What were the last TV shows you watched?

[topperharley]

Don't you like yourself, silly? Or did you lose a bet?

[sillystou]

C'mon, season 4 isn't that bad! It sure as hell better than season 2 or 3...

[Pbateman]

Going through season 4 of Married with Children, it's always been a guilty pleasure of mine, Al Bundy is my hero. (No not really, that would be very, very sad). Similar to how The Simpsons evolved, season 4 is when the show really kicked into gear.

[FujiSkunk]

Here's a guilty pleasure for you. I've been watching recent episodes of "General Hospital."

Why?

James Franco.

Franco is an established star in Hollywood, appearing in the Raimi-directed Spiderman trilogy, Pineapple Express, and the upcoming Eat Pray Love. And yet, not only did he willingly accept a guest spot on a daytime soap opera, he actually jumped at the chance to do. Knowing viewers would see him pretty much as himself and not as any soap character he tried to play, he and the soap writers decided to blur the lines between reality and fiction, turning him into a performance artist named Franco, someone who likes creating works of art that blur the lines between "reality" and "fiction." Oh yeah, he also likes killing people.

I used to be more of a soap fan, and for a few years I followed "The Young and the Restless" fairly consistently. But the constant recycling of who's-sleeping-with-who storylines and the Dragonball-Z-esque pacing eventually made me decide there were better things to do. Even so, watching Franco has been delicious. And I realized an irony. A real-life person inserting himself, and yet not quite himself, into a fictional setting (hopefully it's safe to assume the real Franco doesn't have the same mean streak) is one of the hallmarks of really bad fan fiction. But when it's done right, boy can it be a lot of fun, and the lines really do blur.

Take his latest story, for example. Franco kidnapped a newborn, staged a diversion in the form of a massive set piece and performance at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, faked his own death, and then gave the baby to his mother as a way of making up for his own troublemaking childhood. While I haven't seen the latest episodes yet (I'm a week behind), I really want him to get away with it. I want to see him reach into this world of selfish A-types, mix things up, put the fear of God into the whole populace, then rescue this child before the poor thing is forced to age 18 years in 2 months and become yet another self-centered back-stabbing (but handsome!) socialite.

It's a silly thing to root for, of course, but Franco has made it a treat. A guilty treat, full of empty calories, but a treat just the same.

[CPT BJ]

I was watching a few episodes of 'Miami Ink' yesterday

[ultimatespidey81]

gonna watch lie to me tonight then the gordon ramsey mini-marathon tomorrow.

is anyone out there watching the gates? its got two chicks(rhona mitra & marisol nichols) that i find really hot and was wondering if the story is worth it at all...

[jayou521]

Covert Affairs on USA is my favorite new TV series. I've also started watching Rubicon on AMC. Looks promising so far, but it's too early to tell whether it will be up to par with the quality of their other original series.

[BevoTheWarrior]

I just finished all 3 seasons of Deadwood and I'm a little pissed off. The show is amazing but the entire third season just kept ramping up and up and there wasn't really any pay off - it just kinda stopped. Does anyone know if they were aware that the third season was the last or did they think they were getting renewed?

[Der_Lex]

I just finished all 3 seasons of Deadwood and I'm a little pissed off. The show is amazing but the entire third season just kept ramping up and up and there wasn't really any pay off - it just kinda stopped. Does anyone know if they were aware that the third season was the last or did they think they were getting renewed?

They didn't know. Not sure if agree with you on there not being a payoff, though, I thought it was a good way to end the season (but not the series, I'll grant you that).

Still one of the best TV series ever made, though. And Ian McShane as Al Swearengen is one of the greatest characters ever.

[BevoTheWarrior]

They didn't know. Not sure if agree with you on there not being a payoff, though, I thought it was a good way to end the season (but not the series, I'll grant you that).

Still one of the best TV series ever made, though. And Ian McShane as Al Swearengen is one of the greatest characters ever.

I completely agree with you. I just felt like there wasn't any real closure so I suspected that they probably didn't know that they weren't being renewed. It just really bugs me when a tv show doesn't get to end properly.