One day, (I think it was either in the summer of 2003 or 2002) I was flipping around the channels and I came across an airing of the 2 hour pilot of "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr". I had never seen the show before but I had heard that A) it had Bruce Campbell, B) it was well recieved by the critics and C) it had a cult fan base thing going on. I watched the movie and was quite entertained. I hoped that it was the beginning of Spike showing the TV series but alas it was just a Saturday afternoon movie thing.

For those who don't know (as I imagine most of you don't), Brisco is kind of hard to describe. The name makes it sound like some sort of period drama but it's definitely not. IMDB lists it as being in the Action/Sci-Fi/Western/Adventure/Comedy genre which is a fairly accurate placement. The show is set in the late 1800s and follows the adventures of Brisco County Jr. He is a bounty hunter and his primary goal is to capture Bly, the man who murdered his father (who was a marshall). The show has some serious moments as well as some not so serious moments. The mood is actually kind of similar to that established on Hercules/Xena (also seems to have the same sort of recurring character thing being set up).

Anyway, a couple months ago I stumbled across episode 23 of the show and put it on my computer; I never got around to watching it though. A few days ago I started downloading episodes 2-4 (the pilot is ep 1) off of Suprnova. Tonight they finished downloading and so Webrunner and I watched a couple of them. I must say that I'm a fan. Definitely going to have to get my hands on some more episodes. The episodes seem to be fairly stand-alone so far but there are also elements which carry over so I'm going to try to get them in order if possible (still have ep 4 to watch but then it jumps up 19 episodes).

Defunct Word of the Day: embiggen
To build up. It's a perfectly cromulent word! (OED's down)