Forever Sam Crow

If you know me, you know that I enjoy watching TV. Not that I'm a couch potato (though I'm sure some would say so). I am not into reading books like others, I'm more of a visual person, and this is why I am into TV so much. I like movies also, but movies are too short. And I like the anticipation from week to week. Now, the best of both worlds is something along the lines of HBO's Band of Brothers. What made that miniseries so good was it was filmed and written like a movie but stretched out into a series of episodes and it had great producers, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.

Back to TV. There are tons of new shows that come out every year and most get canceled because no one watches them. People are to blinded by the stupidity of reality TV and don't know what great stuff is out there. Granted there are a lot of unoriginal shows out there, i.e. 4 Law & Orders, 3 CSI's, etc... HBO had some great original shows like Soprano's and Deadwood, then John from Cincinnati. When the last 2 got canceled I canceled HBO. Showtime has some great shows also, Weeds and Dexter particularly. Those networks though can push the boundaries, unlike the major networks.

One such network is FX. They have had some good shows like the Shield (I just never got into it though). A new show they have is probably my favorite on TV at the moment; Sons of Anarchy. This show is great. It's about an outlaw biker gang in a fictional town in Northern California. They do all the bad stuff; drugs, murder, steal, but the writers do a great job of making you feel for these people. They have families and are trying to keep them safe. They are trying to make a living as much as their uneducated deadbeat abilities allow them too. And hell Sex, Drugs, and Crime sell’s. That’s what most shows are about and well sometimes you want to see the bad guys get away with it. Root for the underdog right? I was actually sitting there tapping my foot nervously during the last 10 minutes of the last episode. It's been a while since a show has gotten to my emotions like this one does.

Another thing I very much love is music. I have no ability to make music but I love listening to it. The memories some songs give me of when I was younger is a great feeling. So it’s natural that I would like a TV show that has great music as well. Sons of Anarchy is that show. They have tons of great music in every episode and unlike most other shows; the website has a list of all the music in each episode and a short preview of that song. Most of the time it’s a bitch to try to figure out what music was playing during which episode.

So check it out. The first season's final episode is this Wednesday so I'm sure they will start showing the season in rerun soon. And they have ordered up another 13 episode season, so hopefully it will be going for another few seasons. You won't be disappointed.