Fab TV

I've been having a love affair with British TV lately. First Skins, then Shameless, now Spaced. Next up in my Netflix queue is Extras. The short-but-sweet series highlight not only in their quality but in their brevity the ways that shows like Grey's Anatomy are running themselves into the ground with no end in sight, far past their best run of episodes. Skins in particular earns props from me for letting its characters go their separate ways, like real teenagers moving into adulthood, rather than artificially prolonging their time together like practically every teen-focused show that gets more than two seasons.

Speaking of Skins, this trailer for the second series is, like, my new most favorite thing ever. It makes standard commercials with show clips seem so pedestrian.