TV round-up (of the opinionated variety)

Oct 15, 2012 09:13

There is too much to watch on TV! Some things have already been regulated to the status of “okay, I’ll watch it with the boys if they feel like it after dinner” (sadly, this seems to mean that H50 and Elementary and Arrow are duking it out with Dr. Who, Alphas and Psych).

Here’s what’s rising above that at the moment (idiosyncratic, I admit):

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episode reaction, last_resort, merlin, spn, wallander, homeland

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azziria October 15 2012, 13:33:31 UTC
I love the way Arthur has grown as a character - as my son said, at first he came across as a bit of an immature and privileged stuck up prick (but there were still flashes that made you like him all the same), but the show has shown him growing into his responsibilities, and it works. And the shirtlessness doesn't hurt, either.

As for Wallander - I adore Sweden (we have friends there that we visit occasionally), and coupled with the fact that I am a sucker for anything (fiction or film/TV) that has a strong sense of place, my love of Sweden has undoubtedly very positively influenced my enjoyment of both reading and watching Wallander (and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo).

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ariadnes_string October 16 2012, 13:24:31 UTC
Me too! I think your son is spot on about it--and I find it so satisfying. The show is sometime so clunky, but this they've done a great job with--I'm always poking my sons and saying look, Arthur is taking responsibility not only for his people, but for mistakes he's made in the past--and they are usually like, oh, mama, just watch the fighting. But I like to think some of it sinks in. and, no, indeed, the shirtlessness doesn't hurt at all

How cool that you've been to Sweden--it looks lovely. I agree about the sense of place--they must film in Sweden, because the interiors, also, don't look anything like English houses, I don't think.

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maypoles October 15 2012, 15:33:16 UTC
but after not watching since the beginning of S6, I have now watched the first two episodes of SPN S8. IKR? But apparently gifs of muddy!Dean are my kryptonite.

Yay! ;DDD This is me too. I did watch a couple eps of s6 and 7, but I had some huge problems with the seasons as a whole. But with s8 I just have all these Deeeeean feelings. <3

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ariadnes_string October 16 2012, 13:26:33 UTC
Yay! I'm glad I'm not the only one! Feelings, yes, but also just aesthetic appreciation of how he wears that mud. Bring it on!

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ariadnes_string October 16 2012, 13:28:46 UTC
oh man, I feel like that about so many shows! Including H50, which I have a genuine attachment to.

There is too much TV, okay, and not nearly enough time in the day.

(anyway, I expect Last Resort won't last that long, and will be wrapped up in a package you can watch on Netlfix on a rainy afternoon next year)

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thesmallhobbit October 15 2012, 16:16:46 UTC
Not sure if it's available to you, but the Swedish version of Wallander (the original) is excellent. We watched with subtitles, although for some reason OH insists we still have to watch with the sound turned up in case he misses something, when he doesn't speak a word of Swedish.

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ariadnes_string October 16 2012, 13:31:23 UTC
OH insists we still have to watch with the sound turned up in case he misses something, when he doesn't speak a word of Swedish.
lol--I know how he feels! You need to hear the voices--it's the intonation, okay?

I'd love to watch that, but I've never seen it around anywhere...there are some other Swedish series I'd like to watch too (Johan Falk, with Joel Kinnaman), but I can't seem to find them. Are they on DVD in Britain?

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thesmallhobbit October 16 2012, 16:15:25 UTC
Yes, they've been brought out fairly recently as DVDs in Britain. Quite expensive, but each episode is two hours long.

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ariadnes_string October 17 2012, 01:01:07 UTC
huh! I shall have to keep an eye out in case they come out here, too. Or try to watch them next time I'm in the UK. Thanks for letting me know about them!

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khylara October 15 2012, 23:31:37 UTC
I'm also watching SPN for the pretty and could care less about the backstory - although it's for an entirely different pretty. Put a scruffy Mark Sheppard onscreen and I am one happy person :)

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ariadnes_string October 16 2012, 13:33:35 UTC
*fistbump of solidarity* I'm glad there are a few of us out there!

Mark Sheppard is pretty awesome, I can see why you'd tune in for him. He's welded in my mind to Lucy now. We saw him in some other show (Grimm, maybe?), where he was playing a straightforward, kinda clueless, good guy, and...it was hard to accept (though he did a nice job).

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