Today (well, yesterday/Sunday) was the Monk marathon on USA and I've had it on for most of the day (when I wasn't out running all the errands I haven't had time to run in the past three weeks... including two trips to Target...) and I saw a commercial for The 4400's fourth season.

I became a huge 4400 fan (read: closet sci-fi geek... oh well) in the summer of 2005, when I was hopelessly unemployed and thus spent all of my time watching various television shows on DVD, such as Sex and the City, Fat Actress, and The 4400. Last year's Memorial Day weekend, I zipped through the second season (along with the first two seasons of House) in marathon viewing sessions, eagerly awaiting the summer premiere of season three.

And - it SUCKED. I was sorely disappointed at how melodramatic, convoluted and poorly written it became, and most of all they seemed to have written off my favorite character, Kyle Baldwin (played by Chad Faust) and thus I stopped watching and all but forgot that the show existed.

Except in the commercials, not only is Kyle back, but he has a new haircut, and after one of the montage commercials he winks at the camera. And in a completely classic teenybopper moment, the first time I saw it, I almost fainted. And then quickly logged into Netflix to put season three on my queue so I can be prepared for the season four premiere on June 17th.

That's really what I'm going to do all summer, people. Is watch TV. Lots of it.