I Love Greek

I dearly love the TV show Greek. It's on ABCFamily, and very few people I talk to have even heard of it. I found it one day by accident. I was living in DC, and was having a pity party one day, lying in bed too late and trying to find a way to spend what felt like the many pointless hours of that day.

I came across this show. I watched it a little, and figured that it was better than anything else on TV at that time. (Believe me, daytime TV is desperately overrated.) It took me about 3 hours to realize that it was a marathon. (I mentioned the pity party, right? That slows my brain processing speed exponentially.) You know what a marathon means to me, right? Time to get my happy ass out of bed and turn on the TiVo. (My bizarre rituals involving TiVo will be explored in a later post.) This way, I didn't have to watch the commercials and I had time to bathe and eat something. (Correctly read: put beer in freezer and wash as quickly as possible before it explodes.)

(Aside: Apologies for all the parentheticals. Imagine living in this brain, where every word choice leads to an aside.)

I didn't means to get into the show. It certainly didn't seem like something ABCFamily would air, considering my limited experience with the channel. From what I saw, ABCFamily only aired reruns of 7th Heaven and that terrible show with the Olson twins. This show was a bit more scandalous than those shows, in that the occasional "damn" was uttered, and there was a reasonable amount of T&A.

But I started to care about these characters, about the love tri- and quad- angles, about their intertwining friendships and romantic relationships. These people seemed like amalgams of people I knew in college, and the show tapped into a lot of the insecurities (disguised as bravado) that I, and many of my friends, felt at that age.

So now I am addicted, I actually get excited for Tuesday nights, and I am saddened that there are only 2 episodes left for the season. If you get the chance, watch it. I know it's the end, but it's worth tuning in. The topics are timely (the last episode was about a sorority presidential election, complete with cattiness and mud-slinging - awesome!) and well-presented. The show is even brave enough to make fun of itself. I love a show that understands when the writing is cheesy and runs with it anyway.

OK, enough of that for now. Does anyone else out there watch Greek?