TV without Television

Despite the fact that I do not have access to television, I am able to download the occasional episode of a TV show that interests me and my friend tapes some stuff for me as well. Thanks to her I am able to keep up with “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.” I have to see the last season that Vincent D’Onofrio is going to be in.

Recently I watched the last two episodes of a British sci-fi show called “Torchwood” in order to see if the Master is returning (he is returning on Doctor Who, but not in Torchwood). The characters on this show are extremely unlikable and I doubt I will be interested in continuing to watch this. The show is crazy rubber sci-fi with loads of personal baggage. In this episode a couple of people fell through a temporal rift and ended up in 1941. However, the most unbelievable aspect of this episode was that Captain Jack was able to find the only openly gay military man in Cardiff.

I saw the first episode of another British show called “The Eleventh Hour” with Patrick Stewart which was exciting and quite interesting. It’s a sort of Science-gone-crazy type show. It’s set in the present day and features science that is possible set in an adventure story. The first episode was about people trying to clone a millionaire’s son.

Another British show is also proving to be very very interesting. “Time Team” is one of those reality shows only with an intellectual bent. A team of archeologists are given only a few days to excavate sites around Britain. I just saw an episode where they were looking for a Roman villa in the Cotswolds and ended up finding a whole huge complex.