tv rots your brain

There's a lot of good TV on.  There's also quite a bit of crap.  I never really watched a lot of TV and then I started working nights (and there were no DVRs then) so I just didn't watch anything.  I read instead and that was okay.  Then I was in a car accident and I stayed with my parents while I got better and they watched a bunch of stuff.  So I got hooked.

When I met Ray I watched CSI (Vegas), Criminal Minds and Rescue Me.  There were a few others, but I don't think they're even on TV anymore.  Now I watch a lot more TV, but it takes me forever to watch it.  I get distracted by books or video games or just something else.  And when I see the list of shows on the DVR that I have to watch I have the indescribable urge to just stop watching everything.

Every once in awhile I'll do that.  I did it with Rescue Me, CSI: Miami, House, Brother's & Sisters, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, etc.  Generally something (or someone) will start to bug me and I just stop watching.  Or I get bored with it.  Or I get so behind I can't imagine sitting for 10 hours catching up so I dump it.

There are certain shows that no matter how bad they've gotten I've stuck with them.  The best example of this?  CSI.  I LOVED Grissom.  He was the best part of that show.  Warrick was second best and Sarah was third.  When they were all gone and I was left with Katherine, Greg and Nick I thought all was lost.  And then Laurence Fishburne joined the cast and I wanted to stab someone at CBS.  Worst decision ever.  But I stuck with it and weathered the awful storm that was a not-cool-at-all-Morpheus.  And then they said he was leaving and I high-fived myself.  Then they said Ted Danson was joining the cast and I thought 'well crap, I guess this is the last season I watch CSI.'

But so far, since Grissom left this has been the best season of CSI.  Ted Danson is AWESOME.

So see how that worked out?

Here's my list:

1. castle
2. once upon a time
3. modern family
4. pan am
5. the big bang theory
6. how i met your mother
7. csi
8. csi: ny
9. criminal minds
10. blue bloods
11. the mentalist
12. 30 rock
13. grimm
14. the office
15. parenthood
16. up all night
17. smash (i WILL be watching this one)
18. alcatraz
19. bones
20. fringe
21. glee
22. new girl
23. the finder
24. terra nova
25. raising hope
26. vampire diaries
27. secret circle
28. touch (hasn't started yet)
29. being human
30. true blood
31. lost girl (saw one episode, will probably watch more)
32. warehouse 13
33. haven

That is depressing.  Supposedly, Pan Am, Fringe & Terra Nova are getting cancelled so that's three shows I won't be watching.  I've got to whittle this list down some.  I was going to ditch The Mentalist when he killed Red John, but I forgot to remove it from the record list and automatically started watching it and found out he didn't kill Red John.  Hmmm.  The Office and 30 Rock haven't been making me laugh too much, but I think that's about it.  I could probably dump Vampire Diaries and Secret Circle, but I probably won't.  So that's a lot of TV.

I'm doomed.