tv stuffs
1. I have heard but not seen it confirmed that Undercovers has been picked up for a full season, despite the ratings. I hope this is true! I am exceptionally fond of it despite the lack of, uhm, any ongoing plot. But it is so upbeat and pretty and energetic and devoted to trying to aachieve equal opportunity fanservice and we may never again get a show about happily married spies if it goes away.
2. It, however, is the only of the four shows I'm trying to watch as they air (the others being Lost Girl, Nikita, and Vampire Diaries) that I'm current on. Nikita needs more of a metaplot and spoilers make me worry, but then Maggie Q strokes a gun and I forget things. Lost Girl remains superawesome, I just keep forgetting to post on it because so many people I talk to in IMs watch it. You are familiar with my Vampire Diaries whiplash.
3. But speaking of airing shows, has anyone checked out The Walking Dead? I checked out some of the comic book series back when it was The Hot New Thing but didn't stick with it, and hadn't paid much attention to the TV show buzz until I noticed Laurie Holden, one of my earlier girlcrushes, in the promotional pictures.
4. Continuing my trend of old school adventure shows, I've started watching The Lost World, which is kind of cringey, but fun. Marguerite and Veronica are awesome and the old professor is adorable and the reporter is...endearing, though moreso in the 2 part pilot than the couple episodes after it that I've seen. Roxton...has potential to eventually make me like him, but right now I mostly want to thwap him, and every time he and Marguerite interact, I'm all "gosh, Maeve showed way more skin than this-a lot of it cleavage-and Sinbad managed to usually keep his eyes where they belonged and avoid the objectifying sexist comments..." Challenger I kinda...pretend isn't there. So far, it's better that way. I think I've read the book, but if so, it's been ages.
5. Today at Wal-Mart, I picked up the boxed sets of Crusoe and Surface for $10 each. I remember vaguely being interested in both when they aired, but never hearing much about them and basically forgetting all about them because almost no one talked about them. Which probably doesn't bode well, but surely they'll give me at least $10 worth of entertainment each, in one way or another. Also, I kept staring at the cover of Crusoe and wondering why the main guy was making me feel both vague fondness and wanting to thwap him. And then I realized it was Jack from SyFy's Alice, and it all made sense.
6. Last week, I watched the 2005 Night Stalker series because I had been told it had Gabrielle Union, and I kinda fell for her in the second season of Life. I am utterly amazed at how that show was watchable and fairly enjoyable, yet utterly lacking in any semblance of originality. The lead actors and characters were great (and Mira Furlan has an awesome guest role as a Villain Of The Week, even though I cringe at the "obsessed with beauty' trope inthat episode) but it was like everything went into the leads and there was nothing left for the rest of it. Like, I'd start every episode thinking "this is the episode where the show will actually get interesting" (and yet...) and "this is the episode that will make me start hating Kolchak. (Normally, I'd dislike him very much? But for some reason, I liked him.) But, yeah. What a sad waste of Gabrielle Union and Stuart Townsend.
7. Anyone wanna rec me mystery series? I'm mostly thinking A&E and BBC stuff, but US works too. I specifically mean mysteries, as in "detective goes out and does footwork and solves it all with hir brain" and not procedurals, as in "lots of technology/modern methods and attention to the dead body and gory details." I've seen all of Foyle's War and all the Poirots and Marples that have been released stateside. I've seen a bit of Inspector Lynley and thought it was good and liked the leads, but couldn't get into it. For US stuff, I watch Castle (which does veer into procedural, but not quite) and Psych. I've seen a lot of Monk but, while I remember it fondly, it's been a few years, and I suspect I'd have problems with it now. I also watch Bones, but that's about as procedural as I get (all of these on DVD). For older stuff, I've seen all of Remington Steele and a good chunk of Moonlighting (I stopped when I was told it was best to not watch past. Reading spoilers and the reactions of others, this was wise) and bits of some others. What I've heard of Sherlock doesn't make me think I'd enjoy it a lot, but you're welcome to change my mind.