TV squees ( and a movie! )

[layne67]

Saw Johnny English Reborn over the weekend. Totally silly, I absolutely enjoyed it. I probably wouldn't have watched it if not the kids being Mr Bean's fans. And Gillian Anderson! With a British accent!! I adore that woman.

I got goosebumps watching Downton Abbey series 2 premier, it was *that* good. Especially when Matthew and Mary came up on screen. Those two would be the death of me one of these days. Luckily I had been accidentally spoiled for that bit on them so I was braced for it but it was actually good, despite the girl and all, Matthew so had eyes only for Mary and vice versa. They have to end up with each other, they have to!!

Maria Doyle Kennedy was awesome. I didn't like her potrayal of Catherine in The Tudors but oh, she's totally magnificent as the evil Mrs Bates. And Thomas *sighs* still the same old Thomas ...

Suits!! The pilot had me going Huh? a few times ( not the good kind ) but the second episode totally got me, hook, line and sinker. I'm so glad that I watched the second episode because it was really, really good I'm so going to watch the rest of the show. Yup, totally my new happy place, that *dances*

Charlie's Angels. I watched that more out of curiosity and nostalgia for the original ( the TV show, not the movie ) and ... I probably won't be watching it anymore. Well, maybe one more episode in case it gets any better, and also because I very much approve of Bosley, the only person I like in the show.

And I need to watch another episode of Person Of Interest. NOT in the same category as Charlie's Angels of course, it's so much, much better but I wasn't really squeeing about it. Hopefully I'll like the second episode better.

Fringe!! I lovelovelove it. Just finished 1x04 and I'm dying to watch season 4 premier but that's probably not a good idea, eh? And oh, didn't Olivia looked simply beautiful when she presented the Emmy award with Booth? I did wish Booth was with Bones, but Booth with Olivia was great, too!

Tonight : The Amazing Race season premier, Downton Abbey 2x02 and hopefully I'll have time for CSI:NY premier as well. And congratulations to my favouritest reality show ever for winning that Emmy award for the umpteenth time, you totally deserved it!

Comments

[dev-earl.livejournal.com]

YAY SUITS! :D It only gets better, I promise.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

One thing I wish to see is Harvey without his slicked-back hair :))

And Jensen guest-starring!

[rieyll.livejournal.com]

Suits! I just got into it too! Watched 3 episodes in a row, and only stopped at the fourth one because Fiya was getting bored haha!

Amazing Race tonight!!!

Supernatural tak tengok lagi, but maybe tonight!

[dev-earl.livejournal.com]

How do you ever stay unspoiled for SPN? It's nearly impossible for me! >__>

[rieyll.livejournal.com]

Haha I try to stay away from LJ! Also, I have a small flist, so less chance of being spoiled. :)

[dev-earl.livejournal.com]

I do, too, plus twitter. ¬__¬ I used to be able to hold off for a week - usually because I'd want to watch the 2 final episodes back-to-back - but I think my resolve's waning. :P

[rieyll.livejournal.com]

Aha, fortunately for me, I don't have too many SPN fans on Twitter. I do have a couple of friends who post their reactions, so I just pretend that I didn't see anything. Hah, as if that works. LOL

Have you seen the episode yet, though? I was about to watch it just now, but the daughter demanded her show. :/

[dev-earl.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Almost as soon as a download was available. Otherwise I would be very, very cranky right now because people are talking about it, well, everywhere I see. Heh.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

And what show would that be, I wonder. Spongebob? :DD

[rieyll.livejournal.com]

Hah! Spongebob is her Abah's TV show! LOL She demands Timmy Time or Shaun the Sheep.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Fiya tak faham kut, all those lawyer stuff and terms. Heheh, sometimes I feel like I need a lawyer dictionary by my side :D

So, have you ever been up to any hanky-panky stuff ala Louis? ;P

Amazing Race was so fun! Heh, I love it when ex-Survivors join the race though I have to say I hardly remember Ethan/Jenna.

[rieyll.livejournal.com]

THE RACE WAS AWESOME! My mom and I were laughing so hard at how everyone was wandering around cluelessly at the 'Look up' clue. Especially that one team that accosted a guy who had on yellow and red underwear! LOL!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that they'd come here this season!

Btw, what did you think of the passport incident? I think it's way too convenient for them to get back the lost passport the way they did. I think there was was some interference by the production team but if it really did happen the way it did, then it's awesome! Oh to be those guys who found the passport! Maybe they'd get to be in the next race :D

[rieyll.livejournal.com]

I HIGHLY doubt that production had anything to do with it. Isn't interference with the outcome of these shows illegal?

I'm inclined to believe that it was a huge stroke of luck and Twitter saved the day!

