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shallownessSaw the first two episodes of Parks and Rec and...I like it. Some laughs, lots of smiles. I do like the positivity. Leslie is both ridiculous and likeable. I certainly want her and Ann to succeed in turning that pit into a nice park and it’s nice to see names I’ve seen floating by and relationships I’ve heard about. I’ve laughed more at watching other sitcoms (eg Miranda, not to mention Community) and it’s been a while since I watched a mockumentary, and there’s no way I’m going to watch it live, (it starts at 10 pm on a Wednesday night. WHAT, BBC4!?) even after I resolve the TV situation where I can only bear to watch Revenge with subtitles.
The Good Wife 4.7 Anatomy of a Joke
The case of the week was a little too pointed for me, from the comedy horns to the underlying plea of creatives on network TV for less censorship. I never quite bought Therese Dodd either. (Sorry, Christina Ricci. I know you gave it your best Sarah Silverman, or so I presume, but...)
Fortunately I was far more into all the other stuff. I’ll take this as a Cary-centric episode, from the niceness of Alicia-Cary time (although if you’re going to develop his litigation career, Diane, just put him in court, particularly against his old colleagues and boss) to the Cary-father stuff. His dad is...Lex Luthor, which explains a lot. I too thought he was sickening for something serious and that the unhealthy lunch he was eating was a gesture against that. Poor thing, especially as he got to see Alicia the mother and overhear Alicia and Peter doing a flirty exchange because there’s more to their relationship. His dad forcing him to make it on his own as a young adult explains a lot of the earlier brashness. But this ep was very much about Cary being his own man now. Which, yes.
I wonder whether it was Cary or Alicia who realised that the other lawyer’s words gave them their case?
Meanwhile, oh, Mattie, you were a playing a while ago and Alicia was right to cut you off. Eli was entertaining as ever, but the moment when Kalinda shot him down was sweeeeet.
I may have made a Lockhart & Gardener equals Lizzie Bennet comparison after the David Lee effect made The Trustee hopping mad and talking about suitors. No, Clark, Diane and Will probably want power (and sometimes to do the right thing) more than money.
I wasn’t expecting the Captain to return, but if that means more Geneva and the rest of the DA office, then, good.
I wonder if some day this show will end an episode on Kalinda laughing?
Fandom March Madness Cage Fight What’s It Called Again round 1 threw up Mary Crawley vs. Emily Thorne, which I found fascinating (and for about five seconds, I thought about what Revenge would be like as a 1910s/1920s AU.)
Revenge 2.10
Should have told Amanda, Jack. Declan being an idiot is oddly comforting, mind.
The Emily-Victoria scene was delicious and I think the show should get back to her directly interacting with the Graysons. Although Daniel got over Ashley fast, didn’t he!? (And the fact that I didn’t exactly miss her says a lot.)
I feel that Aidan’s time with us is coming to an end more quickly. Nolan’s snark and stirring amused briefly.
I hope that despite this Marco distraction, Nolan will remember whatever his plan B was.
Greyson is still entertaining, this week in his playing at being retired mode. I do think he is underestimating that Daniel is Victoria’s son a little, but then I see Daniel being so easily manipulated and meh.
They gave Emily a nice thing to do, although it feels like it’s been a loooong time since she got the red felt tip pen out and talked about someone who was involved in her father’s case, so in that sense it felt weird.
I feel that I should muster up deeper thoughts about it, but can’t. I was entertained by some bits, less so by others (Charlotte and the younger bad brother). I still wonder whether it would kill them to think things through a little more (for instance Amanda was at the beach house, just having heard that Jack was in jail/arrested/set up, but that seemed completely set apart from Aidan’s angst about Emily doing what they’d planned she’d do with Daniel. Show, I care more about the Emily/Jack/Amanda triangle than the Emily/Aiden/Daniel triangle out of the Greyson/Takeda/Emily’s revenge context.
The Good Wife 4.7 Anatomy of a Joke
The case of the week was a little too pointed for me, from the comedy horns to the underlying plea of creatives on network TV for less censorship. I never quite bought Therese Dodd either. (Sorry, Christina Ricci. I know you gave it your best Sarah Silverman, or so I presume, but...)
Fortunately I was far more into all the other stuff. I’ll take this as a Cary-centric episode, from the niceness of Alicia-Cary time (although if you’re going to develop his litigation career, Diane, just put him in court, particularly against his old colleagues and boss) to the Cary-father stuff. His dad is...Lex Luthor, which explains a lot. I too thought he was sickening for something serious and that the unhealthy lunch he was eating was a gesture against that. Poor thing, especially as he got to see Alicia the mother and overhear Alicia and Peter doing a flirty exchange because there’s more to their relationship. His dad forcing him to make it on his own as a young adult explains a lot of the earlier brashness. But this ep was very much about Cary being his own man now. Which, yes.
I wonder whether it was Cary or Alicia who realised that the other lawyer’s words gave them their case?
Meanwhile, oh, Mattie, you were a playing a while ago and Alicia was right to cut you off. Eli was entertaining as ever, but the moment when Kalinda shot him down was sweeeeet.
I may have made a Lockhart & Gardener equals Lizzie Bennet comparison after the David Lee effect made The Trustee hopping mad and talking about suitors. No, Clark, Diane and Will probably want power (and sometimes to do the right thing) more than money.
I wasn’t expecting the Captain to return, but if that means more Geneva and the rest of the DA office, then, good.
I wonder if some day this show will end an episode on Kalinda laughing?
Fandom March Madness Cage Fight What’s It Called Again round 1 threw up Mary Crawley vs. Emily Thorne, which I found fascinating (and for about five seconds, I thought about what Revenge would be like as a 1910s/1920s AU.)
Revenge 2.10
Should have told Amanda, Jack. Declan being an idiot is oddly comforting, mind.
The Emily-Victoria scene was delicious and I think the show should get back to her directly interacting with the Graysons. Although Daniel got over Ashley fast, didn’t he!? (And the fact that I didn’t exactly miss her says a lot.)
I feel that Aidan’s time with us is coming to an end more quickly. Nolan’s snark and stirring amused briefly.
I hope that despite this Marco distraction, Nolan will remember whatever his plan B was.
Greyson is still entertaining, this week in his playing at being retired mode. I do think he is underestimating that Daniel is Victoria’s son a little, but then I see Daniel being so easily manipulated and meh.
They gave Emily a nice thing to do, although it feels like it’s been a loooong time since she got the red felt tip pen out and talked about someone who was involved in her father’s case, so in that sense it felt weird.
I feel that I should muster up deeper thoughts about it, but can’t. I was entertained by some bits, less so by others (Charlotte and the younger bad brother). I still wonder whether it would kill them to think things through a little more (for instance Amanda was at the beach house, just having heard that Jack was in jail/arrested/set up, but that seemed completely set apart from Aidan’s angst about Emily doing what they’d planned she’d do with Daniel. Show, I care more about the Emily/Jack/Amanda triangle than the Emily/Aiden/Daniel triangle out of the Greyson/Takeda/Emily’s revenge context.
