My top ten tv shows of 2010:
10. House Hunters International - It's a rather odd choice. But I really like seeing how people live in other countries and how much it would cost me in my fantasy to move from the US to some remote European countryside and raise European kids and grow olives for a living.
9. Desperate Housewives - Yeah it would be hipper to say Mad Men, Breaking Bad, or True Blood (nope, can't sink my teeth into any of these). Nah, give me a Vanessa Williams-Eva Longoria (minus the Parker) catfight anytime.
8. Community - This is the most brainiac comedy on tv. They fire so many pop culture references at you that you feel like you are in a paintball war. I spent a couple of years in a community college myself, so this reminds me of back in the days when one Christmas, my Spanish study group and I got turned into claymation characters. Ah, good times.
7. Raising Hope - Cloris Leachman's Maw Maw is grotesque and unwatchable, but everything else about this freshman sitcom is endearing and hilarious. Jimmy: Hey, I thought I talked to you about this. You can't smoke around the baby. Virginia: Jimmy, smoke rises. She's not gonna be tall enough to breathe it for a long time. Come on, how can you not love that?
6. Cougartown - These people seriously drink too much, but I guess now I know why white people enjoy alcohol so much - it turns them into really wacky and endearingly neurotic sitcom characters.
5. Modern Family - You need a family sitcom to be likable, and this one is as likable as they come. These are the families you want for your own. But of course, if these people were my family, I would be the adopted Asian kid.
4. Lost - So long, the Hatch. Farewell, the Others. And goodbye, Jack and Kate and Sawyer and Locke and Hurley and the Asian and the other Asian (oops, wrong show). You were like the coolest show ever, and I am not just blowing Smoke Monster up your ass.
3. Conan - I am with Coco. I am so happy for his turning a most crushing blow (getting fired from his dream job, The Tonight Show) into a phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes career move. Once again, every night now, I fall asleep to Conan and Andy's high jinx. Yes, that is me chuckling from under the blanket in the dark at a grouchy Ted Turner riding in on his bull to berate Coco.
2. Better Off Ted - Do I blame America or do I blame the network for the demise of this witty, biting, and hilarious absurdist workplace sitcom, starring a never-better or weirder Portia Di Rossi and charming straight-man Jay Harrington? I think I need to move to a country, or a planet, that appreciates good tv and that would never let a Kardashian or a Snookie become popular tv personalities.
1. Amazing Race - When Chi Young was little, we used to spend every Sunday evening watching Amazing Race, but then he went and grew up and starting doing other things and developing other interests like playing games online. Well, this season, because of the participation of KevJumba, Chi Young began watching with me again. So yeah, Amazing Race is made all the more amazing because now Sunday nights are once again what they used to be. KevJumba and his dad may have gotten eliminated by middle of the season, but Chi Young stayed the whole way through.
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