My Sister’s Keeper, portrays the love of a mother for her children, and the struggle to help them survive. A love of a mother never seems too strong; however, when one of the girls is dying from leukemia she insists that her sister keeps Kate alive by undergoing another surgery.

This is a typical process for Anna because she has consistently gone through one surgery after another her whole life; due to the fact that her parents conceived her by preimplantation genetic diagnosis in order to be a match for Kate.

Since Kate now needs another surgery Anna is the only option; however, she shocks the family with her decision not to help Kate any longer. She goes to the extreme of hiring a lawyer to fight her mother on behalf of her decision.

She desires the right to make her own decisions on what she chooses to do with her body, although her parents argue that she is not old enough to make her own decisions.

Although it was recently turned into a film; the novel is completely different. The ending is twisted and tear-jerking, and the debates leading to the final outcome keep the reader eager to turn the page.

“Up in the Air” tells the story of a middle-aged single man (George Clooney) that is in love with his job. While getting a high to be hired by large corporations to do massive lay-offs, he spends the majority of his time traveling and fondling with random women to pass the time.

Since his traveling requires so much time he meets people in airports, hotels, and restaurants; however, he clearly has no close friends until he meets a wonderful woman (Vera Farmiga) who brings light into his abandoned life.

Now, with a close friend who becomes a confidant, and a drastic change in his current job he begins wondering what he is lacking in his life. Soon he learns that he could possibly be in need of friendship and family; nonetheless, we do not always get what we want.

I enjoyed the fact that it was unpredictable and dictated the idea of how shallow life can sometimes be. The ending was subtle and brilliant; which made the movie climb to my list of top ten.

Most notably and highly frakking sad in my opinion, is the continued disregard for Battlestar Galactica. I guess not enough people watch the show. I can only assume if it was on FOX, enough people would have seen it and voted it into this group.

Honestly…Grey’s Anatomy over BSG? Really?

On a happier note, I’m LOVING that Flight of the Conchords made the Top 10…that’s just outstanding. Good for them.

Can’t say much bad about the dramas (aside from Grey’s). Dexter from the four episodes I’ve seen so far is awesome, I heard amazing things about The Wire, and it’s cool to see Friday Night Lights get some more love. Not sure I still get the love for Boston Legal, but I don’t watch it, so who am I to judge?

I’m going to slap little asterisks next to my predictions for the five series who make it to the finals. There just MIGHT be a bit of wishful thinking in there, but I don’t care!

Comedy Series:

• Curb Your Enthusiasm*
• Entourage
• Family Guy
• Flight of the Conchords* (sleeper pick!)
  
• The Office*
• Pushing Daisies* (super sleeper!)
  
• 30 Rock*
• Two and a Half Men
• Ugly Betty
• Weeds

Drama Series:

• Boston Legal
• Damages*
• Dexter*
• Friday Night Lights
• Grey’s Anatomy
• House
• Lost*
• Mad Men* (sleeper?)
  
• The Tudors
• The Wire*