Its April, and you know what that means! Baseball season, yes. But even more important, at least for the next couple of weeks, is a new season of "Deadliest Catch" on Discovery Channel.
The series details the journeys of five different fishing boats in the Bering Sea of Alaska, during the annual season for King Crab.
This is documentary TV at its very best. I watched last season religiously, and highly recommend it again this year.
Why do I love it so much? I think I know. Picture this: middle-aged balding white fellow with a relatively mundane office job, sometimes feeling as though his own life is a bit too routine, and musing over his place in life, sits on his family room couch in warm, temperate Southern California, feet up on coffee table. On the TV he is watching a bunch of men about his age and younger, daily risking their lives in the near-freezing Bering Sea. I am vicariously reveling in a life style I would never choose, but nevertheless respect.
And, as I watch, I am reminded of this. An old profession, indeed.
The series details the journeys of five different fishing boats in the Bering Sea of Alaska, during the annual season for King Crab.
This is documentary TV at its very best. I watched last season religiously, and highly recommend it again this year.
Why do I love it so much? I think I know. Picture this: middle-aged balding white fellow with a relatively mundane office job, sometimes feeling as though his own life is a bit too routine, and musing over his place in life, sits on his family room couch in warm, temperate Southern California, feet up on coffee table. On the TV he is watching a bunch of men about his age and younger, daily risking their lives in the near-freezing Bering Sea. I am vicariously reveling in a life style I would never choose, but nevertheless respect.
And, as I watch, I am reminded of this. An old profession, indeed.
