currently watching:

Being Human (Wikipedia): I found this online and recommend you adopt your P2P or YouTube vector of choice and do the same. This is a post-Buffy pop-horror show with hyoooooj potential. It centers around a few supernatural creatures trying to make their way in the human world, trying to lead a "normal" life. Think "Party of Five" meets "Supernatural," except with better writing and less pretty performers.

The acting is good, the dialog is largely realistic but peppy, as are the relationships, at least when considered within the context of badgered minority groups having a common theme -- and always being willing to badger even less fortunate groups than their own, ironically.

They also introduced plenty of seeds for future development of the characters, mysteries about their past, and in one case a large, shadowy conspiracy which threatens to ruin everyone's party.

it charges by running

We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery-it recharges by running.
—Bill Watterson at Kenyon College: