stockings, silk and otherwise
First off, 
fandom_stocking is getting going for the season. My stocking is here. And sign-ups are open until the 13th, if you want a no-commitment fun fannish thing for the holidays.
Second, I've now seen the whole first season of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. It is an absolute delight. I have not enjoyed anything on TV this much for ages, for just plain pure enjoyment and fun. Phryne Fisher is so wonderful, the UST with Jack is off the charts, and I am so happy with how deftly all the characters are drawn, but especially Dr Mac, and Dot and Hugh, and Jane, and Aunt Prudence, and - oh, everyone. The recurring characters are wonderful, but the one-episode characters are equally well drawn and alive. And I love how the show handles all the social issues it picks up, kindly and generously and with a delicate touch. And I adore how it's all light and fluffy and bouncy and then all of a sudden something cracks and you see that their lives aren't just frocks and frills and flirtation and amateur detection for fun, there's real pain and real suffering and real grief under there as well. And at the end of the first season it all melds together and you see how the two halves of Phryne's psyche fit together. I love it, and I'm so looking forward to watching the second season.
Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/133230.html. There are
comments there.
fandom_stocking is getting going for the season. My stocking is here. And sign-ups are open until the 13th, if you want a no-commitment fun fannish thing for the holidays.
Second, I've now seen the whole first season of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. It is an absolute delight. I have not enjoyed anything on TV this much for ages, for just plain pure enjoyment and fun. Phryne Fisher is so wonderful, the UST with Jack is off the charts, and I am so happy with how deftly all the characters are drawn, but especially Dr Mac, and Dot and Hugh, and Jane, and Aunt Prudence, and - oh, everyone. The recurring characters are wonderful, but the one-episode characters are equally well drawn and alive. And I love how the show handles all the social issues it picks up, kindly and generously and with a delicate touch. And I adore how it's all light and fluffy and bouncy and then all of a sudden something cracks and you see that their lives aren't just frocks and frills and flirtation and amateur detection for fun, there's real pain and real suffering and real grief under there as well. And at the end of the first season it all melds together and you see how the two halves of Phryne's psyche fit together. I love it, and I'm so looking forward to watching the second season.
Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/133230.html. There are
comments there.