Summer TV, Where Are You?

Now that my favorite network shows are coming to their season finales (suddenly, it seems, after just coming back from the writer’s strike), what am I going to watch this summer? Usually, HBO has a good pack of summer shows ready to go when the lights are off at The Office for the season. So, what’s going on with my favorite shows?

Big Love
Now that the real-life FLDS compound has been raided, what is the fate of the Hendrickson Clan (the only family that makes polygamy not seem so icky)? Well, thank you strike, but the word is October/ November! Yikes, guess I just have to pull up a bucket of popcorn and squint at CNN (pretending one of the ladies in a prairie dress is Nicki). (Ed. Note (that’s me) Don’t go near the Big Love Forumns on HBO.com. Under the Season 3 Thread, where you would expect a date, people are arguing over the fundamental similarities between tables and strippers. Hmmm.) But, do feel free to take the “Which Sister Wife Are You” Quiz (I’m somehow a Nicki – not!)

Entourage
What have Vince, E, Drama, Turtle and Ari been up to (besides trying to pick up beautiful women and sitting courtside?) Well, we’ll find out this fall too. In the meantime, you can dress like a douchebag from the HBO store (can I start a petition to oficiallt retire “Hug It Out Bitch?” We especially don’t need it on a sweatshirt).

Tell Me You Love Me
As this show was practically soft porn, I’m embarrassed to admit I kinda liked it (except for the young girl, who I always wanted to punch in the face. Dunno). I’m not even sure how they can have a second season – two threads were tied up and one wasn’t. Will they bring in a whole new cast for marriage therapy (or just merge this with In Treatment)? Season 2 has been confirmed, but no word on when (and, thank God, there’s no games for you to play on the HBO website. Eww).

Enough with HBO, now. What about AMC (a channel previously dedicated to Jaws and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest)?

Mad Men
My last memory of Mad Men was throwing up on Labor Day from drinking too many Dark n’ Stormies (ughhh, ginger beer). So, I forget where the show left off, but I do know that (Spolier!) Peggy had a surprise baby, Don Draper was mysterious as ever, and Mrs. Draper is going bananas. I found out that (wait for it) . . .

. . . Season 2 premieres in July (hooray, finally something to do this summer!) Now I must go delete all the unwatched episodes of Lipstick Jungle on my DVR and make some room!