Oct. 20th, 2011

shadowkat: (Tv shows)
Because I'm curious - doing a tv poll. Feel free to explain in the comments or not. Sorry can't include the non-US shows, outside of a few British ones, since I don't know them. The US is woefully bad about importing content, but quite adept at exporting it. What can I say? It is, what it is.

The following are the shows I know about, several have already been canned. If you want to know which ones? Ask and I'll tell you. Or someone else very well may.

Hopefully, I'm not the only one who takes the poll - because that's embarrassing and why I'm not overly fond of doing polls.
Interactive posts or posts that rely on interaction can be challenging.

Because the poll may seem a bit long, a la take up too much room in your lj and mine, it's behind the cut.

[ETA: "The Secret History" listed below? Should be THE SECRET CIRCLE. Thank you,petz. I have no idea why I keep wanting to call it the Secret History. Sorry. about that.]

What New Fall TV Shows Are You Still Watching and Which one is your Favorite Poll )

Oh, there are some new shows starting this weekend and in November. AMC has a dark anti-hero/gritty Western by the same guy who did Deadwood - called Hell on Wheels, and is in the tradition of "Breaking Bad" or that general trope. I don't know if I'll be able to watch it. While I do like Westerns and noire, nasty bullies as the protagonist - is a bit more than I can handle on tv at this point in my life for reasons I won't bore you with. But I will most likely try it - simply because I'm a sucker for a Western, even an revenge flick anti-Western, which this appears to be. The other new show, which I'm looking forward to, because it looks like a lot of fun and the most innovative thing that has popped up so far - and that is Once Upon a Time - by writers from Lost and Buffy and few other shows. This is Jane Espenson's new gig. And it is a somewhat tongue in check look at fairy tales, with a good cast, and awesome production value from the trailers. ABC's been advertising the heck out of it. Also the reviewers who like it, I tend to agree with (they also liked Buffy, Lost, and most cult shows), the one's who hate it - loved Pam Am, adored The New Girl, and thought Ringer was the most exciting thing to come around in a while. While Ringer is admittedly amusing in places, I am wondering what drugs these tv critics are smoking and if I can have any (Robert Bianco, hon? Yes, I'm looking at you.) Ken Tucker from EW is a bit more reliable. He loved Revenge and gave Once Upon a Time a good review. Also lauded Homeland. I confused reviewers, it's the other one. Tucker's the idiot who lauded Pam Am and
The New Girl and thought Ringer was great.
shadowkat: (Calm)
Difficult work week - going back to it again tomorrow. Almost over with. With any luck...will be left alone to my own devices for most of the day, unlike last Friday. Snarky/cranky mood this week as a result of work and the monthly pain in the you know what.

Just finished watching Revenge - which I'm rather adoring at the moment. Such a fun manipulatively nasty soap.
Emily Thorn is turning into quite the complex heroine. As is her nemesis, the wicked Victoria Graystone. But my favorite character is definitely Nolan. Oh yes, dear friends, I definitely have a type. Somewhere around oh 2000, maybe 2002, my type shifted from tall thick dark and whiny broody to lean, somewhat tall, light haired and snarky. I don't know what happened?

Last night's episode was a lot more fun than last week's - more happened, there were more twists, and more of the back-story was revealed. We now know why the Graystone's did what they did to Emily!Amanda's father and Emily herself.

This story is rather well plotted. Not that many gaps. And the emotion feels real and less manipulated than some of these types of series.

I also loved Nolan's what the fuck just happened, expression. We got more information on him as well and why he's hanging about. This series is moving along nicely. So far the best of the new crop of fall tv shows. Certainly the most entertaining.

spoilers )

In other news...I got my rant in this week, in part because I couldn't vent about work, so vented about cultural pursuits instead - not here, please, elsewhere, nicely hidden within 285 similar rants, I think mine may be wedged somewhere between a rant I agree with and one I don't quite agree with. LOL! A friend kindly gave us all a space to vent - some 285 comments and counting. (I wonder if they knew what they were getting into? And I seriously hope they turned off their comments and did not get all these emailed to them, I don't get any comments to my lj posts emailed to me anymore. Don't know why - lj just doesn't do it for some reason. And yes, I tried everything to change it, finally just gave up. It may be a good thing. Much prefer to check the inbox on lj instead.) No, I'm not telling where - if I said where, then the comment wouldn't be nicely hidden now would it? And there'd be no point. The people who found it - were similarily inclined, so next best thing to having it filtered.

I don't really permit myself to do much ranting on my lj, or try not to (I'm human I screw up on occasion) since it is a very good way to lose readers. Particularly when you rant about things your friends and readers love and adore, such as say... oh I don't know...Joss Whedon and the Buffyverse?

It's ironic really. What brought me online, and what I wrote obsessively about for an incredibly long time and avoided or ranked on other people for ranting negatively about ...is now something I feel the oddest desire to rank on. Highly ironic. That. Not quite sure why that is. It's almost as if I want to hurt the writer for disappointing me? For not living up to my expectations? For falling down on the job?

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I don't know. I need to go to bed now.

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