tv update
I love Leslie and everybody else in the show SO VERY MUCH. It is the happiest thing on TV right now - Leslie realising why her behaviour wasn't actually okay and then later kicking sexist dustbin dude ass! the guys having the loveliest bachelor party EVER! The very fact that one episode was called 'Women In Garbage' but was about the awesomeness of the ladies in question! OH YES SHOW, OH YES.
I also particularly liked that Ron really did care about how well he did looking after Diane's kids, and that HER reaction was to 1. appreciate that and 2. not freak out that her kids cut their own hair, because she realises that there would be no benefit in doing so. Goooooo Diane! And I love that Ann is terrible with children but can learn, because YES, it is not a magical god-given power, it is a skill which can be learnt! And Ann's journey in that episode was totally classic and I love her for it.
Basically: HEARTS. HEARTS IN MY EYEEEES.
I think this show is officially BACK! I love Alicia having booty calls with Peter - it really works for me that this is how they negotiate their lives right now. I LOVED Diane talking French - TALK FRENCH MORE, DIANE! YOU'RE AMAZING! - and also her reveal of why she became a partner - and her advice to Alicia that sure it sucks, but this is what opportunity looks like, was entirely true and I am SO READY for Alicia to kick ass and take names as a partner.
(I also love that they are at a point where she can take the $600k from Peter without it implying anything bad about their relationship, because they really are functioning as equals right now, and part of that is that Peter offered it partly because Alicia could get it from a bank with his co-signing, but she shouldn't have to and he appreciates that that was itself a bit of a blow for her. I love that. I boggle that $600k is loanable money, though... I know it is for some, but that is so not my world I boggle!)
I am super excited about Eli and Elspeth. Seriously, the show had to know it was doing the equivalent of a comic book Superhero Team-Up thing, right? Had to. And I will admit to having a moment of trepidation there... like, sometimes, two awesome things are not MORE awesome together. Sometimes they cancel each other out. And I think both Eli and Elspeth are so great that I would be really sad if that happened. But I have faith that the show has regained at least most of its mojo and will know what to do. Having Elspeth out of the fray for the whole episode only for her to turn up right at the end and BE ROCKY (ahahahahah, Will's face ahahahhahahaahha) gave me so much hope that they know EXACTLY how to use her to best effect.
(And I loved that Alicia told her that she was such a brilliant lawyer, because she IS!)
Herr Professor and I have just started watching Homeland, and I am really enjoying it! We are up to episode seven, and I'm finding it really tense and gripping. I like Carrie (Claire Danes you can in fact have gravitas! and bring the expressiveness! I feel weirdly proud of you, even though sometimes I want to tell Carrie that she is being wrong in the face!) and so far the whole mental health problems thing seems to be dealt with well. I think it helps that she's not the only mentally unwell person in it - I like Damian Lewis and I think his portrayal of someone who is majorly traumatised is one of the things that makes this show compelling to me - without it, his return and the massive difficulties both he and his family have with it wouldn't be nearly as good.
The whole Carrie/Brody thing is DESTINED TO BADNESS, I am sure, but I even don't hate that! And I usually do hate plots where people keep having sex with each other even when it's a terrible plan, because even though I know that happens A LOT in real life, I mostly find it depressing rather than compelling. I think it helps that there are some really, really good reasons in the show why they can find something with each other that they need but are not finding elsewhere... even though them specifically is not a good idea right now.
I also really like that Morena Baccarin's character is not actually shamed within the show for having found someone else in Brody's absence. Like, the people in the show judge her for it in different ways, but the show itself shows that very sympathetically, I think. She's not perfect, but she's not a bad person for that. She's been trying to do the best she can do, even when that's not particularly well because everything's a mess
Also, DAVID MARCIANO IS IN IT AND NOBODY TOLD ME. He is great and I was happy from the moment I saw his nose.
I am less convinced of the show's in-built assumption of terrorism as a default of the world, but then that is kind of the world it's about, so I can put that on the backburner while I watch fine so far. I hope it stays this watchable: what I've heard sounds hopeful!
