Watched 3/22 - both Dollhouse and BSG were brilliant.

Friday Night Lights - still the best, and best acted, drama on TV.

2 eps of The Beast - the plots are pretty boilerplate, but Patrick Swayze is giving the performance of his career. Worth watching just for that.

20/20 Bailouts and Bullshit - on the YouTubes -

"Originally aired on March 13, 2009. Whether the government should fix the economy; the attainability of the American Dream; a proposal for universal pre-kindergarten; fencing in the U.S. border; increasing traffic and killer commutes; medical marijuana."

Stossel does a great job of pointing out government hypocrisies and stupidities. Where I fall down on the libertarian argument is how folks who can't be trusted in government can be trusted in business.

Confessions of a Teen Idol - guilty pleasure. Had to watch the series finale.

Dollhouse - the word on the intertubes was that ep 6 was where the network quits screwing with Joss Whedon's vision of the show and let him do what he wanted. It certainly felt like it, because after some middling episodes in the first five, episode 6 was sheer awesomeness. Great plot twists, reveals, kick ass characterizations and smart, funny dialogue. And Patton Oswalt, comedian extraordinaire, gave a great dramatic turn in a guest spot.

Real Time with Bill Maher - Glenn Beck is kind of a retard, and should be rightly mocked, but the sheer disconnect of going on and on and mocking him about the the FEMA camps smacked of head-in-the-sand potshot taking at the goobers on the right, when even the most cursory of research would show that they've been part and parcel of conspiracy theories on both the left and right since the 1980s, under Reagan who supposedly started them,

Russell Brand: Doing Life/Live - two freaking hilarious standup specials.

4 eps of Law and Order UK - standard Law and Order, with British accents. Worth the "hey" factor of seeing British born Jamie Bamber/Lee Adama of BSG talking with his natural accent.

Battlestar Galactica Series Finale - A thoroughly satisfying wrap up to four years of excellent TV. Most all the big questions are wrapped up, and the incessantly gloomy cynicism gives way to some much needed and well deserved optimism. Great acting, and action.

There are, of course, unanswered questions if you're not prepared to dive into the show's religious affectations.

[My own theory, personally - never laid out as such in the show - is that they all exist within a Matrix like environment. Repeated assertions of cycles and repeating things over and over in order to glean new information from randomized changes are entirely too in line with the high math iterations of digital organisms and evolutionary algorithms.

Add that into the "angels" that are immortal, Kara Thrace's still unexplained death and resurrection, her knowledge of certain coordinates [and subsequent disappearance] were all a bit deux ex machina. Where god is the machine.

And, from the show's closing moments, a god that doesn't like to be called god... it all speaks to me of a massive evolutionary computer program running over and over again. Which would mean, of course, that we are a part of that.

And who's to say we aren't?]

The slight Luddite turn at the end of humanity's head moving ahead of its heart, and not being quite ready for technology, I thought was an unnecessary philosophical commentary, but in the context of where and when they were, you had to have it to make sense.

The best bit was Galen going off to found the Gaels/Gaelic culture in Ireland, though. Obvious, in hindsight. But funny, and well done.