Out With the Good - In With the Good
It’s Tuesday, October 28th and I feel like I’m in TV limbo. Several weeks ago while talking with some friends I proclaimed, “This is the best time of the year for TV.” I said this, of course, because of the following [listed in no particular order]:
- The Rays are in a Championship run
- It’s both NCAA and NFL season
- The Olympics were wrapping up
- The Lightning were preparing for a breakout season
- Mad Men Season 2 was off and running
- The Office was back
- Entourage was picking up
- It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia was funnier than ever
I was on top of the world! Every night I would have something to come home to and watch on the DVR (which saved my life being that the Rays have been playing almost nightly). Football weekends. Great sitcom weeknights. It was a good time to have cable TV.
It’s Tuesday, October 28th and I feel like I’m in TV limbo. I finished up the season finale of Mad Men last night and as I expected, it was amazing, too amazing. How am I supposed to deal with the suspense and the wait until next season? As if this wasn’t enough to leave me a little distraught, I started analyzing the other programing that I had been so excited about:
- The Rays were [are] 1 game from World Series elimination
- My NCAA/NFL teams are flopping
- Olympics are 3.5+ years away
- The Lightning are still preparing for a breakout season, getting only 1 win in 7 games
- Mad Men Season 2 was over and done
- The Office was back, but dwindling
- Entourage was not meeting expectations
- It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia stopped running hour-long shows
With such a negative turn of events, I started scrambling to figure out how to fill up those free hours I devoted to watching my beloved TV programing. What are M24-35 watching these days? I realized that if worst came to worst I could go on another on my DVD binges. If you aren’t familiar, these are when I decide to take up a new show, buy the DVD of every season available, and watch them back-to-back incessantly. This is how I caught up on season 1 of Mad Men in about 2 weeks! Then I took a deep breath and thought about the future…
It’s Tuesday, October 28th and I feel like I’m in TV limbo. I looked to the future in order to avoid another one of my DVD benders. I was able to come up with the following remedy [listed in no particular order]:
- NCAA Bowl Season + Super Bowl is coming up….
- NBA season is heating up, and I’ve actually been getting more and more into it lately
- Mad Men Season 3 has not been purchased yet, hopefully somebody fronts the money soon
- The Office is still funny, at least the actors are getting movie roles now
- Entourage may have made a season-saving turn this past Sunday
- It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is still the funniest show on TV
- AND 30 Rock premiers this week, making Thursday the best night of the week for TV across the board*
*This is pretty much non-debatable: The Office, 30 Rock, Always Sunny. Don’t worry everybody else, I haven’t forgotten your shows: Grey’s Anatomy, Survivor, Life on Mars, and if anyone still watches them, there’s: ER and Ugly Betty.
In the end, there is still hope. TV still has some lures to keep me from going back to those commercial-less DVD binges. I’ll just be sure to pray every Sunday at 10pm for someone to buy Mad Men Season 3 (you know, the Emmy Award winning Best Drama series? C’mon networks!!).