But if I were to find someone's passport, I wouldn't go all the way to KLIA to send it back. I'd just leave it at the gas station counter. Which if you think about it, is the more logical thing for production to do IF they were to pick up the passport anyway. So, yes, I still believe it was genuine. :)

[rieyll.livejournal.com]

Oh, look, here's an article explaining what happened with the passport!

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/twitters-amazing-race-assist/?scp=1&sq=amazing%20race&st=cse

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Ahh, that's one mystery solved then. Lol cynical!me was arguing with my son last night, he was for the twitter-passport thing being genuine and I was like, Nonono, eliminations like that won't be fun to watch on TV while dramatic last minute return of lost passport by fans *is*. Heheh, I'm totally expecting Mr Storm to be in the race next season!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

And also, I was kind of hoping that those two girls would go, you know with their "communicate with me" and all :)

[rieyll.livejournal.com]

Haha I found that bit amusing, because she was like 'We have to COMMUNICATE" and the other one was all "COMMUNICATE ABOUT WHAT???" But I'm shallow, and I like pretty people, so I hope they stick around for eye candy and entertainment purposes. LOL

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. Things would be very dull indeed if everyone is all sugar and spice and everything nice!

[leelust.livejournal.com]

Haha, good to know you like Suits :) Good show to relax and enjoy.
As for PoI i liked it a lot. Jim. Bad ass Jim. Do i need to explain it?
I hope the second ep will be even better than pilot was and we'll be watching this thing together.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I wasn't expecting to enjoy the second episode of Suits but yeah, enjoyed it I did, and very much too!!! Goes to show that you need to see more than the pilot to judge a show. Though having said that, some shows do grab you right from the start!

[shadowc44.livejournal.com]

No SPN yet? You haven't been able to d/l, or just haven't been able to watch? You must see it, is all I'll say! :)

I saw Person of Interest, and liked it well enough to tune in again. I like both the leads, and I want to see where it goes from here. As long as it doesn't get repetitive, it has a lot of potential.

I'm planning on watching Terra Nova, if not tonight, then soon. I'll probably watch Terra Nova and DVR Dancing with the Stars. Yeah, that sounds like a plan, then I can skip through the couples I don't like.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I think my problem with Person is that it's *too* ... gadgety, for want of a better word. And I thought Caviezel was a bit wooden. I love the actress who played the detective though and I think the story has potential, so I'll reserve my judgement until the second/third episode.

I'm downloading The X Factor as I'm curious to see Simon and Paula in another singing reality show. I've never seen the UK version and I want to see how it differs from AI.

[shadowc44.livejournal.com]

I'm going to keep watching The X Factor, because I liked some of the contestants. Others, I wish I'd never been forced to see/hear them. You'll understand when you get to the Geo dude who insists on singing his own song, "I'm a Stud." And his act gets worse from there. But there are some great singers. I thought the format was pretty similar to Idol, but with a live audience. Anyway, let me know what you think when you get a chance to see it.

ETA: I just finished watching Terra Nova, and I thought it was pretty good, and suspenseful enough that it will keep me tuning in. I didn't think the exposition was all that clunky, and they've got good reasons to be explaining stuff to people who don't know, so it's not nearly as conspicuous as, say, the pilot for Supernatural. OMG, about half of Sam's dialog, and a fair amount of Dean's, was so awkward it's almost painful to hear now. But look how good the show turned out to be! (So, SPN?)

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Just finished downloading The X Factor just now and I saw the first 10 minutes of the first episode. Quite interesting, the way they did the audition in front of live audience. But they couldn't do all thousands of auditions that way, could they? Another set of behind-the-camera audition must have been going on to filter out the ones who were not TV-worthy, right?

Terra Nova sounds interesting too but I think I have to finish watching Falling Skies before embarking on another sci-fi story.

Lol, yes, I know what you mean about the "explaining" in the early eps of SPN, but that's looking at it retrospectively? I didn't notice that when I was new at it. And you know, despite all that, I prefer the earlier seasons when they were just, you know, brother-hunters who only have each other. Our local TV is airing repeats of season 2 right now, and oh how I love watching them the way they were back then.

[shadowc44.livejournal.com]

Re: X-Factor, I think it's mentioned somewhere that the contestants were pre-screened by someone(s) else, before they get to the judge's panel. There are just two more audition episodes, this week, then we'll have the actual competition, I guess.

