This being the week of fall TV’s return, I’ve decided to mention the shows that I watch which are currently on TV. Now I spend a lot of time watching movies and making videos, not really giving me much time for TV but there are some other reasons that keep me away from the medium. Shows are largely predictable and they aren’t as tight and neat as movies when it comes to presenting a narrative. With a movie, I can watch it and rate it immediately. What if you want to judge a TV series, do you have to watch all the episodes before weighing in? I think you’ll see that what I watch is not traditionally must see TV.
SportsCenter
As I mentioned, I spend a lot of time working on projects and this show is basically like working with the radio on. I just flip over to ESPN and listen to the report. If I hear a the name of team I’m following, I can look up and get some visual feedback. There are a lot of ESPN productions which I treat in a similar fashion. I “watch” Around the Horn, PTI, and First Take as well. Really there’re quite interchangeable, but since there isn’t a plot to follow, I don’t feel that they have to command my attention. ESPN in general is radio that helps me keep pace.
24
Every year (nearly) there is a day in which national security is compromised. Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is the only man who can stop terrorists from killing the President, extremists from nuking LA, or a puma from eating his daughter. The show is broken into 24 episodes per season, each of which takes place during an hour so that a 24 hour period plays out in real-time. Jack never uses the restroom. He doesn’t eat. He doesn’t get tired. I think that’s why he’s grown into a folk hero, one whose names is interchangeable with Chuck Norris.
The Colony
The first season concluded recently, but being a Discover Channel original with a novel idea and good production value, I wouldn’t be surprised for a season two. Basically you have a group of ten people, each with different specialties, who are forced to withstand post-apocalyptic Los Angeles as well as each other. It’s The Road Warrior and reality merging to create something you just might learn from.
Hell’s Kitchen
I got turned onto this last season. Simply chefs vying for a dream job while a justly critical grandmaster chef (Gordon Ramsay) berates them. These are the best chefs Fox could wrangle together? I’m no longer interested in dining out.
Psych
Sean (James Roday) and Gus (Dulé Hill) are a fake psychic and his fake assistant. They pester the Santa Monica PD into letting them solve cases and do a pretty good job all things considering. The show almost always involves a murder, but it is so heavy with comical ‘80s pop culture references that no one takes the drama serious.
And that about does it.
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