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The thing about this time of year in the subtropics is that while the light is changing to autumnal beauty, the sun sinking lower in the sky, etc etc, it is horribly swampy. The dew point is hovering around 76 or 77 degrees Fahrenheit, or, as one "dew point comfort chart" put it, "What did I do to deserve this forsaken realm of despair?"

I comfort myself with the hope that this is the second to last autumn in the subtropics before retirement and moving.

Otherwise, nothing's up with me. I am working, getting to Pilates a few times a week, organizing finances, thinking about one more clothes purchase for the season, waiting for the season to change.

I did finish watching Kaos. I liked the Ariadne storyline (what happens with the Minotaur is heart-breaking and brilliant), and I enjoyed the Olympus storyline. Stephen Dillane as Prometheus, my goodness. (I almost typed "my God," except that's kind of inappropriate for the show.)

The other thing is that I regrettably have not shaken my whole Twisters obsession. So, anyway, I wrote another short fic in the series: "Best Defense". The title refers to Kate's dissertation defense but also a little extra shippiness, because that's what this fandom brings out in me. I am the most basic of bitches.

Hope there's good stuff where you are -- hugs to all, and a good weekend ahead.

September at last! September at last!

Of course, because I'm in the swampy subtropics, autumn is more like six weeks away. (I cannot tell you how high the dewpoint is here, but it's the kind of steam where a step out the door brings on the sweat.) But the light is changing at last, and I can see my favorite season coming.

Besides work and anxiety, I've started watching Kaos on Netflix. It's basically a modern AU of Greek mythology; Zeus (played by Jeff Goldblum) is King of the Gods, he's married to Hera (played by Janet McTeer), etc. etc, but he's a tyrant. His old "friend" Prometheus, played brilliantly by my fave Stephen Dillane, is at once a prisoner, the narrator of the show, and orchestrator of a plot against the gods. What follows is, like the title says, something chaotic.

There are a LOT of characters and threads, maybe too many for my taste. It's dark and comic at the same time. But three episodes in, I'm intrigued.

I don't see myself being fannish about it, however. Right now my fandom activity is in Twisters. Two links:

*The fanvids are very heavy on Taylor Swift, which doesn't entirely surprise me. ;) One of my favorites is this Kate/Tyler vid, "Cowboy Like Me". The vid does a great job of showcasing why I love this pairing.

And I've started a followup to "Best Days", the freeform fic I wrote which is after canon. The new fic is what happens when the new tornado season starts and what Kate and Tyler have to figure out: "Best Laid Plans", Chapter One.
EDITED TO ADD: And the second and final chapter is up too.

Happy weekend, happy week ahead!

In case anyone hasn't seen this --

It was announced today that director Jamie Lloyd is bringing Shakespeare to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, taking advantage of the interim between Frozen and Hercules.

First up in December and January -- Sigourney Weaver as Prospero (or Prospera).

The second show is of course the one that made me shout with joy. Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell, Benedick and Beatrice, Much Ado in February and March.

I knew a big stage announcement was coming because he'd mentioned it obliquely a couple of months ago, but this, oh my God, THIS.

Since it's Drury Lane (1990+ seats) and I signed up for priority booking, we'll see if I can get tickets when booking opens for Much Ado in a few weeks. We persevere!!

Happy middle of your week. :)

It's the end of June. A quick list of ten things for which I am grateful:

