Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Shawshank Redemption

You remember that period in the mid to late 90s when TBS and TNT played "The Shawshank Redemption" at least five times a week at key times on Saturday afternoon or school nights, the perfect time when you were listlessly grooving down the channels, not really looking for anything, one step away from picking up a book or switching to Mario 64 or all the other weird things we used to do before the internet consumed our free time - BOOM, you hit just as the evil head guard holds Andy Dufresne off the roof, or when Red and the boys make Andy a chess set, or even late in the movie, and you're taken away?

I miss that. I miss the idea that TV could make me love a movie.

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