Anyone remember when this was a 'daily' thing?
Nah, me neither.
Hopefully the Writer's Strike will be over soon, as I believe both parties have agreed to go back into talks after Thanksgiving weekend(that's this weekend, English folks). Still, I've been coping and preparing for the loss of my favourite shows by watching series that I've never had the time for before. Which ones you ask? Well, here goes.
As mentioned in my Twitter and Facebook Status feeds, I'm watching 'Battlestar Galactica'. It's an odd choice, because although I am a geek, I'm not a nerd - and BSG is for nerds. People who like Star Trek, Farscape, Andromeda. I'm not really a fan of the genre, but this show has really gripped me. It's compelling, suspenseful, it's got a lot of hot actresses in revealing garb, and there's a distinct plan to it - unlike 'Lost' I feel like this show has a definite ending, and each episode is slowly building to it.
In the "guilty pleasure" section is 'Gossip Girl'. It's trashy teen-chick-lit TV about Upper-East-Manhattan dwelling rich kids, but in a world where 'The OC' has been cancelled, this is the next best thing. Plus it's got Veronica Mars doing the voiceover(because Kristen Bell rocks at V.O) and Blake Lively(of 'Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants') in a starring role. I need my fix of adolescents coming to grips with the world, okay?
I own the entire fourth season of 'Futurama' but have never really been a fan. I rectified that a few days ago by downloading a few random episodes and finding my tastes have matured to where I can appreciate it's often subtle humour. Now I'm watching it all from the start(pacing myself, there's only so much) and having a great time. Bender mournfully saying "A robot would have to be crazy to wanna be a folk singer" caught me completely off-guard in the second episode and gave me one of my biggest laughs in weeks.
I'm also delving into some audio stuff. I listened to all of Armando Iannucci's Radio 1 shows from 1993-4 and now I'm finding it hard to resist stealing stuff for The Luke Gray Show. Some really out-there, hilarious stuff.
'The Sound of Young America' and other Maximum Fun podcasts are flling the hole that Garrett Murray has left(since the Maniacal Rage podcast is taking so long to update) with insightful interviews and witty banter. It was very, very hard to resist stealing the "friends with Batman vs. best-selling author" 'would you rather' conversation for my own show.
That's nowhere near everything I've consumed in the past few weeks, but I'll leave it there for now. Part Two coming soon?