a nice, bitter rant that pretty much exactly captures my feelings towards lost over the past two years.
how do people even watch that show anymore?
i started off this fall so excited about so much t.v., but almost everything has been a disappointment. studio 60 can go suck a rock. veronica mars has been fair to middling. heroes is a shining spot in the darkness of crap, but even it isn't the strongest offering i've ever seen. grey's anatomy is, if you can believe it, even MORE ridiculous and inane - and not in the good way i enjoyed previously. i keep hearing from various people that friday night lights is where it's at, but i haven't been able to catch it.
oh wait! i forgot. ugly betty, believe it or not, has been the best show i've seen this season. it's kind of straightforward, and a little juvenile, but well-acted, funny, thoughtful, and (though i sound like my grandma) heartwarming. give it a chance.
Suggestion: Hustle. Since they started airing Hustle on AMC last year, it has been my favorite TV show by far. It was kind of a pain at first, since they only showed it regularly on Saturdays, which meant I only caught in on occasion, usually during some midafternoon marathon. But once they moved it Wednesdays at 10 it became my fave. Looks like they start airing the series again (from the beginning) on November 22nd.
Posted by: Drew | November 10, 2006 at 10:20 AM
Probably, I'll never actually see this show, but the mere idea of a comedy about the Canadian Secret Service called Underfunded has me in stitches.
Posted by: susan | November 10, 2006 at 11:26 AM
i've benefitted from watching lost in german since i now live in germany. maybe you can find some episodes in italian? (didn't i read a mention of italian in some previous posts?) the shows don't get better, but they're less a waste of time....
Posted by: bs23 | November 10, 2006 at 01:30 PM
The fact that the writers decide to make a different character completely irrational in each week's episode gets sort of draining after a while.
Of course then I think back to how bad television was five years ago, and I realize that even the erratic efforts of Lost and Studio 60 leave me far more entertained.
Posted by: Fletch | November 10, 2006 at 06:18 PM
30 Rock. It's good.
Posted by: the ghost | November 13, 2006 at 07:51 PM