On the good end of the quality-TV spectrum, there's Spaced.
Spaced is a key factor in the creative output crush I totally have on Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The kind of British humor that never goes out of style.
At the...other end of the spectrum, there's October Road.
I watched this show from beginning to end, and hated myself every single minute of it. It featured actors I've liked in other things, whose characters spoke and behaved more like an alien's idea of what people are like than actual human beings. Add a frustratingly obtuse (as opposed to intriguingly mysterious) "who's the daddy?" plotline, and you have a show that never quite crossed over into "so bad it's good" territory. If you've got time to kill, and a jones to hear some of the most implausible dialogue to appear of television, it can be strangely transfixing. I can only hope that this means that ABC's Hulu deal will also result in the cancelled Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money being available in perpetuity.
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