Tonight is the first Monk-less night for Sam and I in about two years or so. There were one hundred and twenty five episodes of Monk, so allowing for the occasional missed Friday night, it actually would be closer to two and a half years. Then again, I'm not sure we ever missed a Friday night, so let's just call it two years and move on.
I've struggled to come up with another show that might be fun (and semi-appropriate) for both Sam and I to watch and I haven't come up with anything that clicks on the hundred watt light bulb. So, I've decided to settle for the forty watt bulb and we're going to give the old MacGyver show a shot.
This show was on back in the mid-eighties, and though I never watched it, apparently some people had. It lasted seven seasons - so how bad could it be? Then again, Dukes of Hazzard was on for seven seasons too, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't make it past the opening. (No offence, Dukes of Hazzard fan(s).)
I wanted to go with something a little bit different, anyway. If I tried to find something in the same vein as Monk, I'm sure we (me) would fail miserably and we (Sam) would be making even more unfavorable comparisons than we possibly might be already.
So, we'll give this a try - for three weeks or so, and see how it goes. I hope this works out. I already bought the complete series a while back (Lightning Deal!) and I just read the box. It consists of 139 episodes (plus special features!) on a total of thirty-nine disks.
We may have to give it longer than three weeks.
2 comments:
Maybe you could buy the complete series of Monk.
Then you could emulate Craig Lancaster's Edward Stanton, who had a similar attachment to Dragnet. Edward would watch one episode each night until he had watched all ninety eight, then begin again.
Well, I already own the complete set, so I'm part way there. Watching them all over again, perhaps not nightly, is a plan I've seriously considered.
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