TeeVee
1. I never thought the addition of a Ladyspy to one of my shows would be the thing that finally got me to be pretty sure I won't be checking out the next season, but Sleepy Hollow may have just pulled it off. Tumblr post and commentary that explains how they pulled it off.
2. For US shows I'm currently watching: Stitchers, The Astronaut Wives Club, Wayward Pines, Beauty and the Beast, Dark Matter and Killjoys. I don't really have much to say about any of them, but Stitchers, and The Astronaut Wives Club both improved for me a lot after the pilot.
3. I finished Soo Baek Hyang and will post substantially on it...soon. Hwajung is still great, and the politics interest me more than they usually do in Joseon-set sageuks. (I tend to find the political aspect more interesting during the Three Kingdoms era.) I've mostly been making tumblr picspams for it, though.
4. Taraji Henson and Viola Davis rightly got Best Actress Emmy noms. Trai Byers did not, nor did any of the not-Scoobies (as I tend to think of them at times) from HTGAWM, both of which make me very sad. Jane the Virgin got nothing, which is even worse. I guess I'm happy that Tatiana Maslany got nommed and I'm happy for those who are excited, but my main reaction was "ok, good."
5. I'm somewhere in season 10 of Murder She Wrote. This show is still a lot of fun, but the "Look, we understand TECHNOLOGY!" aspect to a lot of the episodes in more recent seasons keeps me from enjoying it as much as I did before. The absence of "LOOK! TECHNOLOGY!" in earlier seasons was such a nice break from more contemporary mystery shows.
2. For US shows I'm currently watching: Stitchers, The Astronaut Wives Club, Wayward Pines, Beauty and the Beast, Dark Matter and Killjoys. I don't really have much to say about any of them, but Stitchers, and The Astronaut Wives Club both improved for me a lot after the pilot.
3. I finished Soo Baek Hyang and will post substantially on it...soon. Hwajung is still great, and the politics interest me more than they usually do in Joseon-set sageuks. (I tend to find the political aspect more interesting during the Three Kingdoms era.) I've mostly been making tumblr picspams for it, though.
4. Taraji Henson and Viola Davis rightly got Best Actress Emmy noms. Trai Byers did not, nor did any of the not-Scoobies (as I tend to think of them at times) from HTGAWM, both of which make me very sad. Jane the Virgin got nothing, which is even worse. I guess I'm happy that Tatiana Maslany got nommed and I'm happy for those who are excited, but my main reaction was "ok, good."
5. I'm somewhere in season 10 of Murder She Wrote. This show is still a lot of fun, but the "Look, we understand TECHNOLOGY!" aspect to a lot of the episodes in more recent seasons keeps me from enjoying it as much as I did before. The absence of "LOOK! TECHNOLOGY!" in earlier seasons was such a nice break from more contemporary mystery shows.