I've been watching a lot of television shows over the last couple of years, and either some of them are getting better, or my tolerance for grap is, I'm not sure which.  You have to admit, they're coming up with some original and neat ideas at least.

These are some of my favorites.  If you haven't seen them I suggest you go you hulu.com and check them out at your leisure.

Life - Right now this is probably my favorite show on the air.  A police detective who served twelve years of a life sentence for a triple homicide is released after DNA evidence exonerates him.  He sues the city/police department after his release for an "undisclosed but at least seven figure sum", with the added stipulation that he be allowed to return to the force and resume his career as a detective (so he can also find out who in the police force framed him).  His style is odd, and he's fond of making strange observations and quoting Zen platitudes from a Zen philosophy book that he read while inside that kept him from going crazy.  Also, he has a strange affectation for fruit.  Sounds a little disjointed but it's actually really smooth, entertaining, and very well-written.

Life on Mars - An American knockoff of a british TV series about a NYC cop in 2008 who is hit by a car, falls into a coma, and wakes up in 1973 (the year I was born!) apparently a member of a police department in NYC there.  He sees strange things, hallucinations, visions, and whatnot, as well as meets his mother and himself as a boy in 1973, as well as other people from his past, and he's not sure if he's dead, in a coma dreaming all of this, or actually in 1973.  Neat show, that gets a little surreal at times, and has an AWESOME soundtrack.  One scene early on involving a police chase on-foot through the streets of 70's NYC while "Little Willy" by The Sweet played was just perfect.

Chuck - OK, this show is silly and unrealistic, but it's still a fun show and if you haven't given it a chance you're just a grump.  An underachieving geek and employee of the "Nerd Herd" at a "Buy More" store gets an E-mail from an old friend from the college he dropped out of that contains some special high-tech images called the "Intersect" that burn an entire CIA database into his brain, and since he is now the only copy of this information, he is forced to work with a hot CIA agent and a grumpy NSA agent (played by Jayne from Firefly) as they ridiculously encounter enemy spies and operatives while trying to hide Chuck's true identity as a helpless nerd.  I love the show, campy and silly as it is.

Pushing Daisies - God damnit, on looking up some info I find out Pushing Daisies has been cancelled.  Goddamnit ABC you fucks, you don't know something good when you've got it.

Well now I'm pissed off and don't want to do any more.  Any of you have any good shows to recommend?

LOST is pretty awesome.1

Yeah, I've gotten back into watching Lost again, thogh I've missed entire half-season when it got stupid.  They seem to be shaping up now, though and I loved the big plot twist at the end of tonight's episode, though I'm sure it's a dream sequence or something.

American Life on Mars is no where near as good as British Life on Mars.

It's not terrible, but its a knock off. The follow up to Life On Mars is a show called Ashes to Ashes, and its not bad.

I really dont watch much in the way of TV these days. Shows I'll watch I download... The Big Bang Theory, NCIS, Grand Designs, Dr Who... and that's about it.

I want to watch the british version, but I'm not into downloading entire TV series anymore, thanks to hulu.  I barely even download movies lately, I just wait for them to come on HBO.

Pushing Daisies - God damnit, on looking up some info I find out Pushing Daisies has been cancelled.  Goddamnit ABC you fucks, you don't know something good when you've got it.

you can get the DVD of the first season @ Target pretty cheap right now.  I recommend picking it up, since cancelled TV shows usally leave the shelves quickly.

I think this show, BTW, and picked up the DVDs recently. 

I loved it.  It's like if Walt Disney and David Lynch got together to make a TV show and got Tim Burton to direct it.  The wikipedia article says that ABC's going to air the last three unaired episodes sometime this summer, but that it still won't bring it to a conclusion.  Fuller's gonna finish that up with either a comic book or movie, apparently.

I gave up on cable after Deadwood and The Black Donnellys went down the tubes.

Life on Mars has been cancelled as well.

ideal - was on abc2 last year, no word on when its comming back.

the office
it's always sunny in philadelphia
LOST!@@!!!!!!@@!2
home movies

home movies is awwwwwesome.

