American TV

So it's back to the purile ramblings on life in North America. We have slipped easily into American TV since Christmas and have a busy daily schedule! Yes, forty minutes of action crammed into every hour... I may sound a little derisory as I prattle on, but I really do like all of these shows...
Monday is obviously still 24 night, Jack Bauer takes on the whole of America this time round, how are they going to better this in the next three seasons? Every week he screams into the camera "This is bigger than anything we imagined" and "We're running out of time!" This is followed by Prison Break - totally addictive, totally ridiculous.
Tuesday it's The Unit, fearful pap, truly horrendously scripted macho rubbish about "The Unit", a crack army team lead by Dennis Haysbert (President Palmer no less from 24) who do dirty jobs to protect the American way of life and all that. It's not just about shooting gun though, for the ladies, we get a look and the "life of the wife", the spouses of the Unitees - lead by the "Godmother" - wife of Unit leader and twice as scary. Don't think this one will be back for a second season. This is followed by the awesome House with Hugh Laurie in an American accent, he's brilliant, obnoxious and can cure anything!
Wednesday, recently move from Tuesday is The Amazing Race - a race around the world for a million dollars, BJ and Tyler are my team, the Hippies. They were almost eliminated in Greece this week when they drove for over an hour in completely the wrong direction. I thought it would mentally challenging as well as physically. Apart from assembling a motorbike though it's really just been a lot of running and carrying coupled with some shouting and crying (crying is compulsory on TV here). Then we have Heist with Dougray Scott of MI2 fame doing the second fake American accent of the week. This is brilliant too, the makers have obviously been watching too many Kudos productions as it resembles Hustle right down to the camera work. Finally we come to Lost on a Wednesday, a load of plane crash survivors try to get by on a mysterious island which, whilst I love the show, is turning some people a bit obsessive... Take a look at some of the posts and conjecture on the Lost Forum to see what I mean, in particular posts like these.
So that's Monday to Wednesday, Thursday to Sunday will follow tomorrow... That will be American Inventor, Without a Trace, ER, In Justice, Desperate Housewives and The Soprano's.
It's good to be back even if no one reads...