New Show

I used to watch "Friends" every Thursday. I really enjoyed it, and when it ended, I was bummed. I had no "show". You know, a TV show that you follow and you know the characters and their stories and have emotional reactions as a result...a "show." We had The Cosbys as kids, Cheers, Night Court, the A-team, Night Rider, etc. Many people tried to convince me to get hooked on various shows, and I gave them a test-viewing. I watched Gray's for a while, but I just couldn't commit. I absolutely love Dancing With the Stars, but I don't think that really counts. It's so time-limited and there's no real story to follow. New Adventures of Old Christine looks intriguing, but I never stopped to watch it, really.

BUT last week, after my usual viewing of the results show for Dancing w/Stars, this show, Eli Stone, came on. It's about a lawyer who has a brain aneurism that gives him visions and may just be a gift from God. His father apparently had the same thing, and THIS week a notebook showed up in his brother's posession that was written by his father, who they thought was just crazy when they were kids, but the notebook is all about Eli and stuff that is happening to him now, 20 years after the stuff was written. Katie Holmes made a guest appearance and somehow they thought it was a good idea for her to sing (they were wrong), but it was a good episode and I was near tears. I may have a new show! We'll see how long it lasts.