Veronica Mars
July 5th, 2009
Once again, a free-to-air broadcaster tries my patience by belatedly bringing a generally well-reviewed US show to terrestrial TV, but stripping it across the week so that it's impractical for me to keep up with it.
First it was E4 with Gilmore Girls, then it was BBC2 with The Wire. Now it's E4 again, bringing Veronica Mars to our screens daily from Thursday 16 July 2009.
In theory, I could stack episodes on my DVR until I have time to blast through them in batches. In practice, I tried that approach twice with Gilmore Girls and just found myself building up a daunting backlog of episodes until I had to delete them or face devoting the next week to nothing but watching the show.
Damn you, TV schedulers…
July 6th, 2009 at 02:55
This is what DVDs are for. Apparently you don't have Netflix in the UK, though, which is criminal.
July 6th, 2009 at 07:00
We have Lovefilm rather than Netflix, but I still don't have the time. I understand the joy of blasting through a disk or two of episodes in a day, but I'm just not in a place where I can do that at a drop of a disk through my postbox right now.
My DVR already has season 2 of Dexter complete and unwatched, most of season 2 of Californication, plus a dozen or more really decent films that I just haven't found time to watch. I can commit to spending an hour a week following a good story, but I have to be really motivated to devote more time than that to TV.
July 6th, 2009 at 20:43
Oh thank goodness for that. I was about to lash out for the dvds.
On Gilmore Girls: I was like you then I just decided to burn them all to dvds until I can find the time. Incidentally, season four is out on uk dvd in July.
July 6th, 2009 at 23:58
The trouble is, I already have a pile of DVD box sets I've bought over the last couple of years but failed to get to: the last quarter of Lost season 3 and all of Deadwood season 1 are sitting waiting for me to find the time. Then there's my itch to re-watch Buffy. Throw in all the films I have queued on my DVR to get to, and Dexter season 2 and Californication season 2, and there's no point in adding to it with another five hours of content per week.
Too much content, too little time…
July 7th, 2009 at 21:05
Yes good catch : Veronica Mars !! Season 1 masterpiece.
July 7th, 2009 at 21:45
Veronica Mars is one of my favorite TV shows, I wasn't sure I'd like it but after reading some reviews I gave it a shot and got Season 1 on DVD, and loved it.
I've recommended it to people who said the same thing, and ended up liking it.
Disappointed that there won't be a movie.
July 19th, 2009 at 05:12
Veronica Mars S1: Great! Conceived of as a novel before it became a show and very unified across the season.
VM S2: Writers didn't apparently consider there might be a second season. Not as well put together as S1 but not without its interesting moments.
VM S3: Cancellation was a mercy killing.