Troubled Mind
May 19th, 2008
Can we talk about bad TV for a second? Admittedly, since the writer’s strike, I’ve picked up on a mere fraction of the shows I used to watch, with The Office and Lost being the only shows I kept watching, at least during their original runtime. My GoodReads profile is grateful, as is my brain, for there is a lot more space devoted to things like Actual Thoughts and A Decent Vocabulary*. (This, more than anything, is why I’m blogging more. Thank you, writer’s strike!)
I don’t miss any of the things I used to suck my time with, and when I read the Weecaps on Television Without Pity for Desperate Housewives, let me tell you, I am downright GLEEFUL that I stopped watching that trainwreck, because God, dragging on the whole Susan-Mike relationship tension with a flash-forward? SERIOUSLY. GIVE US A BREAK.
I’ll let you in on a little secret, though: I watch Grey’s Anatomy on my PC, late at night, when no one can see me. I find it helps immeasurably with the attachment issues. I no longer give a rip what happens to MerDer, but instead, see it as mild entertainment on my computer that would otherwise be spent idly surfing. I’m blissfully detached, like it’s merely a YouTube video talking about the best tactics to beat The Legend of Zelda.
One of the (many) side effects of working from home is that I just roll over and start working from bed. I get up, pee and come back to check my e-mail and start cranking through my to-do list. And watch Charmed. Oh wait, what? Yes, CHARMED. The show where Alyssa Milano never ever covers her midriff and Holly Marie Combs finally gains enough weight by 2006 to look like a NORMAL THIN-TYPE PERSON, yet compared to her dangerously skeletal costars, looks almost pudgy? Yes, that one. It’s on TNT from 8 to 10 a.m. and it has served as background for the clickity clackity nature of my pajama’d mornings. And if I’m too focused on my actual WORK to half pay attention to any of the salient plot points? I record it and watch it that evening. Oh hell, I record it anyway, because I can never catch the whole thing.
Yes. I seem to have fallen in love with its campy, cheesy charms (HA! A pun!) and truly abysmal special effects, not to mention pitifully slow reaction times by three supposed witches. Dude, it’s TERRIBLE. It’s AWFUL. And yet, it doesn’t go all Ross and Rachel on us (I’m looking at you, Jim and Pam). It just IS.
And this morning, I literally SQUEALED when I realized that the series finale was at 8 a.m. and that the 9 o’clock hour would be filled with THE VERY FIRST EPISODE, EVER. And that the whole thing was starting over in ORDER! The whole series! FOR ME TO TIVO AND ENJOY WITH MY LUNCHTIME CEREAL. For the first time, I’ll get to see how Shannen Doherty’s character dies and how on EARTH they manage to explain away the arrival of Rose McGowan.
Charmed has awakened the hunger for camp. I want campy, WB-style shows to order by the TRUCKLOAD and watch while eating Special K Chocolatey Delight during my lunch hour and in the evenings. I’ve never seen any of them: Gilmore Girls, Felicity, Veronica Mars. Never! I’ve never seen them beyond a single episode or two! So I ask you, other than the three I’ve just mentioned (AND CHARMED OF COURSE), what do you recommend? And if you had to prioritize the above, how would you? My only requirement is that it is either marketed entirely toward the tween set or be so bad that it’s positively DECADENT. Extra points if it ran on the WB.
*This is a lie, because lately, I find myself completely and totally forgetting words, like I’m the early stages of dementia. Adam says it’s happening to him too, and it’s because we’re getting OLDER. Which, GAH. I’ve managed to avoid wrinkles, but is my brain really turning to mush? I was on the phone with a client the other day, and I couldn’t think of the word “autonomous”. I knew the meaning, and I knew what I wanted to say, and yet the best I could do was offer something along the lines of, “you know, um, finish the project and uh … make it … uh … run on its own without … without outside … help? You know, on its own all alone-like?” And at Eastern Mountain Sports, I couldn’t think of the word “placebo” and kept saying “psychosomatic” in its stead, when they aren’t even close in literal meaning, though they can be related. And yet I did it OVER AND OVER AGAIN and then saying things like, “Not psychosomatic, but … but … pla … pla … or is it pah?” until someone weakly offered, “Placebo?” YES. THAT IS IT. PLACEBO.
Also, up there where I say “special effects”? Took me a full minute to realize it wasn’t “side effects”. BRAIN GOING. FAST.
