summer teevee

[anotheranon]

I caught up with some tv while folding 2 weeks of laundry:

Leverage: how I love Timothy Hutton and his ensemble casts! "I'm having....feelings....about pretzels". Nathan needs to stop hitting the sauce though, and Archie Goodwin should give him a comb.

True Blood: am I the only person on Team Alcide? I've not read the books with him in it but HBO's version seems like a nice guy in a bad situation. Reminds me a little of Jayne, with more brains and less grumpiness (and lamentably less chest hair - can't a bear er, were, just be a were?)

Speaking of Firefly Warehouse 13's co-stars pushed all my geeky buttons this week :) Plus, H. G. Wells!

Comments

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

You get HBO?!?

One of the things I like about True Blood is that for the most part, they let their grown men, look like it, chest hair and all. I've only seen Alcide in photos but he does look like he'd be delightfully snuggy. (I liked him in the books, mostly. I hated that he couldn't get over his girlfriend before Sookie.)

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Not as such...

Not sure I agree with you re: the grown men part; most of the naked guys we've seen thus far are vampires and as such I suspect at least a little "manscaping" is going on, if not a full wax.

Alcide's ex seems like a piece of work, lemme tell ya - far cry from her previous role as the environmentalist artist on "The Middleman".

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Alcide in the books is a sweetheart of a man and I have still not given up hope on him. I like him so far in the show too, although they're trying to make all the Weres badasses which kind of sucks. Book!Janice is a nice woman with a husband and a baby who runs an upscale beauty salon. It really pained me to see her suddenly being portrayed as a biker chick makeup artist. :-(

The good news (without spoilers) is that Alcide is still around -- he played a large part in the most recent book so hopefully he'll be staying on the show too. Then again, Lafayette never made it past Book 1 and he's still on the show! :)

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Hey, a biker chick can be no less nice - and I thought she was kind to look out for her baby brother.

I do find it kind of curious that there are no starved or beat-up, skinny looking werewolves.

And I must say, I'm glad Lafayette is still in the series - he gets the best one-liners! But then, it's easier for me to accept that True Blood has only a peripheral resemblance to the Southern Vampire Mysteries they're based on.

[fearga.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine just filmed a guest starring role on LEVERAGE for December....he's playing Santa Frank, a wronged mall santa. They film in Portland, about an hour and some up the road.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Thanks for the tip - I will be looking for this episode!