December Meme - Day One

[aldersprig]

inventrix asked: What have you been watching lately?

Well, we were watching Dr. Who, but then its ridiculously short season came to an end (dun-dun-DUN). I was really enjoying it, right up to the finale, in which I believe the actors did the best with awful dialogue writing.

I watch the news. ;-) ABC World News with David Muir. We also watch the Daily Show, which isn't news, but is often informative.

And T. & I watch Cutthroat Kitchen rather religiously. It's a Food Network food competition show, hosted by Alton Brown.

We're very slowly re-watching Picket Fences and Torchwood on days when we don't have anything else to watch.

I didn't marathon anything in November, or watch anything, really, on my own. I might track down something, but all my previous shows are sort of leaving a funny taste in my mouth. Anything to suggest?

Comments

[inventrix]

"in which I believe the actors did the best with awful dialogue writing."

That sounds a lot like a recent episode of CSI. TERRIBLE conversation, stilted, unnatural, etc. and I was like, those poor actors are gamely trying to make it sound even remotely natural.

[inventrix]

Recommendations, though!

I've heard Pushing Daisies is excellent.
Have you tried Elementary?
If you have Netflix, the old Poirot series is brilliant.

[aldersprig]

I DO have netflix! *notes*

[aldersprig]

That is EXACTLY what this one was like!!

[anke]

I'd like to recommend Due South.

Crime/comedy about a mountie who for complicated reasons having to do with NOT protecting criminals just because they are mounties is attached to the Canadian embassy in Chicago; the episodes tend to focus on criminal cases he works on together with an American officer.

Fraser is a nice guy. Naive, yeah, but it's refreshing to see someone who's not cynical. Occasionally socially clueless. Also anything but stupid in a lot of other regards, and a bit of a general education nerd. (His grandparents had a library.) Also really fit and nice to look at, imo :P

Er, yeah, at some point he promised a girl to help her father, so when he found out her father was involved in something criminal, he found himself in a dilemma - breaking a promise or withholding information regarding a crime - and decided the only usual conclusion was to tell his "partner" he had to arest him, but he couldn't tell him why. (I mentioned the "comedy part", right? Right.)

Also remarkable in that (at least so far as I've re-watched it, which is more than half of the first season) it's a crime show in which most cases are NOT murders.

[rix_scaedu]

And then there's the beginning to season 2...