Am I the only out there addicted to this show?

I am not really a TV sort of person. I like Grey’s Anatomy and Numb3rs, but it’s okay if I miss them and catch them later.

But Moonlight? My knees go week like a schoolgirl just looking at promo shots of the show. This is sooo not like me. (And yes, I have admitted all of this to RK, it didn’t feel honest to keep it from him. He is greatly amused.)

I don’t believe I’ve lusted after a movie star since the 80’s when I drooled over Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing (and then later that surfer movie he did with Keanu Reeves, who happened to be my second favorite actor back then).

Anyway, the whole nice Vampire who considers himself a monster but who is such a gentleman and who is so in control of himself and who fights his own nature to do the right thing is just… too much for me. And I really think that’s it - the gentle monster part of it. Not to say that the actor isn’t also sufficiently hot, but I really think it is the character that has captured my imagination.

I’ve even gone out looking for news about the show and potential spoilers about upcoming shows (this Friday night’s show looks especially hot, there is a promo shot of Beth in his shirt in his apartment drinking coffee on the sofa).

Also, I loved the Matrix trilogy, and I’ve found out that several people involved in The Matrix are involved in Moonlight. Which may just mean that I am attracted to the art of these particular people.

Anyway, if you haven’t checked it out yet, you can watch the pilot on youtube, and then the next episodes are available at the CBS website.

Here is the pilot episode (broken up into several youtube videos)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WhExWs-on1s
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jqx-NWetcHk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ebrpdmtGpvU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UUj5pz2xNE8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oQjKYdzLAZE

The rest of the shows are on the CBS website, just go to http://www.cbs.com/ and click on Full Episodes and then Moonlight. The most recent one will start playing, but you’ll want to start with the second episode, so go to the bottom of that list and click “watch now” to see the second episode. It will be a small window, or if you want it full screen there is a button (right side, below the video) to push for full screen, push it, then click the “full screen” that will pop up in the video, and you’ll get full screen.

I love good literature. The kind that, every time you read the book, you pick up different symbolism and symbology and nuances that you missed the time before. You can read the book 20 times and pick something new up every time. And then you can join in on a discussion about the book and learn another 100 things that you didn’t pick up on. Very few movies have done this, and fewer TV shows. But this show does this for me. Every time I watch an episode again, I see something different. The symbolism runs very deep. It’s not so much a show about vampires as it is about good vs evil, and about chemistry between people, and about the use (and abuse) of power.

Ya’ll will probably see me comment on this show occasionally. It has really captured my imagination.

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