What We're Watching

1) The complete seven season series of Gilmore Girls. I "borrowed" the DVDs from my sister (she knows and I know that she will never get them back) back last summer and have been slowly watching them. Right about the third season when Jess enters the scene, the boy started watching the series with me. The series is just as wonderful as I remember it (if you conveniently forget that the character of Rory even exists for the first half of the sixth season when she is the brattiest of the bratty). I still want Lauren Graham to have my babies and I still want Scott Patterson to be my diner owner.


2) The complete series of Firefly. During my husband's recent illness, he broke out these gems and we watched them all and for the next two weeks we went around screaming the lyrics to The Man They Call Jayne out just when we thought the other person had moved on to another song. We're a loving couple that way.

3) The entire, altogether too short, two seasons of Reaper, a show that lived on the CW in 2008-2009. The main character is a slacker guy who finds out on his 21st birthday that his parents sold his soul to the Devil and now our slacker hero must become a bounty hunter for souls who have escaped hell. He has two slacker friends who help him and an on-again, off-again girlfriend who all add to the hilariousness of this show. Really, I just thought the entire show was riotous, right up until about five episodes from the end.

4) The first two episodes of Dexter. I know this is going to be controversial, but we stopped watching Dexter because it was killing us with boredom. I convinced the boy to watch it because everybody was writing about what a great show it was on the internet, David Bianculli was salivating about it on Fresh Air, and I am a sucker. Maybe it was because the boy and I already knew the premise of the show, but it just was kind of yawn inducing for us.

5) The 2007 BBC miniseries Jekyll. We've only watched one episode of this, but I'm totally hooked. It's written as a sequel to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with our main character a modern version of the same character. I think we'll eventually find out that he's the descendant of the original character, but I haven't gotten there yet. The acting is good and I'm intrigued.