Friday Top 5: Geekrific Summer TV
Jason
Friday
1:34 pm
This week marks the time when most of our favorite television shows come to a close for their seasons, not to be seen again until the fall (unless you count reruns). But there are are some of the great gems of television sitting around during the summer if you need your original television fix.
So this week, as a little guide to summer television, I give to you, my top five geekrific tv series you should be watching this summer.
5) True Blood (HBO)
Admittedly I have not seen a single episode of the show. But everyone around me keeps telling me that I need to watch this show and that the first season was amazing. Who am I to pass up some good vampire drama? So not only will I get to watch the first season, I get to move directly into the second season without having to wait nine months like everyone else had to. Suckers!
4) Merlin (NBC)
Those across the pond in the UK have already been privy to the first season, and based upon their viewing habits, a season two has already been given the thumbs up. But we crazy Americans get first viewing in a couple of weeks. Don’t tell anyone, but I have seen the first couple of episodes of the show which shows a teenage Merlin learning the ropes around Camelot. Decent show with a good twist on the existing Arthurian lore. Plus magic! Can’t go wrong with magic.
3) Eureka (SyFy)
Eureka has really grown on me over its couple of season. And this summer, SyFy is finishing up with the second half on the third season. The show itself has really evolved since the first season as well and has really become a nice character driven show that can be quite funny as it plays with its community of geniuses. And the basic premise that being the smartest does not always lead to success really sets up its lead character Sheriff Jack Carter very well.
2) Burn Notice (USA)
Learn how to be the best spy you can be in just under an hour! Maybe a be formulaic and a bit repetitive, but how can you pass up on a show with the legend himself, Mr. Bruce Campbell. And he is not even the lead character. Another show with explosions, technology, female eye candy, spies and guns….it really is a great formula to the geekrific tag.
1) Psych (USA)
Normally I am not one for your basic procedural shows. Crimes happen. They get solved. Technology changes. They still catch the bad guy. But you add in a fake psychic and some slapstick humor, and you get a show I will not miss. And with no real serial nature to the show, you do not get bogged down in storyline and what happened in the past, and questioning continuity. It is a show you really can just sit back, relax and laugh to.
There are others floating around out there, like new series Primeval and Warehouse 13, but unknown quanities get to play here!
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Reader Comments
So the other five geeks left it up to you again, hmmm? Was there too much tossing of objects in the boardroom where y’all shout out your favorites? >;)
I like “True Blood,” but as with the books, the story should get better now that we have S1 under our belts. I just really hope the show stays around long enough to have a chance to bring more of the books to life—and to give Mr. Big Bad Sheriff of Area 5, Eric Northman, more time on screen. In my opinion, he is one of the most delightful characters I’ve ever read in any series.
I’m not likely to watch Merlin, given the whole teenage aspect, and I’ve only seen about 10 minutes of Eureka. It looks like quirky fun, but wasn’t something in which I chose to invest time, and now I’m too far behind to even think of trying to catch up. If I had a dollar for every show I have been told that I should watch on DVD….
I will catch Burn Notice and Psych when I have the chance. I’m sure I’ll end up missing at least half of the episodes, but I find that works out OK.
BTW, the word on the street is that Fox is leaning toward renewing “Dollhouse.” I’ve never seen the show, but for anyone who is into it, here’s a bit of good news:
http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/05/dollhouse-second-season.html
Yeah, I’m ready for more True Blood. And I think we’ll see another couple seasons, Amber, unless it falls off the map. It did well last year, at any rate. I’m hoping for more depth from Eric Northman — he just seemed a little “Lost Boys” scary-vampire monochromatic for me in the TV series.
That’s pretty much how Book One goes as well. Eric doesn’t start developing into the amusing character he is until Book Two.
We through so much stuff we broke the stained glass window of Fat Lee Adama, so we took a break and had to clean up. Glass fat is still gross. The Geek6 will be back very soon.
*finds self unable to shake the image of Fat Lee Adama stained glass*