A light touch over the long run is really tough to keep up. I don't know if they have sufficient basis. My approach: enjoy it as long as it is fun. When it stops being fun, thank them for the good times and walk away, no hard feelings. Which I expect to happen eventually, but not yet.

The first hour of the Catch finale was as good as anything in the series. The 2nd hour was still fun, but not Catch at its best. My relationship with the show is not so much friends with benefits as acquaintances with benefits. In short, I'm enjoying the show without being a fan. For those to whom this is important, slashbait in Catch goes beyond the merely obvious to flashing neon signs saying "slash these characters".

Oh and when it comes to "Rosewood" I'm through with it. Someone in the writing team's view of man/woman interaction appears to lie on the spectrum between PUA and Nice Guy(TM). I'm going to spoiler font details, so that you can avoid reading on if this is not a day you want your rage sparked.

"Lovably awkward & obnoxious" skinny white guy kisses "lovably awkward" skinny white lesbian who is the fiance of Rosewood's sister. White dude packs up his thing, rightly seeing this as a career ending bit of assholery on his part. Instead, it is dismissed as just the kind awkward and stupid things he does due to his inability to read social signals. Ummm, no skill at reading body language is required to note that the *engaged* *lesbian* *coworker" does not want you to kiss her. In the workplace. And she kisses him back. So this is not only playing the "awkward" for shit awkward does not excuse. It is pushing the fantasy the women secretly want to be harassed.

I finally got around to watching the finale of Castle.

I would have liked it better if it had ended before the scene with the kids.

Has anyone watched Houdini and Doyle? I'm kind of meh on it ... but I tend to watch because it's there.

I've been watching, just on general principal (love Doyle, love Victorian era, love costumes, etc.) if nothing else. I'm enjoying it alright, but yeah, nothing earthshattering.

I can't remember if it was here or elsewhere on the board someone was asking about British crime/police shows with women as protagonists. I've started watching Murder in Suburbia - it's a lot more lighthearted than Scott and Bailey, but enjoyable. And one of the police is the woman who played the wife in Doc Martin.

It was me- I don't remember where either, but I will check it out.

Vera is also quite good, though far from lighthearted. Nowhere near Broadchurch levels of grimdark; but a show that doesn't even try to clear that high hurdle can be pretty grimdark indeed. One relieving factor is the way the title character can vary between real motherly concern, faux motherly concern, and sarcasm turned up to 11. (Yes, my word of the day is "grimdark". Just encountered it for the first time a few weeks ago.)

I love Vera. Just up my alley.

POI season 5, ep 10: Damn.