Once Removed

I am a little behind. I have two episodes of Big Love waiting for me. I can't really build up the enthusiasm to watch them. It's too much like hard work. So I started watching trash instead. I was thrown into a slump by the sub par episode of the last but one Fringe (you know, the one where we find out all of a sudden that Peter is some sort of fly-by-night-shape-shifter-assassin) and started watching The Vampire Diaries. 

I've been good lately. I stopped watching all the crap that I used to watch. All the soapy stuff with no real story line pay off. Private Practice gone. Smallville gone. ANTM gone. I have yet to get rid of Gossip Girl. It's like a UES limpet, hanging on for dear life as I try to appear erudite in my television choices, giving me away as the cheese-whore that I really am. I'm a sucker for the Dan/Blair frenemy thing that they have going on at the moment. So what I thought I was doing, adding some more cheese to the proceedings is anybody's guess. I've worked my way through season 1 in mere days, compelled to watch more and more until I have the whole story. I'm anticipating the sugar crash when I catch up to current time. The anti-climax of no more episodes to binge on. 

Maybe then I can start cultivating my high brow (ha!) persona again. After all, Fringe was back to its glorious self this week. And The Good Wife managed to restrain itself with the dun-dun-duns. Also, I have finished season 1 of Breaking Bad and hope to be up to speed enough to talk about it in the present tense at some point in the near future. Maybe soon I can start on that pesky new year's resolution to watch the tiny amount of a bazillion West Wing episodes. But who am I kidding? I love the low brow. I love all  kinds of brow.

A Quickie

Just a quickie before I leave the house. I watched The Good Wife last night and am concerned at the level of cheese. It appears to be swiftly rising and infusing all story lines. 

Srsly. I enjoy this show. I like it. I managed to persuade someone else to watch it. I do not wish to be embarrassed by it taking a mass market cheese twist. I feel that my reputation rests on this show not turning shit. I have never recommended something that turned out to be rubbish. I've worked myself up into a lather about shows that I have subsequently been disappointed by, but that's just me. And we'll keep that between you and me. But there is face to be saved here. 

So....I'm just putting it out there in the world, hoping it makes its way through the ether to those bigwigs in the big chairs over at TGWHQ. Here goes. I do not wish to watch dun-dun dun! moments. K? I don't want to watch Alicia and the team be surprised by someone walking into a room and saying "they have been charged with......MURDER!!!!" as we watch Alicia freeze for a moment and then we have the DUN-DUN-DUN music. I do not want to see Will (though generally, I do want to see Will, and a lot more of him, if you get my drift) threaten Diane with guards outside her door and a menacing look with a DUN-DUN-DUN!!!!! 

It is not on. So, if you are planning on taking the show this way, don't. This is not the cheese-fest I signed up for. 

Now, on with the rest of my day. Glad I got that off my chest.