[Friends season 10 - I started with this back at the first broadcast. It lost its special place after a couple of seasons and I stopped watching it around season 5 or so. A couple of years ago I bought and resold some seasons on Ebay. I decided now it was time to just see the rest and be done with it. Now hat I have seen it I can say that if you liked the show before, it's not a bad idea to finish it out. If not, it's just a sitcom.
Oddly, one of my favourite seasons, especially for the vast amount of excellent Chandler/Monica stuff (I still say that should have been the spin off too).
Grey's Anatomy - Season 1 - We like to have some light weight TV shows around for nights when we're just sort of tired. This one fits the bill. Take ER move it to the surgical intern program and make it a little more touchy-feely. Hardly a show went by where one of the interns didn't do something that would have gotten their license revoked, but it's small touches kept us interested.
This actually gets a lot better as it goes on. The focus moves off Meredith and it becomes an ensemble piece with some really strong characters. That being said I still think the Scrubs gag ('I'm just going to go home and watch Grey's Anatomy' 'I LOVE that show! It's like they filmed our lives!') holds.
Re watched Cloverfield recently, which I actually liked a lot better the second time around (Although that may well be due to the colour commentary from Kate. We established, quickly, that at the first tremor? We'd have been downstairs, in a cab, heading as far as we could in the other direction:))
Also making my way through From The Earth To The Moon, the Tom Hanks produced mini-series about, mostly, the Apollo program. It's as startlingly good now as it was the first time I saw it, with a cast of very nearly every great character actor working today. The standouts in the first half remain the episode about Apollo 1 and it's aftermath which is very difficult to sit through for all the right reasons and the episode following the engineers who had to construct the LEM. That one's very odd and very funny.
For work I've also just sat through Edge of Darkness again. Which is the greatest piece of TV drama of the last thirty years.
Seriously.
It follows Ronald Craven, a Yorkshire CID officer in the mid-80s as he struggles to understand the reasons behind the brutal murder of his daughter. As he struggles to come to terms with it, it's connection to his past and the secrets his daughter kept from him, Craven is drawn into a conspiracy involving nuclear power, the British Intelligence Services, a CIA agent called Darius Jedburgh and an activist organisation called GAIA. It sits, perfectly, on the boundary line between horror, thriller and science fiction is relentlessly smart, very funny and is as much a study in one man's attempts to cope with grief as it is a conspiracy story. It's unmissably good.
