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ironymaidenwhat are you currently consuming?
The Good Place. i binged all of season one last weekend, but now i'm watching season two episodes as they come out. i've loved Kristen Bell since Veronica Mars, and she gets to be gloriously goofy and abrasive. every character has some flaw that is vital to who they are, but they also manage to still be endearing or likable in some way. it could be highly reliant on cringe for its comedy, but it rarely is, in spite of its premise. it's much more about character dynamics. really enjoyable. for Netflix users, season one is 13 episodes of US "half-hour" sitcom, so it blows by in under five hours. it's a good way to spend an afternoon. i highly recommend it if you are looking for some escapist absurdism. also, it's a beautifully diverse cast, and that is very matter-of-fact.
i'm also (with the help of r/notapanelshow) watching the current season of The Great British Bake Off. it's still not the doom i was expecting. the history segments have returned now that enough bakers have been eliminated to open up time, yay! that said, Prue (the Mary replacement) is my least-favorite of the new hosting/judging team. she's mentioned "calories" more than i like - Paul has occasionally mentioned struggling with his weight, but more in the context of taking smaller portions. seriously, you can't do a show about baking and introduce worry or shame about eating the stuff they make. it's all sometimes food, the end.
i agree with a screencap i saw from someone on Twitter, that the proper ending to this season is Liam and Yan threatening to eat poison berries. i love them both too much to choose.
what did you recently finish?
Restaurant to Another World's season is over. it was delightful the whole way through and it sounds like there will be another season, so i just have to wait a year. *sob*
what will you consume next?
CW shows gear up in October, so The Flash, Jane the Virgin, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend are about to start. a bit after that, Star Wars Rebels returns. i have literally put these dates on my calendar. i don't know who i've become either, but okay.
meanwhile, i'm not willing to buy an extra subscription to watch Star Trek Discovery. and i feel like, as someone who occasionally enjoys the comics, i should be more interested in The Inhumans than i am, but i'm really waiting for the return of AoS.
Runaways will come out at the end of November. that has piqued my interest; this will be the first time i've read the full run of a comic that's being adapted. i'm concerned that they're going to pull back from the canonically queer characters, but we'll see.
The Good Place. i binged all of season one last weekend, but now i'm watching season two episodes as they come out. i've loved Kristen Bell since Veronica Mars, and she gets to be gloriously goofy and abrasive. every character has some flaw that is vital to who they are, but they also manage to still be endearing or likable in some way. it could be highly reliant on cringe for its comedy, but it rarely is, in spite of its premise. it's much more about character dynamics. really enjoyable. for Netflix users, season one is 13 episodes of US "half-hour" sitcom, so it blows by in under five hours. it's a good way to spend an afternoon. i highly recommend it if you are looking for some escapist absurdism. also, it's a beautifully diverse cast, and that is very matter-of-fact.
i'm also (with the help of r/notapanelshow) watching the current season of The Great British Bake Off. it's still not the doom i was expecting. the history segments have returned now that enough bakers have been eliminated to open up time, yay! that said, Prue (the Mary replacement) is my least-favorite of the new hosting/judging team. she's mentioned "calories" more than i like - Paul has occasionally mentioned struggling with his weight, but more in the context of taking smaller portions. seriously, you can't do a show about baking and introduce worry or shame about eating the stuff they make. it's all sometimes food, the end.
i agree with a screencap i saw from someone on Twitter, that the proper ending to this season is Liam and Yan threatening to eat poison berries. i love them both too much to choose.
what did you recently finish?
Restaurant to Another World's season is over. it was delightful the whole way through and it sounds like there will be another season, so i just have to wait a year. *sob*
what will you consume next?
CW shows gear up in October, so The Flash, Jane the Virgin, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend are about to start. a bit after that, Star Wars Rebels returns. i have literally put these dates on my calendar. i don't know who i've become either, but okay.
meanwhile, i'm not willing to buy an extra subscription to watch Star Trek Discovery. and i feel like, as someone who occasionally enjoys the comics, i should be more interested in The Inhumans than i am, but i'm really waiting for the return of AoS.
Runaways will come out at the end of November. that has piqued my interest; this will be the first time i've read the full run of a comic that's being adapted. i'm concerned that they're going to pull back from the canonically queer characters, but we'll see.
