Saturday, November 13, 2010

Criminal Minds: how did I miss this?

I never watch television.  I mean never...until recently.  You see, my new roommate Jennifer introduced me to a show called Criminal Minds.  Holy Cow!  Last night, I watched 4 straight episodes of this show - now you must understand that my husband was conked out asleep on the couch (sitting up, quite impressive), Jennifer was at work, and I was holding Sarah and carefully monitoring her out-of-control fever outta nowhere that cropped up in the wee hours of the morning Friday.  But passing the time watching really smart sexy people use their cunning brain skills to catch the bad guy made for a whopping good time!
It isn't that I have anything against television, it's just that I don't like fiction.  I don't like sit-coms or reality shows or cartoons or infomercials.  I don't like re-runs of old-ass shows that weren't good the first time around either.  I used to like Days of Our Lives but then the plot got so slow I could keep up by watching a half dozen episodes a year so I just quit altogether.  I don't like to watch sports, save Georgia football, and I don't like MTV or VH1.  I certainly don't like wrestling or obscure documentaries about tools used thousands of years ago by early ape-like humans. 
However, I do PAY for television.  Odd as it may seem, my husband is a television addict (certified) and I've enabled his nasty habit for years now by shelling out the cash to subscribe.  It's too bad he hasn't taken the initiative to go on some t.v. trivia gameshow to win some money.  Anyway, in the last couple of weeks since I've starting watching this totally amazing show, I know he dreads seeing me come into the room with that "lemme have that remote mister" look on my face.  Too bad.  I'd say fifteen years of getting to watch whatever he wanted is enough.  It's time I finally felt like I was getting my money's worth on my cable bill!
If you haven't had the time or energy to catch this show, do yourself the favor.  It's pretty darn cool.  Also in it's 6th season, so I am embarrassed to have not caught on to this until now, however excited that I can now spend hours upon hours catching up on all the action!  I even checked out the online store for cool stuff but only found the DVDs and a t-shirt that I wouldn't wear.  I'm not buying the DVDs because while it would make sense to watch them in order to follow the storyline a bit better, I finally can justify spending mucho dollars on my cable service.  C'mon now.  Let's all breathe a big sigh of relief.  I know I feel better.
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/criminal_minds/

3 comments:

WritingsForLife said...

My boyfriend has been asking me to do the same. I really have to watch this show :-)

finding_my_voice said...

I love that show! It's one of my favorites. :-)

Beverley Herd said...

i love the show to! especially the show with the canibal, and the guy who took out people eyes!!! awsome and i live in geroria to! cool!