Okay, so I admit, there is a geeky part to me - I'm not ashamed of it. Geeks are cool. If you don't believe me, just look at me.

See?

Anyway, this show was recommended to me by - don't laugh - the woman who did my nails. She said it was this smart murder/crime drama and they used math to solve the mystery each week. I'm thinking - ohmigod, could you get any more boring. But I think, I like this lady, I look for good recommendations, I record it. (I don't make appointment TV, I make appointments with my recordings.)

One of the first episodes I saw was where a man was murdering people and using the Fibonacci Sequence as part of the way he would pick his next victim and leave a biblical verse as to why the victim they had just found had been chosen. Okay, sounds too complicated, right?

Think "The DaVinci Code" where they kind of mapped out the thought process for you so you could see the workings of the mind as the problem was revealed. This is accompanied by an easy to understand explanation of an otherwise complicated computation narrated by the genius boy wonder brother of the head detective.

They get into Game Theory, car racing slip differentials, you name it, it's there, and it's really quite cool. I'm surprised by how much I like this one. David Krumholtz plays the boy genius, and I like that he doesn't feel compelled to live up to the expectations of the Hollywood body-type. A little spare tire can be a sexy thing sometimes. Rob Morrow plays his Detective brother and Judd Hirsch plays their mensch father.

It's a quirky cast and has some real endearing characters and developments between them that are as fun to watch as the mysteries themselves. If you've got time on a Friday, pop a Diet Coke and see what you think of these Numb3rs.