I watched the new episode of Being Human and I still love it! ( Here be spoilers )

I also watched the last episode of SPN, which I LOVED, far better than last week's. And I watched an episode of Demons "Smitten", which was okay. Luke is an idiot, Mina is sexy, Galvin is... a bit of a dickhead. I just kept thinking... Mina looks really good for someone who can't see to do their own makeup. Does Galvin do it for her? Because that is some seriously good eyeliner. I suspect this makes me a bad person, but it wasn't like the stellar plot was distracting me

ETA: I just looked out the window and when did the world turn entirely white? OMG SNOW! Snow that settles in the fucking East End, too. Impressive. Tomorrow there may be a trip to the park to marvel at it, I feel.

I miss Merlin. I miss having something funny, exciting and really, really slashy to watch at the weekend. I also really miss having something British to watch. And so it was with great excitement that I sat down last night to watch the first episode of Being Human, which looks set to fill the void for a little while (the less said about the truly appalling Demons the better. Until ITV give me a new series of Primeval, I'm not talking to them).

I really loved it! Spoilers follow under the cut:

( A vampire and werewolf try for domestic bliss with cute, dead girl. Slash ensues. )

I'm going to bed in a minute because I have stuff to do before work tomorrow (the penultimate day before the full horror of unemployment hits me on Wednesday)... I'm not convinced I have done the right thing by quitting my job as it turns out I am much more overdrawn than I was expecting to be, thanks to Christmas, rent timings, and recently switching from weekly to monthly pay. Hopefully I will be able to get a new job pretty soon though, and thus not struggle too much to find February's rent...

Anyway, enough of that. There's no point stressing out about that right now. Instead I want to talk about TV...

( Supernatural: spoilers for 'Family Remains' )

In celebration of the Merlin finale, and the show which has EATEN MY BRAIN (but I'm oddly okay with it), my friend Sara and I created the faces of our favourite slashy boys in cake!

( No, really... )

I'm watching "Tracker"... ( Read more... )

Heh, I just saw someone on a House notice board saying they saw a bit of Jeeves and Wooster and loved it, but that guy who played Jeeves was pretty good too, it's a shame he hasn't made it like Hugh Laurie has. He should get his own show! Bless. Poor Stephen Fry. Apparently getting your own show and becoming a household name in the UK doesn't count as "making it"...

I watched the second episode of No Heroics tonight (after I got in fromn work at half nine- YAWN) and nearly cried laughing. If you haven't seen it yet, I would really recommend it, especially to fans of Spaced who are missing a decent piece of geeky comedy on British TV. It's an ITV2 sitcom, but don't let that put you off. Based around four superheroes in a world where superheroes are the norm... Alex (The Hotness) is a pathetic excuse for a superhero who is constantly getting the piss ripped out of him by his ex-girlfriend Sarah (Electroclash) who uses her ability to control machines to mostly get free fags out of the pub vending machines. Sarah's best friend is the sweet and downtrodden Jenny (She-Force). The group is completed by Don (Timebomb) who can see sixty seconds into the future, and is hot, gay, Spanish and a bit psycho.*

The Spacedean aspect of the show is not just in the comedy, or the premise of four friends who are torn between wanting to succeed in life and wanting to get another round in, but in the sheer geekiness. Anyone with any love for comic books, EVER, will be astounded by the geeky references that are crammed into every episode. The central location is a pub for off-duty superheroes (who all wear suits, because what else do off-duty superheroes wear?) is called The Fortress after Superman's Fortress of Solitude. The bottles of spirits over the bar include Gin City, V for Vodka and Logan's Rum. If beer is more your thing, order a bottle of Shazamstell.

Seriously. It's geek pun-tastic. And piss-myself-laughing funny.

</i>*I mention this because this is a sitcom made for ITV2 that has a main character who is gay. And not in a reinforcing unhelpful gay stereotypes way. Hurrah!

Gargh. This week has been very unproductive, mostly because I spent last week cat-sitting in St A while my parents were on holiday (thus doing nothing) and now I'm in London again where I keep filling my evenings with stuff, but wasting my days languishing in the heat of my oven-like flat and watching Battlestar Gallactica for the first time.

I need:
-to get a job
-to do some housework

I want:
-to finish watching season 2 of BSG and Dexter
-to get a job without having to get up and leave the house.

Bah.

Instead I shall ignore my complete lack of motivation and tell you that I saw Murder By Death at the Borderline Tuesday night and they were amazing... If I could earn a living getting horrible (and yet weirdly liberating-ly) sweaty while watching equally sweating men writhe about singing songs about whisky and drinking yourself to death and then back to life again... I would be happy.

Other things that make me happy are:
-Dr Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog (yay Joss!)
-my current read, Georgette Heyer's Arabella. It's ace, in a snarky Regency way.

What's not amusing me is the fact that I am waiting to hear about this job I freelanced at... They're interviewing some people internally and I should find out this week but I haven't heard anything yet and now I'm terrified they wont hire me.

Also, I need to do some washing but I only ever remember this fact when Bethan has just put a load on. I suck real bad.

I fucking love Neighbours. I can't stand Eastenders at all, but I love Hollyoaks and Neighbours. I like my soaps trashy, unrealistic and chock full of melodrama. I like plane crash tragedies, people faking their own deaths, serial womanisers with one leg, and people missing presumed dead who turn up with memory loss working for the Salvation Army. I like ridiculous teenage drug addicts, late night specials where date rapists get impaled in abandoned fair grounds, schemeing evil wives, and closet gay priests. Who doesn't?

I also have a massive girl crush on Libby Kennedy. I grew up watching the Kennedy family, and my first boy crush was on young Billy. Remember when he asked everyone to call him Bill because it sounded more grown up? Heh, yeah. And my first girl crush? Libby. She's like the amazing older cousin you looked up to as a kid, who always seemed so clever and strong and beautiful and you could never be convinced otherwise, even when she was babysitting in her jogging bottoms and burning your dinner. Even now, I adore her. She can do no wrong.

JKRs prequel-type thing was cool. ( Cut for spoilers )

I also devoured Supernatural: Origins, the graphic novel prequel that follows John Winchester's hunt for the thing that killed his wife. ( Cut for more spoilers! )

ETA: And now I am going to do my ironing and watch the tennis and this makes me very happy indeed. Yay tennis!

Listening to Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs' You Can't Buy A Gun When You're Crying makes me think of Supernatural, so here are some spoilers for the last ITV2 episode ( Jus in Bello. )

Empire Magazine's list of the "50 Greatest TV Shows" ever.
1. Bold the shows you've watched every episode of
2. Italic the shows you've seen at least one episode of
3. Post your answers

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Well, that was riveting. In summary, there are only nine shows I haven't seen any episodes of. I spend too much time watching TV.