Somewhere along the line, I canceled cable. And it stayed canceled. Nothing really got me to change my mind — certainly not the cable TV of another country. The faces were new, but the content was the same.
So when I realized we could watch the Academy Awards without cable, I ran into the living room. The mysterious “EZTV Digital Converter” came out of the box, the housemate’s TV was rearranged, and the sofa became the place where you could watch as Tom Hanks killed the punchline.
And now, it was Round II of the TV Without Cable experiment. So why was Kevin Bacon speaking Spanish? With a flesh wound? And a blonde lover with a knife? Who also spoke Spanish?
Somehow, just by pointing a metal antenna at the sky, I got it all: Taiwanese News, BBC World, and Madonna offering marriage counseling to crazy couples.
All for the latest episode of 30 Rock.
Somewhere along the line, I cancelled cable. And it stayed cancelled. Nothing really got me to change my mind — certainly not the cable TV of another country.
So when I realized we could watch the Academy Awards without cable, I ran into the living room. The mysterious “EZTV Digital Converter” came out of the box, the housemate’s TV was rearranged, and the biggest room in the apartment became a place for Tom Hanks to forget how to build suspense.
So why was Kevin Bacon speaking in Spanish? With a flesh wound? And a blonde lover with a knife? Who also spoke Spanish?
It was Round II of my great TV Without Cable experiment. Somehow, just by pointing a metal antenna at the sky, I got it all: Taiwanese News, BBC World, and Madonna offering marriage counseling to crazy couples who kept their dead past spouses’ prosthetics in the closet.
All for the latest episode of 30 Rock.
