Rain and links and television

[umadoshi]

One of the few sad things we've noticed about our all-concrete home is that we can't hear the rain on the roof. I'm not a rain fan in general, but if it has to rain buckets, I'd like to be able to curl up with a book or lie in bed listening to it come down. Instead, we can only really hear it on a couple of the windows (most notably the kitchen

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[etrangere]

I don't remember who linked this originally, but [dreamwidth.org profile] happydork has very happy-making picspam of "Shows You May Enjoy Watching", starting with The Good Wife and the fabulousness that is Archie Panjabi as Kalinda.
That is a lot of shows I should be watching.

[umadoshi]

I'm still (after a few years of not fighting it anymore) boggled by how much decent-to-awesome TV there is now. So weird. So time-consuming...

[etrangere]

just watched the first ep of the good wife and loved it :)

hahaha, i'm not sure I would agree with that, but there are from times to times, some truely awesome shows yes.

[umadoshi]

Yay! I was quite surprised by how much I enjoy it.

[andora]

Vampire Diaries isn't the crap-fest I expected, but Nina Dobriev, the main character, is distracting. The girl is gorgeous, possibly the worst actor on the show (but not SO dreadful), and I keep seeing her as her degrassi character. :P Basically, almost anyone who is an up-and-up good guy pales in comparison to the characters who range from conflicted to "will inflict pain, no questions." If you can get past that, it's a decent show. (And the guy who plays Damian is gorgeous on top of interesting to watch)

I think you watch more TV than I do, and I have cable. ;)

[umadoshi]

AFAIK I've never seen any of the actors in anything else, so at least I won't have that problem. ^^

I watch a frightening amount of TV overall, but since I've getting a bit better at dropping them when they start annoying me too much, I'm not watching a horrendous number right now. (Although I'm always tempted by the shows I've dropped, because there's been story that I don't know about! Even if I except it would annoy or bore me, I kinda want to know.)

[badtzphoto]

"I'd like to be able to curl up with a book or lie in bed listening to it come down."
Oh, me, too. For some reasons, that's very calming to me. Maybe the fact that I'm under a roof makes me very happy and content.

[umadoshi]

It's an extremely cozy sound. ^_^

[umadoshi]

These are all good things! ^_^

[coastal_spirit]

I love, love, love the sound of rain, especially at night.

I'm amazed that neither one of those boys laughed while singing. ;}

Thanks for the link. I've been meaning to start watching The Good Wife, and this has convinced me. Huge looks a little bit too trigger-y for me - I'd probably cry all through it, although it looks as if it's well done. I've watched Grey's Anatomy since the beginning (well, not technically, but I caught up). Last season was a great disappointment to me, but I'm not ready to give it up yet. We'll see.

[umadoshi]

Rain is so lovely as long as I don't have to go out in it. ^^ As soon as that's a possibility I bristle like a cat.

I was impressed too. I can't even imagine doing it!

The Good Wife is really, really good. I'm so impressed by how much I like it, although as people have pointed out, the actual legal stuff isn't so much with the realism. But that's fine by me, since it's not at all what I'm watching for. One particularly nice thing for me is that it's shot in NY and they reportedly draw heavily on the theatre community and try to work around the stage actors' hours, so I've seen a few people I recognized from other things. (Alan Cumming, obviously, but Joanna Gleason has been around too.)

I'm only two episodes into Huge, but so far I'm really enjoying it.

I've never seen Grey's. It used to be on my to-watch list, but I don't think I'm likely to get around to it...