1) Miss Adventure enjoys going over to my friend A's house for playdate time. This means that A and I no longer have dinner at restaurants for our monthly get-togethers, but instead Miss Adventure and I go over to A's house for dinner and doggie play time. Win-win! (We had burgers and great conversation this past Wednesday.)
2) I got to have lunch with one of my oldest friends yesterday, and we caught up and chatted about style for a relaxing hour.
3) Four Pilates classes a week for one more month! Love the extra Reformer class each week.
4) My brothers are stressed but doing well.
5) Took a box of books and vinyl to the Friends of the Library sale collection point and a bag of clothes to Goodwill last week. The Great Purge has begun!
6) I have been planning to 'pause' Netflix this summer, but then Kaos was announced for late August. Sure, yes, Jeff Goldblum and Janet McTeer, but let's be real -- STEPHEN DILLANE as PROMETHEUS. Yes, please. (I can 'pause' Netflix later.)
7) Payday came, and all my bills for the month are either paid or budgeted for.
8) My beloved Mini-Cooper Morse is now paid off! Huzzah!
9) Storm clouds over the lake, dark thunder-blue lowering to hazy water-blue, as I drove home from lunch yesterday: I love the colors and the drama.
10) Ready for autumn, but at least one month of hell-summer is down.

Wishing everyone a happy start to July!

Fifteen things for 15 June and my fifteenth post of the year:

1) My fave Alex Jennings has been given a CBE in this year's Birthday Honours List. Hurray for Alex! Well past time!
2) Other cool folk have been honored too, like Dame Imelda Staunton, but let's be real, we know where my heart lies.
3) It's amusing me that this is the "birthday" honours list, because KCIII's actual birthday is in November, but I guess this is his birthday observed.
4) After sustained hideous heat, the subtropics where I am have transitioned to ordinary hideous heat. However, we're not getting the rain we need, and I miss it.
5) No real news about stuff I've watched. I'm behind on Doctor Who (although I caught the episode with Rogue, which was cute), and I haven't started Bridgerton Series Three yet.
6) This is because instead I've been slowly getting through more of The Tunnel, also known as Let's Torture (Emotionally and Otherwise) Karl and Elise, the Show. I've now watched four episodes of the final Series Three and, because I read Wikipedia and know the ending, am not entirely sure I have the fortitude to finish the last two episodes...
7)... Even though Stephen Dillane suffers so prettily!
8) We will see.
9) The Night Manager Series Two has just started filming, but that's a year away, and heaven alone knows when Dalgliesh Series Three comes out (although it has FINISHED filming).
10) Am contemplating another Medium blogpost about style, but while I'm thinking, I've also been sorting through clothes to send to Goodwill and clothes to send to ThredUp.
11) In the ThredUp pile for consignment will also be a v.v.expensive handbag that I still think is cool but does not work for my life, alas. Better to let it go to someone else than to stay in my wardrobe.
12) This summer has been profoundly expensive, I must say. First, a new roof; this past week, several thousand dollars of tree-trimming.
13) Besides the fact that I don't want to retire in the subtropics, this house will be too expensive to maintain once I've retired. Time to save for the move (in just under two years).
14) So my summer projects are writing, cutting back on Diet Coke, and taking a bunch of Pilates classes, none of which are interesting to record here at Dreamwidth.
15) Let us close, then, by saying that Miss Adventure and I wish you a happy third week of June!

I have always loved the spymasters, deeply compromised as they always, always are.

I mean, I love spy stories in general, as I wrote about here in this very journal. Both of my longest-running fic series (Investigations and Acquisitions for Giles/Anya and the early-series world of Spooks, the Power stories for Mycroft/Anthea) are in part espionage stories. Masterful Fucked-Up Master Spies! It's one of my things!

So, in the course of my Stephen Dillane spring, I have discovered that Mr. Dillane has played two different spymasters in recent(ish) series. I've tried both of them.

*Alex Rider, a series on Amazon Prime with a third and final season dropping in a week or so -- this trailer for Series One has a few snippets of Dillane as Alan Blunt (the Man in a Three-Piece Suit with a beard and only a few lines), who's supposedly head of a super-secret branch of MI6. He's not the focus of the story in any way, however; the titular character, a teenage wunderkind named Alex Rider who becomes a spy like his (dead) parents and (soon dead) uncle, gets all the screentime. I am too old to enjoy a teen-centered action show.

