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Didn't feel up to cooking tonight - so went to the store to pick up half a rotesseri lemon herb chicken, quinoa fruit and nut salad, and just cooked green beans as a veggie and source of fiber. Also craved a baked treat - so went to Sweet Melissa's bakery and asked if they had anything gluten-free. The counter person was rather rude. She said "no" with attitude. Then repeated it when I didn't disappear immediately, "I'm sorry, no, we don't!" I thought, alrighty then. Then at the grocery store a kid with a grocery cart reamed my ankle - and everyone assumed for reasons that escape me that this was my kid??? The cashiers said - "we all thought he was yours, until he ran off and you ignored him and we realized, uh maybe not." No. I kept repeating. I don't have children. (Decided to go retreat inside again and not interact with people today. Besides was bloody hot for September - 88 degrees, but lovely blue sky.)
Finished watching Being Human. But here's the thing, the stupid DVR cut off the last five minutes of each episode. ( what happened in the last five minutes of the finale exactly? )
Regarding Being Human? Apologies to flist - I now understand what you meant when you said this series takes the characters to a far darker place than any other tv show on. Of course you couldn't tell me this without spoiling me. So thank you for that. You are correct - Tobby Whitehouse gives Joss Whedon a run for his money regarding vampires.
My main quibble with Being Human is the pacing. It's slow and made slower still with about a dozen commercials every ten minutes and the excruciating waste of time known as Inside Being Human. Note to BBCAmerica - I'd rather have more show and less cheesy advertising on said show. If I wanted interviews with actors and directors about the show - I'd go online and watch them. Do they do this on BBC? OR is this just a BBCAmerica thing?? Far too many scenes of people wandering down long hallways and repetitive conversations.
That said? Was rather impressed. The plot incongruities didn't bother me that much - as they did other reviewers. ( rather spoilery and serious review of Being Human, no snark in sight - it's not that type of show. )
Also watched Running Wilde - not worth watching or reviewing. Will Arnett deserves better. It's forced comedy. The situations fairly cliche. And with the annoyingly cute gimmick of being told through a kid's pov. A cute kid of course. My attention wandered. Not a keeper.
Raising Hope on the other hand appears to be a keeper and worth watching. The guy who plays the father used to play the cyborg/Terminator in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. And mom is Martha Plimpton. Two excellent character actors. Plus the writing is spot on, warm, snarky, and real. Situational absurdist humor that is not forced. This show unlike Running Wilde isn't trying to hard and isn't relying on a contrived set-up. It feels natural to the characters.
Big Bang Theory continues to amuse. It's possibly the only show that has found a way to do sexual humor in an innovatively funny manner that does not make me want to throw things at my tv screen. There's a bit with a robot hand that just had me dying with laughter. Also, Sheldon calculating how many men Penny has slept with...LMAO! While Sheldon's date outdoes Penny with the number of times her sexual pleasure centers were stimulated by a scientific experiment - that stimulate those areas merely by touching certain portions of her brain. (128 times vs. Penny's 31) Proving that the brain is the most effective sexual organ that we own.
Finished watching Being Human. But here's the thing, the stupid DVR cut off the last five minutes of each episode. ( what happened in the last five minutes of the finale exactly? )
Regarding Being Human? Apologies to flist - I now understand what you meant when you said this series takes the characters to a far darker place than any other tv show on. Of course you couldn't tell me this without spoiling me. So thank you for that. You are correct - Tobby Whitehouse gives Joss Whedon a run for his money regarding vampires.
My main quibble with Being Human is the pacing. It's slow and made slower still with about a dozen commercials every ten minutes and the excruciating waste of time known as Inside Being Human. Note to BBCAmerica - I'd rather have more show and less cheesy advertising on said show. If I wanted interviews with actors and directors about the show - I'd go online and watch them. Do they do this on BBC? OR is this just a BBCAmerica thing?? Far too many scenes of people wandering down long hallways and repetitive conversations.
That said? Was rather impressed. The plot incongruities didn't bother me that much - as they did other reviewers. ( rather spoilery and serious review of Being Human, no snark in sight - it's not that type of show. )
Also watched Running Wilde - not worth watching or reviewing. Will Arnett deserves better. It's forced comedy. The situations fairly cliche. And with the annoyingly cute gimmick of being told through a kid's pov. A cute kid of course. My attention wandered. Not a keeper.
Raising Hope on the other hand appears to be a keeper and worth watching. The guy who plays the father used to play the cyborg/Terminator in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. And mom is Martha Plimpton. Two excellent character actors. Plus the writing is spot on, warm, snarky, and real. Situational absurdist humor that is not forced. This show unlike Running Wilde isn't trying to hard and isn't relying on a contrived set-up. It feels natural to the characters.
Big Bang Theory continues to amuse. It's possibly the only show that has found a way to do sexual humor in an innovatively funny manner that does not make me want to throw things at my tv screen. There's a bit with a robot hand that just had me dying with laughter. Also, Sheldon calculating how many men Penny has slept with...LMAO! While Sheldon's date outdoes Penny with the number of times her sexual pleasure centers were stimulated by a scientific experiment - that stimulate those areas merely by touching certain portions of her brain. (128 times vs. Penny's 31) Proving that the brain is the most effective sexual organ that we own.