Know what's awesome? Finding out that your super-intellectual Human Rights professor, of whose chic hipster wardrobe you live in daily envy, recently fell in love with Richard Armitage in North & South and is now watching Robin Hood.

The swoonability: not even doctors of transnational trauma literature can resist it!

Or does he?

Know how sometimes you have a good time watching a movie, but when it's over and you start to think about it, you like it less and less? Well, my sister and I saw Sherlock Holmes on Monday night, and what happened was exactly the opposite. I enjoyed the movie pretty well as I was watching it, but the more I think it over the more ( Read more... )

Another part of my birthday present from thepresidentrix was a copy of her Sylvester audio book. Richard Armitage reading Georgette Heyer? Too good to be true ( Read more... )

Geez, this was exhausting! I just want to mention that as I was filling out pretty much all of these, I was haunted by the notion that I had forgotten someone/something that TOTALLY belonged on the list. If you know me well enough to notice any glaring absences, I'd be grateful if you mentioned them!

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Top 5 costume drama (BBC or otherwise) ( Read more... )

Tonight, as last week, I will be hosting a live discussion of tonight's installment of Little Dorrit. Swing by from 9:00 to 10:30 EST (U.S.) to join in the fun!

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Those of you on bbccostumedrama have seen this already but for the rest:

FILMING TO START ON NEW BBC 'Emma'

My thoughts:
1) Does the world need a new Emma just now? No. But that never stops ( Read more... )

I knew there was a 1975 BBC adaptation of North & South (the British North & South) in which the guy who plays Mr. Hale in 2004 played Frederick Hale.

What I just learned today is that PATRICK STEWART PLAYS JOHN THORNTON.Patrick Stewart ( Read more... )

Yeah, so the first pic I saw of Robert Downey Jr.'s Holmes? was Not Awesome. Now this is more like it!

I'm not gonna lie, guys. The big-time Conan Doyle fan in me is saying this movie sounds ridiculous. But the shallow, Victorian-clothes-loving girl in me who's ♥♥♥ed Robert Downey Jr. since 1994 is not hearing itAnd he sides with the shallow ( Read more... )

Start dwelling on how you have no time for frivolity and then try to get work done. Go on. Let me see you do it.

My brain is broke.

Hilarity.

Unconscionable furry cuteness.

Emo John Thornton.

Cowbell.

Oh and I watched the last 3 eps of Supernatural second season, which I'd never got around to finishing. There was a djinn and like a ( Read more... )

Maybe you've seen Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility or Gwyneth Paltrow's Emma. Maybe you've seen pictures of some seriously attractive men wearing cravats. Maybe you have a friend who's unhealthily obsessed with Richard Armitage. You've grasped that there's a whole costume drama world out there, but you don't know much about it. And you're ( Read more... )

Today is the anniversary of the day soniag turned up to make the world a nicer place! Yay!

In her honor, I have a present for all North & South fans:

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