Local Wife Bingewatching The Good Wife Not Exactly Good At Anything, According to Source
...is the headline of the imaginary newspaper featuring my life. :)
For reasons too stupid to get into, I streamed the pilot of "The Good Wife" on Hulu, and instantly got addicted, despite my previous prejudice against the show. Courtroom procedural drama featuring the wife of a politician imprisoned following a political/sex scandal was exactly what I didn't want to watch for "fun".
Nevertheless, I somehow managed to watch exactly 40 episodes at 45 minutes each in 4 nights, while working full-time, and crashed the 5th night. On the third night I broke down and upgraded to commercial-free instead. Because it was one thing to watch 10 episodes in one sitting; it was quite another to watch the same commercials 30 times a night.
And these are American TV seasons with 23 episodes each; not, you know, BBC Sherlock seasons. Which means I'm still making my way through Season 2 in a show that ran for 7 seasons.
(So it's no surprise I haven't been active in the Buffy fandom. Not that I could've even if I wanted to, with all my spare time sucked into Hulu, but I adhere to a personal "One Fandom Rule". I only participate in one past time, hobby, fandom at a time. That's all the room for obsession my life has right now.) :)
Back to The Good Wife. The writing is brilliant, fast-paced, and binge-friendly (as in, not overly violent, gory, traumatic, or otherwise in need of a recovery time following each episode). And the acting - oh, the acting is simply superb. Understated in the most thought-provoking, teasing, delicious way. I, of course, immediately started cheering for the couple that I know to be doomed to be apart. Typical.
So, any fans of The Good Wife here?
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For reasons too stupid to get into, I streamed the pilot of "The Good Wife" on Hulu, and instantly got addicted, despite my previous prejudice against the show. Courtroom procedural drama featuring the wife of a politician imprisoned following a political/sex scandal was exactly what I didn't want to watch for "fun".
Nevertheless, I somehow managed to watch exactly 40 episodes at 45 minutes each in 4 nights, while working full-time, and crashed the 5th night. On the third night I broke down and upgraded to commercial-free instead. Because it was one thing to watch 10 episodes in one sitting; it was quite another to watch the same commercials 30 times a night.
And these are American TV seasons with 23 episodes each; not, you know, BBC Sherlock seasons. Which means I'm still making my way through Season 2 in a show that ran for 7 seasons.
(So it's no surprise I haven't been active in the Buffy fandom. Not that I could've even if I wanted to, with all my spare time sucked into Hulu, but I adhere to a personal "One Fandom Rule". I only participate in one past time, hobby, fandom at a time. That's all the room for obsession my life has right now.) :)
Back to The Good Wife. The writing is brilliant, fast-paced, and binge-friendly (as in, not overly violent, gory, traumatic, or otherwise in need of a recovery time following each episode). And the acting - oh, the acting is simply superb. Understated in the most thought-provoking, teasing, delicious way. I, of course, immediately started cheering for the couple that I know to be doomed to be apart. Typical.
So, any fans of The Good Wife here?
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