TV post

[gogmagog]

Okay, so in between flurries of work on my comps, I've finally been watching Pushing Daisies (since I was able to pick up the first season from Target for $16), and OMG IT IS AS ADORABLE AS EVERYONE SAYS. Cute and sweet and mildly-morbid-modern-fairytale-like but with enough emotional truth to keep it from getting twee (which is something that I don't think that a lot of stories with a similar sensibility - like, say, Amelie -quite pulled off). I'm currently at the beginning of the third disc (just finished the murderous scratch-and-sniff episode), and all of the main characters and their interrelationships are awesome, but I think my favorite is the way that Olive and Chuck have actually become friends over their efforts to cheer up Aunts Vivian and Lily, which is I think not what I was expecting.

In the past month or so I've also managed to make it through all of The Vicar of Dibley, which is also ridiculously awesome (one of whose co-authors is Richard Curtis, who seems to be behind every sweet British comedy out there, and also Blackadder, which is less sweet but no less funny). My favorite characters are probably Alice and Hugo, both because they're so cute (together and separately) but also because while I like to think I'd be more of a Geraldine-type I know I'm closer to the Alice-and-Hugo type (occasionally overly literal, at times slightly or more than slightly dim and frequently slightly barmy).

Also, Richard Armitage is my new TV boyfriend.

Edit: zomg why do I have no Blackadder or other British TV icons besides Buzzcocks and Who? Still, this'll work given what I said about Chuck and Olive...here's hoping they'll pull this with Ned at some point. XD

Edit 2: "Don't mess with the Pie Hos!" ...o, omg, this is the start of a beautiful friendship

Comments

[weruletheschool.livejournal.com]

Oh, golly, I love Lee Pace. He was so great in Wonderfalls.

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

He was! I had totally not connected him with the brother in Wonderfalls until you mentioned that, but that's right, he was Aaron the religious studies Ph.D. XD

[eikitty.livejournal.com]

I'm also considering picking up Pushing Daisies on the cheap at Target. Friends of mine with taste like it, and I'm gonna need something to watch after I run out of Torchwood. So I'm glad to hear another positive opinion!

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

You will like it, I think! Though it certainly will be a bit of a contrast to Torchwood...not very many naughty bits on display. :(

[eikitty.livejournal.com]

I don't need bits to enjoy a show! There's no bits in Doctor Who and I <3 it muchly. :D

[tastystirfry.livejournal.com]

Hey cool way to get into Pushing Daisies after its already been canceled.

Thanks guys, thanks.

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Well, I rarely get into TV shows until they come out on DVD it seems (and frequently not until said DVDs come down in price/go on sale), unless there's some pre-existing reason for me to do so (i.e., it's by someone who I already like the work of). So most of the time I don't manage to get into threatened niche TV shows until they're already cancelled (also see: Arrested Development).

[dj-jonny-flash.livejournal.com]

Lee Pace put out a message on Facebook asking for letters to save the show. It is on its last ropes, all but officially canceled and Brian Fuller is already back working on Heroes to pay the bills.