I don’t normally watch television staples i.e. the soaps and the sitcoms. Each episode turns up with clockwork precision on the appointed day and having to remember this is a little beyond me. The DVDs require too much time committment. Yet in the past few months I have broken the rule, for not one but four serials.
First, The Flight of the Conchords which combines lacklustre moments with genuinely funny ones. And of course there are the songs. And I can never get enough of Mel and Murray.
Second, Mad Men which proceeds at a glacial pace yet remains absolutely riveting on all levels. And while I am not off to get a Mad Men avatar, I have read all the reviews on Season 3 (even though we have yet to see Season 2 here). And I am quite sure a lot of people will now be reading Meditations in an Emergency.
Third and this I should not admit, Packed to the Rafters. Like every Australian soap around it is set in the suburbs, it is faintly daggy and plays on familiar themes. I have never watched the rest. Inexplicably I find myself drawn to the Rafters every Tuesday.
And fourth I have been lent all episodes of The Wire and been told it is a must watch.
That’s more telly in the past few months than in all my years here.
First, The Flight of the Conchords which combines lacklustre moments with genuinely funny ones. And of course there are the songs. And I can never get enough of Mel and Murray.
Second, Mad Men which proceeds at a glacial pace yet remains absolutely riveting on all levels. And while I am not off to get a Mad Men avatar, I have read all the reviews on Season 3 (even though we have yet to see Season 2 here). And I am quite sure a lot of people will now be reading Meditations in an Emergency.
Third and this I should not admit, Packed to the Rafters. Like every Australian soap around it is set in the suburbs, it is faintly daggy and plays on familiar themes. I have never watched the rest. Inexplicably I find myself drawn to the Rafters every Tuesday.
And fourth I have been lent all episodes of The Wire and been told it is a must watch.
That’s more telly in the past few months than in all my years here.
Hi Anu,
ReplyDeleteI might have to try watching the wire, I keep hearing good things about it.
Right now I'm enjoying True Blood, a wonderfully cheesy vampire drama, set in the creepy deep south.
hope you are well~anisa