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Day 3: Favorite TV show
Dec. 5th, 2009 04:50 pmIt's Monty Python's Flying Circus. But this one's so old, it's deader than their dead parrot sketch.
So it kind of doesn't count. I think my favorite TV show in the last decade is probably Wonderfalls. It had such a short run and so much promise that it ended before it needed to deliver and before it could get bad. I loved other shows more but when those got bad, they got bad.
The one that's currently on... Doctor Who. I like Being Human and Dexter but Being Human's production is just kind of distractingly shoddy and Dexter even when it's excellent (like right now) never fully works its premise. It always flinches away. Take that "innocent" guy who Dexter killed this season. He just happened to be a rapist who only got away because he paid the victim of. How convenient.
Now Doctor Who can be a terribly show. But it fully embraces what it is. Unlike True Blood (which would be excellent if it fully embraced its crackaliciousness instead of wasting 2 and half storylines each season on earnest, attempted "good" tv and falling embarrassingly short), it fully embraces its rubber monsters, stupid premise and inevitable running sequence. It's what it is and out of its cheese it can come up with moments of genuine emotion. But it usually finds its way back to the cheese.
And here's the really funny thing about it. It can be wildly entertaining tv. During Waters of Mars I think I looked away from the screen exactly three times. Hard to think of another show that can capture my attention this well.
So it kind of doesn't count. I think my favorite TV show in the last decade is probably Wonderfalls. It had such a short run and so much promise that it ended before it needed to deliver and before it could get bad. I loved other shows more but when those got bad, they got bad.
The one that's currently on... Doctor Who. I like Being Human and Dexter but Being Human's production is just kind of distractingly shoddy and Dexter even when it's excellent (like right now) never fully works its premise. It always flinches away. Take that "innocent" guy who Dexter killed this season. He just happened to be a rapist who only got away because he paid the victim of. How convenient.
Now Doctor Who can be a terribly show. But it fully embraces what it is. Unlike True Blood (which would be excellent if it fully embraced its crackaliciousness instead of wasting 2 and half storylines each season on earnest, attempted "good" tv and falling embarrassingly short), it fully embraces its rubber monsters, stupid premise and inevitable running sequence. It's what it is and out of its cheese it can come up with moments of genuine emotion. But it usually finds its way back to the cheese.
And here's the really funny thing about it. It can be wildly entertaining tv. During Waters of Mars I think I looked away from the screen exactly three times. Hard to think of another show that can capture my attention this well.