Ever since word NBC and ABC announced their respective decisions to cancel My Own Worst Enemy and Dirty Sexy Money, episodes of the two doomed dramas have been piling up on my DVR like the stacks of magazines and newspapers, paid bills, and personal correspondence that have turned the main storage area of my apartment into something my husband has lovingly dubbed "the shame-shame closet." And in much the same way I find it hard to recycle old birthday cards or five-year-old copies of Martha Stewart Living, I’m having a tough time trying to decide whether to erase these series from my DVR queue and revoke their "series recording" status, or make like a member of the dance band on the Titanic and keep playing till the final credits roll. Any Enemy or Sexy Money fans out there who are grappling with/have grappled with this painful pop-culture decision? (Yeah, the writing on the latter series went off the rails this season, but I can’t help but feel disloyal having this conversation.) And whether or not I hit delete now, how am I supposed to go on without my weekly Mädchen Amick and Natalie Zea fixes in 2009?
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Dont delete “Dirty Sexy Money”. It’s been good.
Havent caught up with “Worst Enemy” also (since 1×03).
It’s a fair question to ask. My wife and i have a handful of episodes od DSM that are sitting in there waiting to be watched. The only reason we are actually going to watch them is that I read on ew.com somewhere that DSM is going to actually tie up the big mystery that kicked off the show last year, we’ll just look at it as one very long miniseries. It seems like shows we like with Blair Underwood get cancelled quickly though (a la NBC’s “LAX”).
Never watched DSM, but I love MOWE. I think it’s yet another show that didn’t get the proper promotion, or time to find its audience.
Dirty Sexy Money has gotten so bad this season that it is nigh-unwatchable at this point, and I only watch it for the Natalie Zea quips and the knowledge that not only will it be over soon but there will be some closure.
Dirty Sexy Money has the better title. Stick with it.
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I’m still recording then watching DSM along with “Eli Stone” and “Lipstick Jungle”. I keep watching so the networks will see that there is still an audience and at least air all the remaining shows and not cut us off like they did with “The Nine.”
I’m watching both shows to the bitter end. Series finale with no closure of ‘Enemy” tonight.
I can’t understand why DSM is being cancelled. Hello r there no Blair Underwood, Donalad Sutherland fans?Show some love. This truly vexes me. ABC get it together, get rid of Desperate Housewives, thats what you need to get rid of.
Dirty Sexy Money has been getting better and better each week and it’s frustrating that they cancelled it, especially with all the garbage reality junk that on every channel. And I’m still upset about The Nine going away…
I’m watching DSM, Lipstick Jungle, Eli Stone, and Pushing Daisies until the end. They are good shows (especially the latter two) and I don’t want to deny myself any of them until they are gone. My Own Worst Enemy I gave up on long ago because it is just bad. It deserved to get canceled.
I Love Dirty Sexy Money. It has such well known actors and actresses that I wonder if it is a money saving tactic?
I haven’t watched DSM this season. I have been watching MOWE .. and yes, there were some definite kinks early on, but they were working those out and the later episodes have actually been pretty good.
I gave My Own Worst Enemy a fair shot (even with that hideous title!) — But I stopped watching all the same the second NBC told me I could. Ditty Sexy Mon-ay, on the other hand, has kept up keeping me interested. So, Sleazak,get your Zea while you can…
We quit watching MOWE and Lipstick Jungle as soon as the announcements were made. But we haven’t been able to let go of Pushing Daisies (so sad that was canceled) or DSM. We are just glad they are going to bring DSM to an end. That is probably the only reason we continued on with it.
I have a rule that if I haven’t watched something that’s been saved on my DVR for more than 2 weeks, then it probably means I’m not really that interested in it and I should delete it.