I know I keep harping on this point, but I'm just constantly amazed at how much good TV is on these days. I've been trying to keep myself from having too many shows, because even with a DVR, it's still hard to find time to watch stuff. There are several shows I'm sure I'd like that I just decided to stay away from. It's just great how great TV is now. Since the old way of doing business as a TV network is slowly becoming seriously anachronistic (with DVRs, downloadable episodes, and lots of people just waiting for the DVD to come out so they don't have to watch commercials or wait a week to find out what happens next), they are having to become more experimental and their shows are, too. Do you think Lost would have even gotten on the air 10 years ago? Maybe, but only if someone with a "name" like David Lynch was attached, which is how an ahead of it's time show like Twin Peaks got on air. Anyway, shows like Lost are not only breaking new ground as series, but as narratives. They switch point of view, storylines, and characters like pros (that makes sense, since they are pros), changing the method in which the story unravels from episode to episode, and keeping us wanting more even though we know the final payoff is at least a couple of years down the road. Veronica Mars has taken the concept of a season long arc and turned it in to the greatest stories ever on TV. House started out as a pretty standard and formulaic medical procedural and has somehow managed to become so much more, while still just a procedural from first glance. Las Vegas is ingenious in its use of the surreal, Nip/Tuck makes me nauseous both from the surgery scenes and the actions of the depraved characters, Monk might be the best mystery of the week show ever, and while Battlestar Galactica might occur in space, the storylines and character development are as high quality as any drama that has ever been on TV, no matter the setting.

It's a great time to be a TV nut. Too bad I have so much less time for it than I used to. Probably a good thing :)