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i still watch grey's anatomy. i KNOW. everyone i knew who watched the show jumped ship ages ago.* like, 4 or 5 seasons ago. somewhere around denny's ghost or george's death or the shootings. ugh. i should've jumped ship after any of those events, all of which happened YEARS ago. nine seasons i've endured. nine. this is a remarkable amount of time to hate-watch a show. i've endured.

why though? why? every year i tell myself i'll stop and in august & september when i'm programming the tivo for fall tv, i somehow forget to delete grey's from the recording line-up. seriously. for five years i've told shawn that i was breaking up with grey's and then sometime in early october, he walked into the living room to find me watching it and looked at me like i'd farted the worst fart that had ever been farted. why do i do this to myself?

yes, i love bailey. and christina. and owen. and christina and owen. and really, owen. (have you seen dog soldiers? its one hell of a werewolf movie with a ridiculous ending and the handsome dr. owen hunt.) but its only because they are great at their jobs that i am willing to buy the drivel coming out of their mouths. seriously. remember when this show was good? it was so good. and then tonight was so silly in parts that i was yelling at the screen WHILE CRYING. because feelings. mostly about owen and christina. and then bailey. good gravy, what is wrong with me?

i also keep thinking that i've read that the show is ending. and when private practice was put out of its misery earlier this year, i was hopeful. but no, this show is never ending. its the neverending story only not good. because its NOT GOOD. also, no falkor. this season i swear i'd read this was the last season. its NOT. ugh. 

or am i wrong? is it still good and i'm just embarassed, like a 12 year old, because i like something my friends don't think is cool anymore? 

_{*i am sorry if you are still watching grey's and love it. i assure you that i am watching a show you gave up on years ago. i watch a lot of bad television.}

nothing changed this week. bones wasn't on so i didn't have a chance to reevaluate. supernatural is still making me a little grumpy. still embarrassingly loving nashville. project runway allstars started though. it was fun. i hope its a little more fun that this past regular season. if not, that may get axed (in my mind.) we will see. 

have i missed anything? anything you're really liking this season? 

LOVING IT

1. nashville
2. go on
3. gossip girl
4. grey's anatomy
5. big bang theory
6. the neighbors
7. modern family
8. the mindy project
9. two broke girls

STILL WATCHING

1. private practice
2. grey's anatomy
3. the mentalist
4. mike & molly
5. elementary
6. the simpsons
7. grimm
8. up all night
9. raising hope
10. walking dead

ON NOTICE

1. bones
2. supernatural
3. american horror story

WE'RE THROUGH

1. chicago fire
2. 666 park avenue
3. once upon a time
4. partners

when did i become a girl who watches sitcoms? and why are all the genre shows falling down my list? i find this shift mildly alarming. are the better writers doing sitcoms now? or am i just getting old? my grandparents LOVED sitcoms. oh dear.

can someone explain the accents on chicago fire to me and tell me who thinks air brushing lucy lui's freckles out is a good idea? 

i did see our friends' house on chicago fire. i watched about ten minutes, couldn't take anymore and fast forwarded to the last three minutes of the show to see one of the hot firemen climbing the stairs to their porch, where i drank bourbon this summer. that was fun. the rest of the show sucks.

the neighbors continues to surprise me. i really kind of love it. same with go on but i'm realizing as i type that it wasn't on this week. was that because of the town hall or did it already get cancelled already? that would bum me out. its really good.

anything not on my lists that i should give a shot?

chicago fire. this show is so not my thing but its filmed in chicago. chicago looks gorgeous on tv and in movies - its like visiting the best parts without the cold or the traffic. for that reason alone, i was willing to give it a shot. then i found out they actually used a friend's house in an episode and of course i'm going to have to watch. guys, its not good. yes, the hot fireman are hot and chicago looks all pretty but what is up with those accents? i've heard some thick chicago accents in my time and none of them sounded like boston accents. also, its really jacked up jacked up. i need to save my jacked up jacked up television time for the walking dead and american horror story. i'll watch until i see our friends' living room and then NO MORE! i will not be seduced by hot firemen.

elementary. oh, how i wanted to hate this. but i don't. lucy liu, johnny lee miller and aidan quinn are great. the writing isn't terrible. i think if it was a show about a former junkie detective named sick boy and his sidesick, o-ren, everyone could relax and just like it. but its not. its sherlock holmes and we're all so smitten with benedict cumberbatch that this didn't stand a chance. it just seemed like a bad idea. the truly bad idea? airbrushing lucy liu's freckles away. 

once upon a time. i think i'm breaking up with you. i care about you even less than i did last season.

