I'm only following two active shows, Parks and Rec and Breaking Bad.
Breaking Bad is good stuff, it's amazes me that they've made that show as appealing as it is. I can't think of a show as thoughtful and entertaining as BB that does as much with as little as they have. Which is to say, on paper you'd think it's just awful, there's nothing "sexy" at all about the show. Other critical darlings at least had some curb appeal: Sopranos had mafia, goombahs, that kind of bullshit, the Wire had cops, drugs, a message, but BB is just a selfish high school teacher turned murderer/meth stooge. There's nothing else to it, the show is that sparse, and the producers take pride in setting everything in these barren New Mexican vistas to reflect that. It's a beautiful show to watch, they uncoil each character for every ugly turn.
As for PNR, NBC's doing their damnedest to get me to ditch Parks and Rec. The scheduling still eludes me, so I flip the TV on every now and then to see if PNR is on yet -- yep, living in pre-DVR times when it comes to TV over here. Anyhow, last Thursday, EVERY SINGLE BLOCK was The Office. An entire night of The Office, 3 flipping hours. WTF is NBC's problem?
I'm always surprised that there isn't a Parks and Rec thread in the OT subforum. I was guilty of threadbombing the Office thread a few times with PNR posts in the mid-season of PNR S2, just because it was clear the show was becoming honest, good-natured, goofy fun. I've since reformed my Office threadbombing ways, but it would be cool to chat up PNR around here.
