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My tolerance for LJ's bizarre paragraph formatting is wearing thin. Last post is a paragraph formatting nightmare - but refuse to waste time fiddling with it.

Watched two of my favorite tv shows last night. Considering the amount I watch DVR, I only really have a handful that I care that much about. They are: Good Wife,
Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Big Bang Theory, Vampire Diaries, Doctor Who, Justified, and Game of Thrones. Really don't much care about the rest, one way or the other.
Although Parenthood and Grey's...fall somewhere in that group. I've cancelled House, finally. I'm thisclose to giving up on Glee. The Closer is starting to bore me - it's on its last legs, I think.

Should write up reviews/metas of Once and Good Wife...but...eh. Maybe later. When I've got the time. Both were fantastic - (at least I found them fantastic, don't much care if no one else did - do we really care if our friends hate what we love? No, we think they have weird taste and move on...), much to chew on, and neither went or did what I expected - in short I was pleasantly surprised. Very happy about that. Rare feat.

Reading a British romantic comedy now, which actually feels more like a satire of a romance novel...than anything else. It's very quippy. And the characters a bit...I want to say exaggerated? It's also a bit subversive. I think this is the first subversive romantic comedy I've come across. It's entitled The Hating Game - takes place in Britain, there's two central pov characters: 1) a dweeby wannabee network producer who pitches a reality series (Nate), and 2) the down-on-her-luck head of a talent agency (Mattie) that is slowly falling into bankruptcy due to a bad breakup with her partner/former lover. ( Read more... )

I'm about a quarter of the way through..will let you know if it is any good. So far, haven't read any really good romance novels...but I keep looking!

The Good Wife and Once Upon a Time - two metas/reviews for the price of one

Do you mind if I put the Good Wife meta and the Once Upon a Time meta on the same post? Not that you have a choice in the matter. I tend to do whatever I dang well please in this journal, well within reason. Learned again last week the valuable lesson - do not seek validation outside yourself, you are a)bound to be disappointed, b) the world is filled with sadistic critics (ie rejection around every corner) and c) get a big head if its too positive. On a related, yet side note? I rather love this Woody Allen quote from American Masters...regarding the Oscars or Academy Awards. "I don't care about the Oscars. It's really not about Best Movie, it's about everyone's "Favorite Movie", you can't have a best or a race, the only time you ever have a best is in track. I used to run track - I got best in that. Movies? No. That's subjective. The films I did that I love the most, no one else tends to like. So I play my clarinet instead, why bother." (Woody Allen refused to have the academy awards listed on any movie ads within 100 miles of NY. They managed to get him to compromise to 50. I completely agree with him. When it comes to art or culture? There's no such thing as best. It's all completely subjective. If you don't agree? Seriously? Get over your snooty self. ;-) Kidding. I respect your disagreement. Here's the thing? People aren't going to agree on crap. But we can respect each other's opinion without agreeing. Saves money on purchasing guns and bombs.)

Enuf.

The Good Wife

Interesting episode. And somewhat chewy. Lots going on. And moved things forward. Also reiterated my view that the real relationship in the series is the one between Kalinda and Alica, not Alica/Will or Alicia/Peter. It's a friendship based series, not a romance.

( Spoilers, of course. )

Once Upon a Time - this episode entitled The Shepard, also threw me. It wasn't what I expected. And one of the many reasons this show works is the actors provide understated performances, they don't give in to camp. The other reason? It is by far the most imaginative and innovative series I've seen. The narrative structure is different, and non-linear. The flashbacks do not follow a linear structure. Oh they do in each episode, just not all together. In episode one - we see Prince Charming and Snow White married and defeating the Queen. Episode 3, we find out how they met. Episode 6? We get Prince Charming's back story - or why he was on that road to meet Snow White. That's sort of out of order. It reminds me of Lost - which sort of did the same thing, except Lost was far more cliche and redundant. Much prefer Once.
And I liked Lost.

Also this Prince Charming isn't what he seems, he's not your standard Dudley Do-Right hero.

( spoilers )