One of my favorite things about media fandom is the experience of watching a TV show within a semi-synchronous distributed collective of fans. You know, when half the pleasure comes from watching the show itself, and the other half comes from rushing to refresh your friendslist to see what everybody else thought of the episode. I've been missing that lately, since I'm mostly out of sync with current fannish favorites, and I'm pretty far behind myself on stuff I've been meaning to watch (Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, Skins, In Treatment, Sons of Anarchy). Apparently this wasn't my year for serious drama?

So here's what I have been watching and enjoying over the past twelve months, in no particular order except when it is:

( Sarah Connor, You're Beautiful, Sea Patrol, Thick of It, Torchwood/Doctor Who, The City, wrestling, Venture Bros. )

Honorable mention:

LOST (actually a pretty strong season this year, and I seriously can't wait until the final season)
Better Off Ted (loved the first season, but the recent episodes have been funny but mostly disappointing)
Battlestar Galactica (sadly not on my favorites list -- and Ron Moore, you know why)
SYTYCD (the Australia series should probably be listed above, except that my memories of it have faded under the onslaught of more recently aired and decidedly subpar U.S. and Canada versions)

Wow, that's a lot more than I thought I'd watched this year. Now I don't feel so bad about falling behind on the serious drama side.