All three seasons of Kingdom are on Hulu. You will watch them all, now.

I hope to write something as good as this exchange someday.

“How is she?”

“In and out on a morphine drip. They got her stabilized is all I know. Go on in.”

“No.”

“Unfreeze your ass off that wall, then. Either pay your respects, or get your head back into this case.”

“Fuck this case.”

“Fuck it? Now you’re just gonna, what, call off your little crusade?”

“Is that what you think it was? A crusade? Avon Barksdale was a way to show everyone how smart I was… and how fucked up the department is, that’s all. Just put Jimmy McNulty up on your shoulders, march him around the room, break out the keg. It was never about Avon Barksdale, Lieutenant. It was all about me.”

“You think I didn’t know that? You think we all didn’t know? Listen, this case is gonna move forward with you or without you.”

“This case got her shot. I put a battery up her ass and got her thinking this case meant something. And you know what? Burrell and Rawls and them, they were right. This case means exactly shit.”

“I know it meant damn near nothing to me when you came in beating the drum. But now we got that woman in there, that good police, breathing through a fucking tube, because it meant something to her. And the shooters who dropped Kima? They’re still in the wind. And whoever sent those motherfuckers into that alley, he needs to get got, too. So you can stand there, dripping with liquor-smell and self-pity if you got a mind to, but this case… it means something. Now.”

The Wire, of course.

You absolutely should. It’s the best show, period. Just make sure you wear your thinking cap and there aren’t any children present when you watch.

Oh, you have to watch The Wire in order, or it won’t make any sense. It’s not a “one case per episode” sort of police show. It’s actually closer to a “one case per season” model, since at least in the main police storylines, they’re targeting individual kingpins and their respective organizations and trying to build cases against them, rather than having some specific crime and trying to figure out whodunnit.

Just tell your parents you’re mature enough to handle it, you won’t emulate any of the behavior depicted in the show, and the show itself is a work of art.

Finished watching Justified. It was bad ass. Timothy Olyphant is the man.

Yeah. It has more in common with Dickens/Dostoevsky/Balzac than it does with… random TV show maker’s work.

It was indeed. I missed the first half and just saw the conclusion due to Peep Show on Youtube, though, which I doubt is what you’re supposed to do with these suspenseful detective dramas.

Christine is yelling at me to watch it.

Decided to check out that new Scooby Doo series. Velma and Shaggy being a couple is just weird.

But on the plus side, there’s a season arc.

It could be worse.

Daphne and Shaggy.

Shudder

They were bros, gatdammit. They weren’t gay.

@SWQ

It’s Lady Gaga, surprisingly normal-looking for once, except for the bow-hair.

...please tell me I’m not the only one who finds the bow-hair completely awesome?

@Puppet: You’re watching Lie to Me?

BRILLIANT SHOW MATE

Obviously, I’m also a fan of Lie to Me.

@swenson: I like the bow-hair. It’s cool. How she manages to do that is what I want to know.

Yeah, it’s a pretty solid show. Some of the stuff they say is just completely fake, but overall it’s pretty good.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure nobody has enough real hair to make a bow like that and still have some left over.

I got to see some Doctor Who reruns on vaction. (the house had digital cable). Sadly, I’d seen them all save one. That made me sad.

But still, I love that show.

I’ve been watching Mongrels on BBC3 over the last few weeks. Who knew that an ‘adult’ sitcom using animal puppets could be so entertaining?

I love how they have a song in each episode, and the jibes at other shows. The fleas and their spouting of annoying catchphrases, for instance.

I did :D

Mock the Week is the other non-Friday comedy show I always watch.

Sigh, I miss Buffy. Truly the 90s and early millenium were excellent for geek shows.

Every time I listen to a piece of music from the final episode, I still get shivers down my spine. Brilliant, excellent, wonderful, wonderful series.

WHY DIDN’T I BUY THE DVDS, DAMMIT?!

e: SWQ, I also recommend Charmed for you. It’s not as good as Buffy, but it’s pure crack-y goodness.

Yeah, I wasn’t recommending you watch it right now. XD

Yeah, I wasn’t recommending you watch it right now. XD

I watch way too much TV.

Did you ever get the go-ahead to watch The Wire from your folks?

I’m going to request the first season from my library, and they want to watch the first episode with me, just to see what they’re getting into. Which is okay by me, my parents are pretty liberal in most respects.

I can handle it. I think. Yeah.

It made me sad when they messed around with the cast in the later seasons.

But I do so love Leo. Teeheehee. <3

Plus Cole is pretty effing awesome.

