So I am officially a slave to my television. Or rather, to the TV on DVD that I obsessively rent from Video Verite. I have crossed the line of seeing characters as characters, and I now see many of them as friends. As in, when Karen and Jim started dating I didn’t think “wow, it was very clever of the Office creators to make the Karen character so likable.” Instead I thought, “I’m sorry Pam! I want to hate her but I just can’t!” I love the staff of Dunder Mifflin. As human beings. My head says they’re not real, but my heart says “go to Scranton! Michael will hire you!” And The Office is not the only show that I am unreasonable attached to. There is also:
* LOST (duh)
* Heroes (don’t judge me- I’m a comic book nerd)
* Entourage (it’s so sexist and yet so dreamy!)
* ANTM (still!?!?)
* West WIng (they’re so well spoken!)
* 30 Rock (though I finally gave up Studio 60- sorry Aaron!)
* Arrested Development (how can you not?)
And now. Like I need another show. I started renting Alias. Just innocently, you know? I wanted something action-y and mindless that I could pick up now and then. I don’t even like Jennifer Garner. But goddamnit! I have watched something like 16 episodes in just over a week! I love Sydney! I LOVE Vaughn! I want them to get married and have little crime fighting babies! I love Sydney’s poor, ashamed dad! I love Quentin Terintino’s two-episode take over! I love that he backwashed into the champagne bottle and then told Sydney about it! I love Alias! I don’t want to love it but I do! I had to force myself (physically!) to write this entry and not just watch another episode instead! And now it is my bedtime and I have conferences all evening after school tomorrow so I should really go to bed RIGHT NOW, but I am 90% sure that I will end up watching another episode! Somebody do an intervention! I can’t stop clicking “next!”
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how could you give up studio 60 and still watch antm?! outrageous! i don’t know if you have tried grey’s anatomy at all, but we refer to those DVDs as “the abyss,” so lusciously addictive that you cannot stop and society questions your whereabouts. and it has the “play all” feature that allows you to pretend you don’t notice you are zipping through entire discs. i am obviously a fellow tv on dvd addict. i feel these are not the tips you needed.
Get a job hippie.
Get a job hippie.
Veronica Mars!!!
My girlfriend was all “let’s get Alias on DVD, it’s actually really fun!” and i am all “what the fuck are you kidding, that looks retarded!”.
But then I watched like two seasons in two weeks and the joke was on me!
The funny part: When i was in the middle of my short lived Alias immersion, I saw the actor that plays Arvin Sloan one night crossing the street in the West Village. There was no one else around and for a brief moment it totally scared the shit out of me, like if i even make eye contact with him, his team of Village Snipers would “take me out”.
What ever happened to Battle Star Galactica?That is my next show to watch. I am so excited for Heroes to come out on DVD, I always seem to miss it!
I heartily agree with Sarah’s suggestion of Grey’s Anatomy. This is how deeply in love I am with the show: I was telling my husband the plot of the latest episode AND STARTED CRYING IN A RESTAURANT. I mean, that is at once sort of awesome and deeply frightening.
3 words: THAT’S SO RAVEN
Whatever, Tom, I think it’s more like: THE SUITE LIFE.
Grey’s Anatomy has been sucking me in slowly, even just watching it during commercial breaks. During the last three episodes, I kept saying, “She can’t die! She’s the lead character!” And J kept saying, “You’ve said that ten times. Who are you telling?”
Anyway: beware of Alias. It will punch you in the face with suckiness after a couple season. I know, I didn’t want it to be true either, but there you go. It happens somewhere after the best cliff-hanger ever leads into the character you are supposed to like a little, but who I HATED FOREVER and never quite loved Alias the same afterwards.
I am so totally into both Veronica Mars and Battlestar Galactica right now.
Quality. That’s all I can say. Quality over quantity, Willow.
Whatever Tom and Liz, I think it’s more like… whatever the name of that show is where Raven’s brother and father move into the White House and the brother starts going to a rich kids’ school. I think it’s called “Moving In With Cory” or something. I saw the first episode for free thru iTunes and it was MIND-BOGGLING.
I’m in love with Grey’s Anatomy. Completely. Thursday is sort of the highlight of my week, which probably means I should go out and get a life.
And even though lately it has been sort of sucky, I still watch Gilmore Girls, because I feel like I’ve watched it for so long that I can’t just stop. I’m committed to my committment.
1. Extras (another Gervais project, really hilarious)
2. Weeds
3. Nip / Tuck
4. Wonder Showzen
I’m a fan of renting TV shows or purchasing them on iTunes…..
I will second that entourage is a guilty pleasure. what a stupidly awesome show!