The five of you who read on a regular basis might have noticed I skipped the recap for the last episode of Battlestar: Galactica. And I didn’t so much skip it as simply not do it. Give my responsibilities over at Zap2It, I write here primarily when I have passion about something, since there’s only so many hours in a night to write and maintain a marriage that doesn’t involve one of us, you know, picking up and moving to Cleveland.

And BSG recaps were turning into the show itself: a chore. I’m a huge BSG apologist, and I haven’t even watched the last ep, which aired, at the time of this writing, eleven days ago. That’s frakkin’ nuts, but there you have it. If the show picks up again, I’ll start recapping again, but the nice thing about having one’s one site is that one need not write about that which one does not. Also? You can write sentences like the one I just did and not have an editor smack you in the head.

So since passion’s the key here, let me share with you three shows you should rent/buy to get you through the summer months. These are all shows I myself missed when they originally aired, which means it’s semi-sorta my fault that they got cancelled. But I own two of the three series now on DVD, and may end up owning the third when I finished burning through them on Netflix, plus, hey, I’m giving them much blog love now. Better late than never, ja?

Firefly. It’s science-fiction. It’s Western. It’s Joss Whedon. It’s awesome. So, so awesome.

Arrested Development. Probably the best 30-minute comedy to ever air, although if 30 Rock keeps up this current level, I may have to revisit this assertion at a later date. It’s funnier than any show ever, and is plotted as tightly as Lost. I kid you not. Seek out this series immediately.

Freaks and Geeks. Good Lord, this show hurts. I’m either hurting from laughing too hard, or hurting because I’m reliving the majority of my most awkward teenage moments. It lived up to the hype, and the hype? It’s huge. And totally justified.

So there you go, kids. Plenty of good material to ensure the sun need not ever touch your fragile skin. Don’t say the Dude never did nuttin’ nice for ya.