She has good taste. :D

Another favourite, for too short a time, was Coop. Eeeee, so adorable.

Oh, just include every character ever, Charmed was only for pretty people. Which is just fine with me, sometimes you need fun eye candy. 8D

NO.

It’s not like it could get any worse. Zing!

Actually, I’m entirely unbothered, with Jane Espenson on board, I can only expect good things.

I suddenly started watching Chuck, and I really love it so far. It’s hilarious! It’s ridiculous and over-the-top, but of course that’s the point. Also, it has Adam Baldwin in it, which automatically makes it 24% more awesome. (if it had Nathan Fillion in it, on the other hand, it would be 74% more awesome.)

Thank the TV gods!

Now that I think about it, it was frustrating how many of his deductions were based on information unavailable to the general audience. He also took a long time to get around to information that was available to the viewer. Not that this reduces my immense admiration for the programme; it was just different to what I was at first expecting.

Definitely just in your opinion. Chuck stays forever awesome. Well even if it does go a bit downhill, its still above average. Still entertaining and interesting and funny enough so there’s nothing to really complain about. I liked the progress of the story and how Chuck evolved as a spy and the intersect. And whenever a series has a “will they wont they” between 2 characters I want to just ****ing get together already I have to see the show through till the end to see them finally together. I am looking really forward to season 4.

I’m waiting till around the end of September for all the good shows. Dexter, How I Met Your Mother, Supernatural, Chuck and The Big Bang Theory. I think thats all the ones I care about (EDIT: Oh and 30 Rock (double edit: Community. Best new comedy ever)). Weird how all the good shows were at the start of the year, then they all ended with nothing good to take their places (well there was Futurama but thats been a bit of a disappointment, and I guess there’s Trueblood) and in September all the good things start again. Why dont they space out the goodness more?

Isnt the ring defeated now though? And I thought the first 1 or 2 seasons (cant remember) did have a different villain and it was only in 3 that had The Ring. Eh I dont care either way.

Yeah, I guess you could say Chuck is still the same. I just don’t fell motivated to watch it like I used to.

I might get that from the library if they have it.

And I decided to start re-watching Firefly. For a show where the culture’s supposed to be somewhat influenced by Chinese, it’s weird how there isn’t a single Asian character on it.

They were going to cast River and Simon Tam as Asian, but then Whedon cast Summer Glau as River, so they both had to be white.

Still, one thing I wondered was, couldn’t they just tape River’s eyes or something and say she was a white Asian b/c of gene mix, and therefore cast Simon as full Asian?

(Then again, the white thing meant that Sean Maher got cast, so I’m not complaining very much at all.)

Yeah, I’m not sure if that’d work out very well…

Because I feel like I need to shill for The Wire some more, here’s one of my favorite scenes somebody put on the youtube.

Warning: Language

I almost posted the chess scene instead, or the one in episode 2 where McNulty and Bunk go talk to D’Angelo and Bodie in the Pit(“Just you, me, my partner, and Mr. Shit here.”) The chess scene only gets more brilliant the further you get into the show.

At any rate, if you think it’s good now, you’re still wading in the show’s shallows. Most of the show’s best characters haven’t even appeared yet(although my favorite has already[Bodie]).

Just don’t expect it to have any crazy Dexter-esque finales where all the threads come together in a neat package. The show’s too committed to realism, and all resolutions are jagged.

Being Human is so awesome. It just is.

Plus, tomorrow, I’m catching up on Doctor Who. I’ve got four episodes to watch.

I’m enjoying British television. They have really good promos for the network too, I’ve noticed.

Werewolf, vampire, and ghost live together. Hilarity ensues.

It’s written by that guy who wrote the DW episode where the Doctor and Sarah Jane fought Giles.

The scene Lord Snow was talking about(language warning).

Also, maybe the best youtube comment I’ve ever seen is for that clip:

“Selling dope and wholesale murder is one thing, but playing checkers on a chess set deeply offended D’Angelo’s sense of propriety.”

That scene was great. I like how he used street slang to explain everything.

It’s like ASoIaF

And I need to read that too. I’m so very behind. :(

Eh, it didn’t mentally scar me or anything. But then again, that’s me.

Yeah, although there are whores, rape, violence, language, incest, etc. in A Song of Ice and Fire, I didn’t lose any sleep over it like I did over some other books.

Yeah, although there are whores, rape, violence, language, incest, etc. in A Song of Ice and Fire, I didn’t lose any sleep over it like I did over some other books.

Me either. I’ve never been particularly bothered by bad language, though.

It was good.

The first season is by far the best, and the second is very good as well. After that, it loses a bit of its charm.