My recommendation of the week

I do not have cable in my apartment in DC. I never thought I'd be able to survive without it, but it's surprisingly easy with most networks putting their shows online and with my Netflix subscription. And, you know, with that whole usually being too busy to watch television thing since I should be focusing at least 9o to 95% of my energy and attention on law-school-related stuff. Eh. I've taken this cable-free opportunity to catch up on shows I've never seen before but have always wanted to see. Mad Men, for example, has been on my queue for almost three months. Sitting at the top of my queue, in fact, for that entire time. The fact that I have friends who live about two miles away from me, have had it on their queue for much less time than I have, and have still gotten it before me is nothing short of infuriating, and Netflix will be getting a very sternly-worded email from me in the next day or so letting them know what I think of their "long wait." I digress. One of the other TV shows I added to my list is Pushing Daisies, a show I always thought looked cute and quirky. I got the first disk yesterday and watched the first episode, and I absolutely loved it. That's still all I've watched, but I feel confident in recommending it to everyone as the cutest show that has ever been put on television ever. Like, in history. It's funny and colorful and original and so visually stimulating. Kristin Chenoweth is in it, and of course she's adorable. Lee Pace, the lead, is so good-looking that I don't know how Anna Friel's character is going to be able to resist touching him forever.

So, the premise: Pace's character Ned has this special power whereby he can bring a person back to life just by touching them. After one minute, though, another person has to die in that person's place, and if he touches the person he brought back to life a second time, that person will die for good. He teams up with a private investigator (Chi McBride, who I love) to collect reward money for solving murders by bringing victims back to life and asking how they died. He just brings them back for a minute, though, because as I already said, after that someone would have to die in their place. A childhood friend is killed, so he brings her back to find out by whom, but he can't bring himself to touch her again, thereby killing her, so she gets to stay living, but they can't touch ever again or else that's it for her for good.

What I love about it so much is that it's equal parts Tim Burton, Dr. Seuss, and those Walgreen commercials about a town called Perfect that I have always been particularly fond of. So I highly recommend this show, even though I've only watched episode 1. I'm going to watch the second episode as soon as I'm done writing this and if it's shit, I'll retract this entire post.

I want to live in Perfect: