White Collar (shameless pimping)
I love being on holidays, I have time to pour into really pointless and entertaining things like shoving the current SHOW OF MY HEART down your throat.
Wait! Don't run! There will be pictures, and also I will talk about bondage.
Right, first things first.
This is Agent Peter Burke, who works for the White Collar Crime unit of the FBI in New York City. Peter is badass and competent and a terrible driver and has a weakness for smart, pretty people.
Such as his wife, Elizabeth. El is basically amazing. That is all you need to know about her. Oh, and she runs an event planning agency or something, which is occasionally useful for plot reasons.
It is impossible not to ship the Burkes with the strength of a thousand suns. They understand each other and love each other deeply, and El finds the fact that Peter PUT HER UNDER SURVEILLANCE WHEN THEY STARTED DATING (just to make sure that she wasn't seeing anyone else, you understand) to be endearing and romantic. Peter can be a bit of a bastard. El can be a cunning little schemer. THEY ARE PERFECT <333
And this is their pet felon. His name is Neal Caffrey.
Neal is, in essence, the most adorable person on the planet. He is also a con man, art forger, conterfeiter, general criminal mastermind, etc.
PLOT TIME: Peter chased Neal for three years before catching him and putting him in prison for four. The pilot basically covers the setup of the show, which is: Neal breaks out of prison four months before he's due to be released anyway, Peter catches him again pretty much immediately (because Peter is BADASS. I will repeat this until you understand how true it is.) and then instead of going back to prison for ANOTHER four years, Neal proposes that he be released into Peter's custody with a tracking anklet, and become a consultant for the FBI, what with his vast experience in the field.
Ergo: TOGETHER, THEY FIGHT CRIME. (It is a procedural. Mostly.) The relationship between Neal and Peter is not one of Cop and Criminal; it's a relationship between two people who have known each other inside-out for seven years. They both had to become experts in the other. And they admire each other hugely and have all this history but they don't quite trust each other, and Neal thinks Peter needs to relax and Peter thinks Neal is an incorrigible person who needs to be whacked on the nose with newspaper occasionally. Figuratively speaking. (Or not.)
But there is this particular smile that Peter gets whenever Neal does something ridiculous and impressive. GUH. There are also the seven million smiles that Neal shoots at Peter for no reason at all.
El, who describes Neal as the man she competed with for three years, adopts him into her heart as soon as they meet. (Aw, honey, you brought home a ridiculously good-looking felon! LET'S KEEP HIM.) Neal thinks El is awesome. Together, they wreak havoc on Peter's nerves. And Fahye acquires yet another OT3.
THINGS TO LOVE ABOUT THIS SHOW:
1) Neal's clothing. Just. All of it. dlskdhksjdskdlas
2) The supporting cast!
Agent Lauren Cruz, who is almost as badass as Peter, and hero-worships him in an 'omg I admire your work!' kind of way. Cruz is great.
Agent Jones, who we don't see as much as Cruz, but whom we like anyway.
Mozzie, Neal's one connection to his criminal past, who helps him with information-gathering on the shadier side of the law. Moz is good fun.
Plus there's Kate, Neal's ex-girlfriend, about whose personality we know nothing at all, so I find it hard to care much about her. There's a whole subplot about Neal trying to track her down, blah blah, whatever, I will start to care when I find a reason to think about her as something other than 'that girl who looks weirdly similar to Elizabeth'.
3) Absolutely everything to do with Neal & Peter's dynamic.
Aside from all the smiling and touching and long looks and waving of hands and TRUST ISSUES, there's a bewildering and delicious overtone of kink to it, in that Peter basically assumes responsibility for and ownership over Neal. And they talk about it. A lot. Peter can literally restrict Neal's movements (his tracking anklet allows him to move only within a two-mile radius, when he's alone), and he spends huge amounts of time giving Neal orders. And Neal spends huge amounts of time doing what he's told and proving how brilliant he is and making puppy-faces like SEE, SEE, I DID GOOD, PAT ME ON THE HEAD NOW PLEASE.
Personally I have a HUGE kink for control and giving people orders, and a lesser one for possession and physical marks of possession (tracking anklet!), and unsurprisingly there is a LOT of kinky fic in the fandom already.
In order to better demonstrate exactly what I mean about Neal and Peter's dynamic, I refer you to this fanvid, which is PERFECT. And it's to 'Fever' by Adam Lambert and if you can come out of it not wanting to see the show, then there is no hope for you. It contains footage from all seven episodes that so far exist, but I don't think there is anything that would really be plot-spoiling devoid of context. Besides, you do not watch this show for the plots. They are occasionally quite entertaining, but they are mostly an excuse for Peter and Neal to run around New York being awesome. (The scripts are very good, though -- warm and funny and human and full of delightful dialogue.)
There is also, um, this screencap:
I rest my case.
4) NEAL CAFFREY'S WONDERFUL FACE.
(this scene made lizardspots and I pause in our simultaneous watching so we could capslock NEEEEEEAL at each other for a while)
And now I will just throw screencaps at you! until you submit to the inevitable!