Terra Nova was fascinating, but I know what you mean about not wanting too many complicated sci-fi shows at once! And then American Horror Story is starting next week, and Dexter. So with Dancing with the Stars, Terra Nova, The X Factor, Person of Interest, Supernatural, and next week's two new shows, that's many more hours of TV than I usually watch in a week. That's a minimum of 13 hours a week, almost 2 hours per night? Egads, there's no way I'm going to be able to keep up with all of them. I suspect Dancing with the Stars and Person of Interest will be the first two I'm going to lose. And then Game of Thrones 2 will be starting I believe in April or May, but by then several of the other show will be over.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I changed my mind. Downloading Terra Nova right at this very moment!

[katikat.livejournal.com]

I liked the Suits pilot, loved the first 5 or 6 episodes, then it went steeply downhill for me and by the end of S1 I was annoyed by everybody but Harvey and Donna. I'm not sure if I'll even watch S2.

Charlie's Angels? Won't even try that one. I hated the movies and Drew Barrymore is producing this one, so... Eh...

Fringe - don't watch S4 first. The show gets heavily serialized in S2 and a) you wouldn't understand what's going on and b) it would spoil so many surprises along the way.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

The acting in Charlie's Angels is pretty awful. They probably just went for the pretty faces which is just too bad. You would have thought they'd make them as kickass as possible, esp when you have a woman at the helm but nope, it was flat all the way through.

'Kay, I'll control myself and not watch S4 Fringe. Heheh, I'll skip your Fringe posts as well - twins??????? Alternate!Olivia??? I'm INTRIGUED!!!

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Oh, the twins were just the "case of the week", but I really liked the actors!

And I'm so sorry if I spoiled you with mentioning Alternate!Olivia. The whole alternate thing is basically the premise of the show, so I thought everybody knew... Meep *hides*

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Twins are my weakness, even more so than just brothers. Were they, errr, slashable? :DDD

That's alright, Kati. I can't imagine ( at all ) what or how alt!Olivia's going to be like so that's not actually a spoiler, really, so no worries!

[ckll.livejournal.com]

Blasphemy for making again the Charlie's angels. I won't watch everrrrr!
Oh i didn't know you could watch Fringe, did you find the non MU links?

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I was curious and I was hoping that it'd be good but it was quite bad, especially the acting. They're nowhere near Kelly, Jill and Sabrina :/

Yes, someone uploaded Fringe the series with wupload and I'm downloading like crazy, in case The ( horrible ) Power That Be over here ban that too. And I'm loving it so very, very much!!!!!

[ckll.livejournal.com]

I knew you'd like, that's why i recommended it :D

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Fringe FTW! I love all the characters in it, so far!

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

Gillian Anderson with Mr. Bean??

:D

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I know, right? Lol never would I have thought that Scully would meet Bean, ever.

[kels450.livejournal.com]

Yay Suits! I love it - glad you're enjoying too! :)

And yes Downton Abbey! :D After you and someone else talked about it, I decided to watch S1 and was hooked. I'm glad I didn't have to wait long for S2 lol. Just about to go watch 2x2 now, can't wait. :D

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that I had downloaded every single episode of Suits because otherwise I probably wouldn't have continued watching after the pilot but oh, I adore the second episode and I hope the rest will be just as enjoyable!

I watched DA 202 last night and yep, I still got the shivers watching Matthew and Mary together and I'm so very happy that you're watching it now!

[munibunny.livejournal.com]

Charlie's Angels was just terrible, wasn't it? I stopped watching after the first one! Terra Nova was a little too predictable for me. I like characters/storylines that aren't so cliche. There's enough to watch anyway without that one.

I love Person of Interest and A Gifted Man. Revenge is a very guilty pleasure. :)

I've seen, maybe, 4 episodes of Suits and I still can't decide. Sometimes, I really love it, and sometimes I don't like it at all. Can't explain why I feel that way. If I had to really put my finger on it, I'd say that Mike is a bit too... er... politically correct? He's supposed to be the hero of the piece but I kind of find him too wimpy, too bleeding heart. I find Harvey to be the most noble.

I really like Prime Suspect too. I like that the main character is smart and kickass. She doesn't even have to be sexy to be compelling.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

The acting was atrocious!!! I'm no longer watching it either *shudders*

I've downloaded every episode of Terra Nova that has been aired but still haven't watched any yet. I haven't watched Falling Skies either and I meant to watch that before starting on Terra Nova. But hubby fell asleep each time we tried watching the pilot and it wasn't fun to watch it alone.

PoI is not bad! I was slightly put off by all the gadgets/cameras/listening-ins in the pilot but the second episode was better and I'm looking forward to episodes 3 and 4.

I'm at episode 4 of Suits too. I didn't quite like the pilot - the way Mike got into it all was a bit too much for me to swallow, and Harvey taking that much interest on a perfect stranger and all, but I love the subsequent episodes, they're very happy-making!!.

Do you watch Fringe?