Our Pop-Culture Resolutions

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Watching The Wire is by far our most popular resolution. A sampling:

I am locking myself in for all of January’s (and February’s, if necessary) weekends and watching all of The Wire, dammit, —Jennifer Armstrong

I will call in ”sick” for a week and watch The Wire on DVD from beginning to end. I feel so inadequate for having missed out on this show. —Chris Nashawaty

I vow to finally rent The Wire so I can stop pretending to know what my friends have been talking about for the last seven years. Who is Bubbles? What is an Omar?? —Leah Greenblatt

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My resolution is not to get so emotionally involved in The Bachelor that I scare my husband out of the room by screaming and ranting at the TV during the final rose ceremony as the Bachelor inevitably picks the wrong woman. That said, I know I will break this resolution. —Kristen Baldwin

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Jaap Buitendijk

I have to finally catch up on the Harry Potter books and movies before the last installments. —Kerrie Mitchell

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I promise to watch all the episodes of FlashForward on my TiVo. And at least one episode of Jersey Shore to see what all the hype is about. —Connie Yu

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I work at Entertainment Weekly and I haven’t watched Battlestar Galactica, Crazy! —Meeta Agrawal

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I resolve to finally read 2666 by Roberto Bolano. Because it’s almost 1,000 pages, it may be the only book I read all year. —Darren Franich

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I will catch up on Sons of Anarchy. —Michael Ausiello

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Air: Dale Robinette; Precious: Anne Marie Fox

I will watch all of the Oscar’s Best Picture nominees, even though there are 10 this year — and they can’t all be that good. —Kate Stroup

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Now that I’m a thirtysomething, I’m going to give thirtysomething another chance. I have the first two seasons on DVD. —Lesley Savage

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Cliff Lipson/CBS

I vow to start tuning in for The Big Bang Theory, and to watch even more on the Discovery, History, and Science channels so I can pretend my anthropology degree wasn’t a total waste. —Mandi Bierly

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I resolve to not judge my boyfriend when he laughs during commercials for comedy specials starring Dane Cook or Carlos Mencia. I say ”commercials,” because if he so much as attempts to watch a second of the specials themselves, I will break him Dolph Lundgren-style. —Kate Ward

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To play MORE video games. I bought this damn XBox, I should probably play it once in a while. Whenever I do I’m always shocked by how cool the games are. My wife is less impressed, though…and there’s the rub. —Mike Bruno

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