An Embarrassment of Riches....or not.
Feb. 14th, 2012 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightYou know how there's never anything on telly, and when there is it clashes with something else? That's happening to me on Sundays and it's really, really annoying. Okay, so you can get around to watching everything eventually thanks to iPlayer, but did the BBC really have to schedule the new series of Upstairs, Downstairs against Being Human and a program about Ben Fogle possibly being eaten by a Nile crocodile?
Mind you, I didn't get through all the Upstairs, Downstairs pilot last year, and even the bit I did watch was mostly for Art Malik pretending to be a Sikh, so I don't know why I even mention it. Okay, Being Human vs Ben Fogle as crocodile bait - not so hard a choice, except that Channel 4 are showing the pilot episode of Homeland, also at the same time. Grrr!
I meant to ask you all about Homeland, in fact. The TV books/newspapers over here have been talking it up big time. Barack Obama's favourite show etc, etc. So is it really that good, or is it just going to annoy me by confirming the beard+turban=terrorist stereotype (which can lead to lots of bad places, for which read this, and yes it happens this side of the Pond too)?
Speaking of Being Human, brief spoilers behind cut for ep 2
I didn't like ep 2 as much as ep 1. Too much angst, of which I am really sick. I do quite like Hal the OCD vampire, though, and also the vampire with the focus group. But the time paradox stuff is doing my head in. Surely, if Hal in the present kills baby Eve, future Eve will never exist and her ghost will poof out of existence. Why is she trying to make him kill the baby? :is confused:
Mind you, I didn't get through all the Upstairs, Downstairs pilot last year, and even the bit I did watch was mostly for Art Malik pretending to be a Sikh, so I don't know why I even mention it. Okay, Being Human vs Ben Fogle as crocodile bait - not so hard a choice, except that Channel 4 are showing the pilot episode of Homeland, also at the same time. Grrr!
I meant to ask you all about Homeland, in fact. The TV books/newspapers over here have been talking it up big time. Barack Obama's favourite show etc, etc. So is it really that good, or is it just going to annoy me by confirming the beard+turban=terrorist stereotype (which can lead to lots of bad places, for which read this, and yes it happens this side of the Pond too)?
Speaking of Being Human, brief spoilers behind cut for ep 2
I didn't like ep 2 as much as ep 1. Too much angst, of which I am really sick. I do quite like Hal the OCD vampire, though, and also the vampire with the focus group. But the time paradox stuff is doing my head in. Surely, if Hal in the present kills baby Eve, future Eve will never exist and her ghost will poof out of existence. Why is she trying to make him kill the baby? :is confused: