joelene

I'm with TheRabbi on the hitchhiker sitch. I think he saw a cute guy in need of help and figured it would be a good deed at worst, at best a hook-up. David and Keith were having an open relationship, Keith was away, so what the hell, who knows? Not that he wasn't always a professional but I think he was more rigid about something like transporting a body in season one when he had just taken over the business, and especially about his brother, who at that point he didn't take seriously, transporting a body. Plus he's always been self-important, so I don't think him fucking up a transport (hook-up or not) would ever enter his mind.

I thought Lost course-corrected in a fabulous way when it did get a fixed end date midpoint season 3. But then they still completely botched the last season, unfortunately. I can still rewatch from mid season 3 up until the end of season 5 because of the thrillingly fast paced, no nonsense plot advancement. But I'm afraid I can't go back to the first few seasons and the last one was horrendous. I don't regret watching it all, and I'll still have those two seasons plus to enjoy (and then dream up my own ending), but at the same time I can't blame people who do feel it was all a big waste of time. The only thing that bothers me is when people misunderstand the last season and think and gives that reason for the series being a time waster.

Penis.

Did Crazy Ex-Girlfriend get 13 eps or are the 8 listed on IMDb as many as we're gonna get? I just binged the first six and it's hilarious. More please.

I'm the complete opposite. Binged the first season after it all aired and loved it but this season has been losing me from the beginning, and I can't put my finger on why. The only characters I'm really enjoying are Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons. If not for them I would probably cancel the show, but they are both so compelling I have to stay with it. I know critics still love it to death but I haven't followed the fandom so I've no idea how unpopular that is.

I think I've unfollowed about 70% of my Facebook friends. Just so much crappy likes (both unamusing "funny" likes and just plain ignorant ones). I barely "Like" anything anymore since those started to show up on feeds. I miss the time when you could follow and like stuff privately and just see status updates and links my friends posted, not the thousand links themselves like. Now that most of them is on mute I can just check the ones I'm still interested in occasionally to see what I've missed. Rarely have I missed anything.

I still think a gruesome murder mystery would be fun. Like Midsommer Murder on crack. Small Town/island setting. Soap, secrets and bloody murder. I think a more mundane setting and "normal" people could rejuvenate the show for a season and make it scarier. Some characters to root for would be nice. Nothing's scary if everything is for shock and there are no characters to root for and who would actually die for real. And there are plenty of horrific things the writers could throw in that are somewhat grounded in reality but would still be American Horror Story more than, say, Harper's Island. He shouldn't build a season around whatever Gaga can or can't do, but she could be a mysterious small towner who sings some Blue Velvet tunes at the local bar, why not. I think Ryan Murphy could do a really fun And Then There Were None type show, but it might not work with a regular cast of this size of most of them had to appear for most of the season. Few could be killed off before the last few episodes.

I liked it too. It was definitely funny, but at the same time I felt I missed a bigger Sharon/Rob story, so it was not my favorite episode.

Borgen is great and it keeps being so for its entire run. The first episode of London Spy was terrific.

Another one who cancelled Bones here! I don't remember exactly when. I think it was after the baby was born? I think the season/a few episodes after the British intern was killed off. I didn't quit because of that but it's the last thing I remember. It just got tedious. Criminal Minds was cancelled a few episodes into season 10. Although a Very Special Episode featuring an off-screen killed off past regular did surface before my eyes, it was the last episode to be aired. Cancelled The Strain right before the first season ended. The season finale never made it to air.

Mine is an anime from the late 80s/early 90s. I watched it on VHS at a friends house and it must've been between '91 and '93 that I saw it, but it might've come out a few years earlier. I think it was a movie, or part of a movie series. It took place on a space ship, and there were several female characters (there might've been some male ones, but I only vaguely recall girls/women). I think one or a few of them were robots or humanoids or whatever. She (or they) looked and acted like humans, the one in particular I'm thinking of was a redhead and I think she had a yellow-ish suit. And there was some sort of sinister spectre onboard, hunting them, and it was like a see-through blob thing. One of the characters was engulfed by it and electrocuted somehow? This might all be faulty memory. In the end I think only a few of the crew survived, killing the spectre blob thing. I think they eventually found a planet to settle down on. Sound familiar to anyone? Did I just dream I saw this?

It probably would have, but I don't care, because my god these first two episodes have been fantastic.

I loved Never Mind The Buzzcocks when Simon Amstell was hosting. Couldn't continue much when he quit, and I'd never heard of it before him. I saw some with Mark Lamar, but perhaps it's like Ringu and its remake: you prefer the version you watched first. The only other I've watched and really enjoyed is Would I Lie To You? It's usually hilarious, although I tire of Rob Brydon quite easily (which is a shame because he seems like a nice person).

Funniest episode yet? I laughed out loud throughout the whole thing. The baby's name, the dog, the cake. Everything. I liked the time jump, and the postpartum depression storyline (if there will be one) seems interesting. I wonder if Ashley Jensen will be back?

WHAT?! Well this is dissappointing. About Fry, I mean. I like Toksvig a lot, but I'm having difficulties imagining the show without him.

