United States of Tara has been cancelled.

US of T is an amazing show with excellent writing, compelling characters, and a moving, intriguing story line. Diablo Cody was the mastermind behind this show, and the characters she created were dynamic; strong, intelligent women with ambition, passion and investment for something besides a man.

It's an absolute travesty that this show is ending now. It was just getting really good. We discovered some major stuff this season; information on why Tara has Dissociative Identity Disorder. We were going somewhere really interesting with Moosh, too, and with Kate and Max and Charmaine and Nate. I was fucking miserable when I heard this news last night, and I don't feel any better about it with a night's sleep.

This show was so fucking good! And while crappy-ass television shows like Jersey Shore, Two and A Half Men, and the ridiculous number of CSI and Law & Order versions continue to be picked up despite terrible writing and plainly awful concepts, a unique show has been axed. I know television is all about ratings and money, and shows like Jersey Shore and CSI garner those things (for reasons that utterly escape me, but whatever). But it's just such a fucking shame that truly amazing television shows like Firefly, Dollhouse, My So-Called Life, Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me, Veronica Mars, Arrested Development, and now United States of Tara will never get the continuations they so veritably deserve.

um. yes, i'm sort of maybe very much getting into gossip girl. i know, i know, i know.

but you know what? it's pretty awesome.

when the oc first began airing back in the day lol, it did not seem like my kind of show. i can be a judgmental jerk a lot of the time, especially when it comes to popular culture, and the show just seemed like the very definition of crappy television.

but then i actually saw an episode, and i couldn't keep up the pretence that i disliked it any longer. it's a silly show with ridiculously over-the-top plotlines that go on for way too long and grate on your nerves; you can't begin to understand how anyone can be as big a dolt as marissa cooper. but it's a good show! and so i succumbed. i watched it on and off while it was on the air, and i read lots of seth/ryan fanfiction. it was fun.

so when i first heard about gossip girl, i had much the same attitude toward it as i had to the oc. despite having never read the series or bothering to watch the show, i made my unfounded judgments and decided not to give it a fair chance. but i have quite a few friends who watch it, and they all really like it. i've been ignoring my curiosity, as well as reluctant to get into yet another television show when i already have a bunch of 'em i need to catch up on, so i put it off. and i put it off some more. but i finally got around to watching the pilot last week, and i've been watching the episodes back-to-back ever since.

it's a silly show with ridiculously over-the-top plotlines that go on for way too long and grate on your nerves; you can't begin to understand how anyone can be as big a dolt as... well, a lot of the characters. but they're also really loveable. the dialogue's excellent, and as heightened a sense of reality as the show tends to operate on, it's not a bad representation of teenagers and that universe of teenagedom. it's exaggerated, certainly, but it's accurate in origin. i like that the show doesn't take itself too seriously; a lot of it is totally tongue-in-cheek, and it's surprisingly really funny.

so, what i'm saying is... you should watch it. it's pretty spectactular. don't be like me, judging something by its cover.