Day 01 - A show that should never have been cancelled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching

Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death


There's not much to say here. Haven't really started watching anything lately. The only two new additions to my TV watching habits are Onion SportsDome -- on which the jury is most assuredly out -- and The Walking Dead, with which I'm quite content.

That a Walking Dead series ever materialized -- at all -- still astonishes me. That it's very good boggles my mind. That it's also popular...just doesn't make sense to me. But I choose not to question circumstance in this instance. Yes, all we have so far are six first-season episodes, but in that time we have a willingness to break from the original comic's plot while still teasing the faithful reader with plot threads of certain agony and, more impressively, a willingness to make a not-watered-down depiction of a zombie apocalypse -- undead children being shot in the head, a bisected bike owner still reaching for the bike she's not going to ride again, noticing that the corpse being dismembered so that the protagonists can coat themselves in his entrails to camouflage themselves to the zombie horde is an organ donor.... This is TV for people who thought Battlestar Galactica was not depressing enough (and like BSG, while I understand totally someone not being able to watch the show, I still think they're missin' out).

It's not perfect -- the obligatory redneck racists' presence is obnoxious, the Lifetime-movie-of-the-week playing out amongst the survivors at least takes an interesting turn, and Shane drifts from being interesting point of conflict to just south of Snidely Whiplash in terms of mustache-twirling -- but it's compelling TV. Much more so than the rest of the 2010 new TV schedule combined.

Tomorrow, my favorite series of all time. It's a Sherlock-Holmes pastiche about a socially-maladjusted genius who uses deductive reasoning to make uncanny logical inferences while avoiding doing his job. And no, not that one.

From: [identity profile] missmiah.livejournal.com


I love The Walking Dead. It was the only time Captain and I sat down together and watched something faithfully each week. Well, almost each week, he left before the season finale, but I should have it on DVD before he comes back and we can watch the last episode together.

As for tomorrow's series... Can it be? I've got my fingers crossed that the series I'm thinking of is the one you're going to talk about it, because it is one of my all time favorites, ever.

From: [identity profile] manekikoneko.livejournal.com


I have no idea what tomorrow's might be, I'm very excited.

I had to go back and look at my 'best of' entries from last month to remember which shows I liked fell into this category, which speaks to the quality of this past season. And then all I came up with, produced stateside, was The Walking Dead, Boardwalk Empire, and Treme, which aired in the summer (which are both very good).

(My actual 'best new series of 2010' was the 21st C Sherlock reboot from the BBC.)


From: [identity profile] sigma7.livejournal.com


The Walking Dead was the only one of those that actually presented itself to my TV set unabated -- if it'd been on a pay channel, I might not have even watched it. I've heard good things about the other series, but not enough to overcome my "If I can't just set Sherlock [the computer] to record it I don't want it" inertia. Few things do, anymore. "A Christmas Carol" was one of the few exceptions.

From: [identity profile] manekikoneko.livejournal.com


I discovered we had HBO - via the fact that we were stealing out neighbor's cable, which she was getting from... who knows - about two weeks before the cable company finally went around cracking down on all the illegal cable in town. Then she decided to get cable legally (she knew we tapped into hers, that was okay), but after another week or so, she decided she didn't want the premium channels.

I also occasionally watched it at my office, where a previous owner/manager had acquired it, illegally, in order to watch football and news, and when the new owners discovered they had free cable coming in, they decided to put a TV in the lobby.

But mostly I just DL stuff.

From: [identity profile] manekikoneko.livejournal.com


If you haven't seen Sherlock, that one is worth looking up (it was on PBS here).

From: [identity profile] beagle1971.livejournal.com


Wow, I'd forgotten just how bleak the 2010 new TV landscape was, kind of like Atlanta after a zombie outbreak.

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