TV Show Talk

sometimes when hangin' out with groups of friends we get to talking about tv shows. for example, 24, alias, the oc, west wing, csi, ect. i really don't watch any of these shows. i might have seen one or two episodes of each. i think the three shows that i watch are very good and are worthy of conversation, but out of my group of friends i seem to be the only one who watches. so i tend to just sit back and listen when tv show talk starts up.

i do watch tv a couple days a week. over the past few years the only show i really followed was "everwood", which comes on the wb on monday nights at 8pm, but season four is being moved to a new day, thursday. the next season starts sept. 29th.

last season my former roomate led me to a new show that i enjoy that, last season, came on right after everwood. it is called "medium" and it comes on at 9pm on nbc. it is a chilling drama series inspired by the real-life story of research medium allison dubois. patricia arquette stars as a young wife and mother who, since childhood, has been struggling to make sense of her dreams and visions of dead people. allison dubois (arquette) is a strong-willed young mother of three, a devoted wife and law student who begins to suspect that she can talk to dead people, see the future in her dreams and read people's thoughts. fearing for her mental health, she turns for support to her husband joe (jake weber), an aerospace engineer, who slowly comes to believe that what his wife is telling him just might be true. the real challenge is convincing her boss, d.a. devalos (miguel sandoval) -- and the other doubters in the criminal justice system -- that her psychic abilities can give them the upper hand when it comes to solving violent and horrifying crimes whose mysteries often reside with those who live beyond the grave. the new season begins sept. 19th.

the third and final show that i watch is now my new favorite. it is called "house". it comes on at 8pm, tuesday nights on fox. season two starts sept. 13th. it is about dr. gregory house who is devoid of bedside manner and wouldn't even talk to his patients if he could get away with it. dealing with his own constant physical pain, he uses a cane that seems to punctuate his acerbic, brutally honest demeanor (which i love). while his behavior can border on antisocial, house is a maverick physician whose unconventional thinking and flawless instincts have afforded him a great deal of respect. an infectious disease specialist, he's a brilliant diagnostician who loves the challenges of the medical puzzle he must solve in order to save lives.

house's roster of medical cases are the inexplicable ones other doctors can't solve, and he has assembled an elite team of young medical experts to help him in his effort to solve these diagnostic mysteries. house will do whatever it takes in the race against time to solve a case before it takes a life. from sending one of his team to break into a patient's home in search of clues, to attempting a controversial, high-stakes, trial-and-error form of treatment to see how a patient responds. his methods may be suspect, but his results are not. in a nut shell it is a drama combined with mystery, and the main character is a doctor that mol nation would call out of control.

so if anyone else watches these shows or starts to watch this next season. let me know. that way i have someone to talk to about tv.

*note: most of the text above is plagiarized, and i do not take any credit in describing the tv shows.