Saturday, July 24, 2010

Hulu hoop

I don't watch TV. I don't watch it for many reasons:
  1. I have no self-control. If the TV's on, I'm watching it. I will watch whatever's on it for hours and hours. I can't turn it off.
  2. Since I am not willing to pay for TV, absolute crap is often all I can find.
  3. I work nights and I don't like to watch during daylight hours, which leaves after-midnight viewing (see No. 2 above). Which means I can be up all night watching crap (see No. 1 above).
Yes, I could pay for better programming, but since I've already got enough things to keep me occupied, it's better for me to just not have a TV in the first place. If I don't turn it on, I won't have a problem turning it off.

Then I discovered Hulu. I had learned about "Glee" when I read an interview with Jane Lynch (she was so awesome in "40 Year Old Virgin"), so I watched the pilot on Hulu. Then I did a search for other pilots and discovered they had almost all of "Lost." Then I heard about "Community." And "Modern Family." I watched some episodes of "Scrubs."

The other night I saw the pilot for "Being Erica," which has an intriguing premise (fixing past mistakes in your life via time travel). (And let me tell you, I wouldn't mind redoing a few bad choices myself.)

So while I still don't watch television, I do watch television programming. What's nice is that I don't have to do it at a certain time, or sit through a lot of advertising. Maybe once a month I have an evening of Hulu watching on my laptop, and then I'm all caught up. Hulu is pretty awesome.

4 comments:

  1. If you like "Glee" you might enjoy "The Choir" on the BBC. It's a very hopeful reality series about one good young man who decides to reintroduce the magic of singing together to a group of typical highschoolers in a small village in Britain. They eventually hope to sing in a huge competition in China. Don't know yet if they make it, but I bet they do!

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  2. Those are fun shows. I'm lucky that we have cable with a sort of VCR function in which we can record shows for later viewing and skip lightly through the ads.

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  3. I agree, Hulu is awesome. We too have avoided cable, mostly because if we had it we'd never leave the house. That said, I like to have something playing in the background while doing other things, and I've found some gems on Hulu. Kitchen Nightmares is a favorite; I've also spent a little too much time with Ice Road Truckers (!)...

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  4. I love Hulu and I simply adore being Erica! The new season should be starting relatively soon, I think...

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