For this post.

It is rare when I get to have an excellent, meaningful conversation with someone about television dramas. Tonight was one of those nights, and while we’d all had some drinks, there was quite a discussion — revolving around Homicide, The Wire, and HBO Dramas — that left me satisfied. Why did it leave me satisfied? Because it involved more than, “Hey, that hot chick? Needs to wear less clothes” or “Yeah, the dead body just wasn’t gory enough on last night’s CSI.”

Sayeth I to that talk: Bah! Humbug!

In any case, I was well prepared for the conversation, as I have been working on a post on my thoughts of Homicide: Life on the Street. Saddly, my thoughts tend to be negative: a show with a great concept and great cast was consistently thrown off course by the network, with the result that, with some exception, great characters were replaced with mediocre characters with no direction or overall story line. Plot lines began to mimic “event” cop-shows and abandon what I felt was the basic premise of the show. Anyway, this is all a topic for another post.

Long story short, it was awesome getting to have a conversation with this couple who clearly know their television shows, and hopefully by the time we meet again, they will have watched Battlestar Galactica and discussions may again ensue.

(Regarding Homicide … great show n’ all, but Hill Street Blues still has my vote as best ‘cop show’ ever.)