With that being said, I'll probably watch a few more episodes, with heavy use of the fast-forward option, because Dillane's Alan Blunt is a quintessential spymaster -- well-dressed! sardonic! ruthless! -- albeit with apparently a kinder edge than the Anthony Horowitz source books or the movie version. That is very much my jam.

*Red Election, showing in the US on Hulu, is one ten-episode season: its trailer here sets up the basic story. MI5 (ah, Thames House, albeit with different sets than Spooks), led by spymaster William Ogilvy played by Dillane, gets swept up in a plot connected to Scottish independence. The focus of the v. LeCarre-styled action is Ogilvy's MI5-agent daughter Beatrice, played by Lydia Leonard, and her Danish-agent counterpart, with assistance from Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as another MI5 lead agent; the Prime Minister in the show is played by v. cute James D'Arcy, btw.

I am fairly sure that Dillane's character is going to turn out to be a baddie, but I don't care (much). In all the Thames House scenes, he is v much a Grey Man, in grey suits and oversized glasses, the lighting making him look his age whilst he is nevertheless ruthless as fuck. However, this greyness is a disguise for who he really is (except he's still ruthless as fuck). In Episode One, for instance, there's a sequence where his daughter comes to his house for dinner, which he's cooking; here, in softer, more golden light, he looks ten years younger, and he's wearing a soft black button-down shirt and black jeans, which readers of I&A might remember was always Giles's spy-gear. There's a shot in this scene sequence where he leans back in his chair, firelight aglow all around him and glinting off the glasses he has pushed to the top of his head, and when I saw it I literally made a noise that alarmed Miss Adventure. THIS IS MY JAM. (Second episode, he wears a tux. Come on! I am only human!)

So that's my spring with the spymasters so far. ;)

(I am still watching The Tunnel, too, although the end of Series One all but broke me. Stop torturing Karl, show!)

Wishing you an April filled with things you love!

Recently I've been thinking a lot about detectives -- in TV and books, mostly.

There are certain idiosyncratic truths: I'm less interested in hardboiled than in the more cozy British-Golden-Age types; even so, the really uber-twee cozies of the past decade or so are not to my taste. I'm also less interested in police detectives in books although I'm usually in favor of them in TV series. I prefer series to standalones.

But what I realize is that for me, there are two tiers of detective series. The second tier is where I'm invested in the detectives but I'm not hugely invested in the mysteries themselves. This could be anything from Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell book series, where I happily follow Veronica and Stoker (and my darling Tiberius) but the actual crime-solving bits are very hit-or-miss for me, to my current nighttime viewing of Series One of 2012's The Tunnel.

I adore Stephen Dillane as Karl Roebuck, rumpled, sarky mensch albeit with one fatal flaw (about as faithful in love as a tomcat, c'mon, Karl, get it together), and I'm thoroughly enjoying Clemence Poesy as his French counterpart/sometime detecting partner Elyse, cool, bisexual, and on the spectrum. My heart belongs to detective pairs in love, but in this case I actually am delighted by Karl and Elyse's friendship which has absolutely no sexual tension whatsoever.

The first series, however, has an ongoing Big Bad mystery with smaller mysteries set up by the villain, and...I find it hard to care. Stuff's happening, fine, but let's get back to Karl and Elyse.

The top tier of detective series for me is where I do care about both the detective(s) and the mysteries. My personal gold standard is the Wimsey novels with the exception of The Five Red Herrings and, sadly, The Nine Tailors. I'd say the first two series of Sherlock hit this top tier for me in four of the six episodes. (The less said about "The Blind Banker," the better, even though Bertie Carvel's in it.) Weirdly, too, the original run of The X-Files works for me with the Monster of the Week episodes, less so with the myth-arc stuff.

(Of course, if you look at my ficcing, from Giles/Anya on, it's detecting and spies all the way, so...)

Do you have a favorite detective series? I hope you get to spend time with it soon. :)

For my own pleasure I'm going to explore the Loki Season 2 finale. My non-spoilery response: fucking beautifully done, perfectly forecasted, stunning, heartbreaking.

