Why I Love Television

Anyone who knows me understands that I have a deep and abiding affection for scripted TV shows. The invention and availability of DVR service just makes me love TV even more. I've been accused of being an addict. I'm failing to see the issue.

I mean, really.

Scripted television, when it's good and sometimes even great, brings the viewer into different worlds with characters who sometimes say and do the very things  normal people just don't in their normal lives. TV is a great escape, and what is wrong with that?

Nothing.

Of course, if you're watching TV to the exclusion of all else, then I'd say maybe you need to turn it off and get out amongst real people. Ditto for all the reality stuff that's cluttering otherwise perfectly good airwaves. But if you're like most people - like me - and you record a few hours of shows per week and then watch them at your leisure, what's the harm?

So tell me, Mount Pleasant-Sturtevant Patchers, about your favorite television shows. Here are a few of mine:

Castle, Glee, The Good Wife, In Plain Sight, Southland, Modern Family, The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, Friday Night Lights . . .