Much to my surprise, Fox has become the network with the most shows I follow.
I’m prone to letting episodes pile up, hence my choice of words. And I don’t even watch House or — check your disbelief — The Simpsons.
On Mondays it’s 24. Tuesdays have Fringe, which I’d like to write about soon; Thursdays have the underrated Bones, as much a successor to The X-Files as is Fringe despite its lack of sci-fi elements. On Fridays it’s the new Dollhouse. Once Mondays but now Fridays bring Terminator spinoff The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which I arguably shouldn’t count since I’m so behind this season that episodes I want aren’t online anymore.
Those four hours of Fox I watch (Sarah Connor aside) hold the mark to beat unless we move beyond prime time, where Comedy Central ties it via the four-night block of The Daily Show and Colbert Report, as does NBC by adding the 90-minute Saturday Night Live to 30 Rock, Chuck, and the frustrating Heroes.
My Fox epiphany came right before I got my hands on Kitsune Tales, a one-shot
comic book featuring the fox spirit from Andi Watson’s Skeleton Key series. Amazon kept using its inclusion in my wish list to suggest a novel called The Fox Woman that sounds intriguing, based on an old Japanese fairy tale.
That reminded me in turn of one of my favorite songs of last year, Fleet Foxes’ “White Winter Hymnal”. I heard it in the car one day on WXPN, the local public station best known for David Dye’s nationally syndicated World Café, and was floored.
Although the rest of the band’s eponymous debut album is a bit too much of the same thing for me — great the more it sounds like pastoral Brian Wilson, grating when it veers towards classic rock acceptable for playing at a Renaissance Faire — “Hymnal” remains just about perfect.
Fox logo ® Fox Broadcasting Company. Kitsune Tales cover © 2003 Andi
Watson. Fleet Foxes’ album cover presumably © 2008 Fleet Foxes.
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