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Weird cold thing is apparently going around. At church, MD told me that it hit her on Friday morning, she did a NetiPot on Saturday and felt better today. Next door neighbor asked me - did it come upon you suddenly (yes), congested in head and chest? (yes), sore throat starts with (yes), with coughing (yes) - it laid her up for a week. Great. A summer respiratory cold. Did the Juneteenth celebration, skipped the church picnic afterward. Which was annoying - because perfect opportunity to socialize, but I feel like crap.
I'm hoping tomorrow the legislature finally passes the same-sex marriage bill - legalizing same-sex marriage in the state of NY. We're just one vote short as of last week. And that was undecided.
On TV front? Watched The No #1 Ladies Detective Agency - which is a charming mystery series that takes place in Botswana, Africa. Filmed on location. With an all African/African-American cast. No whites in evidence. It's based on Alexander McCall Smith's novels of the same name. Both character driven and mystery of the week plot driven - it's my happy show of the week. The people are all for the most part likable. There's relatively little violence. And the lead is black and plus size. So it's more diverse in its casting choices. The dialogue is rather good as well. Four episodes in? I highly recommend.
Covert Affairs - in contrast, I found myself somewhat bored by. It's in its second season and already feels a little stale writing wise. This may just be a case of too many shows doing the same thing. USA seems to have a formula now for tv shows...and it's sticking with it no matter what. As a result, it feels like you are watching five different versions of the same show - doesn't help that other networks are doing this particular format style as well. Will state, that at least Covert Affairs is more realistic in both costume choices and assignments than Alias was, but Alias was a bit more fun. There's something to be said for not taking yourself too seriously.
Also saw or rather found myself going to sleep to the flick Too Big to Fail. Generally agrees with the critics assessment of this made for HBO film. While the subject matter is interesting, the film tells us nothing new or different than what we knew before. At most it just puts a lot of famous actors in these roles, which at times is a bit distracting. The movie itself is a bit of a bore.
True Blood S3 - finally caught the first episode of S3. Is it just me or does True Blood start out sort of slow and not pick up speed towards the last five-six episodes? Not as bad as it sounds since it only has 13 or thereabouts. S1-2 were more or less the same way - they sort of drug for a bit, then took off like crazy towards the very end. Granted this is typical of soap operas. All soap operas take a while to build up their story, and spend a lot of time setting it up. True Blood to give it credit actually moves a bit faster than most soap operas do.
Okay, have a sinus headache, need to lie down for a bit now.
I'm hoping tomorrow the legislature finally passes the same-sex marriage bill - legalizing same-sex marriage in the state of NY. We're just one vote short as of last week. And that was undecided.
On TV front? Watched The No #1 Ladies Detective Agency - which is a charming mystery series that takes place in Botswana, Africa. Filmed on location. With an all African/African-American cast. No whites in evidence. It's based on Alexander McCall Smith's novels of the same name. Both character driven and mystery of the week plot driven - it's my happy show of the week. The people are all for the most part likable. There's relatively little violence. And the lead is black and plus size. So it's more diverse in its casting choices. The dialogue is rather good as well. Four episodes in? I highly recommend.
Covert Affairs - in contrast, I found myself somewhat bored by. It's in its second season and already feels a little stale writing wise. This may just be a case of too many shows doing the same thing. USA seems to have a formula now for tv shows...and it's sticking with it no matter what. As a result, it feels like you are watching five different versions of the same show - doesn't help that other networks are doing this particular format style as well. Will state, that at least Covert Affairs is more realistic in both costume choices and assignments than Alias was, but Alias was a bit more fun. There's something to be said for not taking yourself too seriously.
Also saw or rather found myself going to sleep to the flick Too Big to Fail. Generally agrees with the critics assessment of this made for HBO film. While the subject matter is interesting, the film tells us nothing new or different than what we knew before. At most it just puts a lot of famous actors in these roles, which at times is a bit distracting. The movie itself is a bit of a bore.
True Blood S3 - finally caught the first episode of S3. Is it just me or does True Blood start out sort of slow and not pick up speed towards the last five-six episodes? Not as bad as it sounds since it only has 13 or thereabouts. S1-2 were more or less the same way - they sort of drug for a bit, then took off like crazy towards the very end. Granted this is typical of soap operas. All soap operas take a while to build up their story, and spend a lot of time setting it up. True Blood to give it credit actually moves a bit faster than most soap operas do.
Okay, have a sinus headache, need to lie down for a bit now.
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I've also read Alexander McCall Smith's series - 44 Scotland Street - an apartment building in Edinburgh. It has a variety of enthralling characters including a little boy who is pushed by his over-reaching mother. Light hearted and inviting!
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Apparently they are considering doing a second season, which is why they are re-airing the first season. Not sure why it didn't get one initially, and it's a long time since the first season..
Haven't read the books, but thanks for the rec.
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Great, great series; so different from what you usually see on television. I thought Jill Scott deserved an Emmy nomination.
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Agree - Jill Scott and Anaki Noni Rose both deserved an Emmy nomination for their roles. It's rare to find women in strong women roles - where they aren't fighting or using physical strength or being sexually seductive. One of the most feminist oriented series that I've seen next to The Good Wife.
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But I really enjoyed this week's episode: set at some training facility, there were interesting characters introduced (I wish I thought we would see more of them) and I really loved it when the gun specialist/teacher guy pointed out that when you use your gun you break your cover.
True that.