I just go to Hulu.Com and catch up with things there ...

lost? you mean that show where they decided to just sell as many seasons as possible and make it all up as they go along and are going do dissappoint you all with some super shitty ending?

i hate that show.

i love every minute of it.
although i'm only through the second episode of season 2 as of today, so i can't speak for the rest of the series.

My "Lost" theory's always been that they're on the island of R'lyeh, because of all the Lovecraft references in the first season, and the reference to Ann Arbor in this last episode reminded me even more of something from Lovecraft.  I predict that by the end of this season we'll see the others dancing around a giant hole with tentacles coming out of it.

TV sucks and you're all a bunch of junkies.

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I was about to lose faith in Dollhouse, but last week's episode saved it for me, I think.  It was really good, and a bit of a mindfuck.  If they can put half of that into all the other episodes, it would be a decent show.

I don't get it. How can you spend time watching some crap, in the hope that it will become less crap eventually?

supernatural.

which i'm missing because i'm posting this stupid message. bbl.

I don't get it. How can you spend time watching some crap, in the hope that it will become less crap eventually?

Having faith in the producer for the good hows he's made before, and being a fan of the actress playing the main character.

I don't get it. How can you spend time watching some crap, in the hope that it will become less crap eventually?

Having faith in the producer for the good hows he's made before, and being a fan of the actress playing the main character.

thats almost my explaination for watching joss whedon productions.

I was about to lose faith in Dollhouse, but last week's episode saved it for me, I think.  It was really good, and a bit of a mindfuck.  If they can put half of that into all the other episodes, it would be a decent show.

Whedon has always been a bit of a slow-starter on his shows.  That's what happened to Firefly. 

supernatural.

which i'm missing because i'm posting this stupid message. bbl.

i think i love you.
i DVR it. 

along with (in this order of precedence):
Reaper
House
Pushing Daisies
Supernatural
Doctor Who
Bones
Scrubs
Heroes
Life on Mars
The Drew Carey Show
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Nova
Nature
The Rockford Files
Smallville
American Dad
The Spectacular Spider-man
Operation Petticoat
Jericho

I'll also watch "Biggest Loser" and "Dancing with the Stars" if they happen to be on. 

I can't watch anything on WB for some reason.  I've never seen anything at all worth watching on it, except for Buffy and Gilmore Girls, and they're both long gone.

muahahaha! i've gotten another one to join my ranks.

but srsly, i was with you til you got to biggest loser and dancing with the stars and i realized you're a closet fag.  =P

muahahaha! i've gotten another one to join my ranks.

but srsly, i was with you til you got to biggest loser and dancing with the stars and i realized you're a closet fag.  =P

nah.  i'm just a fattie. 

Early and late NFL on Sundays, SNF, MNF, ATH, PTI, Jeopardy, Cash Cab, Family Guy (although I'm a little over-saturated with FG right now, it's on every fucking channel), Top Gear, Kitchen Nightmares, The F Word...

And then there's a bunch of crap Amy watches that I sort of watch by proxy. Golden Girls, Frasier, and Will & Grace (Lifetime morning block! Yay!) and all that stupid fucking crap on VH1 or MTV, the whatevers of loves. Ugh. Oh and ANTM. Ugh again.

Man, reading that list again is just painful. She makes up for her terrible taste in TV shows by being as super into football as I am, though. Our TV viewing is far superior between September and February.

>>supernatural.

which i'm missing because i'm posting this stupid message. bbl.<<

Supernatural is one of the few I still watch. I watch Lost whenever I catch it but don't make a point of it.
I watch House occasionally but the episodes all seem the same and I liked the main character better before I heard him speak in his real voice.

I'm going to get one of those HDTV dongles for the lap top in a couple weeks. Might watch more TV then.
I've had Comcast basic cable for several years now and still have not connected that shit to my TV.
They force you to take basic TV before you can get their hs internet. I've also had one of those DTV converter boxes for several months and it's still in it's box. There is more digital content on the air than there is on basic cable.

Once I get the dongle I may never turn the regular TV on again.

I watch House occasionally but the episodes all seem the same and I liked the main character better before I heard him speak in his real voice.

I liiked him ever more after hearing his native accent.  It showed what a good actor he is.