HBO's
The Wire — many a critic's pick for the best show ever on television — will end its series on Sunday after five gut-wrenching and unabashedly bleak seasons. I sped through all the early seasons on DVD so I could be caught up in time for the finale, but now that it's here, I'm looking at Sunday with equal amounts of excitement and dread. While the show's only been part of my life for a short while, I have a hard time with the fact that it will just end.
For the past couple of weeks, I've been giving you some
holiday shopping tips for the various people on your list. But I haven't heard much about what you're lusting after this holiday season.
So I've decided to make this week's
Buzzworthy challenge all about your holiday wish lists.
"Six Feet Under" actor Michael C. Hall and Matt Damon. (Thanks,
Brian!)
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Wow, this was by far the most exciting
Buzzworthy challenge ever. Asking about your favorite addictive TV shows yielded unprecedented results, and I can see you all feel as strongly as I do about your shows — you know, the ones you tell everyone about because they "just hafta see it as soon as possible!" Some of you bookmarked ones I've mentioned before for being the most gripping, cliffhanger-y shows in my collection, like "24" and "Alias." But there are many, many more TV shows bookmarked by you excited Buzz readers, so here are a few I've highlighted, and be sure to check out the widget after the jump to see all the bookmarked shows!
"Six Feet Under"
From the first amazing episode of "Six Feet Under" I was completely hooked. It looks like I'm not alone:
Linda McP and
firedancyr7 both bookmarked this one as a highly addictive series.
Aug 10 2007 - 4:23pm by
Molly
Great news for
"Six Feet Under", vampire and Anna Paquin fans alike —
"SFU" creator Alan Ball is coming back to HBO and bringing a little bit of all those things with him. Ball is signed on to create a new series, "True Blood" about modern day vampires who live among humans in Louisiana and survive on a Japanese-manufactured synthetic blood. The show will be a mix of horror and humor, which is exactly the kind of awesome combination that only flies on pay cable. The pilot has already been shot and stars as mentioned Anna Paquin alongside smaller names like
The Starter Wife's Stephen Moyer.
With today's news that
Freddy Rodriguez is joining the cast of "Ugly Betty," nearly every actor who played a main character on
"Six Feet Under" is now back on TV somewhere. Here's a look at where the Fisher and Diaz folks have ended up:
- Peter Krause (Nate Fisher) will star in ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money" this fall as Nick George, an attorney who takes over his father's role as counselor to the absurdly wealthy Darling family.
- Michael C.
I've said before that I'm a bit of a sap, and it's never more evident than when I break into tears while watching TV. There are a bunch of moments that always make me lose it — no matter how predictable or silly they are, no matter how many times I've seen them — and so, just in case you're feeling mopey today, I'm counting down a few of the scenes most consistently guaranteed to leave me drowning in a pile of soggy tissues.
No.
From Casey McCall on
"Sports Night" to Nate Fisher on
"Six Feet Under," Peter Krause tends to play the everyman. In his new film,
Civic Duty, Krause turns that everyman identity on its head as Terry Allen, who starts out as an Average Joe in a media-saturated world and eventually turns into a paranoid vigilante after becoming convinced that his young Muslim neighbor is a terrorist. The film — which is both a tense thriller and a political statement about prejudice and paranoia — opens in limited release today.
