So a while back one of my favorite sports columnists, Bill Simmons, defined a good TV show or movie as one where you don't look at your watch when you watch it, and you're not ready for it to end. Well I had not encountered too many shows like that. Really the only one that I can remember before this year was the Soprano's. Well that is over, I now have 2 shows like that: Mad Men and Friday Night Lights.
Mad Men was so entrancing that not only was I not ready for any episode to end, when the season ended I wasn't ready, I had to go on the web site to find out that it was over. This was really just a great show and I can hardly wait for the next season.
Well up until recently I liked Friday Night Lights, a lot. But recently I have been recording the episodes and watching with Kim. Well this last week when the show was over, I was totally taken by surprise, I was so immersed in it that I didn't realize it had run it's full hour. The surprising thing is that Kim has now been sucked into the series and is watching it with me, when normally she doesn't care about any football unless it's the Broncos. But this show is not a football show, it just happens to involve football players. So I will continue to press people to take the time to watch it, you will not be sorry.
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