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2August
2007

sure you’re weedy, and kinda shy

maura @ 8:58 pm

Lately I have been somewhat angsty about TV. It’s summer so of course there is (almost*) nothing to watch. Which is kind of a drag. I don’t want to watch TV every night, but a few nights a week it’s nice to have some visual entertainment of an hour or less, to relax the brain and provide something to look at while folding laundry. And since we don’t have cable we can’t really channel surf, which is one of the main reasons we got rid of cable anyway.

* Except for Flight of the Conchords, which is completely hilarious! And Weeds is starting up again in a matter of days, yay! Of course, these are half hour long short seasoned cable shows, so they’ll be over in practically an eyeblink.

Somehow over the course of last TV season we seem to have acquired a lot of shows. Veronica Mars ended,** so that freed up a little space. And Battlestar Galactica*** has that weird season that runs at weird times, and won’t start again til January or something? So maybe that doesn’t count. Or maybe Flight of the Conchords + Weeds + BSG = one normal show.

** Which was sad, except not as much as it could have been since the season was not so good. Except for the finale! If the whole season had been as good as the finale I’d be much sadder. Even so, to quote a friend, “she’s no Buffy.”

*** Last season of BSG was sort of confusing and lackluster, too, despite the extended guest starrage of Lucy Lawless. Hopefully things will get better.

And we watch House, too, though apparently the kids really did quit during the season finale. Which is fine since we like the grown ups better.

And The Office, how could we not watch it? Yay Kelly!

Then there’s Lost. You may remember that we were breaking up with Lost. We tried, honest! But then Entertainment Weekly kept running these stories that were all “OMG the new episodes are so good, the best thing on TV!” so of course we had to watch. Then they were mostly lame (who cares about Juliet?), except the finale was strangely compelling with their forward to the future thing. So our jury is still out.

THEN, after all TV was over for the season, what did we do? We power watched the whole season of Heroes in like three weeks. It was good, but the least we could have done is stretched it out to help with the mid-summer TV doldrums. Duh.


8 comments on “sure you’re weedy, and kinda shy”

Anissa (3 August 2007 at 10:14 pm)

Download the first season of Dexter,not just because we like the name.
The show is awesome and horrific.

betsy (4 August 2007 at 3:25 am)

we’re at least a season behind. we JUST saw the first couple episodes of Heroes last week (nice!) and are holding our breaths for BSG season 3, grrr. no Veronica to be seen–never seen it. no Weeds. I’m happy enough with Heroes though + all the property shows.

you’ll have so much more time for TV with no school! ! !

maura (4 August 2007 at 8:39 pm)

Hey Anissa, I kept seeing those ads for Dexter (and it *is* a great name!) in the subway and wondering about it. Maybe we will give it a whirl.

And on an unrelated note, Happy Mathilda’s Birthday (it’s soon, right?)!

And also, tell Karl that we miss the PRKblog, man!

maura (4 August 2007 at 8:40 pm)

Hey Betsy, yeah, well, I really was kind of disappointed in BSG this season. Heroes is pretty fun though. VM was great the first season, OK the 2nd and tanked last season. Weeds is hilarious though, I’m sorry you don’t have it there!

I know, more time for TV starting tonight, but I neeeeeed to Wiiiiiiiiii!!!

Anissa (5 August 2007 at 1:19 pm)

Thanks! Mathilda’s birthday was yesterday. She is 6 and it is amazing that she is so big! She spent the day swimming and singing on her karaoke machine. I have nagged PRK about the blog, we’ll see.
Also, have you gotten into The 4400? That is a show worth downloading previous seasons as well. Heroes kinda stole from them in my opinion.

mike (6 August 2007 at 4:12 pm)

flight of the conchords is the only show i’ve been able to get into this summer. not since the uk office and early curb your enthusiasm have i laughed out loud at a tv show.

maura (6 August 2007 at 10:16 pm)

I know, 6, it’s so grown up! Gus seems to think he will turn 6 on the first day of first grade, it’s kind of funny. He wasn’t even the youngest kid in his class last year.

maura (7 August 2007 at 7:43 am)

We are laughing out loud too! Esp the fake Serge Gainsbourgy song from the last episode, that was amazing.


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