Still summer. Now hotter.

Posted by Maggie July 18th, 2006 at 03:25pm In All Things TV

Apparently we're all feeling a little lethargic around here. This could be, perhaps, because the world is slowly cooking us. So now for some me-time. Today I checked in with myself about all that awesome TV I was going to catch up on this summer. I'm surprised (but I really shouldn't be) that I've done so well.

• I'm smack in the middle of the second season of Lost, and have become a raving lunatic about this show. It's not the type of thing I usually like, seeing as it's all tease, all the time, but they pulled together such an appealing group of people, I'm hooked. Like crazy. Like deranged let's-watch-8-in-one-day, that'll-be-fun crazy.
• Fireflly. I don't think there's enough exclamation points and "really, really, really"s in the world to express my deep, fanatical love for this show.
• Once I realized that Deadwood really was a TV show, and not just a 12-hour-long movie, I enjoyed it very much. I remain wary of the out-of-place and stagey soliloquies, but the twisty-turny Al Swearengen politics and Timothy Olyphant's stoic Moustache of Truth and Justice are always watchable.

At least when it's a million degrees here I don't have to wear an 8-piece suit. Also, we bathe. 

Changes and alterations to the list:

• I gave up on Undeclared. I think I was probably expecting too much of it. None of the characters rang true for me, and it felt mean and awkward rather than hilarious. This opinion makes me so uncool, I can barely stand to look at myself.
• Have rented Battlestar Galactica. Critics seem to like it, but I have never met an actual person who watches it. Also, if you could combine Battlestar Galactica and Deadwood, you would get Firefly… and that's close enough for me.
• Sports Night, Wonderfalls, Jeeves and Wooster — still to come, I hope. Though I have to finish Lost and maybe season 2 of Deadwood first.
• There are too many seasons of Six Feet Under to catch up on now. I'm sorry. I'm trying to stick to things that have two-or-fewer seasons, so I don't get myself into any ugly, friendship-ruining Buffy-type situations. Maybe some other summer.

It sounds like I'm watching TV all the time, but I'm really not. (Except for that one day.) I'm also reading this book, which sounds like a certain other show, but is its own thing and such a good book it's painful to put down.