TiVo (or the more generic DVR) is one of those technologies that changes your lifestyle. Like the first time you used a cable modem at home, or bought music online for your mp3 player. TiVo allows me to lock on to a few shows and watch them during my downtimes of late evening and weekends. A surprising number of them are basic cable summer shows.
Top Tier:
- Leverage – A-team for the 21st Century. All the archetypes are there, the thief, the techie, the grifter, the muscle, and the brain. But it’s done with good characters and style. Highly recommended, get the first season if you can.
- Burn Notice – Come for the Bruce Campbell, stay for the practical spycraft lessons in voiceover.
Runners Up:
- In Plain Sight – The WITSEC background injects wide variety in police procedural parts, and the lead really has some daddy issues.
- Royal Pains – Could be a good show, too early to tell.
- The Closer – Another quirky cast in a police procedural, but hey I like the crew and the humor.
At the Back:
- Entourage – Sex and the City for guys but not enough has happened in the last few seasons to keep me caring.
- True Blood – Vampires aren’t my thing, but the wife loves ‘em so I’ll keep watching.
I’ve been meaning to check out Leverage. It looks very interesting.
Also, True Blood b/c vampires ARE my thing.
My list includes Friday Night Lights, Scrubs, Castle (yay Fillion) and Brothers and Sisters (b/c the girlfriend loves it).
Heroes is still in the running, but it’s future is unclear.
I feel like I missed a memo somewhere, because I can’t get into the vampires-are-sexy-and-cool thing, either. Nor werewolves or serial killers or any other monster-thing that suddenly found its humanity and now hot damn bow-chikka-bow-bow.
Ew.
Chris keeps trying to get me to watch DVDs of TV shows with him, but so far all I’ve agreed to watch lately was Walking With Dinosaurs and a couple episodes of Father Ted.
I second ‘Castle’. I also really like ‘The Unusuals’, but apparently no one else did. It’s been canceled.