Man I just like watching TV. It is a thing I do, I watch TV in the evenings, I like having TV to watch and that is the best shit on really.
not really. i have always watched a bucket load of tv shows and i manage to avoid stuff like lost and heroes. if you like to watch good tv, why don't you just download shows that have finished, or watch reruns of good stuff instead of stuff which isn't. there aren't many good shows on right this moment cos it's the summer but battlestar galactica and the wire had runs earlier this year, for two examples of stuff you could have been watching instead.
do you live in the uk? the shows you mentioned seem to indicate you do, because the wire season 5 and dexter season 2 ads have been all over sky for a couple of weeks. so i mean, there's a lot of good stuff on at all hours. FX is turning into a really good channel.
there's really quite a lot of good stuff on tv, you just need to look around a little for it and that can take some time on the internet but it's better than droning through a season of heroes just cos it's on and bearable.
i cut back a lot on tv this past year, i guess, cos i'm not just watching whatever new stuff is on. for a time i was like "man i wanna write tv" so i just digested shit like smallville and the oc but i couldn't reconcile how awful those shows were with not being a stupid dick so i stopped watching stuff like that. now i kind of hunt out good shows which i missed, like deadwood for example. i totally missed that show when it was on so i got the DVDs but even if you don't want to spend money you can just download it, and avoid ads.
if it is grossly inconvenient for you to do more than flick the on switch in the evening and just kick back cos you are so tired or busy etc, then all right i guess, but it's not difficult to do a lot better than house, heroes, lost and dr who.