TV!

[morwen_peredhil]

Between spending a week in Colorado visiting my father and then coming back home to the NHL playoffs (GO HABS GO!) and my husband's business completing a significant expansion, I've been sadly remiss in keeping up with LJ/DW. However, I am back.

Five things about TV:

1) Got my father hooked on Justified, the first three seasons of which are

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[raffaella]

Justified is my favourite show at the moment. I've lost interest in a lot of TV shows, and can easily wait a year or two before catching up (see: Dr Who. I only watched the 2011 Christmas special yesterday, the one with the widow, and I have a lot of catching up to do), but Justified is the one I have to watch every week when it's on. It makes me so happy! I was talking about it with my brother, and we both agreed that there aren't many shows that manage to be so consistently good over four seasons. Even my favourite shows have had some big fluctuations, but not this one. That kind of low key excellence fills me with joy. And it has one of my favourite casts ever. Genius casting director, even for the bit parts:

Re: The Americans and Matthew Rhys, I have the same problem as you. I watched the first 7 or 8 episodes and I should love it, but I don't. I was a bit ashamed of my shallowness, but there it is. That's too bad, because the spy stuff and the angst about the agent who really fell in love with his wife should be right up my alley, but meh.

When Matthew Rhys was remembering the first time they met, and told her that he was relieved she was so pretty, but that he knew she was kinda disappointed when she saw him, it was objectively heartbreaking, but it didn't do much for me because I was thinking: "That sounds about right. I would have been disappointed too, you don't exactly inspire passion." I'M NOT PROUD OF IT. But I don't feel like watching the rest because I don't like his face.

[morwen_peredhil]

Going back and rewatching S1 of Justified after all this time made me really realize that, yes, it has always been that good. As it still was in S4. It's like TV magic! I don't know how they do it.