So much good television, but not too much time to watch!

As we find ourselves in the midst of the November Sweeps, I find myself in what I like to consider a television weekly niche. While there are shows that I just don’t get to watch either when they air or via DVR, there are a bunch that I get from Netflix and watch during the summer or in the off season. Criminal Minds, for example, is a show I love, but I have to be in the right mood to watch it. So if I were to try and watch it each week, it just wouldn’t work out and I would feel like I lost my place, but by watching it after the season, I can watch it when I feel like it. I know that’s pretty much the concept of a DVR or TIVO, but DVRs only hold so much space.

So when the fall season began a while back, I was torn as to which shows I wanted to focus on. I only have so much time a week to actually watch television and with some shows not coming on till spring, I have now settled on a few shows that get DVR’s whether I get to see them the night they air or not. Sons of Anarchy, Fringe, Flash Forward, Stargate Universe, and now V, are on my weekly slate and it’s literally turning out to be a fabulous TV season. So many new ideas and shows that bring fresh faces and original idea, it can be hard to choose. But then again, there’s always Netflix.

Television's Seasons To Remember

For most, summer is the time when they flock to the theaters to see blockbuster films every weekend, but me, it’s when I catch up on the seasons of television shows I’ve missed over the past year. Some shows I’ve heard about and want to try out and others I just didn’t have the time to watch and thus put them in the Netflix queue and await their arrival. It’s not that I watch more TV in the summer ‘cause I probably watch less, but I do tend to stay up a little later night, especially if the episodes of a particular show are really good or a storyline has really grabbed me. Besides, we know that network television is either on hiatus or just bad and thus The Deadliest Catch is the only regularly scheduled summer show I watch. With that now over, I’ve got season one of Criminal Minds coming in the mail. I got a few episodes of this show in the past two years and thought I would give it an honest try from the beginning. I like the writing and intelligence of the show, but always found the time slot to be hard to watch and never was able to get into it. Given that AJ Cook is one of my favorite actresses, you’d think the opposite would be the case, but perhaps we’ll chalk that up to better late than never. Finally, I have to at least mention a show that I’ve long been a fan of and admittedly had pretty much given up on last year. The Dead Zone was a show I used to watch every Sunday night along with The 4400, but after five seasons, I grew increasingly tired of the show and was also saddened by the departure of one of the show’s main characters. Knowing that season five had really gone away from the original premise, I wasn’t expecting all that much from the sixth and final season, but decided to give it a shot anyway. I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised with the storylines, the production, and the acting. I truly thought that with the end of the show’s run already decided, that it would have been a poor production, but in 13 episodes they were able to tie up five years worth of loose ends and do it in a respectful way. This is a show that I am sad to see go, but am pleased that I took a final chance on.