Remember when I was saying that I ought to watch more TV? I believe that forgot about the “addictive personality” problem.
I’m starting to get genuinely hooked on Cold Case—to the point that I have informed my husband I shall probably “make” him watch 1-2 of them, just as I once handed him a single Lord Peter mystery, and like I sit him down rather apologetically every week or so to see what I’ve added to my FarmVille farm.
But here is the real issue with Cold Case: my favorite bootleg TV site only has one season’s worth of them (and that isn’t even complete; Channel 131 is missing “The Runaway Bunny” from the current season, for instance). And because of the variety and semi-unattainability of the music they use on that show, it is unlikely that it will ever appear on DVD (or if it does, it will be severely mutilated).
So if I want to see episodes from previous seasons (and I do), I have to find them as reruns on TNT in the afternoons. I suppose I could record them on the DVR, but I don’t know how to download them onto my computer from there.
This means that there is a portion of my TV viewing that 1) happens on someone else’s schedule, and 2) has to be done on the actual television, which is across the room—over by the Husbandly Reading Nook. The short-term implications is that I periodically commandeer his recliner. Long-term, I’ll probably have to rearrange the furniture.
This is not my favorite episode, exactly—because it’s a lot fluffier than a lot of the others, it’s structurally atypical, and it looks into events that are too recent, compared to some of more badass installments. But it did get me to transfer my default crushes from the two principal detectives to the stocky black guy and (especially) the chubby alcoholic character. I’ve only seen it three times; that’s not excessive, is it?
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Back in the 1990s, when A&E was re-running the old, good episodes of Law & Order at 8:00 on weeknights (the ones with the Michael Moriarty character, which really made that show), I had a huge incentive not to work too late at Petersen Publishing: I used to screech up to the old Glendale house, fix myself a quick supper involving peanut butter, and have my ass in my regular “viewing post” before the “duh-dung” sounded at the beginning of each episode.
I had it down to an art.
Next time I blog that I really need more exposure to the types of activities people engage in compulsively, would someone please clear their throats very loudly?
It will, of course, make no difference whatsoever. But you will have done your part.
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And have you noticed that the Law and Order franchise seems to have been taken over this season by Obamatron propagandists. It’s finally over for that old warhorse of a franchise.
Speaking of your Television Jones, have you caught up on Barnaby yet?
My favorite show of recent time was BBC’s MI5. Too bad they exhausted all the scripts that were not too incendiary or actually revealing but they really did go after terrorists of the “I” origin. Kojack was the original law and order, 1 hr of cops unwinding heinous crime with unorthodox methods and use of the tootsie-roll intimidator! Ahh the good old days.
I prefer military channel now, as they have very little politcal slant where Nazis are always the bad guys thank God, and the good guys win.
BTW, you going to DC next week?
“Law and Order” went full leftard years ago.
“Cold Case” is the most politically slanted of the Bruckheimer fare–look at the cases, the victims and the murderers. Maybe that’s why they picked it to run after “60 Minutes.” I see it as maintaining his Hollywood cred. CSI is the best of his stable, with CSI-NY second.
I took a look at Channel 131 (after 15 years of avoiding commercial TV completely, my son-in-law managed to get me and my wife hooked on Chuck, so I have to do something to watch it that doesn’t involve the airwaves) and I can’t see any ability to download episodes to my computer. In fact, google gave me the old “this site may hurt your computer” routine when I tried to go to where I could ostensibly watch the episode. What is up with that? How do you get the whole Channel 131 to work?