666 park avenue. it gets one more chance. that's it. ONE MORE CHANCE, john locke, one more. do you hear me?

the simpsons. remember them? this week was seriously the weirdest treehouse of horror ever. did anyone else see it? or are we the only ones still watching?

why did no one tell me gossip girl was ending? i'm so glad i caught up on netflix this last couple weeks. i watched the season premier and it did not disappoint. oh how i love these gorgeous, rich assholes and their terrible, terrible decisions!

bones is still making me grumpy. mike and molly and HIMYM are still in the rotation as well, out of habit.

private practice and grey's are a bad habit as well but i've been enjoying them. more beautiful people making bad decisions.

supernatural needs a funny episode STAT. i was happy to see cas this week, though. happy? that's the wrong word but i do like misha collins a great deal.

i haven't watched this week's animal practice yet. i'm just not so sure. anything with a monkey seems a little iffy.

you guys. the neighbors is delightful. really and truly. weird and delightful.

modern family. i really don't know why we just started watching this last year. its just so good. 

grimm is still kind of lame but portland pretty. 

up all night is good although will arnett makes me sad. until i think about arrested development.

big bang still rocks.

deep breath... and a confession:

tami taylor said y'all in the first minute of nashville and i KNEW i was in. its so good. i can't write anymore about it because i am so embarrassed at how much i liked it. 

hangs head.

i've watched a ton of tv. some of it isn't even memorable enough to make this list. here we go:

once upon a time. its still totally silly and i still totally like it. although, i realized while watching the clip show that i only half watch this show because i didn't realize it was a clip show until it was almost over.  

999 park avenue. i know what you're thinking. "isn't it 666 park avenue?" well, it is. but the building address is actually 999 and when the light shines on the numbers in a particular way, they cast a shadow that reads 666. sneaky. john locke owns the building and spends a lot of time talking about good and evil. that's all he can do now apparently. also, he seems to be the devil. mephistopheles making deals with attractive, greedy new yorkers. he just hired a young, attractive, non-native, but still possibly greedy, couple to be the live-in building managers. oh and he's married to vanessa williams. do we buy that? do we buy that vanessa williams and john locke as a couple? i'm not sure i do. whatever. i kind of liked it. it lives to see another week on the tivo.

how i met yo momma is still so lame. they are still doing that ridiculous bait and switch thing. oh oh, is this her? oh oh, are robin and barney getting married? oh oh, ted's being a twat. UGH. is it over yet? seriously, when do we get to find out who the hell the mother is? the real question is how much more of this shit can i endure?

why is mike and molly so popular? oh right, melissa mccarthy's awesome. ugh.

partners. why on earth is david krumholtz in this? its about two guys who have been best friends since elementary school and dreamed of working together, david krumholtz and his gay bff. anyway, mr. universe is engaged and his friend is a self absorbed pain in the ass. i think they were going for jack from will & grace with this character. jack was lovable. this guy is not. anyway, i've watched this one twice. the second episode was a wee bit better than the first but holy crap, its still not very good.

i'm not happy about bones and i don't want to talk about it. you can't make me.  

revolution. i'm out. i really dislike this show. i watched because its jj abrams and i want that first season of lost feeling back SO BAD but this, my friends, this is no lost. 

the mindy project. i love that my imaginary bff has her own show and i was really excited to watch. then, i didn't love the pilot. i laughed. it was funny. but, i didn't love it. you should have heard the imaginary conversations i was having with my imaginary bff over it. awkward. anyway, i LOVED last night's episode. so funny. YAY, IMAGINARY BFF! 

raising hope. still so very, very funny. also, cloris leachman made a rape joke. when is a rape joke funny? when an old lady tells it, apparently.

go on. i wasn't a friends watcher but i like matthew perry. i don't think he's the best actor but i think he's good at this one thing - playing a sort-of broken man. he's doing it here again as a young widower with a fancy pants job who is trying to move on with his life. john cho plays his assistant? right hand man? something. anyway, john cho is in it - who i think it effing hot. so there's that. which is good because this show keeps making me cry. the first time felt like an ambush. now i know to expect it. dammit.

forget pumpkin spice lattes. the appeal is totally lost on me. excited to wear boots? nah. i loathe socks so boots are not my favorite. ok, ok. i love a good, cozy sweater. what really thrills me about the cooler weather and the changing leaves is that they signal the fall tv orgy, where i watch all the things. all of them. shows that i'm certain are a terrible idea (i'm looking at you, sherlock.) and shows i can't contain my excitement about (666 park avenue. good gravy, rich people behaving badly AND the devil? i'm in heaven.) i study my entertainment weekly fall tv preview issue, i program the tivo, i make a list of things that i'll have to watch on hulu... i take this very seriously. you see, i am on a quest.

