fullSummer is supposed to be my off-season. There's no hockey, TV's supposed to be in reruns. I'm supposed to hit the gym in my eternal quest to lose weight (that I've never committed to, and thus have not been successful at) and screw around writing hockey fic.
Instead, I find myself watching baseball and this crop of summer television that's actually quite good!
I have my old favourites Rescue Me, The Closer, Monk, The 4400, Eureka, Hex and Kyle XY, but now I also have Painkiller Jane, Burn Notice, A Model Life (eee! Petra Nemcova!) and Side Order of Life (which is on Lifetime for the love of God!)
Of all of those shows, I'd have to say that the ones I really love are Kyle XY and Burn Notice. I'm kind of a sucker for shows about families and community and using sci-fi to make observations on human nature, so that explains Kyle XY. (Okay, so I do see the Kyle/Declan but I really really really see Kyle/Nicole, aka the adoptive mom. I know, I'm the only one who sees it, but that just makes me feel special!)
Burn Notice is pretty awesome. It's about a spy who got blacklisted, and ends up being stuck in Miami trying to figure out who blacklisted him so he can go back to work. In the meantime he takes several odd jobs, private investigator type stuff, and gets to use his skills to handle cases. It's got a great lead actor (Jeffrey Donovan, who used to be on Touching Evil) and a fun supporting cast: Bruce Campbell (from the Evil Dead movies) as a boozy ex-spy and Gabrielle Anwar as a crazy ex-IRA ex-gf.
I watched one episode of Burn Noticed and really liked it, but the main guy reminds me of someone I'd rather not think about so I can't watch it anymore lol
That's really too bad, but I understand how you feel. I've had to stay away from good movies before because I don't like the main actor in it (like Jack Black).
I also LOVE The Dead Zone. I'm glad the shows I like are new now, not during the season lol
It would be funny if we find out IRL they have a relationship. :P
I really, really liked the movie/idea (and stole one aspect of it for my first fic!) but don't know why I never started watching the TV series. I guess because I know what happens at the end, and it would make me sad every time I watched the show, even though that's silly.
See, that is why i never mention I like that show because then people begin to tell me about the moving and all that stuff and i get curious and want to know what happens, but then I dont ;)
In yesterday's episode Johnny was in another a coma and her kissed saved his life and blah blah blah so now that Walt is dead, and she's living with Johnny their relationship started to heat back up, I guess.
And seven years later when he woke up he went to see her and she slept with him, even though she was married and had a kid, because that's what was supposed to happen that night, and it never did, and I was really fascinated with that idea and stole it for Edelweiss. :)