Time Travel – From The Wire to Deadwood

I mentioned a few posts ago that I was watching The Wire on HBO Go.  Finally finished.  I’d seen many of the shows, was hooked the first season.  But, when they did the docks/ports of Baltimore, I lost interest and started watching it in bits and pieces.  I kept looking on HBO on Demand, but I guess the series is too old (five seasons, 2002-2008) for them to play.  It was cool seeing Dixon from the current 90210 being a drug dealing hoodrat.

I was thinking about watching Entourage.  Have maybe seen one show.  I know, I know, I’m probably the only person around who never watched it.  But, holy crap, that’s eight seasons (2004-2011)!  So, thanks to this post, I decided to watch Deadwood.  Three seasons (2004-2006) I can handle.  I remember the husband watching this when it was on.  But, I was already watching The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Queer as Folk (bonus points if you remember Queer Duck being shown after this).  And, watching a western set in 1800s really wasn’t grabbing me.

So I’m looking forward to seeing Timothy Olyphant (who I’d never paid much attention to before Justified), Leon Rippy (Saving Grace, Leverage, Alcatraz), Powers Boothe (way too many to list, so I’ll just go with most recent Hatfield and McCoys), Brent Sexton (The Killing, which I want to rant on in another post), and even Gerald McRaney

Guess Who’s Coming to Sons of Anarchy

I have this habit of not getting hooked on some shows until long after they start.  Then I play catch up.  For probably the first month, I totally ignored The Sopranos because I thought it had to do with music.  Most. embarrassing.thing.ever!  Justified?  Didn’t even hear of it until Season 2 and was hooked.  Watched Season 1 on the replays, then watched Season 3.

So it is with Sons of Anarchy.  I only started watching it last season. I went hunting for it on Hulu, and couldn’t find it.  So imagine how happy I was to find out FX was showing it from the beginning on early Wednesday mornings!  Three shows at a time.  I love my DVR.  Except, I didn’t find out until after the first week.  So I’m still missing the first three shows.  But, I’ll be caught up on the three seasons I missed by the time Season 5 starts in September.

It was announced last week that Harold Perrineau (Oz, Lost) is joining the show as Damon Pope, a former drug dealer whose daughter “got got” by Tig last season.  I’m thinking this won’t end well.  He probably snapped, is going to attack Tig & get taken out.  Just please let him live through most (a few?) shows!

Not only that, but Jimmy Smits is coming too!  He’s cast as bad guy Nero.  Mega tattoos and a mentor to Jax.  Wow, like Jax doesn’t already have enough mentors?  Not that I’m complaining.  Since NBC screwed him over (like they do with other shows) on Outlaw, I’m just glad to see him back on screen.  He brought the crazy on Dexter.  Can’t wait until SAMCRO  comes back in September!

Ready for more confessions?  Same thing happened with Breaking Bad.  I only started watching last season.  I’d love AMC if they would show the past seasons before it returns.  Pretty please?   I’m currently watching The Wire on HBO GO from Season 1.  Um, WHAT?  I saw a few seasons off and on, but I missed a few too.  I never watched Entourage, so that’s another one in the playlist.  Stop rolling your eyes, I watch enough crap as it is.   There really aren’t enough hours in the days to be able to look at it all.

Make me feel better by telling me some of you do the same thing?