i want to watch lost again for the first time. i want something to break my heart the way buffy did. i want to laugh like i did with arrested development or even better off ted. i want ed. or cupid - do you remember cupid? I WANT FIREFLY. i know the chances are slim but every once in awhile i'm surprised. (hello, friday night lights. oh and nice to see you again, scandal.) 

so, i watch and even though most episodes won't make it past 1 or 2 viewings, everything gets a shot. (even nashville.) i'll let you know how it goes. 

oh daria, i love you so.

there's been three hours of daria on MTV every morning this week. so, yeah. 40 episode is one week happened.

also, i may have suggested daria and jane as a future halloween costume to kateri. i think we'd rock. shawn could even be trent. 

la-la-la-la-la.

so, watching the west wing over again has been interesting. it was on for a long time but it hasn't been on in a long time. this means i first watched some of these episodes 11 or 12 years ago. it feels like a lifetime. i remember how i came to watch the show - my father-in-law enjoyed the first season and thought i would too. then when i began working at the synagogue, all the women who worked there watched it. so, i started in order to have something to talk about over lunch. we all had our favorite characters - carol once said her partner understood that she would leave him in a second for tobey. june loved president bartlet. harriet loved cj. we all loved mrs. landingham. jm even watched and would join us in our discussions of the previous night's episode from time to time.

this week, when i began the third season, my heart sank. instead of picking up where the story left off, they began with an episode about muslim extremists and terrorism. it was written and filmed quickly. 9/11 had just happened and they wanted to do something. it was heartbreaking to watch, even now. its remarkable that when everyone was screaming for justice, this episode was a quiet exploration of how we'd gotten to this place.

the next day at work, the discussion of the show at lunch lasted at least two hours. on 9/11, we sat with a television in the library, quietly doing our work half heartedly, watching events unfold. rosh hashanah was a week away. we were now planning a community prayer service. work couldn't stop just because the world did. after that episode of the west wing, we were finally able to have the conversations we'd all needed to have before. 

*brought to you by the hours and hours of west wing i've watched. here's some of my favorite quotes so far:

"bring me the finest muffins and bagels in all the land."

"oh, I'm sorry, dear. Would you like a cookie?"

"i'm proud to report our country's stranger than it was a year ago?"

"once again you display an immaturity about vegetables that I think is not at all Presidential."

"the day-to-day experience of my life has changed in many ways since taking this job."

"you're not going to spoil my good time for me."
"oh, sir, I think we both know from experience that's not true."

"i can sign the President's name. I have his signature down pretty good."

"a long flight across the night. you know why late flights are good? because we cease to be earthbound and burdened with practicality. asking important questions. talking about the idea that nobody has thought about yet."

"i'm calling you Deputy Downer from now on."

"it'd be good. by day, they churn butter and worship according to their own beliefs, and by night they solve crimes."

"i've never found anything in my life remotely charming."

"i'd be perfectly happy never to say any of those words anywhere ever again."

"a thing the size of a garbage truck is gonna be in a two-thousand-mile-an-hour free fall and no one knows where it's gonna hit!"
"i'm rooting for Zurich. I've had it up to here with the Swiss."

"if politics bring out the worst in people, maybe people bring out the best."

"but listen, don't worry about all this right now. we got you covered. worry about school. worry about what you'll tell your parents when you break curfew. you're gonna meet guys. you're gonna meet girls. learn things, be good to each other. read the newspapers, go to the movies, go to a party, read a book. in the meantime, remember pluralism. you want to get these people? i mean, you really want to in and kill them where they live? keep accepting more than one idea. makes them absolutely crazy."

"what's next?"

television, oh television. how i love you so! since i'm still working on the project i've been watching A LOT of television. i've watched all of the episodes of gossip girl that are available on netflix. i've watched some felicitiy, some british mysteries. i even watched the pilot episode of melrose place. oh good gravy, i love tv. 

my usual shows that i love to marathon include buffy, angel, wonderfalls, pushing daisies, veronica mars, gilmore girls, firefly... but lately i've been wanting to watch something "new" - at least to me. that was why i gave felicity a shot. it didn't do it for me. there are a few shows that shawn wants to watch too (breaking bad, the sopranos) and he's too busy to be hanging out, watching tv with me every day - even if being my cheerleader while i'm embroidering is a VERY IMPORTANTJOB. those will have to wait. 

i love british mysteries. i love mysteries like hart to hart and columbo. i love supernatural and horror-y sci-fi-y shows. i love family dramas when well written OR exceedingly trashy. medical shows tend to stress me out. i love small towny shows. i loved twin peaks. west wing remains one of my favorites. the wire was devastatingly good. i could go on but you get the idea - i LOVE TEEVEE. 

so, my question is this, what should i watch? what's the next teevee show that i'm going to love?