Attack of the Series I: My Monday-Night Show

I missed wanting to go home before 9 p.m. every Monday night to be on time for Charmed. Although I know that I can watch it on DVDs, there’s still something exciting about scheduling your time to catch your favorite show and doing everything to fit the TV show on your schedule (not finishing work, not attending parties, not talking to anyone hehe). This I did for a long period, I guess to have something to look forward to every week.

But there are other TV shows that I had to refrain myself not to watch on TV, not because I hate the show but because I love it so much! These are the shows that one episode is a big NO CAN DO, these are the shows that make me want to go home early (around 4 p.m.) and sleep early (2 a.m.) hehe. These are House, 24, and Naruto.

Just last year, I decided to watch Friends to, well, make me smile before I sleep, and true enough, it’s a very funny show. I watched several episodes every night when I come home from the office until I finished all the seasons, even my mom got hooked with Rachel Greene and Ross Geller’s long and winding love story.

Lately, I’ve “discovered” the three CSIs, and I watch them every time they’re being shown on AXN or Foxcrime, usually CSI followed by CSI Miami. I think they’re not the latest seasons, but they definitely are new to me. I do not go home early nor decline attending a party for these shows yet, but my time at home is better spent watching them than any other shows in their timeslot. I found the technological advancements of CSI fascinating, making me wish we had an agency like that here (or do you think SOCO qualifies?). Similarly to Jack Bauer and Gregory House, I admire the cunning brilliance of the agents: They can tell what the last meal of the dead victim was or the weight loss pills that were mixed to sedative that created a deadly chemical reaction. That insatiable hunger for knowledge and obsessive search for truth are attitudes appealing to me.

I’m also starting to watch Numb3rs. I’m never good in math, but sometimes I feel I understand the complex equations explaining or predicting a circumstance or person’s actions. Oftentimes, I pretend I understand. hehe.