'Underneath'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm so burnt out on superheroes and poorly scripted shows, and unrelenting meanness and sadness and rage, I've stopped watching almost everything.
This is what the Great British Bake Off is for. Also old seasons of Foyle's War and other similar shows.
Superheroes are still totally my escapism (plus Elementary, which rocks my socks). But that's why there are so many channels -- everyone can have different teevee.
It's too soon to rewatch Foyle's War. I suppose after I exhaust my interest in house shows I'll probably turn to cooking shows. I do frequently enjoy Restaurant: Impossible, though.
Restaurant: Impossible
I assume this is all people cooking while hanging from the ceiling a la "Mission Impossible."
NO ONE BURST MY BUBBLE.
Oh yes, I'm anticipating Elementary--teevee for grownups. There are a few scripted things I enjoy, but my ability and willingness to engage with unrelenting darkness of spirit and grinding angst is just exhausted. I'm about at the level of hangnail and burnt dinner levels of angst.
The Meg in my online name comes from Marguerite. Named after an elderly lady from Spain who was a mentor to my mom in the LWV. I can't recall if it was the ERA onesie or baby blanket that came from her, or both. She died well before I could remember her, but I'm proud to carry her name.
The only thing I'm really looking forward to is Luke Cage.
my ability and willingness to engage with unrelenting darkness of spirit and grinding angst is just exhausted.
To be fair, that's why I stopped watching SHIELD mid-spring. It was too dark and angsty for me (I know lots of people still like it; hence the renewal, and that's cool).
I am glad that Leverage is still new to me. I'm sad I missed it when it was on TV -- but then, we don't have cable -- but am digging the hell out of it now.
I'd give a lot for another Leverage. Not--Leverage, but with scripts that good and characters that grow and bend and change. Or White Collar. I could do White Collar angst. (not a pun)
I'm tired of dirty urban badly lit back alleys and a constant gloom of despair. I loved Daredevil and Jessica Jones. I just don't want more of them. So no Arrow (Flash is on the bubble), no Legends, no Agents of Shield, no Supers. My disbelief is done un-suspended.