I’m going to start drinking brain-boosting tea and doing sudoku, like the old dude in front of the big 1970s sun on CBS Sunday Morning says to. It improves your memory, you know. Sigh.
Happy Tuesday!
**Catie Curtis
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1. Gretchen | May 19th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I have all 8 seasons of Charmed on DVD, even though the last 2 seasons were really terrible, and the Shannen Doherty seasons aren’t all that good either.
My illogical love of Charmed notwithstanding, I feel it is my duty to tell you not to hold your breath about finding out how Prue dies. The third seasons ends with Prue, the fourth season begins without her, and Piper and Leo talk about how Prue died. That’s it.
2. Melissa | May 19th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
I now love you even more than before. Charmed is my guilty secret (my husband knows, but I wave the World Wrestling Federation in his face whenever he teases me), and I’m off to watch an episode on tnt.com before hitting the hay. You can’t pick the ones you want to watch, which I think sucks, but if you get home and Charmed is half over, you take it where you can get it. Peace out, mofo.
3. Katie | May 19th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I think I have the ultimate show for you, going with the 3 categories provided above: ONE TREE HILL. It’s marketed to tweens, appears (appeared? I don’t know any more) on the CW, which we all know was formerly the WB, AND is so fantastically awful I can barely contain my delight.
My roommate used to watch it during sophomore year. Obviously, I never got a lot of homework done during that time.
4. Teej | May 19th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Just Veronica Mars. That’s the only one of the above that I’ve watched. And I think I annoy people with my love of it, but that is something I will live with. But I’m not sure it will fit your requirements — it’s mystery-based and you won’t follow the story without paying attention. GOD, I sound like a mom. A really cool mom. WATCH YOUR VERONICA MARS AND PAY ATTENTION.
I’m forgetting words, too. Sometimes I say things like, “Can you put it on the… the… d-… d-… d-… table! That’s the word I was looking for.”
5. TwoBusy | May 19th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I’m really curious as to how the word “placebo” came up in a conversation with Eastern Mountain Sports staff. Kayaks? Yes. Placebos..? I’m baffled.
6. vague | May 19th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Veronica Mars and Gilmore Girls are both awesome. Other than that, have you seen Buffy or Angel? They are also favorites of mine.
7. jonniker | May 19th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
TwoBusy: I was getting a new pair of hiking boots, as my old Timberland ones are … well. OLD. And not pleasant on hikes, to say the least. And when the clerk tried to steer me away from a high ankle to a low-cut trail shoe, as he claims that their ankle support does nothing, I assured him that OH IT DOES. Even if it’s uh, PSYCHOSOMATIC (eh? I meant if they have a placebo effect.)
Incidentally, I got a pair of Keen mid-rise trail shoes that I LOVE. LOVE. And then, right when we had their inaugural hike planned Sunday … it poured, so I headed up to my friend’s rambling rural mansion. And alas, my little Keens have yet to see Vermont as its meant to be seen.
Vague: Buffy! I haven’t seen Buffy. Or Angel. But I totally want to. And OOH OOH Katie: ONE TREE HILL. YES.
8. -R- | May 19th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I loved Felicity and Gilmore Girls! Now I watch Ugly Betty to get my fill of campiness.
9. Susan | May 19th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
There’s a very campy soap opera called Passions. I of course don’t watch it myself but, you know, friends of mine do. Friends. Not me. Really. (but it’s campy).
10. Sadie | May 19th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
I am also a huge TV head and YET! have never watched a single episode of any WB/CW show, ever. I listen, rapt, at the radio promos they do every sweeps for those shows (the season finale of Gossip Girls sounds just lurid! and One Tree Hill has a love QUADRANGLE!) but I never watch them. Partly because I don’t know where on my TV the CW is. Am old. Do not go past channel 7. (Except to 24, which is NESN, canIsqueakinaLesterno-hittermentiontonightyesIcan!)
I haven’t hit the “forgetting words” stage yet but I know it’s coming, because my very literate boyfriend, who is a few years older, calls me several times a week looking for a word he knows but can’t remember. Today, that word was “unilateral.”
