Wet Season Television Habit

Sara and I have been spending a fair amount of time during the wet season cooped up in our house. After about a month of this we broke down and ordered a TV from Walmart (one of the few retailers that will ship stuff to American Samoa through the mail). Prior to this we were watching movies on one of our laptops, which was far from ideal. A 13-inch screen is not how you're meant to see most media. Once we ran through the DVDs we brought with us to the island, we started branching out by trading DVDs and digital files with people in order to feed our entertainment needs.

We reeled through all five seasons of HBO's The Wire over November, December and January. Once we finished with the mean streets of Baltimore, Sara and I needed to find new shows to continue to feed our pop culture habit.

Freaks and Geeks went too quickly to tide us over for long. It only lasted us a few evenings and a sick day. With another series down, we continued to scrounge for things to keep our minds and eyes busy.

We reeled through the first season of Game of Thrones with a group of palagi, Sara and I were already big fans of the books the show is based on (which we have been actively foisting upon our group of friends here in American Samoa). We did regularly scheduled viewing parties on Sunday evenings, and are eagerly awaiting starting these up again when the second season starts on April 1st.

Our Boardwalk Empire viewing parties started up after finishing up with Game of Thrones and needing something to fill to void in our social calendar. We've been watching them with a group of paediatricians from the hospital on Tuesday evenings. We just did a marathon session to finish season 1, not sure when we're going to start up again with season 2.

Sara and I have also been piece-mealing along with some pulpier/trashier shows in the form of seasons 1 and 2 of True Blood and season 1 of RuPaul's Drag Race when we have an evening with nothing going on. We've also been keeping up with the series we were watching on the mainland, like Archer and Project Runway.

I've also been working through Star Trek: The Next Generation, during the evenings after Sara goes to sleep (yay, needing less sleep). I've nearly finished season 3. Need to keep by nerd credentials up while I'm here.

So as you can imagine, with this many shows, we spend our evenings without plans and weekends when the weather recommends us from going outside (either from too mush rain or skin searing sun) on the couch. As much as I enjoy the media, I'm ready for the dry season to come back and let us get outside a bit more.