What are you watching?
I'd like a list of whatever TV you keep up with, week-in, week-out, more or less. I'll lead off:
MON:
--> How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 7,00)
# Watch HIMYM. It's as simple as that. Just do it. No other comedy is doing as interesting things with structure or content as HIMYM. Not every week is a home-run, but it's consistently excellent. The only three camera comedy worth it's salt.
--> The Class (CBS, 7,30)
# Lizzy Caplan is great. The rest of this show? Well, Lizzy Caplan is great.
--> Two and a Half Men (CBS, 8,00)
# Meh. Funny, getting old, though. Was a revelation when I first started watching it.
--> Heroes (NBC, 8,00)
# Simply awesome, whether you grew up reading comics or not. Leaves me breathless at times. Still need to write up full review for it. You should watch it.
--> Studio 60 (NBC, 9,00)
# Pedantic, at times, funny, at times, heartwarming and heartwrenching at times. Could be better, perhaps, but could also be, far, far worse. If you're missing your Sorkin fix, get it here. It's still worth your time.
--> What About Brian? (ABC, 9,00)
# Meh. If Marjorie really does leave, this show will not be worth watching. As it stands, a lot of the momentum that it carried at the start of the season's evaporated. It needs it back, desperately. In danger of getting dropped, by me.
TUES
--> Gilmore Girls (The CW, 7,00)
# I've just got to see how this all turns out. Better than last season, so far, though they are taking fewer chances.
--> Friday Night Lights (NBC, 7,00)
# I stand by my review. Every week is not the same revelation as that first episode, but it is still good and needs an audience. Watch it.
--> Help Me Help You (ABC, 8,30)
# Dear Life, I am sorry I watch 'Help Me Help You.' I do, really, I do understand that it is not good. But there are so few comedies, Life! I know, that's no excuse, but it is a reason, you know? Sincerely, Me.
--> Standoff (Fox, 8,00)
# Hopefully this show will be as good now that there's enough other TV on. I'm not sure it will be, but for being one of only three procedurals I watch every week, it's a nice change from all the continuing dramas.
--> Law and Order: Criminal Intent (NBC, 8,00)
# I stopped watching this after last season, but then they brought in Eric Bogosian (who is, essentially, Evil Eliot Gould) and Julianne Nicholson, the woman who was the best thing about Conviction last season.
WEDS
--> 30 Rock
# I guess. It's not so good. Maybe it will become good. Right?
--> Criminal Minds (CBS, 8,00)
# Catching serial killers? Count me in.
--> LOST (ABC, 8,00)
# I continue to be amazed. Big things are coming, you can count on it. The only TV-related web community I actually participate in.
--> The Nine (ABC, 9,00)
# The only new show to get multiple-leads right.
THURS
--> My Name is Earl (NBC, 7,00)
# More than good enough.
--> The Office (NBC, 7,30)
# Still the funniest (and most painfully awkward-making) show on TV. By FAR. Watch it, or we'll no longer be friends.
--> Grey's Anatomy (ABC, 8,00)
# Like I've always said, it's soap opera, but at least it's soap opera done right.
FRI
--> Men in Trees (ABC, 8,00)
# There's so little good weekend-content these days, I camel this bitch up and hope to make it through, though it's not particularly great in any particular way.
--> Las Vegas (NBC, 8,00)
# Soon to return.
SUN
--> American Dad (Fox, 7,30)
--> Family Guy (Fox, 8,00)
# That's right, I dropped The Simpsons. I'd do it again.
I'm not often thrilled with either of these, so far, this season, but it's something to watch Sunday nights when there's not football...
Shows I am not watching, that I watched once or once watched:
The Simpsons
Ugly Betty (review to come, I guess.)
The New Adventures of Old Christine
The War at Home
Brothers and Sisters
Six Degrees
20 Good Years
'Til Death
Happy Hour
Smith (and it got cancelled, too)
L&O: SVU
Crossing Jordan (even when/if it does come back)
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
CSI:
Bones
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What are you watching, or not watching?
scrotum
Thursdays (without fail): The Office
Most Weeknights: Daily Show/ Colbert Report
Every Other Monday When I Remember: Studio 60
Soon to come: Wildcat Basketball every Thursday and Saturday!
Posted by: Noah | October 25, 2006 11:30 PM