TOO MANY SHOWS...TOO LITTLE TIME

Wow! It's been a long time since I've revisited my musings. I'm staring at my DVR...which seems to often be about 90% full and wondering when (or if) I'll ever find the time to catch up on all of my favorite shows. It may be time to make some difficult decisions and start *gasp* cutting some of them from my watch list. That's always a tough decision and there seem to be new, amazing shows coming out all the time. Lately, the superhero/comic surge is on the rise of creating spin offs - which certainly isn't helping my cause! *sigh*

We just wrapped up the fifth season of "The Walking Dead". I have to say that after the sheer violence and horrific results of previous seasons, this whole season felt like a strange dream. We kept waiting for the nightmare moment to happen. Not to say that they didn't give us some pretty gruesome deaths, as we have come to expect, but the community of average people was just that - average people. No cannibals. No governors. No crazy band of murdering, rapists. Just people trying to find some normalcy in the midst of the horror and chaos. I spent the entire season waiting for the other shoe to drop, but as we learned towards the end, they are reserving that other shoe for next season when the happy idyllic community faces one of these greater threats knocking on its walls. I'm not sure it will go down as my favorite season in the series, but it was a welcome change from the previous.

Speaking of zombies, I see that the CW is attempting to tackle the topic with their new show "iZombie". They've delved into vampires, witches, post-apocalyptic sci fi, superheroes, modern fairy tale romance, and historical drama (if you can loosely call it historical). Now, it seems that zombies are the new vogue for them to wet their toes with. I wish I could say that the premise intrigued me enough to give it a try, as you can tell from my mini watch list I do actually watch a fair amount of CW television. I enjoyed the movie "Warm Bodies", so the idea of a more human zombie isn't entirely new to me, but zombies are just one of those classic monsters that I'm not quite ready to completely humanize. I think I'll be waiting for more reviews to come out on that show, but if anyone has thoughts feel free to share! I'm always curious what other people think.

Now, off to stare at the DVR list some more...