11. She Likes Purple | May 19th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I’m kind of foaming at the mouth because have I mentioned my Veronica Mars obsession? HAVE I? I am the girl who loved Felicity. Loved Gilmore Girls. REALLY LOVED DAWSON’S CREEK. Cried (JUST TONIGHT!) at the One Tree Hill season finale (used to be on WB, still on CW) but Veronica Mars? Oh lord. No show does it for me the way this show did/does it for me. RENT (or hell, buy) all three seasons immediately and you can send thanks in the form of champagne or J. Crew gift cards, whichever you prefer. It’s dark and noir-ish but also campy! It’s both! It’s just so … fantastic … and yet kind of impossibly dramatic and therefore silly but IT KNOWS IT IS. It’s just … so good. Hell, I’ll even send you the three seasons if you’d like. E-mail me.
12. jonniker | May 19th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Sadie: I KNOW. THE NO HITTER. ZOMG. I, um, cried. Yes. I really lost it when Tito and Lester had that MOMENT, where Francona grabbed Lester’s face and it was all so … well. I cried from the second he got that last strike through the whole end of NESN’s coverage (NESN. I GET NESN IN VERMONT. YES YES YES.)
Much better than the Buchholz no-hitter. I don’t like Clay Buchholz, no I do not. And my dislike for him, oddly, started that night.
13. adina | May 19th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
De-lurking to suggest none other than the current show, Gossip Girl! SO BAD! SO, SO GOOD!
I think you would love Gilmore Girls, and Buffy is also delicious. I bought the whole boxed set of Buffy, intending to watch it while I was in early labor last summer (why? was I perhaps INSANE? cause yeah, not so much wanting to do that during labor, believe it or not.) Anyway, what with the whole BABY thing that happened, haven’t even gotten to watch any of them. I think I’ll wait till my daughter is 15 or so, and then we can watch them together. (if they even have DVD players anymore. gah!)
Oh wait, did you watch My So Called Life back in the day? Because they have it on ABC.com now and you can watch for free… So awesome.
14. Amy K | May 19th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
I’ve never really watched the others you mentioned beyond 15 minutes here and there, but the Felicity series was entertaining. Buffy was also great – you get your late teen/early 20s soap opera action, but you also get some faux kung fu and vampire stabbing to go with it!
15. Jodi | May 19th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
“Charmed”? Dig it. Why? Two words: JULIAN MCMAHON. Mmmm. Yummy.
xo
16. Blythe | May 19th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Veronica Mars is just fantastic.
I’m still sad that Buffy is no longer on the air.
I’m still melancholy when I think of Brian Krakow on My So-Called Life (the one show I can remember where the parents’ story lines and the kids’ story lines were equally interesting.)
If you want more supernatural stuff, the X-FIles is classic, especially the first few seasons with Gillian Anderson’s terrible hair.
17. Tara | May 20th, 2008 at 3:03 am
I highly recommend Gilmore Girls. I watched it RELIGIOUSLY every Tuesday until I moved to Japan and could only get it sporadically. But as soon as I have a free weekend I plan to rent the last 2 seasons and finish it up. Another great one that someone else mentioned is Dawson’s Creek. You don’t get much better than DC. And I one that I really missed after its cancellation was Popular. It wasn’t on very long, but it was great, complete with huge fat guy and anorexic chick and the girl who isn’t as pretty as she thinks she is. That was a good one.
Good luck!
18. MsPrufrock | May 20th, 2008 at 4:05 am
I used to watch Charmed religiously for the same reason as you and the others. By sad coincidence, my blogging nickname is Pru, my daughter’s real name is the same as one of the Charmed ones, and I have a tattoo which strongly resembles the power of three symbol. In my own defense, my nickname is an Eliot reference, I just liked the name we picked for my daughter, and the tattoo was inked way before Charmed made it onto TV. I do keep my adoration for the show on the downlow though, lest anyone thinks that perhaps I’ve taken it a bit too far.
In regard to other mindless TV – I’ve been watching Gossip Girl, but I’m not getting the trashy, campy deliciousness from it that I was hoping for. I’m still on the lookout for more shows that might fit that requirement, so I hope your commenters come through for me…er, you.
19. Allison | May 20th, 2008 at 4:14 am
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” We own almost all of the seasons and I am feeling the need to rewatch this summer. It is SO GOOD. And the last episode of season 2 never fails to make me cry. EVER.
You haven’t seen “Felicity”? Oh, YOU MUST. It is so so so so good.
“Gilmore Girls” is also excellent. And one cannot negate the greatness of “90210″ reruns on the Soap network. 5 and 6 pm, man. Prime dinner time watching.
20. Jessica | May 20th, 2008 at 4:18 am
My So Called Life…going way back here. Not many people have even heard of this one, I think it only lasted one season but it was the best show ever invented. Also the start of Claire Danes career.
