El Burro Volador

I find it interesting how television viewing has changed since I was a kid.  Although there are still some shows Rebekah and I sit down to watch when they are putting out new episodes, it is far more common for us to discover a great new series once it’s out on dvd – as often as not, this happens after the show has been cancelled!  I can’t offer a better example of this than our current favorites, Jericho and The 4400.  Both series are gone from tv, but Rebekah and I have been watching at least one episode a day (right now it is mostly Jericho, as Ty has graciously loaned us both seasons of it, while we have to wait for new 4400s to arrive via Netflix).

For those of you unfamiliar, Jericho chronicles events in a small Kansas town after a devastating act of nuclear terrorism wipes out much of the United States.  The 4400‘s premise is that 4400 people who have gone missing over the years suddenly return in a ball of white light, unaged and with no memory of where they’ve been, but definitely changed.

Another recent favorite discovered in this way has been Dexter, a show based around perhaps the most sympathetic serial killer in the history of fiction.