Gaga as James' hidden wife seems very obvious, so I hope it's someone else. Although there is no one in the current cast it could be (unless in some mad twist it's Chloe Sevignys character). I love to sets and the art but so far it's too incoherent and music-videoish for me. I'm not feeling any of the characters. There's no one to root for. Usually I like the twisted characters the most, but that's when there's a protagonist in the mix. A Lana Winters or Vivian Harmon or even someone ambiguous like Sister Jude. Wes Bentely's character must be the most boring in the history of American Horror Story. I'll still watch because I like madness and horror (at least to a point) and there are still good moments and some great actors (everything with Mare Winningham was gold, and I even liked Evan Peters for the first time in forever) and pretty boys, but there's little else to connect with. So far.

I'll add Scott & Bailey and No Offence to that list.

Totally forgot about Scream Queens. Although I've already half checked out. I'll watch, but not very attentively. It has its moment, but it also has Emma Roberts and Abigail Breslin.

.Agreed. I'm actually happy there doesn't seem to be anything new to watch. I'm gonna try out My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (I only read about it yesterday but saw, like, five positive reviews in the span of and hour) but I think that's the only one. I love rewatching old, great shows. I'm watching Six Feet Under as I type.

Oh yes, except I really enjoyed it up until season 6. And there was pretty much a 50/50 split of hope-watch and hate-watch during those last three seasons. They always started out okay but by the season half point they turned into hate-watch. Other than that I consider myself a hope-watcher rather than a hate-watcher, but it's usually 50/50, or a mash-up between genuine enjoyment, hope and hate. Pretty Little Liars is a good example of that. But for the most part I've come to stop watching a show altogether if I don't enjoy it enough anymore, even if it was great at one point. Boring is probably the most fatal a once loved show can become. Homeland became so boring after season 1. And even Evelyn Powell could no longer be the sole reason to watch Devious Maids. She remained great but the rest was just dull. I don't know how I stayed with Criminal Minds as long as a did (probably because it was my sole procedural), but I finally quit at the beginning of last season. I've stopped watching reality altogether. Top Chef, Project Runway, I just can't anymore.

I'm rewatching to show for maybe the fourth time and it's still as good as always. At the end of season 3 now. One thing I'm wondering about is what went down with Rico's cousin(?) Ramon, because it seems nothing really comes from him catching Ramon having sex with a man. He yells homophobic slurs, Vanessa tells Ramon's wife (off screen) and that's that. Was the storyline simply dropped? I know Rico seems to accept David being gay eventually but it's kind of a silent thing. I don't remember them discussing the issue later on (after his jerk reaction to David coming out to him). I don't think Ramon is ever mentioned again. Is there something I'm missing? Also, I've said it before and I'll say it again, I love Margaret. I wouldn't want her in my life but I love watching Joanna Cassidy playing her and think she's entertaining as hell. Her laugh is the most infectious laugh I've ever heard.

It was fine. I'm always excited about a new season (shame on me) but my expectations weren't very high. I liked the Swedish girls, probably mostly because I'm Swedish so it's always fun to watch and listen to some Swedes on American television. However, not one of the regular characters drew me in one bit or even peaked my interest very much at all. They were all "Ok", and I always love me some gore and sex and eye-candy, but there was no Harmon family or a Constance. No Sister Mary Eunice-Satan, Myrtle Snow, Dandy and Gloria Mott, no Lana Winters or Madame LaLurie or Amazon Eve. No one that made me go: Ah, yes, I am watching characters! Fun, interesting characters! Gaga was fine as a vampire, I guess? Too early to tell, but she certainly didn't suddenly make me a fan. Bentley's cop was boring and while I get that people find him hot he doesn't do much for me for some reason. Boomer, though, is another story, but apart from the sexy sex his character wasn't immediately intriguing or especially fun. Kathy Bates... I don't know, I usually love her but maybe I'm over her? Who knows at this point in AHS time. Mare Winningham's maid seems like a riot, but she was hardly there, but at least she's someone to look forward to. I loved Marcy in season 1 but for some reason there was no oomph to her character in this episode, probably because she mostly got to interact with Cheyenne Jackson who didn't exactly leave a lasting impression. A fabulous drag character is almost always, well, fabulous but Liz Taylor did little for me. I think I'm just blah about Denis O'Hare at this point too. I'm apprehensive about Evan Peters (yawn) but looking forward to Angela Bassett and Finn Wittrock and Mädchen Amick. According to imdb Frances Conroy is appearing in episode 10 (YAY) but that's a long way of. There really isn't much to say about the story, seeing as there was none?

I'm just glad they kept the old credits. That was one of the things I'd been wondering about.

Hah, that's great. We do indeed use "varsågod" to announce that dinner is ready as well! Not everyone or all the time, and perhaps it's more common with the older generation, but it's still used. It's like saying "tug in!" when used in that context. God yes. And trollies/carts for children. And children entering the parents pin code or pressing "OK", and 50% of the time they will fuck it up, and it's always when it's a que. "Count to 10, Joelene..."

"Varsågod" is "You're welcome." "Tack" is "Thanks/Thank you" :)