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February 10, 2008
Why Do We Get All the Crap Television?
I'll just say up front that having not "had television" for a bit over three years, it's possible - however unlikely - that TV's gotten hugely, way, lots better since I last checked.
But I doubt it.
Dawnise and watched the last episode on disc 4 of the 3rd (new) Season of Doctor Who. The three episodes on the disk - Human Nature, Family of Blood, and Blink - were all terrific. And Blink demonstrates yet again that Steven Moffat can be as creepifying as he can be funny.
We finished the evening by watching an episode of Torchwood, which I can't say is perfect, but is certainly better than most science fiction that sees the light of American TV.
And while watching the two-part Human Nature and Family of Blood, we were both struck by Harry Lloyd, and a bit of follow-up reading led me to the recent Robin Hood BBC series (which has been added to my Netflix queue, and promoted to near the top).
I wonder, he says aloud, if a "double-blind taste test" would find any difference in the quality of television content during the writers strike. The cynic in me doubts it...
Posted by dberger at February 10, 2008 9:24 PM
Comments
I'll tell ya, there is definitely a big difference in quality for The Daily Show and the Colbert Report during the strike. Can't really attest to anything else, everything else I watched (which was . . . probably just Pushing Daisies, which you'll like I think) got cancelled.
Posted by: Titus at February 11, 2008 6:56 AM