HIGHLY RECOMMEND for the teen angst!!
21. Amy | May 20th, 2008 at 4:41 am
I would recommend Veronica Mars first. I miss that show so much. Such awesome writing and characters. Sigh. Then watch GG. It starts out amazing and goes down hill after the original writers leave. I never watched Felicity so I can’t say anything about that.
22. Kristin H | May 20th, 2008 at 4:43 am
I feel your word pain! I have a little notebook I write new words in with their definitions, and I’ll be damned if I can remember them 10 seconds after I write them down. Or maybe this falls under the same category as when I was waiting tables and would ask someone if they wanted cream with their coffee, then forget what they said one second later.
Anyway, I think you don’t have to worry you’re getting old until you start to be interested in birds. My husband is a prime example (he’s 42). On Sunday he got out the bird book and pointed out all the birds he saw on our land while he was working out there. So if you’re not pointing out Baltimore orioles to Adam in your spare time, you’re still doing okay.
23. Jennifer H | May 20th, 2008 at 5:40 am
I love Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars–both have excellent writing and witty dialogue. Another show that I loved back in the day was Roswell, which I think might have originally been on the WB but not is on the Sci-Fi channel in reruns. It has the lovely Katherine Heigl in her first “Izzie” roll, is ridiculously wonderful, and has teen angst oozing all over it.
24. Carrie (in MN) | May 20th, 2008 at 5:44 am
I catch my husband watching Charmed all the time, and in our house we refer to it as witchy porn.
25. claire | May 20th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Don’t you start with Jim & Pam, Jonna! I heart them and The Office and i wish Jim were real and mine…. too much information there, probably.
Veronica Mars was such a great show. SO GREAT. With the high school detective girl and the campiness. But what i think was great about it was that even though it looks like it was written for tweens, i have a feeling that age group probably didn’t catch all of the humor; it’s more on an adult level than i had anticipated when i first started watching it which makes it pretty brilliant. 1st season is the best one; after than it starts to decline but stick with it.
I also loved GG and became addicted when i started watching the seasons on DVD.
And to echo everyone else, if you like Charmed, you’ll love Buffy. Again, as campy as it is, it’s written smartly which is probably the only reason i could watch it (until Buffy’s little sister, Dawn, shows up. I wanted to slap that girl…)
26. Lawyerish | May 20th, 2008 at 5:51 am
DROP EVERYTHING and go get yourself the entire series of Felicity. It is one of the greatest things ever in my life, and I’m not ashamed to admit that. I had never seen the show when it aired and then somehow got into the reruns and dove into the DVDs. And nothing was ever the same for me.
FELICITY. HOW I LOVE THEE.
My So-Called Life is also fantastic and easy to polish off since it didn’t last long.
27. Jess | May 20th, 2008 at 5:57 am
I never watched all those cheesy WB shows (although I know they are BRILLIANT), so I’m sorry to say I don’t have much advice to offer you. You should really see if there are some French people you can ask, because when I was living there, they were all OBSESSED with Charmed. They watched it all the time. French people love bad American TV.
28. Jenine | May 20th, 2008 at 5:57 am
I have read that the forgetting words thing is called tip-of-the-tongue syndrome. And it does happen in adults more than in children. Because we know so much more! It’s a sign that our brains are crammed with useful knowledge that we have gained in our rich fulfilling lives! Also a sign that the brain’s retrieval mechanisms are kludgy.
Hope that helps.
29. Raven | May 20th, 2008 at 6:08 am
I own and LOVE Buffy (although I will warn there comes a point where you seriously want to slap her) SPIKE! OMG YAY! I also loved Angel and watched them both religiously.
Gilmore Girls was awesome. I was sad when it ended.
30. Erin | May 20th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Okay for the three you mentioned, GG, Veronica Mars and Felicity, I love them all. LOVE (except I kind of hated Rory during the last couple seasons of GG). I also agree with everyone else who is pimping Buffy, Dawson’s Creek and My So Called Life and Gossip Girl.
Incidentally, I don’t know if your TNT follows the same line-up as mine, but Charmed is also on from 4-6 in the afternoon if the NBA hasn’t pre-empted it.
31. Swistle | May 20th, 2008 at 6:32 am
I vote for Gilmore Girls, although I’m hesitant to recommend it because sometimes I get mad at the characters and/or the show, and you wouldn’t know which parts those were and you might think, “Um, Swistle likes THIS?” Really I should make you a little tape of me making critical remarks that you can play alongside the DVD.
