Eat It, Everyone Who's Never Won A Nobel Prize!
TV thoughts:
H50 - you are on serious fucking notice with me after this week's episode. Any more bullshit and I will be done with you. The only reason you even get another chance was because of Rachel and Sang Min's existences this week, but you are skating on thin ice with everything else. Whatever you're doing to be cool, stop it because you SUCK at it. Be better, goddammit.
Jeeves & Wooster - haaaaaaaaaaart! Everything about this show is delightful and makes me want to give PG Wodehouse another try. (I quit trying to get into him when I was younger, but I might have been too hasty.) Also, Stephen Fry and his bedroom eyes, rawr. I am a little unsettled by how attractive I find him when he plays Jeeves, considering that, to me, he's always been more like the charming uncle who occasionally says stupid shit that you forgive him for because you adore him so much. I'm not used to finding him fuckable. :O
Castle - I love this show, even though I am getting a little tired of the conspiracy thing. But I tend to hate conspiracies in general (my least favorite X-Files episodes dealt with the conspiracy arc, and I gave up on that show once it became the main focus), so I can't really fault the show for that; it's clearly my problem.
Still, I love everyone. Beckett and Castle continue to be fabulous together, Esposito and Ryan are even more bromantical now that Ryan's married, and Martha and Alexis are the best people ever. ♥ Also, what was the name of that cute, hot actress who ran the Dial A Goddess service? I kind of fell madly in love with her, especially with the glasses and the hair in a bun. Thank you for that, show!
Lewis: this show should totally be called Oxford Behaving Badly because the cases, oh my God! I watch them with my jaw dropped to the floor. But ugh, Lewis and Hathaway make me so happy with their quiet friendship and sly banter and how they're always poking around each others' lives, trying to get a peek in.
On a more serious note, I really do appreciate how they portray Muslims, and minorities in general, on this show. I'm on series three, and from what I've seen so far, they get to be people, complex and complicated with needs and desires like everyone else, without being pigeonholed as victims or villains. I really appreciate that.
These days, whenever I watch shows and there are PoCs involved, I start to cringe in advance because I know there's a good chance there will be some awful stereotype that I will have to work hard to handwave so I can enjoy the rest of the episode. Like every time NCIS had an Arab character or a terrorist plotline, I had to sigh and mentally disregard everything that wasn't team banter or Abby and Gibbs being cute together because otherwise, I would've been ragey throughout the entire episode. And honestly, that shit's exhausting.
But I don't have to do that with Lewis, and I really can't articulate enough how glad I am of that. I don't want to have to work so hard just to enjoy a show, I have other things to do with my life.
(lamardeuse, I have watched Life Born of Fire and AFJDSK WHAT IS THIS SHOW? And how is it that everyone on this show ships Lewis and Hathaway, including Innocent, their boss, jfk? What did you get me into?!
However, I am a big schmooper and just want to write tons of Lewis/Hathaway where they trade quips and quotes and Lewis complains about literary references and Hathaway makes faces at Lewis' musical choices and Hobson shows up every once in a while to ask after Hathaway and roll her eyes when Lewis pretends not to know what she's talking about.
God, what is my life and its choices?)
Futurama - from the beginning. Yup, still as awesome and hilarious as I remember it. Bender continues to be my favorite while I continue to be Leela, apparently.
I have drunk a lot of tea in the last two days. I think I might be well enough to go into work tomorrow. I'll let you know.
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Still, I love everyone. Beckett and Castle continue to be fabulous together, Esposito and Ryan are even more bromantical now that Ryan's married, and Martha and Alexis are the best people ever. ♥ Also, what was the name of that cute, hot actress who ran the Dial A Goddess service? I kind of fell madly in love with her, especially with the glasses and the hair in a bun. Thank you for that, show!
On a more serious note, I really do appreciate how they portray Muslims, and minorities in general, on this show. I'm on series three, and from what I've seen so far, they get to be people, complex and complicated with needs and desires like everyone else, without being pigeonholed as victims or villains. I really appreciate that.
These days, whenever I watch shows and there are PoCs involved, I start to cringe in advance because I know there's a good chance there will be some awful stereotype that I will have to work hard to handwave so I can enjoy the rest of the episode. Like every time NCIS had an Arab character or a terrorist plotline, I had to sigh and mentally disregard everything that wasn't team banter or Abby and Gibbs being cute together because otherwise, I would've been ragey throughout the entire episode. And honestly, that shit's exhausting.
But I don't have to do that with Lewis, and I really can't articulate enough how glad I am of that. I don't want to have to work so hard just to enjoy a show, I have other things to do with my life.
(lamardeuse, I have watched Life Born of Fire and AFJDSK WHAT IS THIS SHOW? And how is it that everyone on this show ships Lewis and Hathaway, including Innocent, their boss, jfk? What did you get me into?!
However, I am a big schmooper and just want to write tons of Lewis/Hathaway where they trade quips and quotes and Lewis complains about literary references and Hathaway makes faces at Lewis' musical choices and Hobson shows up every once in a while to ask after Hathaway and roll her eyes when Lewis pretends not to know what she's talking about.
God, what is my life and its choices?)
I have drunk a lot of tea in the last two days. I think I might be well enough to go into work tomorrow. I'll let you know.
This entry was originally posted at Dreamwidth. Please comment anywhere you feel has the best icons to use to dazzle me. I'm really easy.