shallowness

The West Wing

3.09 Bartlet for America

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3.10 H. CON-173

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I feel like I should rec a source before getting to the recs. Cairo Time (2009) is a romantic drama, written and directed by Ruba Nedda, a Canadian of Egyptian descent. Despite being about an emotional affair between a married woman and the friend her husband asks to show her Cairo and look out for her when he can’t join her there (infidelity squick), it reeled me in. There’s a touch of ‘Lost in Translation’ about Juliette (Patricia Clarkson) initially, as she suffers discombobulation on top of empty-nest syndrome and spousal abandonment, but as she gets to know Tareq (Alexander Siddig) and his city, a restrained love story develops. If this sound like something you’d be interested in, it’s well worth hunting down, as I did this summer. (And then I tried to write some fic in response to it, struggled and thought I'd check AO3 and lo and behold, thanks to Yuletide, there was fic.)

Fic and fanvid recs in the following fandoms: Alice (2009), The Bletchley Circle (San Fransisco), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cairo Time (2019) and The Mentalist.

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I had planned to post about Ghosts and The West Wing yesterday, and then get on with watching The West Wing last night, but then I realised the Strictly launch show was on, and I had no self-imposed deadline for tidying up my ramblings about The West Wing. As Strictly is going to take over my Saturday nights for the foreseeable, I’m also goin to have to rethink when I choose to be my new The West Wing slot.


Ghosts 3.6

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Has it been confirmed to come back?

BSG 4.16 Deadlock

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Several days later, I watched 4.17 Someone To Watch Over Me

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Strictly launch show 2021

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BSG 4.15 No Exit

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The West Wing - 3.3 Ways and Means

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3.4 On The Day Before

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Fic recs in the following fandoms: Harry Potter, Jupiter Ascending, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Penelope (2006) and Sherlock.

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I watched these episodes a fortnight ago, but the Olympics and an extra podcast episode discussing the finale held up this post.

The West Wing - 2.21 18th and Potomac

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2.22 Two Cathedrals

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Fanfiction and fanvid recs in the following fandoms: Gilmore Girls, The Hunger Games, Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Mission Impossible films and Multifandom.

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I didn’t watch these two episodes at anywhere near the same time.

4.10 Revelations

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4.11 Sometimes A Great Notion

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BSG 4.8 Sine Qua Non

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Watched several days later: 4.9 The Hub

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