The other day I wrote “next store neighbor” instead of “next door neighbor” and I COULD NOT FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS WRONG. I knew SOMETHING was wrong, but WHAT?
32. Margaret | May 20th, 2008 at 6:33 am
Buffy is a must — stick with it for a few eps, you will be hooked!!! Angel too. And Veronica Mars. Another that I *love* that I haven’t seen mentioned is Freaks and Geeks. So great.
33. anne | May 20th, 2008 at 7:17 am
When I was studying for the Bar I fell in love with Charmed, I think because of how easy it was to watch. I think also due to my sleepless state. But I also began to think that maybe we all possessed magical powers – or maybe I just wanted the Bar exam to disappear. C’mon don’t you want to open a door with the wave of your hand?!?!?!
I second, or third or whatever – Gilmore Girls. Awesome dialogue!
34. Lauren | May 20th, 2008 at 7:56 am
All of my suggestions have been mentioned–I heart Felicity, Veronica Mars, My So-called Life, and Freaks and Geeks. The sequel series to F&G was Undeclared and that was actually pretty good. I can’t remember if you watch it, but Friday Night Lights is one of the best shows on TV. It’s not at all campy, in fact, it’s the most true-to-life show I think I’ve ever seen, but it’s got teen angst and is amazing! If you like Charmed, you’ll like Buffy. It’s seriously cheesy and the special effects and stunts (at least in the first season) are laughable.
35. Shelly | May 20th, 2008 at 7:59 am
I’m such a TV whore, but I never watch WB….ever. My teenage son watches “The Hills”, but I think that is MTV.
I’m way into reality tv and crime—Investigators, Forensic files, 48 Hrs, and the like. Oh…I just lied…totally….I watched ‘BEAUTY AND THE GEEK’ and I think that’s on WB–I watch every season and LOOOOVVVVEE it.
I love Ghost Hunters, too on Sci Fi….and Gene Simmons Family Jewels……..I could go on forever….it’s a sickness, really.
36. Sara | May 20th, 2008 at 8:32 am
I am backing up all the Buffy recommendations, and… and.. oh, this is so hard to say… I think you should watch Smallville. There, it’s out, I said it. It is a terrible show. It’s marketed to tweens. There are very hot guys, one of whom is sexy and bald. There is DRAMA. Oh, my Lord, the drama. There is a terrible season involving French witches who possess people and commit crimes against CGI. There’s more camp than you can shake a stick at. Seriously, it’s… well, bad. But in a good way.
Buffy, on the other hand, is mostly just good. It’s not until the last couple of seasons that things go a bit astray, and even then it’s worth it for the drama and the dialogue. Have fun!
37. Diane | May 20th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Oh Charmed, how I love thee….
Oh yeah, you must watch Buffy and Angel too and Gilmore girls and ohhh Felicity. I was quite the WB whore, wasn’t I. Love them all, pure enjoyment.
Actually, just invite us all over so we can all watch together and enjoy the deliciousness!!
38. mar | May 20th, 2008 at 10:50 am
all i can say is oth! (for the unitiated that’s one tree hill)
i know i’m much too old to watch hs drama, but it’s addictive! my fellow grad school buddy & i can’t avert our eyes from the angst!
39. Jeanne | May 20th, 2008 at 11:38 am
When my daughter was a baby and I had to nurse her before dropping her off at the daycare every day, the only non-infomercial show I could find was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Let me tell you, I fell in love with that show! I totally used to make fun of it and anyone who watched it, but then it became my guitly secret. My daughter is just turning 6, and to this day my husband still doesn’t know that I ever watched it! 90210 is in the same category, and I’m looking forward to the new show starting up. Gilmore Girls was one of my favorite shows ever, and I was actually cried when it ended. I have all seven seasons on DVD. The only show I ever get to watch with any regularity is American Idol. As much as I love it, I’ll be releived when this season is over. Most of my TV veiwing time consists of Hannah Montana and The Suite Life of Zach and Cody. Just shoot me now…
We never started watching Lost, but I gave the husband season 1 for our anniversary last week. Now we wonder how it is that we didn’t start watching from the beginning! Seasons 2 and 3 will be coming home with me soon.
