About TViMB
Most blogs and websites that are dedicated to television programming are mostly concerned with what’s new and what’s now and what’s next. While that’s great, and we appreciate these media outlets keeping us up to speed with previews of what’s coming on tonight (followed by tomorrow’s recap of what was on last night), it’s just not something that we can reasonably keep up with. It’s like being in a new relationship – you’re really stoked about your hot new boyfriend, but realistically, are you supposed to hang out with this guy every second of every day? Probably not. You’ve gotta go to work and you have to go to the gym and you have to do your laundry and you have to take the dog for a walk and you have to go to Target to aimlessly walk around for an hour and buy a bunch of stuff you probably don’t need.
The hot new boyfriend is, of course, the most exciting thing you’ve got going (hot! new!) and you wish that the only thing you had to do was make-out with him 24/7, but it doesn’t work that way. You’ve got to make dates with the new boyfriend (i.e. the all new episodes) or you have to change plans to later in the week because something came up (i.e. the all-new episodes that you’ve DVRed) and you have to make time for your friends (i.e. those great shows in syndication and on DVD) so you don’t get those “we hardly see you any more” whines. And that’s what it’s like with TV. You can’t watch everything all the time – my god, do you know how many channels there are on DirecTV? Sometimes we’ve got something we can’t wait to watch every week and sometimes we just want to spend our Saturdays watching those endless Law & Order SVU marathons of years-ago episodes.
So, to our readers, we hope you enjoy this mix of charm and wit (so fucking charming and witty, duh) coupled with the best and worst of television. I mean, we could live Tweet everything that’s happening on American Idol and publish a recap after every new episode of Gossip Girl, but that would really make us the clingy, obsessive new girlfriend, wouldn’t it? We much more prefer playing hard-to-get. (And we have better taste than that, too.)
Love you, mean it* – Jarod & Stuart