Two TV programs currently being shown on British TV are occupying a lot of my viewing time, and both by accident. Im fairly difficult to please, the last show that blew my socks off was Firefly, but this blog isnt about that show. SteveD does a better review of each episode, far and above anything I could attempt.
Okay Show 1 is Futurama - this is a show that has taken me nearly 8 years to actually enjoy watching. When I first saw it, I thought it was a Simpsons ripoff, the same stories but set in space, but I was wrong. Here is a show that is more culturally aware, and is able to be more cutting and scathing in its attacks, but get away with it because it is a "cartoon". It is witty, smart, intelligent, makes remarks about our society that we live in and gets away with murder. It is almost as if Matt Greonig made the Simpsons to finance this show.
Show 2 is Scrubs - a far cry from anything I normally would ever watch. But it has a clever script, smart cast and a wonderful set of on-going jokes (JD and the janitor, JD and Cox), plus it has some of the weird sureal scenes ever seen on a mainstream comedy series.
Futurama is a Sky 3 on Freeview on Sunday afternoons
Scrubs is on during the day on Channel 15 on Freeview, but I only get to watch it at the weekends.
Watch em and let me know what you think?
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