tv status

[cimorene]

TV I intend to follow but haven't caught up on:

• Elementary (waxjism and I watch together)


• Outlander (it's waxjism's thing; we're waiting for her to be in the ~mood to watch it)


• Orphan Black (we're waiting to watch it with Wax's pal Sofia)

TV whose next season I am awaiting with bated breath:

• This Old House


• Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries - 3rd series was confirmed since I last posted about TV! Last I heard, the writers were tweeting about planning it.


• Brooklyn Nine-Nine - new season starts airing soon!


• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic


• Hannibal - before I watched this, I was apprehensive about the gore, which I can be sensitive to, and about a couple of the female regular characters - I don't avoid spoilers and had been reading posts via Hello Tailor, cleolinda, and personal acquaintances in the fandom. It turned out that the gore didn't even register as gory for me, but I was more upset about Abigail and Beverly than I expected - but since it looks like the show is making an effort consciously, I'm still with it.


• Sirens - I liked it, but it was quite different from what I expected based on Tumblr. Not as funny. More straight white guy, more obnoxious voiceover, more Nice Guy. But I do like the secondary characters...

TV I watch a whole series at a time where I have recently watched a series, and am therefore waiting, but not with bated breath:

• Game of Thrones


• A Touch of Cloth - there's a desi character named Asap in this show. His name is actually a racist joke, but he has a more significant role than any other desi character in a police show I've seen that I can think of, and he isn't just a computer/tech guy like, for example, Gurdip on Lewis. Depressing, especially given the sheer number of one-dimensional desi background characters in these shows.


• Endeavour - series 2 ends on THE most blatantly cliffhangy cliffhanger. Don't watch if that bothers you.


• Lewis


• Vera


• Scott & Bailey


• Bletchley Circle

I did start watching, but I couldn't stick it out, so I tried to switch to the manga to get through the rest of canon, but it was a bit too repetitive and silly too, so... maybe I'll finish it later:

• Sailor Moon

waxjism watched it recently and, either thanks to what I saw over her shoulder or thanks to all the time she spent shouting angrily at the screen, I'm definitely secure in my decision not to watch:

• The Killing (she likes this but it's getting cracky I guess?)


• True Detective (she acknowledged the feminist issues people have brought up, but liked it)


• The Walking Dead (she shouted so much I'm honestly not sure how she kept watching. Then again, her dedication to Norman Reedus did result in an entire website and that time when she transcribed the entire script of Dark Harbor. - But she seriously hates Rick so much that she shouts every time she sees Andrew Lincoln in a picture on Tumblr without Norman beside him to distract her.)

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[bossymarmalade]

I can assure you that this is the standard response to The Walking Dead from even its most devoted fans, heh!