Here are my picks, once again, for what I felt were the three best shows of the night:
Durham County — ION is currently airing the final couple of episodes of season one, but I decided to go ahead and finish up season two last night. Wow. Simply WOW. Brutal and disturbing, yet filled with great performances from the entire cast. It also set things up for what promises to be a crazy ride of a third season. Once that’s airing again, you can bet I’ll be posting about it more regularly here.
In any case, every episode of season one of Durham County was awesome, so episode four of that season (which is what aired on ION last night) would certainly rank up there as number one here.
House — At first I wasn’t all that game with Monday night’s episode, but when Deb and I noted how the episode seemed to be giving a shout-out to Showtime’s Dexter, it kicked it up a few notches. The shared theme: is it morally OK to kill another human being if you believe you’re saving lives in the process? Is it OK to murder “bad people?” While that’s not a subject Dexter really struggles with in what he does (other than when following the code of Harry), the staff on House had to come to terms with it in a big way.
Then, of course, there was House injecting Sodium Penothal into the neck of his one-armed neighbor. That was probably the most shocking moment on the show in a long time, and I put that up there with the Kutner incident because most people knew someone was getting killed off, we just didn’t know who.
How I Met Your Mother — A rather distant third. Not the best I’ve seen come from the show, and I judge that on how many times I laughed out loud during the episode. Not much. Like with just about every episode of HIMYM, there aren’t necessarily a “bad” episodes of the show, just ones that I wish were funnier.
As for other shows Monday night, I watched some of Castle but it was putting me to sleep, so that’s when Durham County came in. Can’t say I made a bad choice there, but now I’m all out of Durham County episodes to watch!
Clacked by Keith McDuffee 
on Oct 06, 2009 @ 13:30 EST5EDT
