24--I love 24. It's so exciting, and all of the seasons just run together for me so I'm not entirely sure what's going on this year....but I'm sure Jack will fix it and be the tragic hero once more. (A couple of seasons ago, the plotline was about Muslims trying to destroy the USA. At least once during every episode, Kiefer would appear in a Very Special PSA and explain that although the Muslim neighbors in the show were trying to kill everyone, our Muslim neighbors were probably very friendly. This season is also about Islamic terrorists, but so far, no PSAs. Should I be reading something into this?) The show requires quite a lot of "willful suspension of disbelief," but it's still good. Basically, if the show involved Kiefer Sutherland working on the computer for an entire hour, it'd still be worth watching.
Veronica Mars--Although I think the show has gone downhill this year, I still love the characters. (And how adorable is Jason Dohring?) Apparently, the show is going on hiatus--again-- and after that, episodes will be more self-contained so as not to confuse the viewers. Yeah, 'cause Alias did that, and it worked so well! (note implied sarcasm) Ah, well. We'll always have the DVDs with the long-running investigations of Lilly's murder and the bus crash!
Lost--Okay, after the second polar bear attack (on the warm, tropical ISLAND!), I pretty much gave up any hope that this show had an overarching plot. However, the writer that crafted last week's episode has spent too much time watching What The Bleep Do We Know and not enough time watching the actual series of Lost. Yeah, yeah...Desmond can sit by the fire and contemplate quantum physics, destiny and free will all he wants, but let us get back to sex on the beach...er...I mean, that intriguing plotline involving Kate and Sawyer.
House--I love this show because it runs against the grain of how we expect doctors to think and act. I love House's cynicism and sense of humor. I love that he is totally non-PC. Hugh Laurie is brilliant and deserves all of his awards. I'm not entirely sure of the possible House/Cuddy subplot, but they do challenge one another so it's plausible. I'm completely opposed to the Cameron/Chase thing, especially with Cameron's explanation that she'd be less likely to fall for Chase than anyone else. And that would be because....? That makes no sense, and isn't she supposed to hate Foreman? Whatever. In real life (which this is not), I think that Cameron/House would have the most long-term potential because House is completely narcissistic, and Cameron is co-dependent. They'd nicely feed into the other's pathology. Of course, probably the most popular pairing in fandom is House/Wilson...and that would work similarly.
Grey's Anatomy--I watch this sporadically, but it gets more interesting every time they kill off important people. Of course, I don't know if anyone important died last week because my VCR stopped taping before the end of the show. But at any rate, even the possibility was fun. My favorite character is probably Izzie. I can't stand Christina and dislike Preston Burke almost as much (so if Isaiah Washington never gets out of rehab for his homophobia, I'll be okay with that). I'm somewhat ambivalent toward most of the other characters, though I've come to like Addison a lot more (though not her taste in men!).
Whatcha watchin'?
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I had just caught up on season 5 of 24 and had tivo'd the beginning of season 6 and there were some hardcore torture scenes. R. hates torture scenes. I decided for the time being to wait on these. I felt bad watching them and didn't want to watch them in "secret"...anyway Veronica has gone down hill and I'm thinking of deleting it off my list of dvr'd shows. Have you watched Psych or Monk?
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