Spoilers ahead!

( Read more... )

Four unrelated things:

1) I am five days into a nasty cold. Of course I tested multiple times for Covid, but nope, it's just an old-fashioned streaming ugh of a rhinovirus. Worked all through it (wearing a mask for coming in contact with others, and making liberal use of hand sanitizer), and now I am so worn out. The cold is starting to fade, however.

2) I am so, so sad to hear about Matthew Perry's passing. In the 90s I did watch Friends (and was deeply invested in Chandler/Monica), and Chandler was my favorite; Matthew Perry invested him with so many layers, and his physical and verbal comic acuity was so specific and delightful that I enjoyed a character type I sometimes have trouble with. (See: Xander Harris.) I also enjoyed him on the short-lived Studio 90 on the Sunset Strip.

I recommend Daniel Fienberg's 'Critic's Appreciation' in the Hollywood Reporter for a beautifully drawn reading of Perry's gifts.

3) With a topic-shift worthy of one of Tom Hiddleston's Loki hairflips: Loki Episodes 3 and 4, oh my God. Spoiler-free: Episode 3 worked best for me when we were with Loki, Mobius, and Sylvie, but I also loved the visuals, the costumes and the sets for that ep; Episode 4 WHAT THE HELL WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO TO ME. Really well done, show.

4) I've been thinking a lot about Dalgliesh and what a relationship between TV!Dalgliesh and TV!Kate (who are different from the books) would look like. I also ran across several mentions of P.D. James's Dalgliesh and a quote from Graham Greene about the artist and the detective having a "sliver of ice" in his heart. Well then. I have written a little fic on the topic: "Sliver of Ice," wherein Adam thinks a lot, as is his wont, and makes a decision.

Look, I just like thinking about Bertie Carvel's Dalgliesh, it's a thing.

Anyway, happy Sunday to all, and I leave you with hugs and a quote from Loki in Episode 4: "Hope is hard." In these fraught days, it's true, but it's also something to hold on to.

I will post without spoilers, but I watched (a day late, because I am so swamped) the first episode of Loki. Here are my general thoughts:

*The first time THiddleston as Loki flipped his hair dramatically, I felt such joy, I can't even say.

*Ke Huy Quan is a goddamn delight.

*Wunmi Mosaku as B-15 gets more to do, and she's great.

*Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey!

Looking v. much forward to Episode 2.

Cheers and hugs to all.

This is my 18th post of the year and this is 18 September, so -- 18 Things.

1) Reading: The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn.
2) Watching: Catching up on Only Murders in the Building, ready to start Season 2 of The Chelsea Detective on Acorn.
3) Knitting: very badly, a Christmas gift for my middle brother.
4) Looking forward to Season 2 of Loki!
5) Here's the first trailer.
6) Besides Hiddleston, there's Ke Huy Quan. Handsome guys in wild time-travel stuff? Sounds good!
7) Also, the 60th anniversary specials of Doctor Who! Doctor and Donna? Yes please.
8) Lastly, looking forward to the Audible audio drama of Slayers: A Buffyverse Story. SPIKE GILES ANYA CORDELIA PARALLEL-UNIVERSE! With CLEM!
9) I will just learn to listen to longform drama, which has not worked for me so far except for dramas on Radio 4.
10) Anyway, that's all good autumn stuff.
11) In style news, I love the images of Erdem's most recent collection, which honors Debo the previous Duchess of Devonshire and uses heritage fabrics from her archive at Chatsworth.
12) Would I be able to wear any of these clothes? No. But I like looking at them.
13) Otherwise, I am mostly recovered from Covid.
14) Back to Pilates last week! Back to normal-ish!
15) But I live in the subtropics, and it's still hideously hot and steamy, which is the Bad kind of normal.
16) Also I'm anxious about retirement, as my 401K equivalent has a spread of $12,000 in its projections for me.
17) Ugh. Numbers.
18( But hugs to all, and joy to you!