Enjoy.
"Now say, I'll be back."
"NO."
Wait! Don't run! There will be pictures, and also I will talk about bondage.
Right, first things first.
This is Agent Peter Burke, who works for the White Collar Crime unit of the FBI in New York City. Peter is badass and competent and a terrible driver and has a weakness for smart, pretty people.
Such as his wife, Elizabeth. El is basically amazing. That is all you need to know about her. Oh, and she runs an event planning agency or something, which is occasionally useful for plot reasons.
It is impossible not to ship the Burkes with the strength of a thousand suns. They understand each other and love each other deeply, and El finds the fact that Peter PUT HER UNDER SURVEILLANCE WHEN THEY STARTED DATING (just to make sure that she wasn't seeing anyone else, you understand) to be endearing and romantic. Peter can be a bit of a bastard. El can be a cunning little schemer. THEY ARE PERFECT <333
And this is their pet felon. His name is Neal Caffrey.
Neal is, in essence, the most adorable person on the planet. He is also a con man, art forger, conterfeiter, general criminal mastermind, etc.
PLOT TIME: Peter chased Neal for three years before catching him and putting him in prison for four. The pilot basically covers the setup of the show, which is: Neal breaks out of prison four months before he's due to be released anyway, Peter catches him again pretty much immediately (because Peter is BADASS. I will repeat this until you understand how true it is.) and then instead of going back to prison for ANOTHER four years, Neal proposes that he be released into Peter's custody with a tracking anklet, and become a consultant for the FBI, what with his vast experience in the field.
Ergo: TOGETHER, THEY FIGHT CRIME. (It is a procedural. Mostly.) The relationship between Neal and Peter is not one of Cop and Criminal; it's a relationship between two people who have known each other inside-out for seven years. They both had to become experts in the other. And they admire each other hugely and have all this history but they don't quite trust each other, and Neal thinks Peter needs to relax and Peter thinks Neal is an incorrigible person who needs to be whacked on the nose with newspaper occasionally. Figuratively speaking. (Or not.)
But there is this particular smile that Peter gets whenever Neal does something ridiculous and impressive. GUH. There are also the seven million smiles that Neal shoots at Peter for no reason at all.
El, who describes Neal as the man she competed with for three years, adopts him into her heart as soon as they meet. (Aw, honey, you brought home a ridiculously good-looking felon! LET'S KEEP HIM.) Neal thinks El is awesome. Together, they wreak havoc on Peter's nerves. And Fahye acquires yet another OT3.
THINGS TO LOVE ABOUT THIS SHOW:
1) Neal's clothing. Just. All of it. dlskdhksjdskdlas
2) The supporting cast!
Agent Lauren Cruz, who is almost as badass as Peter, and hero-worships him in an 'omg I admire your work!' kind of way. Cruz is great.
Agent Jones, who we don't see as much as Cruz, but whom we like anyway.
Mozzie, Neal's one connection to his criminal past, who helps him with information-gathering on the shadier side of the law. Moz is good fun.
Plus there's Kate, Neal's ex-girlfriend, about whose personality we know nothing at all, so I find it hard to care much about her. There's a whole subplot about Neal trying to track her down, blah blah, whatever, I will start to care when I find a reason to think about her as something other than 'that girl who looks weirdly similar to Elizabeth'.
3) Absolutely everything to do with Neal & Peter's dynamic.
Aside from all the smiling and touching and long looks and waving of hands and TRUST ISSUES, there's a bewildering and delicious overtone of kink to it, in that Peter basically assumes responsibility for and ownership over Neal. And they talk about it. A lot. Peter can literally restrict Neal's movements (his tracking anklet allows him to move only within a two-mile radius, when he's alone), and he spends huge amounts of time giving Neal orders. And Neal spends huge amounts of time doing what he's told and proving how brilliant he is and making puppy-faces like SEE, SEE, I DID GOOD, PAT ME ON THE HEAD NOW PLEASE.
Personally I have a HUGE kink for control and giving people orders, and a lesser one for possession and physical marks of possession (tracking anklet!), and unsurprisingly there is a LOT of kinky fic in the fandom already.
In order to better demonstrate exactly what I mean about Neal and Peter's dynamic, I refer you to this fanvid, which is PERFECT. And it's to 'Fever' by Adam Lambert and if you can come out of it not wanting to see the show, then there is no hope for you. It contains footage from all seven episodes that so far exist, but I don't think there is anything that would really be plot-spoiling devoid of context. Besides, you do not watch this show for the plots. They are occasionally quite entertaining, but they are mostly an excuse for Peter and Neal to run around New York being awesome. (The scripts are very good, though -- warm and funny and human and full of delightful dialogue.)
There is also, um, this screencap:
I rest my case.
4) NEAL CAFFREY'S WONDERFUL FACE.
(this scene made lizardspots and I pause in our simultaneous watching so we could capslock NEEEEEEAL at each other for a while)
And now I will just throw screencaps at you! until you submit to the inevitable!
Enjoy.
"Now say, I'll be back."
"NO."