It’s not often that Eyegal and I get hooked on a TV show. Usually, we’re much too busy in the evenings to become regulars at anything, but I can think of three times it’s happened in the past:<\/p>\n
1) Thirtysomething<\/em><\/a>. This was a show about angst-ridden yuppies in their 30s with young kids living in Philadelphia in the late 1980s. We watched this show during optometry school when we were poor twentysomethings who looked forward to the day when we would have enough money to be angst-ridden yuppies. It all looked so good at the time, but reality is rarely as good as the dream itself.<\/p>\n 2) Northern Exposure<\/em><\/a>. We watched this immediately after graduation when I was starting my career first as a resident then a staff doctor at a very busy ophthalmology clinic in Nashville. The show revolved around another young doctor who was sent off to isolated, quirky Cicely, Alaska to pay off his medical school debt. Most of the characters on the show were about our age (late 20s), and although roughing it in Nashville was not quite the same as doing it in the hinterlands of Alaska, we somehow could relate. Not all the shows were quality (some of the writing was pretty lame), but there is one episode involving pheromones and an itinerant optometrist making her rounds in the “Oculomobile” that was pure television-writing brilliance.<\/p>\n 3) The X-Files<\/em><\/a>. Another 90s classic that we just couldn’t get enough of. Numbers One and Two have memories of us throwing them and their younger brother in the playroom, shutting the door (with warnings to stay put NO MATTER WHAT), and retreating to the couch with a large tub of cheesy-popcorn to watch Mulder and Scully chase down aliens, government conspiracies and various and sundry paranormal phenomena. It never made a lot of sense to either of us, but it didn’t matter. We simply liked the fact that the show celebrated the theme that there was still, despite all the science and technology that dominate our lives, ample mystery out there to make life interesting and give it a little spice. My favorite episode is probably “Signs and Wonders,”<\/a> a Flannery O’Connor<\/a>-esque tale of a fundamentalist snake-handling preacher (ironically named O’Connor) and an oh-so-rational liberal mainline minister. The ending is about as twisted as a LA freeway cloverleaf–no way we saw that one coming.<\/p>\n So, what are we hooked on now? Well, thanks to Number One Son who tied us down and forced us to watch the first and second season on DVD before he went off to Bama, we now have a very bad Lost<\/a><\/em> habit. He even provided us with a link<\/a> that we could use to watch the third season online (which is not too bad really if you don’t mind all the Chinese subtitles). I was aware of the show and that many were excited about some of the religious and philosophical themes explored, but we had simply missed it with our busy schedule.<\/p>\n Boy, have we ever made up for lost time. Eyegal is a little disgruntled, though. She doesn’t think the show’s writers and producers have any idea where they’re going with all this and there are certain characters with whom she bonded who have not survived. Still, as we finished each episode in Season 3, she would always say, “Aw, come on, we’ve got time for another one.”<\/p>\n As for me? I’m totally Lost<\/em>. And entertained. It’s like The X-Files<\/em> all over again, only this time we don’t have to throw the kids in the playroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s not often that Eyegal and I get hooked on a TV show. 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