoying, but she’s real. She’s not a teeny tiny thing with perfect everything. I also think it’s funny that on the show her character’s name is Allison and she has a daughter named Bridget. And our girl’s name is Bridget Alison. I wonder if that was something subliminal in me? Probably not because Jake picked her middle name, and the spelling of it. During normal season, we watch Two and a Half Men and How I Met Your Mother, as well as Everybody Hates Chris.

We also are watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Now, I have to say that I was prepared to hate this. I thought it was going to be just another stupid incarnation of a movie (like Smallville is in my mind) but I didn’t mind it. I don’t love it and if it went away I certainly wouldn’t cry myself to sleep or anything. But it’s there and it’s fine.

Tuesdays: We’ve been watching Nip/Tuck since the get-go and I am devoted. But I can honestly say it jumped the shark a while ago. I won’t really let it go because I’m engrossed now, but it doesn’t give me the thrill it used to. The last season that was just awesome was the season with The Carver. I used to wait all week for Tuesdays. Now it’s just something to fill some time. Maybe it’ll get better. Maybe they won’t bring it back. Whatever.

I also have fallen back in love with Law & Order: SVU. I had had my fill of all the Law & Orders for a while and I still don’t think I’ll ever go back to L&O: The Mother Ship but I’m back in love with Benson and Stabler. Of course, just when I fell back in love, the repeats started. But that’s ok. I can hold on.

Wednesdays: One of my guilty secrets is Supernanny. I also used to love Nanny 911 when it was on. I say this is my guilty secret because I watch this to feel morally superior. I love to watch this and think “Duh!” about some of the stupid shit those parents are doing. I also know that in a few years, I’ll be holding my head in my hands and cursing my moral superiority when Bridget is running around wild, throwing food, peeing in bushes, and cussing like a sailor. I know. You don’t have to tell me.

Thursdays: Oh my but Thursdays are a busy night for us. And actually, with the return of new episodes, we are going to be in trouble. First, we love 30 Rock, The Office and My Name is Earl. We are also devoted Survivor fans and don’t ever miss that show. And now they’ve moved Lost to Thursdays, which I HATE. Because when the new episodes of the NBC stuff comes back, we are going to have a conflict that our DVR cannot handle. We already had to 86 Ugly Betty, which I really love, because of the conflict. We just catch that one on DVD after the season is over. In the meantime, we’ve been watching The Celebrity Apprentice. (Does anyone else think that Omarosa person is the most awful ridiculous waste of human life you’ve ever seen? Honestly just the sight of her makes my ass clench.) And I don’t know what’s going to happen when Grey’s Anatomy comes back after the strike. It’s all too much to think about. Yes, I know Grey’s has gotten a bit, well, gaggy lately. But I can’t help it. I’ll watch it until the wheels fall off. Unless it runs for 37 years like ER, which I have abandoned, gone back to and abandoned again.

The other stuff we watch includes: Desperate Housewives (although Jake doesn’t buy in to this one unless he has absolutely nothing else to watch), Shark, Dirt, Monk, psych, The Riches, Beauty and the Geek, Women’s Murder Club, Chuck, Life, Dirty Sexy Money, Entourage…. I wonder which of those will come back now that the strike is over.

I guess you could say we watch a lot of TV around here. I’ve also started to watch In Treatment on HBO. Jake hates that one, says it’s depressing. I guess it is, but I love Gabriel Byrne and I’d watch him read the yellow pages in that accent of his. So I watch that on On Demand most of the time. Oh, we also really like The L Word but since we don’t have Showtime, we watch that one on DVD as well.

So tell me…. what do you watch? What are your can’t miss shows? And will anyone else out there be glued to the Oscars tonight? I missed my Golden Globes so I have to get my fill of Hollywood glam somehow. Can’t wait!

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