I gave you a list of some of my favorite TV shows earlier. Today, I’m writing about why I love a good TV show. Good TV shows are like good movies, only longer, with the story unfolding over several episodes. Great TV shows, like great movies are seldom about the story and more often about unforgettable events and memorable characters. The miniseries format is my favorite kind of television. A great TV series can possess you and occupy your thoughts all day for several weeks. A movie does not deliver this lingering excitement, simply because it is too short, even when it is really good. Don’t you sometimes wish that your favorite film would just keep running, especially when it is about to end? A significant part of the charm of reading a novel is this very feeling of having it take over your life and sweep you into its own world. Somehow, that feeling is often short lived or completely lost at the movies. So, we watch TV.

Ironically, watching TV shows on TV, once a week, is not the best way to enjoy them. The joy of watching them on DVD, episode after episode is truly a wonderful feeling. Add a couch, a bag of chips, a few drinks and you are in heaven. It’s almost like the pleasure of reading an unputdownable novel before going to bed, racing through chapter after chapter, while your aroused curiosity struggles to keep you awake. Oh, how I love TV!

Are you a TV junkie like me? What TV shows got you completely hooked onto them?  Friends, Lost, 24, Prison Break, Heroes, Family Guy…?  What’s your addiction baby?