2007 - The year in television
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[2007](.) | [movies](movies) | [music](music) | [tv](tv) | [the rest](other)

There is so much awesome TV on that I have trouble finding the
time to watch it. My favourite shows are definitely "Dancing With
the Stars", "Are you smarter than a fifth grader?", "America's Next Top
Model", "The Biggest Loser".... c'mon! 

I guess my point is
that it is interesting to be living in a time where TV is producing some
of the best content ever, but the really popular shows are 
complete crap.

Top of the crop
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I could list a bunch of shows as favourites, but two stand out from
the rest. 

Despite having no interest whatsoever in American Football, I loved
*Friday Night Lights*. The show isn't really about football, it's
about the community of a small town in Texas that is brought 
together by its obsession with highschool football. I find the characters
so realistic that I actually cried three times in the first
season (the shame!). The stars are coach Eric Taylor and his wife
Tami, who are played so realistically by Kyle Chandler and Connie
Britton that I often forget they are not really married.

Not enough people watch the show and it was in danger of not
being renewed. This scares me. I (almost) couldn't live without
it.

Next on the awesome list is *Dexter*, a show about a serial killer
that only kills bad people. For a while I felt uncomfortable 
identifying so strongly with a serial killer, but I've given up
worrying - Dexter is my soul mate. If, dear reader, you one day
wake up to see my name plastered in the national papers you can
trace it back to this show.

The rest of the great
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I was overjoyed to find that *Curb Your Enthusiasm* and the wacky
adventures of Larry David came back for their sixth season. This
provided the best character on this year's TV, Uncle Leon, who
also had the best (NSFW) quotes of the year:

> You get in that ass Larry!

> I gotta fuck you up Larry.

> Gerbil got in the elevator, hit 'up' and went up your asshole?

They probably make no sense without context, but he really said
some amazing stuff during the season. 
I really hope Curb comes back for a seventh season with Leon Black.

Other hits:

+ *Chuck*, which isn't perfect but it grew on me. It has lots of
  nods to nerddom and a great soundtrack (using Spoon in consecutive episodes).
  
+ *House* for showing that you really only need Hugh Laurie. I like
  the original supporting cast, but he's making them look 
  unnecessary.

+ *Heroes* which has always been ridiculous and is starting to 
  completely suck, but I have some hope.
  
+ *Veronica Mars* is missed -- I'm still upset the show is over, especially
  considering Kristen Bell is now a superstar.
  
+ *The Office* for getting Jim and Pam together and showing us Dwight's
  beet farm and cousin Mose.

+ *Lost* for the greatest episode ever and allowing me to be completely
  invested in its fake reality (the opposite of Heroes)

Next, the [rest of my rambling](other), and if you're reading backwards you'll head
to my year in [music](music).