Recently, when the most exciting thing to happen to me was a pigeon flapping into the side of my head, I concluded that I don't have a life.
But I think I have found a solution to this problem - a really good TV series on DVD that I can sink my choppers into. Readers, what are your recommendations?
I come here not to seek your sympathy, but to ask, you, the Organ Grinder weblog community, for a sterling DVD boxed set for something really classic TV that I can watch. Preferably British, but that needn't be set in stone.
A little about me:
I will say at this point I have eclectic tastes. I have never seen a full episode of the mob drama The Sopranos, but as a teenager was so into BBC high-end yachting soap Howard's Way that I learned the theme tune on the piano.
I am devoted to Battlestar Galactica.
I am not one of those people who will dismiss a classic from yesteryear as being, like, "sooooo dated" or "lacking in pace".
I won't be buying The Wire. Feel free to recommend it, but please include another choice as my desk buddy Chris Tryhorn has promised to lend it to me.
I have seen all of the first three years of The West Wing but not much after that.
Unlike the vast majority of TV reviewers, I do not believe that "sentimental" is a dirty word.
Comedy is such an individual thing. I loved Seinfeld but haven't by any means seen all the episodes.
Here is a list of things that I am interested in but don't know much about:
30 Rock Mad Men Heroes Damages Callan
All I am after is a TV show that I can fall in love with and obsess over and never have to miss an episode.
Or just something that brings an inordinate amount of pleasure.
So pile in and I'll let you know which one I decide to buy.
