I am so not the go-to person re: TV. But I do — every so often — get hooked. Chiefly as a way to entertain myself while running on the treadmill when I’m not running outside. Again, a run is 6 mph or more, a jog is less than that. I sometimes do 5.7 or 5.8, so I am a near runner, je suppose.
Anyway:
Live with Kelly and Michael, 9-10 am weekdays. Especially the first 15-20 minutes where they chat ad lib.
Gossip Girl, nearly over! Next Monday is the last (two-hour) episode. But, hey, go back and watch the entire fun, catty, ode to New York and headbands series. Some lines are truly hilarious. Leighton Meester is a genius.
Mad Men. Season 6 coming next year. Writerly, Cheever-ly, great acting, wonderful storytelling. Here John Slatterly as Roger Sterling has every great line.
New Girl. Truly funny 21-22 minutes on the iPad. I try to do two back-to-back episodes and zone out for the rest of my hour run/jog. Max Greenfield as Schmidt: a comic goldmine.
Downton Abbey. Yup. Tried to avoid it. The first episode I thought, they are just blatantly copying Upstairs/Downstairs (on PBS when I was a kid), right down to a storyline based on the Titanic! But, then, Maggie Smith. Elizabeth McGovern. Michelle Dockey’s pale, flawless visage (to use a word I ne’er use). Yes, January 6, it finally airs here, after being broadcast in the UK this very fall. I have avoided all media regarding it. Surprise me.
And… that’s it!! I need something else I guess. I am checking out Girls, now available on DVD. And in iTunes. The writer of the series graduated from Saint Ann’s, (comme moi). Ya. Could be Sex and the City but more current (and youthful), or could be awful, will let you know.
p.s. Today is 12/12/12! The baby was born on 10/10/10. We have friends who purposely married on 07/07/07 (luckily a Saturday). It’s the last sequence like this of our lifetimes, unless, as Fotis proposes, they reverse or DNA and we age backwards, muck like those deep sea jellyfish profiled in the Times Magazine section two Sundays ago.
