What I have been watching
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scripsiHusband and I have been binge-watching all three seasons of The Doctor Blake Mysteries, an Australian series featuring Craig McLachlan. Apparently he’s an old soap opera star, but I’ve never seen him anything before.
It takes place in a small town in the late 1950’s. Lucien Blake returns home after being away for 30 years to take over his father’s practice as well as his job a police surgeon. He has had a rather colourful career, spent time on a POW camp during the war and, possibly, been a spy. His wife and daughter disappeared in Singapore during the war and now, in his fifties, he is rather haunted by his experiences and has a definite problem with alcohol. He is also rather unconventional, which makes things a bit complicated in his relationship with the police he works with.
He settles down in his father’s house, inheriting his father’s housekeeper, Jean. She’s a widow in Lucien’s own age, rather proper and seemingly disapproving, but she’s also smart and unexpectedly humorous and often plays Watson to Lucien’s Sherlock. He also has two lodgers, a young nurse called Mattie and Jean’s police officer nephew.
It’s not grand TV, but entertaining. I like the sets and the costumes- people look like they really live in their clothes, they don’t look like costumes at all. Jean, for example, has a rather hideous pink dressing gown that doesn’t match her nightgown. And I like the characters who feels like real persons with both good and bad sides. I also like that the token sexual tension isn’t between Lucien and the young and pretty Mattie, but between him and Jean.
I watched the first episode of Lucifer and is a bot of two minds about it. I’ve read Sandman but never the spin-off comic, so I can’t judge how close they are to the source. I enjoyed Lucifer (Tom Ellis) himself, he was fun and snarky. A reviewer commented that Ellis would make a good Doctor and I can certainly see that. But I’m starting to grow a bit bored with the concept “person who has some extraordinary characteristics” help the police. We have had immortals, computer chips, various mental disorders, tattoos and drugs. And now we have Lucifer helping out. I’ll give it another chance and see if it gets better.
I’m still enjoying Blacklist, thought Red seem to becoming a bit more unhinged as the season progress. They’we also highlighted his less than nice sides in the last episodes, whereas Tom seems to have been promoted to Good Guy. I wonder if the show will lure us only to kick it all around, or not.
I’ve also watched the first episode of The Librarians, which I liked. I mean- who can I not like action librarians? But then I realised it’s a spin-off and now I’m in a dither is I should watch The Librarian first, or not.
It takes place in a small town in the late 1950’s. Lucien Blake returns home after being away for 30 years to take over his father’s practice as well as his job a police surgeon. He has had a rather colourful career, spent time on a POW camp during the war and, possibly, been a spy. His wife and daughter disappeared in Singapore during the war and now, in his fifties, he is rather haunted by his experiences and has a definite problem with alcohol. He is also rather unconventional, which makes things a bit complicated in his relationship with the police he works with.
He settles down in his father’s house, inheriting his father’s housekeeper, Jean. She’s a widow in Lucien’s own age, rather proper and seemingly disapproving, but she’s also smart and unexpectedly humorous and often plays Watson to Lucien’s Sherlock. He also has two lodgers, a young nurse called Mattie and Jean’s police officer nephew.
It’s not grand TV, but entertaining. I like the sets and the costumes- people look like they really live in their clothes, they don’t look like costumes at all. Jean, for example, has a rather hideous pink dressing gown that doesn’t match her nightgown. And I like the characters who feels like real persons with both good and bad sides. I also like that the token sexual tension isn’t between Lucien and the young and pretty Mattie, but between him and Jean.
I watched the first episode of Lucifer and is a bot of two minds about it. I’ve read Sandman but never the spin-off comic, so I can’t judge how close they are to the source. I enjoyed Lucifer (Tom Ellis) himself, he was fun and snarky. A reviewer commented that Ellis would make a good Doctor and I can certainly see that. But I’m starting to grow a bit bored with the concept “person who has some extraordinary characteristics” help the police. We have had immortals, computer chips, various mental disorders, tattoos and drugs. And now we have Lucifer helping out. I’ll give it another chance and see if it gets better.
I’m still enjoying Blacklist, thought Red seem to becoming a bit more unhinged as the season progress. They’we also highlighted his less than nice sides in the last episodes, whereas Tom seems to have been promoted to Good Guy. I wonder if the show will lure us only to kick it all around, or not.
I’ve also watched the first episode of The Librarians, which I liked. I mean- who can I not like action librarians? But then I realised it’s a spin-off and now I’m in a dither is I should watch The Librarian first, or not.
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Date: 2016-02-02 07:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-02-02 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-02-02 11:34 pm (UTC)THIS*sobs*
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Date: 2016-02-02 07:46 pm (UTC)Gabrielle
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Date: 2016-02-02 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-02-02 11:34 pm (UTC)Blacklist...omg. I adore it!! Red has lost it. And why shouldn't he? Pressure of holding it together has done no good. And he has cleverly outfoxed people who were hot on his heels...
*HUGS*
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Date: 2016-02-03 05:07 pm (UTC)It seems very promising. :)
Red has lost it. And why shouldn't he? Pressure of holding it together has done no good. And he has cleverly outfoxed people who were hot on his heels...
True. I adore James Spader! This show shouldn't work, the premises are crazy, but he pulls it all together and makes it believeable! *hugs*
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Date: 2016-02-03 12:44 am (UTC)I'm over cop dramas and medical dramas and courtrooms. But especially detectives of various types. I just got so tired of it. I still love Grimm and Supernatural but I just don't want to start anything new that's just follows the same tired TV formula.
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Date: 2016-02-03 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-02-03 10:18 am (UTC)I found the Librarian movies pretty mediocre and didn't bother with the sequels. But I enjoy the Librarians series quite a bit. You can pick up what you need to know from watching the series.
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Date: 2016-02-03 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-02-03 03:39 pm (UTC)Craig McLachlan was in 'Neighbours' which is an Australian soap which is also popular in the UK. He briefly had a pop career off the back of it. Guy Pearce was in it too or 'Mike from Neighbours' as he is really called.
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Date: 2016-02-03 04:24 pm (UTC)Actually, i may Watch a show like that...
I don't think Neighbours ever aired in Sweden. Or it may just be my general cluelessness when it comes to soap operas...
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Date: 2016-02-03 05:36 pm (UTC)Yeah same, I liked the characters, but it seems rather unimaginative to use Lucifer in order to make yet another cop show. I'd be much more excited if the episodes were more about exploring Lucifer and the supernatural
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Date: 2016-02-03 05:58 pm (UTC)Dito!