Thoughts that might keep you lying awake

We will talk about: Evil doctors. We don’t watch horror films, but we do love to talk about them. Especially when they tap into a fear we didn’t even know we had. Newcomer Joby Harold’s film, “Awake,” follows what happens when the anesthetic doesn’t work -- during open heart surgery! And then somehow Jessica Alba is supposed to rescue you when your doctors don’t want you to survive the operation anyway. Doctors trying to kill you at your most vulnerable and Jessica Alba comes to the rescue? Now that’s terrifying. (Friday)

You might talk about: The unexpected return of “Notes From the Underbelly.” We like Jennifer Westfeldt (Jessica of “Kissing Jessica Stein”), we just can’t listen to her talk. Ever. Fifteen seconds is too much. And while we are Eastside L.A.-ers with a growing belly (and not due to Pazzo Gelato), we’re not sure we can tune in to this show. She just talks too much. (Monday)

You could talk about: Christmas in New York. We’ve been kind of down on Christmas this year since a mid-November trip to the Grove stuck us in a gridlocked parking structure for 45 minutes. (We blame overeager Christmas shoppers.) But as former New Yorkers, we have a soft spot for Christmas Manhattan style, which NBC brings to the nation this week with the lighting of the tree at Rockefeller Center and the “Radio City Christmas Spectacular,” being televised for the first time this year. (Wednesday, Saturday, respectively)

You probably should talk about: “The Savages.” It doesn’t really matter what this movie is about (two self-involved siblings dealing with an aging parent). Philip Seymour Hoffman is in this film, and so is Laura Linney. That’s really all you need to know. (Wednesday)

We know you won’t talk about: “I Know Who Killed Me.” Here’s the thing about the Lindsay Lohan film, being released on DVD: We kind of want to know what happens in it. Is she two people? Who is trying to kill her? But we also wanted to know what happened in “The Color of Night,” so we’ve learned our lesson there. (Tuesday)