on tonight's TV
Oct. 28th, 2013 12:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xparrotSunday nights are my 'women kicking ass on my TV' hours - Once Upon a Time and The Good Wife, which are two of my favorites of the shows I'm watching weekly (and both not-so-coincidentally star multiple women who are incomparable badasses, whether rescuing their princes or being brilliant in the courtroom.) Neither of them are fan-shows for me, but they're both a hell of a lot of fun for completely different reasons, and this week's delivered.
I've been enjoying this season of OUaT so far - don't know how other folks have felt about it as I tend to avoid the OUaT fandom itself; but the villain is great, and most of the show right now is my favorite characters interacting - good times. And this week had sibling stuff and yes, I have my buttons, thank you. I think I watch OUaT the way mundanes watch most TV; I have a lot of fun with it but I don't get so invested in it that I can get really upset, whatever happens. I wouldn't want to watch most TV like that, but it can be entertaining just to look forward to what will happen next, whatever that happens to be.
And Good Wife was A-MAZ-ING. This show isn't a guilty pleasure, it's just a pleasure. The opening sequence especially was incredible - the pacing and the music and the nail-biting tension, which they kept going for the whole ep. With the interjections of humor that make this show so good - it's a drama but it never forgets that life is always and fundamentally absurd."Oh, by the way, your daughter called..." Last season was a bit bumpy but this season feels like they found their traction again - I'm wondering if the recent events are maybe where the show was going from the start? It would make sense...Everything coming full circle, Alicia and Cary becoming the next Diane and Will - if that was the plan all along, bravo; either way, it's brilliant. And Diane turning on Alicia to get back in Will's good graces - I'm okay with that, because even though Will is a jackass, Will & Diane's partnership is one of my favorite things in the show and it hurt to have that broken.
The Good Wife is one of the few shows that I trust to be consistently awesome - even if particular events disappoint me, in the end the payoffs are worth it. I'm almost hoping this season is its last - probably won't be, as far as I know it's doing well; but I almost wish it would be canceled anyway (now, giving the writers enough time to write up to a finale) because I don't think even it can last forever, and this would be going out strong!
I've been enjoying this season of OUaT so far - don't know how other folks have felt about it as I tend to avoid the OUaT fandom itself; but the villain is great, and most of the show right now is my favorite characters interacting - good times. And this week had sibling stuff and yes, I have my buttons, thank you. I think I watch OUaT the way mundanes watch most TV; I have a lot of fun with it but I don't get so invested in it that I can get really upset, whatever happens. I wouldn't want to watch most TV like that, but it can be entertaining just to look forward to what will happen next, whatever that happens to be.
And Good Wife was A-MAZ-ING. This show isn't a guilty pleasure, it's just a pleasure. The opening sequence especially was incredible - the pacing and the music and the nail-biting tension, which they kept going for the whole ep. With the interjections of humor that make this show so good - it's a drama but it never forgets that life is always and fundamentally absurd.
The Good Wife is one of the few shows that I trust to be consistently awesome - even if particular events disappoint me, in the end the payoffs are worth it. I'm almost hoping this season is its last - probably won't be, as far as I know it's doing well; but I almost wish it would be canceled anyway (now, giving the writers enough time to write up to a finale) because I don't think even it can last forever, and this would be going out strong!
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