Having just finished the first disc of the BBC Bleak House

I'd love to hear what you think of it when you're finished.

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I just saw the chance to grab some geek trifecta of crossoverhood.

I feel you.

I'd love to hear what you think of it when you're finished.

I'd love to tell you, but those worthless cocksuckers at Netflix have been telling me that Disc 2 has a "very long wait" for 3 solid weeks. I only allowed Disc 1 to arrive at my house on the faith that all very long waits must surely end, and 3 weeks is long enough to mean imminent change in status. So far, no go. Disc 3 is, of course, available immediately, should I wish to forego the middle section of the story.

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That is fuckin' annoying. Possibly a timely bribe should arrive in Yankton, uh, Santa Clara, forthwith. I haven't really got the patience for Dickens anymore, gotta tell ya, although I always wanted a Dickens Ending for Wallace and D'Angelo, you know, that they're cousins and also related to the Royal Family of Liberia or something corny like that... you know you have to love a character to want to suspend narrative logic for them.

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True that. You might find yourself surprised by your patience for Bleak House, though. It's the best literary adaptation featuring Gillian Anderson that I've seen since Tristram Shandy two weeks ago!

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Almost finished re-watching S3 of The Wire with Mrs. Industries (she's a much slower tv watcher than I). I noticed last night that Brother Mouzone's lackey is played by none other than DeAndre McCollough, the real-life counterpart to the main character in The Corner.

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Cool, Corwood. I guess Simon became really attached to that family. Well, he watched everything they did for a year or so.

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Corwood, does Mrs. Industries fall asleep? My dh is a much faster TV watcher than I am, unless I'm in a slight insomniac phase.

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The Wire...demands investment, in a way, Cindy. Which probably makes it sound not-fun, but it really can be. But it's not really the sort of thing you can follow and have on in the background while you are doing household stuff. Maybe if you've seen a repeat, but not the first viewing. Especially if you need to translate from the cornerboy, which takes us suburban white folks a bit of time. But it is totally worth it as mostly they are funny and insightful young guys that you wanna listen to.(I'm pretty good at it now and could probably have a completely West Baltimore conversation. Not exactly a valuable skill in West Phoenix, but hey...) My mother likes to do bunches of things at once so the pacing of The Wire kind of drives her apeshit. Except for The Bunk...she loves him. We have an agreement that, should the cancer come back and leave her days numbered the last thing she'll do at work is say "English, motherfucker, English!"(My mother is an assistant in an English language learners' classroom and she was very put out not to find out more about the girls in the cans in Season 2.)

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does Mrs. Industries fall asleep?

That's it in a nutshell. I'm a night owl. And Erika's exactly right; The Wire takes concentration.

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The Wire...demands investment, in a way, Cindy. Which probably makes it sound not-fun, but it really can be.

Well maybe investment sounds not-fun to those people. Out there. But I get that. I watched it once or twice, but I think it conflicted with something else for me, at the time.

My mother likes to do bunches of things at once so the pacing of The Wire kind of drives her apeshit.

Pre-BtVS, I read books while watching TV. It drove both my husband and mother nuts that I could do it. I maintain they were just jealous. Much like crime though, fandom (and possibly motherhood) makes you stupid (or me, anyhow).

I'm just squatting here, by the way. We ditched our premium cable a while back to save some money, but I just love that brand new thread smell.

We have an agreement that, should the cancer come back and leave her days numbered the last thing she'll do at work is say "English, motherfucker, English!"

Too funny, erika. Not funny enough to excuse the cancer, which just had better mind the de-invite spell. But still. Funny.

That's it in a nutshell. I'm a night owl.

I used to be. Dh would always fall asleep before I did. I was always half a season ahead of him. Now, most nights, he's waking me up, to get me to go to bed to sleep.

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