40. Leah | May 20th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Warning: Gilmore Girls is NOT campy and awful. It’s sneakily brilliant and, although designed for teens and tweens, can really only be appreciated and fully understood by those born before 1980. That said, it does get quite soap-operay (in all the good ways; i.e., no alien abductions or evil twins or anything), so if it’s drama you want, then have at it.
(Secretly, though, I don’t want you to watch it because if you hate it I will be CRUSHED and absolutely unable to handle the criticism. It’s one of those things that I’m forced to use the most obnoxious defense for: if you don’t like it, it’s because you don’t UNDERSTAND it. I hate it when people say that and yet, here, for me, it applies.)
41. Bethiclaus | May 20th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I used to have a similar issue with Charmed (although not since the series finale, so I wonder if the hubs would care if the DVR suddenly got jammed with episdoes). I hope that it will be different now, but I’ve watched on TNT forEVAH trying to catch the episode where Shannen Doherty dies, and it always seems to skip that episode. Unless the series just did a crappy job dealing with it. It’s been my greatest disappointment. Not really, but you know. Bad.
42. Audrey | May 20th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Delurking because of my love for Veronica Mars.
It seriously is fabulous, the third season gets unbelieveable and campy – but the first two? Hilarious and oh so very witty.
I have heard delicious things about Gossip Girls – I may have to buy those on dvd (while saying out loud, several times, that it is a birthday gift for someone OTHER than me). Apparently it is just THAT good.
43. Mandee | May 20th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
I haven’t read any of the other comments yet because I had to rush right down and say: FELICITY FELICITY FELICITY! You’ve never watched Felicity?
My sister lived with me during much of her maternity leave and we had to get in a fight over the TIVO. She kept recording every single episode of Felicity that came on WE even though she was simultaneously watching them. I love it, but not with the fire of 10,000 suns as she does.
Maybe watching all these shows will take your brain right back to it’s 1999 state?
44. Mandee | May 20th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Ok, and now I’m back because I’ve read all the comments and no one mentioned Everwood. It was the vehicle that led to AB Chao getting the writing gig on Eli Stone–she was interviewing the creator for TWOP and they hit it off. Plenty of drama in that one.
45. jonniker | May 20th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Mandee: I always read AB’s recaps, and TOTALLY REMEMBER THAT MOMENT when she got the job because of Berlanti. God, I was so excited about that, because, like everyone, I love AB.
Television Without Pity is PRECISELY how I got into blogs, too, for what it’s worth.
46. cassidy | May 20th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I am so glad Mandee mentioned Everwood because it is JUST what you are looking for. Also, Dawsons Creek is horrifyingly wonderful. And Felicity is amazing.
Did you watch the OC? I felt like it was so bad it was great. Until the last season of course.
47. mar | May 20th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
also, i hadn’t had a chance to read the comments when i mentioned one tree hill, but have you seen wonder falls? only one season, but brilliantly snarky & must i mention the eye candy that is lee pace? mmm!
48. winkles | May 20th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
I loved Charmed when it was on (I’m old) and I know how exciting and unrealistic it is and I can totally relate. Horrible stories and costumes! The whole Cole thing. Enjoy.
49. Ang | May 21st, 2008 at 5:34 am
BUFFY!!! YES!!! and ANGEL!!! I have both, all seasons, they are my exercise program – I only watch them on the treadmill.
And if you like those, Bones is also very good with the yummy David Boreanaz (from both Buffy & Angel).
50. electriclady | May 21st, 2008 at 6:33 am
Just chiming in to give the 80 millionth plug for Buffy–first three seasons are especially good on the smart campy high school vein, less so after they go to college. Seventh (final) season is near unwatchable but we all did anyway.
Love Gilmore Girls. Possibly one of the most estrogen-loaded shows ever. I remember the Television WIthout Pity recapper saying in the first season that all of our periods were going to sync up from watching it. Secretly a very smart show.
And GOSSIP GIRL! LOVE! Also the OC–first season was the best, rapidly crashed and burned after that but I’ll always have a soft spot for it. Freaks and Geeks was also awesome but not so much campy–more in the tradition of My So-Called Life.
51. Shea | May 21st, 2008 at 6:44 am
My So Called Life
Freaks and Geeks
Dawson’s Creek
52. Flibberty | May 21st, 2008 at 8:36 am
Friday Night Lights. For sure. You’ll love it. It’s high school for adults and the characters are so good that you’ll want to relocate to Dillon, Texas, if only it existed. Also, Tim Riggins. Oh so good.
