kaydeefalls | more tv meme

So then I fell asleep at 7:15pm and didn't wake up until my alarm went off at 6:30am.

Apparently I needed that.

Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving

Hmmm. I don't watch all that much TV, and if there's a show I'm not interested in, I generally just...don't watch it. I'm sure there must have been something I was conned into watching, but I can't think of it off the top of my head. There are shows I thought I'd hate and wound up not minding, but that's not quite the same.

So I'll go with: The West Wing. Not because I thought it would be a bad show. But I resisted watching it for years and years because I was such a huge fan of Aaron Sorkin's first show, Sports Night, which I watched religiously as it aired. And then that show was nearly canceled, but another network said they'd pick it up if Sorkin stayed on board -- which he didn't, because he was jumping ship to start West Wing. So Sports Night ended after only two brilliant seasons. Yeah, I felt kind of bitter about that. But eventually I let go of my prejudices, and it is truly fabulous.

OH WAIT. Having written that, I suddenly remember: Battlestar Galactica, the new version. I didn't think I'd like it and I didn't want to like it, but my college boyfriend got obsessed with it around the end of the 3rd season and made me sit through the mini-series. Which I fell for pretty hard in spite of myself, and wound up mainlining all three seasons over the course of, like, a month. Despite some of the disappointments of the last season in particular, that show had a DAMN good run. It was smart, had a fantastic ensemble cast, and posed really hard, uncomfortable, relevant questions. And it was the master of twists and shocking reveals. My only issue is that it's not a show I like rewatching much, only because the overall tone and outlook is so very bleak. BSG: not afraid of killing off characters you love. LOTS AND LOTS OF THEM.