What is the best and worst thing about the holidays? One word: Marathons. You haven’t seen the truly awesome brain rotting power of television until you’ve sat through 12+ episodes of TV’s most addictive programming.
5) CSI
Why the show is cool: Who would’ve thought science could be so cool? Aside from the fact that non of these forensic specialist look like the dweebs who spent the day stuffed inside a locker or envying cheerleaders (except Sarah) it doesn’t get more raw and real than CSI.
Why the show is addictive: CSI shows us a life-like CGI reenactment of homicides that would make Jigsaw cringe. It is literally a break down of those wrecks on the freeway everybody slows down to watch.
Why it never gets old: They could show an x-ray cam of someone getting shot every episodes and it would still be fascinating.
Why the show is cool: I swear I’m not a closet nerd, but who hasn’t watched a movie and said, “that s— isn’t real” at one point or another? Mythbusters ends all debate.
Why the show is addictive: Curiosity may or may not have killed the cat, but I know for a fact it can kill a weekend. It’s our need to know that makes this marathon so fun. Oh yea, and they blow up a lot of s— too.
Why it never gets old: As long as people lie, there will always be a myth to bust.
Why the show is cool: Psycho. Serial. Killers. Long before Dexter came out, Criminal Minds was digging into the brains of some of the most sick and twisted people on earth.
Why the show is addictive: You can’t just walk away from the TV when little Timmy is stuffed in the trunk of the pedophile who vaguely reminds you of your own weirdo neighbor.
Why it never gets old: It just never lets go. You know you should turn away, you just can’t.
Why the show is cool: Everyone hates a pervert and therefore we love to watch heroic and interesting cops hunt these scumbags down.
Why the show is addictive: Sex sells. Granted, Law & Order: SVU takes sexual deviance to the extreme, but if the tabloids have taught us anything it’s that society loves to see what’s going on in other people’s bedrooms.
Why it never gets old: If there are 64 positions in the Karma Sutra, then there are at least a thousand different ways to be be killed in each one.
Why the show is cool: For a profession that routinely says, “if I tell you, I have to kill you” this is the only safe way to get inside the mind of a spy while you watch him in action.
Why the show is addictive: Michael Weston is a freaking one man army and sure isn’t shy about sharing his secrets in the “how-to” style narrating of the show.
Why it never gets old: One-trick-pony and Michael Weston don’t belong in the same stratosphere, let alone the same sentence. I’m pretty sure he is the coolest guy on earth. Hands down.
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