Life

We don't watch a ton of TV or anything, but it is nice to have a show or two that you like and can look forward to. It kind of gets you through the week - "only two more days until X show is on!"

American Idol was like that for about one season. And then they ran out of talented people to be on it the year after Carrie Underwood won.

We had a run of a couple of years with The Amazing Race as well. But I kinda hate the host of that show and so we stopped that as well.

Survivor has been a longtime favorite - but we're kind of off and on with that one even though every season is pretty much the same. However, making fun of Jeff Probst never gets old. It's been tough to watch consistently since we moved back to the Mountain Time Zone. Settling in to watch a show at 7:00 is really tough.

We became fans of Veronica Mars - a great show that used to be on the WB. But it was canceled after the third season. As if the WB or CW or whatever has higher-quality programming. We do own seasons 1 & 2 on DVD and are on our second time through.

So it kind of dwindled down to the point where The Office was our only show. And as anyone who follows that show will probably admit, it's been on a slow decline for the past two seasons. The last couple of episodes have been kind of lame.

But it's okay, because we have discovered a new show: Life, which airs at random times throughout the week on NBC. Seriously, it's on its third time slot in the past month! It started out on Mondays, then moved to Fridays, and now it is moving to Wednesdays. Next it will move off the air entirely!

Which will be disappointing because it's a good show. It's the one about Charlie Crews, the cop who gets sent to prison for life for a crime he didn't commit. After twelve years of incarceration, he is freed by DNA evidence and gets a huge settlement. Part of the settlement is that he gets is old job back as a homicide detective. He's pretty low on the totem pole, and so he gets paired with another bottom of the barrel detective, recovering addict Dani Reese. And so they solve a crime every episode - but there's also the continuing story arc of Charlie digging around trying to figure out who the real killer was and who set him up.

The characters are interesting and likeable, and there is plenty of humor. Charlie is kind of a quirky guy. I think towards the end of Season 1, with the pending writer's strike, they got a little sloppy and strayed a little bit from some of the storylines that were introduced early on, but it's still an enjoyable show.

We saw one episode of it last year before the strike and liked it. And so we decided to try watching again this year and still liked it, but we were a little lost as to exactly what the story was. Nothing that Netflix can't fix! We reactivated our Netflix membership and caught up on Season 1. So now we have a new show to watch - one that will almost certainly be cancelled by NBC in a few weeks!