TV Junkie

OH MY God!!! I love television! I mean I am totally hooked without reservation. I can no longer fake that I am that serious writer and that I sit around everyday writing this serious stuff about the world. Which I do….sometimes….but not nearly as much as I’ve been watching television. I mean I was denying myself for years by only watching things like CNN, PBS and Wild Kingdom with an occasional series watcher of Buffy or the Wire thrown in cause someone else suggested I would enjoy it. And I would for the most part but never really finding that show on my own. Of course I would watch other shows but usually all at once on dvd’s I picked up from Scarecrow Videos and always cause someone else suggested it. That was until I was stuck on the couch and ran out things to search on the internet that I started really watched TV. I mean there are some really good things to look at. Stories that take you for a ride and stories you can get all involved in. I started out by watching Weeds on Showtime and now I am watching Californication. Damn. I know I’m hooked because I am alone, laughing out loud, at five in the morning. I don’t know when this happened, was it The Unit that got to me first or was it my Sunday ritual of watching Brothers and Sisters, which reminds me of my brothers and sisters, none of us could keep a secret either and there is always a discussion on something or someone going on. It could have been those damn decorating shows on HGTV and Fine Living channels. Then I begin to contemplate whether or not I am becoming my mother. She watches a lot of television. So much so that if I called her right now and tell her I lost my left hand in an accident she would tell compare that to one of the characters from the Young and Restless. I almost always have to discern if she is talking about an actual family member or not. But how can I complain about it if I am hooked myself? I mean I watched The Wire so faithfully I was angry when it ended enough to write the network about the audacity of them taking my show off the air. I want to blame Bob since he always been a huge TV watcher. He can quote original lines from Star Trek and Bonanza any day of the week. He can tell you the history of most shows along with the actors lives. Like my mother he loves TV. But I could blame him right? After all it was his hustling skills that gave all the channels on cable and he is the one that encourages faithful watching. “You going to watch your show tonight, Dear” is a regular refrain in our lexicon. What I am supposed to do? Say No? That is not showing loyalty. So I watch with happy glee and wait for the next show or series. Somewhere my sons are jumping for joy. The years without TV or limited television are over. They can come home assured that whatever show they want to watch will be here waiting for them On Demand or in DVD form. They won’t have to work as hard to convince me to check out some show with them. Chances are I already know about it and have recommended it to some of my friends. Well, there you go. Deneen hooked on television. My sons will think that this is great news but somehow I got to get away from the madness and find that serious writer again…but not today…I have to watch Entourage and Fringe. Maybe next month….