And Now Presenting:

"The Cabaret girls..." Sorry. Done now ;o).

I'm sure this comes a surprise to no one that I'm an avid reader/tv and movie watcher...So some of my favorite shows recently have all featured relatively good looking (or hot, in Timothy Olyphant's case), brooding torutred men. This has led to something my sister and I have come to refer to as "the tortured soul competition," which came into being when Deadwood and 24 were on back to back nights earlier this year...Now Jack's supposed to be dead but Seth lost his son, so I'm still not sure who wins. Then I got into Rescue Me and Tommy Gavin makes a case almost weekly for his spot as top tortured soul... And then Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince came out (if you haven't read it yet, that's your problem) and Harry makes his own, convincing case for a shot at top tortured soul...So the list is as follows:

- Seth Bullock (Deadwood)
- Jack Bauer (24)
- Tommy Gavin (Rescue Me)
- Harry Potter (Harry Potter series...of books, not movies)

I pick these people because they are main characters in their respective stories and because these are shows that I watch every week or read every book.

People who come close:
-Ben Hawkins (Carnivale...doesn't make the list since Carnivale got canned and it made no sense most of the time)
- Any of the Fishers (Six Feet Under...don't make the list because the show has degenerated in the last two seasons and the only reason it's good right now is that it's ending)

So that's it for now, we'll see what kind of trouble Tommy gets himself into this week...