Show’s I’m thinking about watching

Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Jeremy.
Categories: Blog, Entertainment, Reviews, You're Watching Now.

Remember when you were a kid… Wait, strike that. If you happen to be near, or a little over 30, remember when you were a kid and there were only SO MANY shows that were on the air? We all seemed to have seen the same episodes of Brady Bunch or Gilligan’s Island, not to mention the social connectedness that came from the shared experience that was Saturday Morning Cartoons.

“Did you see “Tiger Sharks”? Dude that was Rad!”

And of course they had, because there was a limited quantity of shows to watch and we all were kind of on a unified front when it came to pop culture references.

(P.S. - I remembered when the cartoon’s would transition to live action shows and I’d dread it because OH man that meant it was time to do my Mom’s assigned slave like chores)

Now we’ve got whole channels dedicated to Cartoons. Those references that we spouted from our youth fall on the deaf ears of the new video-on-demand generation. No longer does anyone understand the profundity of the debate on who is hotter, Ginger or Mary-Anne (leave your vote below).

It was a charmed time.

Now…now there is SO much to watch and you have to pick and choose, and not even I, the man who’s seen more than you (that’s my Native American name) can’t watch it all. So Below, the list of shows I wonder about renting and watching and if they are any good at all.

Beauty and the Beast - the fairy tale updated with Hellboy (Ron Perlman) and Sarah Connor (linda Hamilton), taking place in Los Angeles. It all looks very EMO to me but I’ve heard some people swear by it.

Total Recall 2070 - TV.com says “Detective David Hume and his android partner Ian Farve investigate crimes in the year 2070″….soooo it has nothing to do with the Ahnuld flick that kicked major sci fi buttocks??? Hmmm maybe I don’t care about this one. Moving on.

Star Trek Deep Space Nine - I know I know, how could I have not seen this? No clue. I have seen some of the first season and then I disappeared to the andes for my extensive Ninja training. I’ve been told by trekkie and non trekkie alike that the show is Amazing going from action to political intrigue seamlessly. I really need to see this.

Dead Zone - based on the coolio movie starring the weird Christopher Walken, but now replaced by 80’s geek Anthony Michael Hall. So essentially he can see the life of people he touches. He’s psychic…conflict ensues. Hmmm

Red Dwarf - why? Cuz it looks freakin weird. It sounds like it’s about a dude that wakes up on a ship thousands of years later with his cat who has evolved into a humanoid like cat. See!? I told you that sounded weird.

Andromeda - Sci fi syndicated show starring hercules (how he got into space I’ll never know). But it went on for a few years so that has to be an indicator of some type of “good” right? (at this point you are going to point out that Charmed went on for 8 years…and I HAVE SEEN EVERY AWFUL EPISODE!)

The Sentinel. - “In the jungles of Peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice.”" Never saw it, but a guy with heightened senses, that’s cool right? A lightweight Wolverine maybe?

Dark Shadows - Whispered with awe by some of my Geek Elders. What the crack is it? It’s a Dracula soap opera?! Ooohh it supposedly has a bunch of other monsters too…this was a daytime soap opera, really?

Robobcop the Tv Series - Another series based off a great Paul Verhoeven movie (see Total Recall 2070). Robocop was one of those “life changing” viewing experience. I don’t think I had ever been subjected to so much overt violence before in my young life until Ed 209 went nuts and blew apart the corporate extra (good times good times). So a show with the cyborg cop, complete with automatic pistol. Sounds good to me!

4400 - It was on for…I think 2 seasons. About people that had been abducted by UFO’s and have come back to earth ooooooHhhhhhh Is Mulder and Scully in it?

Outer Limits - Like the Twilight Zone but not as good. Never seen any of them, but curious because of the insanely good quality of the Twilight Zone, a lesser version still has to be pretty amazing.

So those are some of the shows I’m thinking of diving into. Any of them you’ve seen? And if so, any of them you recommend me watching?

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