I was inspired by all the people (well, it was only Graham Annable and Vera Brosgol) posting Lost fan art on Twitter the other week for its premiere. I thought I’d do something from a show that I like and that isn’t watched by, you know, millions of people. Yup, it’s Men of A Certain Age fan art. Depicted here is a little scene from the fifth episode. Actually, it’s a composite of two moments from a scene and it isn’t even one of the stars of the show.

Hey, it’s fan art. I can do whatever I want.

Check it out full size here.

Men of a Certain Age exists in a strange limbo. Who exactly is the target audience? It stars a bunch of men so it’s a guy show, right? Nope, it doesn’t have action or scantly clad women, so guys aren’t going to watch, but it doesn’t have enough dead bodies to get women viewers either. It’s a “chick show” for guy (but it’s not the chick show equivalent for guys; that would be Entourage). It’s about relationships. Who wants to watch that? The show I would compare it to is Freaks and Geeks. The ages of the main characters are totally different, but it has the same awkwardness and heart. Difficult things are going to happen to the characters but in the end it’ll end up okay (and no one will find themselves chained to a radiator or decapitated). It also has Andre Braugher for junks sake. I’d watch Andre Braugher do just about anything. Alright, this rambling probably isn’t helping the show’s cause. If you watch it you should know that the first three episodes are good, but it gets really good with episode four. Skip ahead to episode five if you really can’t be bothered to start from the beginning. Hey, that’s where the fan art comes from. What a coincidence.

Men of a Certain Age. Mondays at 10:00pm on TNT.

TNT: We know drama.

Appendix A:
Mr. Annable put his Foggy memories of Lost on Flickr.
Ms. Brosgol’s Foggy Memories of Lost are on Flickr too.