sequestered and submissive

I have two posts to write, and no time to do it. So, I owe you.

One is about my experience at jury duty, and a related one about the female gender are forthcoming...

...someday.

TV Time

Here's my opinion on the new fall TV season: Wow. Strike affected much? Yikes.

I like TV. Generally, I like a lotta TV. But I'm having a hard time finding good television. OK, I KNOW it exists on cable, but seriously, I don't know where some of those channels are. I can't locate them partly because they are not in HD and mostly because I'm lazy. Also, if I haven't jumped on a show early I probably won't...unless I netflix it over the summer.

My TV tastes:

After watching a lot of reality TV, I'm kinda over it. If I wanted to watch dumb people do stupid things, I'd go back to working full-time again. The two big exceptions are TLC and HGTV. Those are my go-to channels for mindless crap.

I never have gotten into procedurals. Sorry, I like the "donk-donk" sound effect that L&O uses, but that has never gotten me to watch an entire show. I think the LL Cool J and Robin NCIS looks OK, but that hasn't gotten me to tune in yet.

OK, so a weekly sched looks like this:

Monday: How I Met Your Mom and Big Bang. These are now an hour and a half apart, which makes no sense to me. Truthfully, the only reason I started watching Big Bang is BNL sings the theme song but now it's grown on me. The guy that plays Sheldon is a good fit.

I was a late arrival to Mom but I really like the camaraderie....makes me wish I had friends:)

Tuesday: Slow day. I've gotten into The Good Wife and so far it's been a good one. The pilot was amazing, but it's slowly morphing into a procedural. We'll see. Julianna M is amazing though.

Wednesday: I DVR Old Christine and watch it on the wknd when I can't find anything else on. It's more like I watch it out of habit than anything else. But I guess I should have been named something that starts with "Jul" because Julia L-D (like Julianna M the night before) looks better each year.

My new pick is Glee. I love the singing and dancing...the plot is kinda poorly written though. It's from the same guy as nip/tuck so I hope it doesn't get too soapy. But it's fun and I've got a TV crush on the teacher who dances REAL well.
I also like Modern Family...fun, relatable, so far some decent writing. (Who am I to talk about decent writing? Half the time my blog doesn't make any sense...of course, I'm not getting paid to write it....)

Thursdays suck. There is too much to watch! Why all the good shows are clumped together on one night makes me crazy...I know it's advertising related, but as a consumer...c'mon!
I usually do:

The Office (Pam and Jim are getting married tonight!)
Community (Joel McHale is fantastic, writing is quick and funny)
Greys (more out of habit, it's gotten really bad but it's like a car crash, I can't look away)
Private Practice (great actors saying very poor things)
Flash Forward (which gets bumped to later on in the week but is a fun little show while I'm waiting for LOST to come back)
Chad watches Survivor but I can't cause the bad guy always wins and that makes me crazy.
Also, I used to DVR Ace of Cakes & Project Runway but I usually catch a rerun later in the week now so my DVR doesn't explode. OK, I used to watch (as in up until right now) Models of the Runway but it's so stupid I don't want to admit to it. I swear I'm gonna quit soon...I can stop whenever I want to, so it's no big deal.

Fridays I've got Ugly Betty coming up next week. Yea.

Sundays (because they've conceded Saturday is NOT a TV night.) I do Desperate Housewives...mainly because I have always done it and there really usually isn't anything else on.

Still to Come: 30 Rock, LOST, and Friday Night Lights. Yea.

Some randomness TV musings:

I have no comment on Jay Leno, because, like when he was on later, I haven't watched it.

Gee, Kelsey Grammer I liked you well enough in Cheers and you did a swell job on Frasier, but please take your residuals and go away, no one wants to see you in bad slapstick comedies anymore. Please?

While I like an occasional song being remade, rehashing TV shows is lame. I'm looking at you 90210. Rehashing movies aren't any better.

So what shows should I be watching and what do you think of the state of TV?