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TV Watching
Jan. 23rd, 2019 09:27 amThings I have watched recently and enjoyed:
Sex Education (Netflix)
A well written teen comedy/drama is a thing of joy and this was great. Teens having sex way younger than I did (but there were kids at school hooking up / that one pregnant girl, so it's certainly possible) and trying to figure out sex and relationships and all that teen angst at the same time.
It's funny and honest to the characters, and the teen actors are all great. (And I've never been happier not to be a teenage boy.)
Plus, there's Gillian Anderson!
A Very British Scandal
To be honest, I watched this because I read an interview with Hugh Grant talking about how fun it was to play villains and complicated characters now that he's older (and doesn't fall into the rom-com hero mould any more). It was actually really enjoyable.
Not the accent, which is the terribly posh accent that I could never imagine taking seriously in bed, but the story as a whole. They did a great job of making both Hugh Grant's character and Ben Wishaw's characters intriguing and dislikeable. It's a story of exes, blackmail and attempted murder, and both characters are flawed in their own ways.
It had moments of genuine humour and was a really interesting watch (although I will say that the making-out scene twenty minutes in was not so much titillating as really, really uncomfortable because that amount of patronising / paternalism makes my skin crawl when seen onscreen.1)
1 Weirdly enough, while I can read BDSM fics and find them hot, there's clearly a big line inside my head that says 'this behaviour is a red warning light in reality'. Mind you, that was the kind of story where I watch and realise that if I was either of the characters, I wouldn't have got involved in that relationship in the first place -- this is probably why I'm single. Single, yes, but my life is free from big romantic drama. I'll take single and calm over fraught and frantic, thanks.
Sex Education (Netflix)
A well written teen comedy/drama is a thing of joy and this was great. Teens having sex way younger than I did (but there were kids at school hooking up / that one pregnant girl, so it's certainly possible) and trying to figure out sex and relationships and all that teen angst at the same time.
It's funny and honest to the characters, and the teen actors are all great. (And I've never been happier not to be a teenage boy.)
Plus, there's Gillian Anderson!
A Very British Scandal
To be honest, I watched this because I read an interview with Hugh Grant talking about how fun it was to play villains and complicated characters now that he's older (and doesn't fall into the rom-com hero mould any more). It was actually really enjoyable.
Not the accent, which is the terribly posh accent that I could never imagine taking seriously in bed, but the story as a whole. They did a great job of making both Hugh Grant's character and Ben Wishaw's characters intriguing and dislikeable. It's a story of exes, blackmail and attempted murder, and both characters are flawed in their own ways.
It had moments of genuine humour and was a really interesting watch (although I will say that the making-out scene twenty minutes in was not so much titillating as really, really uncomfortable because that amount of patronising / paternalism makes my skin crawl when seen onscreen.1)
1 Weirdly enough, while I can read BDSM fics and find them hot, there's clearly a big line inside my head that says 'this behaviour is a red warning light in reality'. Mind you, that was the kind of story where I watch and realise that if I was either of the characters, I wouldn't have got involved in that relationship in the first place -- this is probably why I'm single. Single, yes, but my life is free from big romantic drama. I'll take single and calm over fraught and frantic, thanks.
