The Good Wife Is Must See TV

Of the TV genres that I watch, Drama seems to have a real sway over me. In a past blog entry I wrote about how much I was pulled in by the allure of the 60’s setting of Mad Men. Well I already watched the available 4 seasons and with season 5 many months away from airing I have a void in my escapism slot that needs to be filled. Enter “The Good Wife”.

I’ve never seen “ER”. For whatever reason that drama series never quite got my attention. Despite that, I enjoyed the few things that I’ve seen Julianna Margulies in (her appearance in Scrubs and the movie City Island come to mind). So with this, I thought I’d give “The Good Wife” a try. The past promos that I’ve glimpsed when the show first premiered never got my attention. But the new promo that I saw a few weeks ago made me rethink my original assessment of this show.

I usually stray away from shows on CBS. My impression of their programming is that their shows are too formulaic and unoriginal. Just as a for instance, they are still the only network that has laugh-tracks in all of their sitcoms (I’ve long since grown out of love for the laugh-track sitcom medium). With this initial prejudice I somehow decided to give this show a chance and after the pilot and subsequent episodes became emotionally invested in all the characters of the show. In less than two weeks I caught up with all the episodes (only 2 episodes of season 3 have aired so far), and eagerly await the next episode.

Not to get into too much detail about the premise (you can read all about it in Wikipedia), the focal point of the show is ‘the good wife’,  Alicia Florrick, who stands by her husband Peter while he goes to prison amidst a sex scandal and trumped-up charges of corruption. While Peter is in jail planning his political comeback, Alicia leaves her role of house wife and re-enters the workforce by starting as a first year associate at Stern, Lockhart & Gardner thanks to her friend and old college love interest, Josh Gardner. The plots twists, sexual tension and drama build from there.

Anyway, this show did more than get my interest and now I must patiently await a new episode to see what more is in store for Alicia Florrick. I whole-heartedly recommend this show to fans of drama and good character development.

Missed A Week Of Blogging

So my regular weekly Weight Training blog updates have stopped being just that. I forgot to post anything last week regarding my weight issues and I guess that pretty much ends that series. To get you guys up to speed on that, I dropped back down 2 pounds in those past two weeks (back down to 223 pounds). Other than my retail job that has me moving more than my past sedentary jobs, I haven’t really done much in regular exercise or moderating what I eat. I’ve been really focusing on my training of my new job and just lost my focus on fitness. Despite that I have lost 2 pounds and I’m grateful for that.

When I did have free time, I used it for more escapism but more on that in another blog entry. I do feel  a little bad that I wasn’t able to keep up with my post-a-week pledge but there have been some weeks where I did more than one post so I guess this isn’t too bad. Oh well. At least you know what I’ve been doing. Just distracted with mundanity. Sometimes that isn’t such a bad thing.