Favorite Television This Week

 

Snow killed Sister Ruth's son. She dealt out righteous biblical justice upon him. Go Sister Ruth. Bad ass preacher of the prairies. I can't believe that Cullen will let her be hanged for a justifiable homicide. Knowing what I do about Ruth and her past, I so wish I could be her lawyer. I would get her off with an apology from the judge for ever daring to bring charges in the first place. Who else but Durant could defend her? Two more episodes to work out this latest challenge. I don't want Ruth to leave the program.

 

 

I am unbelievably happy to read that in addition to the rest of this season, there will be a FIFTH glorious season of my beloved Hell On Wheels. If you haven't been watching you are missing out on a show that will be talked about in the same breadth as Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead, both more high profile AMC shows. Hell on Wheels can hold it's own with those other groundbreaking dramas. Saving it for Saturday night was also a stroke of genius. There is NOTHING good on any of the channels at Saturday night - well except for COPS and Doctor Who when I used to watch that program (my feelings on Doctor Who this year is it's own post).

The Good Wife is still very good and the best written weekly drama on television. Better than the slow and ponderous HOMELAND. Claire Daines is really starting to wear on my last nerve for all the dumb decisions she has made. How she keeps working in the CIA after all her major fails is beyond me but kinda explains why America screwed the pooch in Iraq.

 

TRUE TELEVISION CONFESSIONS

I can't watch the last four episodes of Boardwalk Empire despite my reverence for that program. I never missed a week until this month. I can't let it go but I have to know how everything ends up for all the characters I have followed for years. But it will hurt so much when it's over.

I haven't watched the Walking Dead this season and I totally bailed on last season as well. I found the whole thing to be so relentless sad (and not sad like I like - this was hopelessly sad) and I couldn't go through the emotions. The show is so well done and so effective on one's emotions and psychie that I can't take it. I thought saving up whole seasons would make it easier for me because I wouldn't have to wait a week to now that happened. But I have never gotten back to those. I can't do it.

Game of Thrones I am illiterate about. Don't ask me anything about it. I know nothing.

I have never seen an episode of Mad Men or Dexter.

I only watched the first two episodes of this new season of Doctor Who. I need to be convinced it will not continue to be a waste of my time after the beginning of the season was so very weak. I have stopped liking Clara and that doesn't sit well with me.