Category Archives: television

Day Break

We finished watching all 13 episodes of Day Break and this has to be one of the best and most interesting shows that the Networks killed in recent years. It sounds monotonous – Taye Diggs is Detective Brett Hopper, he’s being framed for murder but he’s stuck in a timeloop and keeps waking up to find it’s the same morning over and over again. Time is still moving forward for Hopper, so when he gets shot, he’s still wounded the next day. His beard grows. And, most importantly, he remembers the pieces of the puzzle he’s put together from the preceding days. Adam Baldwin, Mitch Pileggi, Victoria Pratt and Moon Bloodgood co-star. Actually, it’s a large, pitch-perfect ensemble cast so it almost seems wrong to single anyone out as a co-star. I’m glad someone tipped me that Amazon was selling the set for less than twenty bucks (still is, in fact), it’s completely worth it.

Narm!

Husband and I recently watched the SciFi series, The Lost Room. It was pretty good, and much more clever than I expected.

It stars the excellent Peter Krause. You know who I mean. Nate, from Six Feet Under. I only watched the first two seasons of Six Feet Under and then I think I just saw random episodes of the final three seasons.

Figuring I’d forget any spoilers by the time I got around to watching the show, I did read Heather Havrilesky’s review of the finale on salon.com last year. Unfortunately, this meant I kept wanting to yell Narm!” every time Peter Krause entered the Lost Room. If you haven’t seen the finale of Six Feet Under, you probably shouldn’t go read that review, but I have to tell you it’s really funny.

Confusingly, that same week we watched the pilot episode of Dexter, which stars Michael C. Hall, who played Nate’s brother David on Six Feet Under.