shallowness

Fic (not exclusively from Yuletide) and fanart in the following fandoms: Arrested Development; The Artist; The Bletchley Circle; Borgen; Everything Has Changed: Taylor Swift ft. Ed Sheeran Video; Fairy Tales (Cinderella); Harry Potter; Haywire; North and South; Star Wars; Waitress and While You Were Sleeping.

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Caught up on the last two episodes of Orphan Black

1.9 Unconscious Selection

( this was more or less my immediate reaction )

1.10 Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Ahahahahahahahah.

So, some of my assumptions from the last episode were TOTALLY upended, while other things remained constant ( spoilers )

I've really enjoyed this show. At it’s best, it’s been pretty good and it’s never been less than enthralling. I'm looking forward to the second series.

Agents of SHIELD episode 6

Best episode yet! Granted, that’s not effusive praise, but ( Read more... )

I understand that an episode will be following on from Thor 2. It’s fun to speculate on how and which aspects it’ll be picking up on. ( mild spoiler for Thor 2 )

Finally (all caps time) BORGEN SERIES 3 IS AIRING ON BBC4 NEXT SATURDAY.

It seems like they'll be airing it in a double bill.

This weekend The AV Club reminded me of how much I love Sky High: Believe it or not, Sky High is a blast

and
John Mullan wrote an interesting article about dancing and balls in Jane Austen (It’s to promote a TV show on the subject that I’ll try to catch.)

And then at various points in the past, I read/came across this other stuff too...( Read more... )

The Hour has been cancelled!

I'm really put out by this. I thought it was improving - and I wanted to know what happened next. ( spoilers? ) I thought it was such a prestige project (eg it was nominated for a Golden Globe quite recently) that I didn't even question that it wouldn't be back, tbh. And with Ben Wishaw's stock rising post-Q and all. I didn't keep an eye on the ratings. I suppose in these times of budget cuts that they do matter, and despite being a gorgeous show, it was far from flawless, but it was engaging.

To rub salt into the wound, I saw an advert for all the drama on BBC2 (shown on BBC1) last night, which contained clips from The Hour.

Also, should I be worried about Borgen series 3 appearing on BBC4 - the report linked above talks about the channel focusing on factual and comedy programming? Surely not - the channel's made such a lot out of its intelligent international drama niche: Spiral, Scandi noir, BORGEN... But if they're stopping doing homegrown dramas on that channel, that's going to seem a bit weird. Would they move it to BBC2?

Last night, I also watched the Nashville pilot.

Coming in, on the one hand, I don’t like country music much, on the other, I rate Connie ‘Y’all’ Britton very highly (although I only ever saw the first series of Friday Night Lights). It’s airing here straight after The Good Wife, which isn’t a bad lead-up, except it starts at 10 pm, so I would very rarely catch it live.

( reaction ) Based on all that, I think this will go to the bottom of the pile of shows I will catch up on.

Borgen 2.03 Hollow Victory

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Despite really wanting to know what happened next, I decided to leave the next episode for iPlayer. I don’t really understand why BBC4 are double-billing every episode of this show. Seeing as it's such a hit (in BBC4 terms/among the chattering classes), wouldn’t they want to draw it out?

2.04 Battle Ready

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Borgen 2.01 89,000 Children

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1.02 In Brussels, no one can hear you scream

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I am glad it's back. I sometimes think the critical praise lavished at it is a little lacking in critical thought, because there are sacrifices and simplifications for Teh Dramah, but it is the good stuff.

I have been continuing to watch Community season 2, and reached 2.21 Paradigms of Human Memory. I had to put it on pause because I was laughing so hard. ( serious question )