I know you’re all wondering what TV shows I was watching while the blog was dark. I know y’all just can’t wait to hear about what old TV show that has already swept the nation and caught everyone’s fancy has finally made a blip on my radar.
“Oh my God, you know what’s awesome? Sliced bread!” is my thing.
What, so I’m totally out of the loop? I don’t care.
Since the technology evolved, I’d much rather skip seasonal television and wait until I can watch entire seasons, or series at a time. I love it that way.
I don’t remember everything I watched this summer but summertime isn’t the best time for TV anyway. Too much daylight, too much entertaining, too much being out having fun. Not enough time to lounge around staring at the boob toob.
I hate summer.
No, I don’t. I wish summer days were twice as long as they are!
Then I‘d have time to keep up with TV.
I managed to squeeze in two seasons of House of Cards. It was fun and both Kevin Spacey and Buttercup are great in it. I almost stopped watching at one point. I had to decide if it had jumped the shark or not. We already had lies, betrayal, deceit, manipulation, murder…did I really need to see a three way between the first couple and their chief of staff? No.
But my brain cramp went away after a few days and I’m glad I finished it.
Tell you the truth, I liked Kelsey Grammars’ show, Boss better. But naturally it got cancelled after two seasons. The best shows always get cancelled early, everyone knows that.
After that, I needed something fun and frothy so I got all caught up on Parks and Recreation, which makes me laugh out loud every episode. Then, due to the promptings of Katie McCollow, whose TV show stock is sky high with me ever since she recommended Sherlock, told me to watch Heart of Diksie. My keyboard isn’t working real well. The letter I need to use there doesn’t work. Which will be a real problem when I try to tell you about the great idea I had for a girl’s weekend in the mountains watching the “EKS Files.” Oh great; my dash doesn’t work either. This computer is falling apart.
Heart of Diksie is a very ‘Gilmore Girls” esque show. It’s fun, frothy, silly, romantic and I love every character in it. The wardrobes rival any thing Secks and the City ever did and the actresses are far lovelier so it’s a real feast for the eyes. It’s set in Bluebell Alabama and it’s a classic fish out of water scenario: Zoe Hart leaves Manhattan to become a small town doctor when she inherits half a practice. The town is filled with interesting characters and young ladies who never leave the house fully coifed and made up. I want to live there. It’s also laugh out loud funny.
But it’s not as funny as the Mindy Project, of which I also just power watched two seasons. The Mindy Project kind of reminds me of Parks and Rec, in that it’s set for the most part in an office, I love every character and it makes me happy even when I’m not laughing. It has the added benefit of a long drawn out SportsNight style office romance eksept where Casey and Dana never worked out, Mindy and Danny are one of my favorite couples.
I love the fact that Mindy is nothing like most female TV characters. She’s not svelt, perfect or wise. She’s just like real women; it doesn’t matter to her that she has a successful career as an OBGYN in Manhattan, she feels like a failure unless she has a boyfriend. She keeps trying and every guy is funny. Meanwhile, her partner and best friend, Danny is (obviously to everyone but the two of them) madly in love with her. Why wouldn’t he be? She’s adorable: everyone knows that!
Those two shows made me wish there were ten seasons worth and books about them so I could spend more time in their universes.
Unlike Game of Thrones which does have books , which I wish I hadn’t bothered with and every time I watch the show I think “Yuk. Could this get any grosser? Why am I watching this?” But I know when Season 4 hits Netflicks I’ll put it in my queue. And yes, I’ll hate myself for doing it because watching it will feel like working in an Ebola ward but I’ll get over it.