Good Television

Since the second half of September's kicking in, I finally get to have some shows I look forward to seeing every week. Summer really doesn't have any good shows... like at all, unless they're reruns. But there is hope, Whoville!!

The Office has got to be, without a doubt, the funniest show I've ever seen. Family Guy can't even trump it... well... most of the time. It's just one of those shows that everybody can appreciate, that has the perfect balance of believable and contrived situations, characters and lines, and it just plain brightens up my Thursdays. Plus, it doesn't rely on obscene or inappropriate jokes to land an audience of sustained viewers. You've just gotta love The Office (although, from experience, people that actually work in offices find it much less entertaining than those people who don't work in offices do).

Fringe is probably tied for my favorite show, coincidentally showing on Thursday too. It's a sci-fi, mystery kind of show that has gotten better and better with each consecutive episode that they make. Even though the first episode of the new season was an exception, I had yet to be able to predict ANY of the plot twists, even though they were all legitimate and not outlandish. It kept me guessing, fascinated, and excited for an entire season - which, to me, is the concrete definition of GOOD TELEVISION.

Heroes, on the other hand, has gone down the drain, and I mean FAST. It's this show about people that gain super powers after a solar eclipse with a lot of other hard-to-explain, hard-to-give-justice plot turns and stuff. In any case, though, starting from the second season, I found a lot of their main conflicts to fall back onto the same premise, and ultimately get really, really boring. This is what is called NOT GOOD TELEVISION. Note the differences.

In any case, I'm extremely excited for the Fall TV stuff goin' on, and am AMAZINGLY excited for the Lost Season Premiere in 2010. Speaking of series being good and bad, that show went from Good, to REALLY GOOD, to pretty bad, then back to Good, then to Better. I'm just plain excited, because that season finale had to be the most cliffhanger of an ending like ever.