Here we are again, my friends. We’ve arrived in TV purgatory
for another year. That place between the excitement, stress and joy (or fury,
depending on your viewpoint) of a season finale, and the excitement, stress and
relief (or fury again, some more) of a season premiere. It’s a difficult time
for a fan. You feel empty. Directionless. Frustrated. Bored. You spend weeks
pouring over the finale for any clue to next season’s direction that you might
have missed. You have a ‘great idea’ to start watching the show right from the
beginning again, only this time you’ll note every important piece of character
information and put it all on a website. You read fanfic, write fanfic, and
complain that there’s no good fanfic. You make fan videos, argue with other fans
via whatever form of social media happens to be ‘hip’ at the time, and read all
the spoilers that the interwebs throw up. And when you’re done with all that,
it’s still only July.
You could fill your time by flirting with other shows.
There’s probably a stack of shows that people are always telling you that you have to watch. The Wire is
always on that list. So is Breaking Bad. And Deadwood. Justified, Mad Men,
Sherlock. “You haven’t seen Game of Thrones yet? Oh my God, you’ve got to watch Game of Thrones. It has all the incest,
boobs, dragons and dirty people going medieval on each other you can stand! And
you better be able to stand a lot of those things, because that’s, like,
literally all the show is. Total Emmy bait.”
But should you try to
fill your time with these shows? I don’t know. What are you asking me for? I
haven’t seen any of them. I swear they’re all on my list, but…you know. I’ve
just been so busy. And I expect I
will be for the entire TV season hiatus, because I’ve had another ‘great idea’
to recap old episodes of NCIS.
“NCIS? But…that’s not even on HBO.” I know it’s not. Get
over yourself, snootypants. It’s just for fun. And, okay, sometimes blind rage,
but lately…fun! And it’s not like I’m going to recap the episodes I hated.
Although you might hate them. But I can’t help that. You have you own weird
opinions and you’re entitled to them. But maybe you’ll enjoy the recaps anyway.
So stop by every now and then to read a new recap of an old
show. It might make TV purgatory easier to deal with.
Coming up first: season three’s Boxed In, wherein Tony and Ziva get stuck in a shipping
container.
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