Television is important to me

04Oct11

Let’s discuss some tv!

Hawaii Five-0. Great love story, or greatest love story? Seriously, they are in love.

Person of Interest. This is a very good show if you imagine Michael Emerson is Oracle and Jim Caveziel is Huntress. And I do.

A Gifted Man. Yes, I watched this. I’m getting a head start on ages 50-75, when I will watch CBS exclusively. Anyway, I am not sure if this is good or not. I am going to keep watching it for a few reasons:
1. Patrick Wilson is handsome, and successful neurosurgeons on TV are sexy.
2. I like shows where we are shown people being very good at their jobs. You know how a lot of shows will just tell you, “House is an amazing diagnostician,” but you feel like if that were true he would be better at diagnosis? It takes him forever! And he seems to run a lot of intrusive tests that later turn out to have been useless. Lawyer shows do this too – “he’s amazing in court!” but I can hear him talking in court and he is not good at it! And I think he forgot to depose the witnesses.
Dr. Patrick Wilson is actually a good surgeon, and I know because they showed him removing a brain tumor and performing a caesarean at the same fucking time! Love it!
3. I like the grouchy assistant he couldn’t live without. I like it on every show!

There are some big negatives, though:
A. Ugh, ghost of ex wife? Gag.
B. Said ghost has a very annoying smile.
C. I don’t like the free clinic full of poor but noble people who just need this rich guy to help them out. Get a grant! Partner with a hospital! Raise some funds! You can make it without him! I don’t like the other side of it either, where the poor but noble people can teach the rich guy about being kind and so on. I don’t think there is a correlation between wealth and moral fiber, so shut up, show!