GLEEKS of the World Unite!

I am a GLEEK and proud of it! If you don't know what a gleek is you must have been living under a rock for the last year and a half. Glee is Fox's hit show that has the whole country loving showchoir! Glee focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationship, sexuality and social issues.

From Rachel, the talented but social awkward girl who wants to shine, to Quinn the pregnant captain of the cheer squad and president of the school celibacy club, to Kurt the only out and proud gay kid at a school who can't always accept him, Glee has something for everyone!

But it's not just the story line that gets people coming back for more, every episode is filled with wonderful music that any age, race, or religion can enjoy! The pilot episode featured Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" which has become the defining song for the show as well as the only song to have been used twice. I love being able to watch their talent grow but also growing as people.

If you haven't been watching this show for whatever reason you need to be! I watch every Tuesday night at 8pm and so should you!

The Fragile Art of WB Teen Dramas

I have always considered myself a writer. I aspire to someday do it for a living, which is why I take my taste in writers and writing very seriously.

When it comes to movies, Charlie Kaufman is as good as it gets.

When it comes to literature, I will always be a die-hard Charles Dickens fan.

And in the realm of theater, I will always adore Arthur Miller.

So now that I've built up some sort of intellectual credit, I'm going to reveal to all of you what I consider to be my all-time favorite television show:

Yes, Roswell, an in-depth character study about aliens that try to pass as normal high school students in the late 90's. Not only do Max, Michael, and Isabel have to deal with the day to day struggles of fitting in, pressures to drink, and the urge to have sex, but they have to deal with protecting their secret identity as extra-terrestrials

Basically, it's like the OC if they spent half the time running from the FBI.

I get a lot of crap for liking this show. People ask me what I see in it.

Is it well written?

Ehh, not exactly. Well, what about the acting. It must be good.

Well, Katherine Heigl's in it, so...

Why on Earth(haha) do I love this show so much? When I step back and watch it, it really lacks redeeming qualities. While you're watching it, there will be times when you just want to strangle the main character because of how whiny and annoying she is, because of how melodramatic she makes her life, or because she suddenly becomes a super-genius for one episode because... well, the writers said so. The other characters aren't much better, but when they're sharing a network with 7th Heaven, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Dawson's Creek, there's a certain quota for unnecessary drama that they need to fill to stay on the air.

Be that as it may, at some point, they all start to strangely feel like family. You lose sleep over wondering who killed Alex, if Sheriff Valenti will get his job back, or if Max and Liz will ever get back together. You find yourself getting toward the end of the series and wishing it wouldn't have to stop. You find yourself sitting through more crappy television and movies just because someone from the cast is in it.

Is that why I own all 3 seasons on DVD and watch them periodically? Is that why I watch the Christmas episode every year on the holidays? Is that why I still drop by this website once in a while? Is that why I read all the Twilight books when I realized it was, more or less, the exact same story?

Since then, I've moved on to "better" shows. I religiously watched 24 and Lost to the bittersweet end. I've less religiously watched House, Fringe, and Grey's Anatomy. I've cursed the networks for canceling shows like The Black Donellys, Arrested Development, and Deadwood. I'm addicted to Californication and True Blood, finally caught up on Breaking Bad, and just getting into Mad Men... but to shamelessly quote Sara Bareilles, "Something always brings me back to you. It never takes too long" Roswell, I wish I knew how to quit you.

There's something to that sentimental value it has. I was eleven when I watched this, my TV still on the WB from when I watched Pokemon after school. I would watch Max, Liz, Michael, Maria, Isabel, Kyle, Alex and Tess struggle through high school, subconsciously shaping my expectations for my own adolescence after their experiences. I wanted to have the kind of romance that Max and Liz had, or the kind of friends that Michael and Maria were. In that way, Roswell is a part of me, a part of who I am. We are inseparable entities and anyone who can't understand Roswell can't understand me.

I suppose that's why I love it. Oh... that and...

Her

Yeah, she's lovely...