I went off my Vitamin D supplements this past week and that was a mistake. If this next observation seems too harsh, chalk it up to lack of sunshine, butI defy you
I defy you, damnit!
I defy you
to watch the Christmas episodes of Modern Family and Happy Endings back-to-back and NOT begin to hate all of them and want to go Occupy something or volunteer at a homeless shelter. They make you despair for humanity, they make you hate Americalandia, they make you wish you had given blood the whole time you were watching those episodes, they make you hate yourself. I did also watch them immediately after our December dept meeting so that might have something to do with it but I'll go out on a limb and say that these two television episodes combined, 44 short minutes, can ruin the Season for anyone at anytime, Period.
It might also be that the day before I watched the MF/HE despair trap, I experienced what I think might have been the single best episode of a series EVAH. I don't even say that lightly because I LOVE television and there have been some massive series. Can anything ever touch The Wire? Can anything ever recapture Buffy? Or Battlestar Galactica? Or Six Feet Under? Or Dead Like Me? No, the answer is no.
But for one single episode of pure, pure perfection I nominate: Breaking Bad, Season 3, Episode 10, Fly. Seriously, seriously, seriously. Do you remember how awesome it was in The Wire when McNulty and Bunk figure out what happened at a crime scene but just saying "Fuck" back and forth to one another the entire time? It's that level of awesome, only for a whole episode. But here's the thing: you can't just watch the Fly episode and get it. You have to build up to it, you have to watch everything that came before it and then when that episode hits it's INCREDIBLE. The first two seasons are good but the series really becomes something transcendent in Season 3. I haven't watched Season 4 yet, mostly because I just want to hold onto Season 3 for a bit longer. I might watch it again before going on.
I also highly recommend buying an advent calendar, preferrably one with as much chocolate content as possible.
Update on my stairwell: yep, still smeared with the dog poop. But the poop is losing its potency so some Swiffer work might be a thinkable solution for later today.
Ugh, just watched Happy Endings against your advice. WTF. Am perversely committed to watching MF now, too. WHYYYY, WORLD????? :(
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I've never seen breaking bad, but I'd like to submit a nomination in the great episode category: "Community" season 3, episode 10 "Regional Holiday Music." Call it research for my new job at the community college, but this is my show d'jour and (again, maybe it's my renewed cynicism given my employment prospects) but it cracks me up. I've only seen random episodes in season 3 and then the first four of season 1 on DVD, but this episode is by far the best--and does not require much context outside of what one can glean from the episode itself.
ReplyDeleteCommunity is easily the smartest show on network tv. Breaking Bad is probably the best written novel as tv-show on cable tv. You are in for a real treat with season 4.
ReplyDeleteCommunity is genius for sure. Because it's true. I haven't seen this Season 3 wonderful episode! I don't think it's made its way to Canada yet in the Netflix (I know, don't ask). I'm so glad that Season 4 of BB delivers!
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