So I was going to do Sugar Rush this week but then this show actually got really, really good again and I'm obsessing just a little bit and isn't this just the perfect space to do that? Yes, yes it is. :)


Rizzoli and Isles
or, according to Dorothy Snarker, TV's First Lesbian Buddy Cop Show That Just Doesn't Know it Yet!

IMDb TNT Summary: Based on characters created by best-selling crime novelist Tess Gerritsen, RIZZOLI & ISLES stars Angie Harmon as Jane Rizzoli, a tough-as-nails Boston police detective, and Sasha Alexander as Maura Isles, a smart, impeccably dressed medical examiner from a privileged background. Despite being complete opposites, the two women share an offbeat chemistry and strong working relationship that has helped them bust some of Boston’s most notorious criminals.

Genre: 100% Gay Procedural Cop Drama

My #1 Reasons to Watch Two female leads in their late 30s planted firmly in the driver's seat and working as a team to catch bad guys, deal with interfering mothers, and occasionally attend Happy Hour. Also, they eyefuck the shit out of each other constantly.

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Some articles have recently come out about how there's a a chance this show may get a second season. So hey - Fox may have learned something since it canceled that little Joss Whedon show that then went on to become a movie that sold so many DVD's a second round had to be created!

EDIT:Fox actually did learn something, BREAKING IN IS GETTING ANOTHER SEASON!! I'm having a dance party...in my head...it's TOTALLY RAD!

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Breaking In
or The Greatest Show You Didn't Watch That Got Canceled But May Rise Again - Boom Goes the Dynamite!

IMDbSummary: A high-tech security firm takes extreme, and often questionable, measures to sell their protection services..

Genre: Workplace Action Comedy

My #1 Reasons to Watch Well, Fox decided it needed to be canceled - obviously, the show must be gold! But come on - why would you not want to watch the nerdy-yet-hilarious lovechild of Leverage and Scrubs? Quirky and engaging, the dialogue pops so quickly there's rarely a moment in this half-hour comedy that won't have you chuckling. And, the surprisingly fresh and original characters don't hurt - especially the black guy with an IQ of 161 and a fluency in sci-fi that would impress even the biggest tumblr BNF.

Also, there's this guy named Michael Rosenbaum on it. I don't know whether any of you have heard of him...

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I'm starting a new weekly series. It should last until I run out of shows that I watch that I know you're not watching, meaning it'll probably last about three weeks. But anyway, here goes.

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Lost Girl
or How Canada is Bringing Sexy Back, Eh!

IMDbSummary: Lost Girl focuses on the gorgeous and charismatic Bo, a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins.

Genre: Sci-fi/Fantasy

My #1 Reasons to Watch My pants want to say the really hot sex scene between Bo and Lauren in episode 8. But my upstairs brain is saying it's the fact that a show about a succubus routinely passes the Bechdel Test with flying colors - AND HOW!

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As with everything, I keep going back and forth on this season of SPN. On the one hand, the whole soulless Sam thing kind of sucks, particularly because we don't have all that much time left with these characters. On the other hand, it leads to some really, really interesting meta. Which got me thinking about something. Lol, if you bother to read it, TELL ME IF I HAVE MADE SOME HORRENDOUS ERROR IN LOGIC/CANON FACT. Really, it's entirely possible my first question was answered last season and SPN'S booming new motto ("what happens in the Impala STAYS in the Impala!") just drowned it out.

( We're all assuming that Sam's soul wouldn't be able to escape Lucifer's cage. Why?Collapse )

KILL IT WITH FIRE.

Except it'd survive. Roaches always do.

But first, FUCK YEAH, TAKE THAT NADAL!!! Not that I'm a bitter Federer fan or anything. Not bitter at all. Nope.

And whatever. Federer's still hotter, SO THERE.

Anyway. My non-vindictiveness aside, there was a really amazing quote up at spn_gossip from the same thread I go the first one from that I thought I'd put up. I don't know whose words these are but I kind of agree:

Ellen played a lead in a romantic movie.

She really just had a little show that was a knock-off of Friends. She really wasn't known at all before she made her announcement. In fact, she was pretty much a b- lister when she came out. Coming out catapulted her to fame.

I see what you're saying, but its far too easy to say, "Well, this won't play in Peoria, so let's all just keep hush-hush." That's some self-hatred bullshit right there. Until and unless gay men get over the the fact that someone will always not like them, they are allowing those people to win. EW had this great write-up about Adam Lambert and the gay writer mostly spent the time talking about this very thing - until gay men just lead their lives as they see fit, they allow the double-standard to continue to exist. Its letting the others win by not even trying.

I'm not saying gay actors have to march in some Gay Pride Parade, but just by being themselves, they'll have scored a point. And the more that do it, the better they'll all be. They can't just sit in a corner their whole lives and say, "Alas, I must hide because someone somewhere will hate me because I'm me." That's a terrifically sad way to live.

Besides, there is WAY more to do than rom coms, and that's quite a pigeon hole right there, too. Hell, even Matthew McConaughey can't make good ones, and he's straighter than a ruler.

The thread's called, "Why so quick to believe what doesn't make sense" if you want to check it out; it's on the second page of the latest post. But I agree here. It's not about marching necessarily, it's about reminding people of your presence and you can't do that if you're invisible. That was what was so important about Adam, win or lose; visibility. In the end, I think it was all about his not being afraid of stereotypes. Because he does represent a lot and mainstream society expects him to either be ashamed of these and downplay them, or kind of be the clown and crazily play them up for fame a la Carson Kreesly. And he didn't do either, he just was Adam. He painted his nails and he competed professionally and didn't make a big deal out of anything. The pictures came out and he didn't try to deny them, but more importantly, he didn't try to capitalize on them in any way by playing up to some stereotype. He just continued to be Adam. If Adam's most excited about his jacket on the tour, it's not Adam being fake or camp and trying to get a laugh because, 'oh, that's so gay, it's funnny!' it's just Adam telling the truth and not caring what you think about him for it, and it's funny because of Adam's personality, not because he's gay.

...if any of that makes any sense and or gels at all with the quote.

So I'm going to get to the comments to my last two entry as soon as I can (I appreciate them all, and am super excited to go through them again!). But there's something I noticed that Ruby said and I think this whole debate about Sam kind of hinges on it.

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So, this is kind of weird and I don't know whether I've missed the entire point or not, or perhaps I'm just writing around it. Either way. This may be a bit different than what most are saying.

( I Tortured Souls and I Liked It: A Perhaps Slightly Different Take on 4.21Collapse )

...in other news, I feel like a terrible person for not crying during this episode since apparently so many people did. Um. Yes.