53. Flibberty | May 21st, 2008 at 8:38 am
I totally forgot about Everwood and I don’t think anyone has mentioned it yet. It was totally on the WB and my room mate and I watched it religiously while in law school (where my love of TV was fully formed).
54. jonniker | May 21st, 2008 at 8:43 am
Oh y’all. I TOTALLY already watch Friday Night Lights, but the thing with FNL is that … well, it’s actually GOOD. And sort of realistic. And not at all WB-ish. It’s SO GOOD.
55. Sherri | May 21st, 2008 at 9:50 am
Re: Prue’s death on charmed – There is no episode. As someone mentioned above season 3 ended with a cliffhanger and then season 4 started with Piper and Pheobe safe and Prue dead. The rumor is that Shannon and Alyssa had a falling out and Shannon got the boot.
I’m going to add Dead Like Me. Love this show! It’s about an 18 year old girl that dies and becomes a grim reaper. It’s amazing but there’s only 2 seasons – so sad.
Also if you do watch Buffy and Angel – There are 3 seasons of Buffy and then Angel starts in Buffy’s 4th season. For the first year they were on the same network and there was some crossover. Thought I would mention that just in case
56. H | May 21st, 2008 at 9:52 am
I don’t have any recommendations other than I tried the “rerun plan” you describe for 24 and it didn’t work well for me and 24. That show was too much of the same thing over and over and over. I made it through all the seasons so I was caught up, but it pretty much dulled my interest in it.
57. Leah | May 21st, 2008 at 10:01 am
Wait a minute–I could have sworn I saw the episode where Shannon Doherty died! I can picture the scene in my head and everything! Must investigate…
58. winterwheat | May 21st, 2008 at 11:15 am
J, no worries. You read and write way too much for your brain to be turning to mush. You can afford some TV here and there; your brain needs the downtime.
59. Kara | May 21st, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Ahhh WB/CW! I have a love affair with this channel. so much so that I pay extra per month to get the package from dish network that allows me to get 3 time zones worth of it. that way it never overlaps with other priorities in the DVR. I heart pretty much everything mentioned.
May I also turn your attention to ABCfamily? They play reruns of some of the WB stuff. They also have their own series. Current obsession is Wildfire. The last episode is coming up on Monday. and I adore Greek for all the right campy reason. And of course that I dreamed of soroities and despised them all at the sime time in college.
60. Morrigan | May 22nd, 2008 at 5:29 am
OK, I have to umpteenth the recs for Buffy and Angel, Both are shows I began watching in reruns and was obsessive about it until I had seen EVERY SINGLE EPISODE. I will even confess that I somehow ended up totally hot for Spike and my husband bought me the most recent Billy Idol album because of it (and yes, I love the album for its camp value).
Gilmore Girls is far more clever than the WB liked to let on, although the husband constantly complains that they talk too quickly. True, but you will love it for the musical references alone.
Like a couple of others, I totally heart Everwood and thought it was wonderful. I spent many an evening tearing up in front of my television set.
I also have to add my plug for Dead Like Me, it was brilliant television and I am still mourning its demise. Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin were incredible in it.
61. Lynnette | May 24th, 2008 at 12:33 am
Um, how campy are we talking here? I am almost afraid to admit that I loved the show Beastmaster. Trust me, if you want camp, this is where it’s at. Also, Xena.
My husband used to work as a camera assistant occasionally on Charmed and the actress that was always the nicest was Rose McGowan. Good thing, too – he had a big crush on Alyssa Milano growing up and if she had been nice to him I woulda had to open up a can of Xena whoop-ass.
62. Katherine | May 27th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Let me tell you a little story…One special day, there was a girl who got double pneumonia and was home, very sick with nothing to do. Her best friend brought over the first season of DVDs for a magical show called Veronica Mars. The sick girl was a big stubborn and had refused for two years to watch the show her friend loved so much. After all, what business did a 20-something lawyer have watching a TV show on the WB/CW about a teen detective? But the girl was stuck on the couch with nothing to do and the DVDs would help kill some time. And nobody had to know she had watched something so silly. Two days later, the sick girl begged her best friend to bring over Season Two. Because the show was That Good! In order to get her hands on the videos, the sick girl had to admit she was a Stubborn Idiot. The End.
Veronica Mars. Best. T.V. Show. Ever.
Plus, it’s started my not-so-secret love affair of teen dramas.
PS: Who could not love this?
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