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shapinglightAm I really the only person on LJ who is watching Friday Night Dinner? I think it's the funniest thing I've seen since Green Wing, so you're probably all going to say you hate it. :(
Slight spoilers behind cut for The Good Wife season 1 and SPN season 1 ep 2, and please don't spoiler me for anything later.
Watched one episode of each this morning, which was possibly not the wisest thing to do. Confess I only watched the ep of The Good Wife because I needed something to take my mind off the SPN one. Guess I should probably fess up and admit here that I'm finding the ghost-hunting/horror film trope aspect of SPN difficult to deal with already. I don't like horror films of any sort. An odd confession, I suppose, for someone who watches lots of TV fantasy, but there it is. I was a scaredy-cat as a child (really did watch Doctor Who from behind the sofa, until my mother banned me from watching it altogether because I was having nightmares), could only get through the first ten minutes of the original film of The Haunting and have never seen any of the famous horror film franchises.
I can cope just fine with blood-letting/violence in conventional dramas like Rome, or with the sort of campy horror you get in True Blood and BtVS/AtS, but the stuff that's really meant to scare you? Hate it. Maybe I'm just too good at putting myself in the position of the person who is being snuck up on and we all know will end up as monster kibble?
Anyway, I found parts of the SPN episode I watched this morning unpleasantly creepy. This was the wendigo, one, btw, which IMO completely wastes a guest appearance by Callum Keith Rennie. After I'd watched it, I looked at the summaries for upcoming episodes. Demons that rip your skin off, or leap out of mirrors and gouge out your eyeballs? I'm not sure I can cope. At least, I'll have to become an awful lot fonder of the short boy and the boy with the weird nose than I am at the moment in order to cope with the gruesome stuff.
Also, is it going to get really, really religious? I don't like overtly religious stuff in dramas at all. It makes me quite cross. The religious stuff is what drags Being Human down in season 2 IMO, and the show never recovered from it.
As for The Good Wife, it didn't make me feel a lot better in fact because the episode was actually a rather unpleasant one in which the Sainted!Alicia has to defend someone who everyone, including her, believes killed his wife. By the end, we still don't know whether he did or not, but he probably did and has got away with it. Maybe I wasn't in the mood for ambiguity this morning, I don't know. The only bit of the ep I liked was that Diane decided to stick to her principles and keep guns out of her house.
A question for US people on my flist who have seen this show: is it, IYO, coming from a particular political POV? I would say it's more conservative than liberal- liberal judges are either criminals or a bit useless - but then again, the Glenn Beckalike was an a**ehole and shown to be one, and Diane did give the gun back.
Slight spoilers behind cut for The Good Wife season 1 and SPN season 1 ep 2, and please don't spoiler me for anything later.
Watched one episode of each this morning, which was possibly not the wisest thing to do. Confess I only watched the ep of The Good Wife because I needed something to take my mind off the SPN one. Guess I should probably fess up and admit here that I'm finding the ghost-hunting/horror film trope aspect of SPN difficult to deal with already. I don't like horror films of any sort. An odd confession, I suppose, for someone who watches lots of TV fantasy, but there it is. I was a scaredy-cat as a child (really did watch Doctor Who from behind the sofa, until my mother banned me from watching it altogether because I was having nightmares), could only get through the first ten minutes of the original film of The Haunting and have never seen any of the famous horror film franchises.
I can cope just fine with blood-letting/violence in conventional dramas like Rome, or with the sort of campy horror you get in True Blood and BtVS/AtS, but the stuff that's really meant to scare you? Hate it. Maybe I'm just too good at putting myself in the position of the person who is being snuck up on and we all know will end up as monster kibble?
Anyway, I found parts of the SPN episode I watched this morning unpleasantly creepy. This was the wendigo, one, btw, which IMO completely wastes a guest appearance by Callum Keith Rennie. After I'd watched it, I looked at the summaries for upcoming episodes. Demons that rip your skin off, or leap out of mirrors and gouge out your eyeballs? I'm not sure I can cope. At least, I'll have to become an awful lot fonder of the short boy and the boy with the weird nose than I am at the moment in order to cope with the gruesome stuff.
Also, is it going to get really, really religious? I don't like overtly religious stuff in dramas at all. It makes me quite cross. The religious stuff is what drags Being Human down in season 2 IMO, and the show never recovered from it.
As for The Good Wife, it didn't make me feel a lot better in fact because the episode was actually a rather unpleasant one in which the Sainted!Alicia has to defend someone who everyone, including her, believes killed his wife. By the end, we still don't know whether he did or not, but he probably did and has got away with it. Maybe I wasn't in the mood for ambiguity this morning, I don't know. The only bit of the ep I liked was that Diane decided to stick to her principles and keep guns out of her house.
A question for US people on my flist who have seen this show: is it, IYO, coming from a particular political POV? I would say it's more conservative than liberal- liberal judges are either criminals or a bit useless - but then again, the Glenn Beckalike was an a**ehole and shown to be one, and Diane did give the gun back.