I’ve been posting a lot lately, haven’t I? Don’t answer that.

I figured now that it’s nearing the “mid-season” break of television shows (which might turn out to be the season finales of a lot of shows because of the writer’s strike), and also considering that the Golden Globe nominations came out yesterday, it’s time for me to give a short wrap up on what I thought of the television I watch. (Pushing Daisies, Mad Men, & 30 Rock got nominations out of what I watch in their respective big categories.)

Pushing Daisies was probably the best show I started watching this season — if you don’t count Mad Men. Mad Men was far and away the best. Classy, sexy, funny, critical, disturbing… it was so much more than a different kind of The Sopranos, which was what I thought it’d be considering who its executive producer is. Back to Pushing Daisies — it’s colorful, absurd, well-written, well-acted, and they balance all of that with one of the most interesting fantasy sort of hitches you can probably find — the fact that poor Ned the pie-maker can bring people back from the dead, but only for a minute or something else then has to die. Oh, they’re getting fantastic mileage out of that sort of odd, fairy tale caveat. They balance the absurdity (because sometimes it does get a little crazy) with such genuine artistry it’s easy to forget to ask all of the logical questions. That’s what makes the show great: you’re so busy caught up in all of the plots and character interactions and crazy things going on you forget to ask why a lot. But that’s okay. I don’t even mind the fact that it’s been eleven or so episodes and Ned and Chuck still haven’t resolved their major issue. I though it’d drive me crazy! It turns out their dialogue and the situations they find themselves in all of the time keep me heartily entertained and I forget to bemoan their predicament. Good going, ABC, for green-lighting such a crazy show!

Heroes‘ sophomore season started off slowly, moved along slowly, but ended with a very interesting bang. I will always be a Heroes fan if for no other reason than because that show represents the reason why I almost became a biologist/doctor (back when I had my crisis of major, four years ago now) — I love, love, love genetics. Darwin, Mendel — genetics, evolution, all of that, I eat it up.

Moonlight started off full of clichés, cheap dramatic tricks and plot points, but by the third or fourth show, it really became good. Bryan and I got into it to the extent that we can get into any show (which is really flip out if we forget to watch it and it hasn’t been loaded online yet), and I’m really curious as to where it’ll go. They have a lot to work with — more than I gave them credit for initially — and it’s fairly well-acted. Well, at least it got better. Sophia Myles as Beth is terrific — she’s got the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed thing going for her as well as the motherly aspect, and that taste-for-the-supernatural that Mick continuously is amazed by (which is the best part of their repartee, in my opinion — Mick’s self-revulsion and Beth’s completely naive obsession with all things supernatural). Alex O’Laughlin, who plays Mick, really is great. He’s a lot more soulful and reflective than I initially believed he could be, and although there are a lot of incongruities about the whole vampirism thing (I can’t stand that they nonchalantly walk out in sunlight all of the time! Couldn’t they have filmed the show in Vancouver instead of LA and just done a lot more night scenes!?!) they aren’t his fault. And I also didn’t think Shannyn Sossamon could convince me as being a potential villain. But she has that cute/creepy ability that reminds me of the fictitious Mrs. Coulter (I can’t think of a vampire in literature that she’s like — I only started reading vampire books in August…), which is… weird. She’s definitely channeling someone and doing it effectively.

Bryan and I are also catching up on things we didn’t watch last year when things were still busy, like 30 Rock and Scrubs, but that’s pretty much all the television we watch (well, aside from South Park and the classic reruns of anything on Adult Swim — Family Guy, Futurama, Robot Chicken, etc.).

I’ll probably post in January regarding my Golden Globe predictions, assuming I get a chance to actually watch more of the nominees, especially for films. I personally am itching to see Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd (Sondheim has given it a rave review!) and James McAvoy & friends in Atonement. I love James McAvoy (maybe it’s because he’s Leto Atreides… and Mr. Tumnus… Oh, that and he’s got such a hot accent. This is the point where Bryan rolls his eyes — though he does like McAvoy as an actor a lot, which is good). Oh, by the way, Bryan saw I Am Legend in IMAX last night with some guys from work — they got early tickets — and he said it scared him stiff. As in, it was great, but its plot hit close to home in a “we’re almost there technologically, this could happen, oh my GOD” sort of way. So he recommends it but he thinks it should have gotten an R rating instead of a PG-13. So beware, there.