And also,
raven has written a beautiful review of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel, here. It made me want to hug it, and so I pass the news of its existence onto you.
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I also particularly liked that Ron really did care about how well he did looking after Diane's kids, and that HER reaction was to 1. appreciate that and 2. not freak out that her kids cut their own hair, because she realises that there would be no benefit in doing so. Goooooo Diane! And I love that Ann is terrible with children but can learn, because YES, it is not a magical god-given power, it is a skill which can be learnt! And Ann's journey in that episode was totally classic and I love her for it.
Basically: HEARTS. HEARTS IN MY EYEEEES.
I think this show is officially BACK! I love Alicia having booty calls with Peter - it really works for me that this is how they negotiate their lives right now. I LOVED Diane talking French - TALK FRENCH MORE, DIANE! YOU'RE AMAZING! - and also her reveal of why she became a partner - and her advice to Alicia that sure it sucks, but this is what opportunity looks like, was entirely true and I am SO READY for Alicia to kick ass and take names as a partner.
(I also love that they are at a point where she can take the $600k from Peter without it implying anything bad about their relationship, because they really are functioning as equals right now, and part of that is that Peter offered it partly because Alicia could get it from a bank with his co-signing, but she shouldn't have to and he appreciates that that was itself a bit of a blow for her. I love that. I boggle that $600k is loanable money, though... I know it is for some, but that is so not my world I boggle!)
I am super excited about Eli and Elspeth. Seriously, the show had to know it was doing the equivalent of a comic book Superhero Team-Up thing, right? Had to. And I will admit to having a moment of trepidation there... like, sometimes, two awesome things are not MORE awesome together. Sometimes they cancel each other out. And I think both Eli and Elspeth are so great that I would be really sad if that happened. But I have faith that the show has regained at least most of its mojo and will know what to do. Having Elspeth out of the fray for the whole episode only for her to turn up right at the end and BE ROCKY (ahahahahah, Will's face ahahahhahahaahha) gave me so much hope that they know EXACTLY how to use her to best effect.
(And I loved that Alicia told her that she was such a brilliant lawyer, because she IS!)
Herr Professor and I have just started watching Homeland, and I am really enjoying it! We are up to episode seven, and I'm finding it really tense and gripping. I like Carrie (Claire Danes you can in fact have gravitas! and bring the expressiveness! I feel weirdly proud of you, even though sometimes I want to tell Carrie that she is being wrong in the face!) and so far the whole mental health problems thing seems to be dealt with well. I think it helps that she's not the only mentally unwell person in it - I like Damian Lewis and I think his portrayal of someone who is majorly traumatised is one of the things that makes this show compelling to me - without it, his return and the massive difficulties both he and his family have with it wouldn't be nearly as good.
The whole Carrie/Brody thing is DESTINED TO BADNESS, I am sure, but I even don't hate that! And I usually do hate plots where people keep having sex with each other even when it's a terrible plan, because even though I know that happens A LOT in real life, I mostly find it depressing rather than compelling. I think it helps that there are some really, really good reasons in the show why they can find something with each other that they need but are not finding elsewhere... even though them specifically is not a good idea right now.
I also really like that Morena Baccarin's character is not actually shamed within the show for having found someone else in Brody's absence. Like, the people in the show judge her for it in different ways, but the show itself shows that very sympathetically, I think. She's not perfect, but she's not a bad person for that. She's been trying to do the best she can do, even when that's not particularly well because everything's a mess
Also, DAVID MARCIANO IS IN IT AND NOBODY TOLD ME. He is great and I was happy from the moment I saw his nose.
I am less convinced of the show's in-built assumption of terrorism as a default of the world, but then that is kind of the world it's about, so I can put that on the backburner while I watch fine so far. I hope it stays this watchable: what I've heard sounds hopeful!
And also,
raven has written a beautiful review of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel, here. It made me want to hug it, and so I pass the news of its existence onto you.
This entry was originally posted at http://soupytwist.dreamwidth.org/104181.html. Please comment there using OpenID.