I thought Tales from the Crypt was canceled years ago, but it appears to be back on. I never did like that show.
HBO did have two of my all-time favorites though: the ever-present in our DVD player Rome and our runner-up The Wire. We just finished watching The Wire's final season DVDs. It's sad it's all over but we'll always have Omar:
However, the best use we've found yet for a television outside of target practice in the Jungle Room is Wii Fit. We've had it for almost a month now and can really tell a difference. It's full of gaming hooks to keep bringing you back, only instead of gaming, you're exercising. Elvis could have used one of these.
Posted by floridacracker at August 29, 2008 12:06 AMWe are re-watching the Sopranos, and are on the last disc..so we are stretching it out, waiting for Lost to get found again.
That or 24.
Wii fit, huh..
I play Medal of Honor Spearhead for on hour each evening..unless some life changing event occurs, or the tea is boiling over.
I was ranked eighth in the world a couple of years ago..for whatever that is worth. I guess I just like killing cartoons.
Too bad all the good shows like Perry Mason are gone..We tried to watch Boston Legal, but I kept feeling more and more like a bigot everytime I watched it, and my wife started thinking all the people in her office were sluts, so we quit.
Posted by: csason at August 29, 2008 09:39 AMYeah, we got Wii Sports with the Wii platform and added Wii Fit from there. It's our big thing in the evening doing this stuff and everybody's dropping weight and getting in good shape.
We're so picky about TV. Right now we're going through the "Foyle's War" DVDs. It's a British detective show set during the early days of WWII. Very nicely done. Tons of nice touches, like someone being late for work because they'd forgotten where they'd hidden the distributor cap for the car (they disabled their cars daily against the German invasion).
I'm warming up to MAD MEN. It's very low energy, but the characters are basically likable and flawed, instead of basically unlikable and flawed, which seems to be the case in many shows I see. That and it seems more realistically, subtly acted.
Posted by: james at August 29, 2008 11:21 PM