Two televisual notes:

1) I, the person who does not binge, has binged Good Omens 2. Non-spoilery thoughts: well, that was All the Hee! until it wasn't, there at the end of Episode 6; Tennant and Sheen, Sheen and Tennant, a team to rival some of the all-time great teams; a guest star in Episode 3 and a guest star (of a League, heh) in Episode 4 made me unreasonably happy; GIVE US SEASON THREE, FINISH THE STORY, for real for real. (Mr. Gaiman has stated that he's ready to write the concluding chapter/series as soon as the strike's over if Amazon renews the show.)

2) I have finished Series/Season 2 of Almost Paradise, which did some fun stuff; the episode titled "Uncoupled" was especially delightful, and it went to places and tropes I was NOT expecting. I continue to love Christian Kane, and the hint of a canonical relationship setting up at the end of the season made me ponder -- has CK had a real onscreen romantic relationship in the series he's worked in? (I'm not sure I would count Darla or Angel, but you might.) The OT3 of Leverage and Leverage: Redemption is subtextual, with writers and producers not quite admitting the Parker/Hardison/Eliot of it all. I can't remember The Librarians well enough, although I vaguely remember him flirting with Cassandra.

So, anyway, it's fun to see him play the kind of storyline I haven't seen him play but have imagined in fanfiction. ;)

Hugs, and good thoughts for a good start to August.

Three links on an unbearably hot Friday, featuring three of my absolute faves:

Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton went to Wimbledon for the final day of play, and they were too adorable for words in their coordinating Ralph Lauren outfits. (Time was when I would have cut a bitch for Zawe's shoes, but alas, I am old and can no longer do those heels.) Anyway -- CUTENESS! Also, look at these cuddlebugs in the stands. (Yes, that's Jonathan Bailey aka Lord Anthony Bridgerton and Ariana Grande in the row above them.)

(Part of me is embarrassed to be such a fangirl about them at my big age, but eh. The heart loves what it loves.)

More Zawe! Here she's the villain Dar-Benn in the trailer for The Marvels, which comes November 10. The movie looks pretty fun.

Now we turn to something completely different, which is my forever love for Christian Kane. I've a real fondness for his show for producer Dean Devlin Almost Paradise, in which he is an ex-DEA agent helping the police in the Philippines; it's old-fashioned in a good way in terms of characters, action, and humor, but fresh in its setting and the way it presents the place. (Dean Devlin is Filipino-American, and this is a love letter to that side of him.) The second season just dropped on Amazon Freevee; here's the trailer.

And now, of course, I'm thinking about Lindsey McDonald now and Fred in Deep Ellum....

Anyway, hugs and happy Friday!

Not since the 1960s have both the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild struck at the same time. That 1960s strike established rules for residuals that have kept wolves from the door for often underemployed, if not outright unemployed, creative artists, but as the markets have changed in terms of streaming and the producers and networks have restructured to pay fewer people and to pay them less, creatives like writers and actors have asked for a fairer pay system for the rank and file as well as acknowledgement of the current streaming modes. (Also, the producers' wish to capture people's images for AI, pay a pittance, and use them in perpetuity is all kinds of wrong.)

This is about fairness, and the producers (and streaming networks) are not paying people's worth. Period. The ramifications of this unfairness if not changed will be an even more unequal distribution of wealth; yeah, the top-line talent will probably be fine, but anyone -- including beloved supporting actors --will not survive, and the training opportunities for writers will vanish.

If one definition of evil is treating humans like machines, then the AMPTP is on the side of evil for real right now.

All of that is just to say, the AMPTP needs to get to the damn negotiating tables for both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA and PAY ITS WORKERS.

(Also, yes, this means no promo AT ALL from writers and actors for projects coming up, and if you don't think I'm disappointed that we might not get THiddleston and Zawe out in public talking about their upcoming Marvel projects, well, of course I am. But the strike is more important!!)

I had to say it. Now you can scroll on by. Happy Friday! :)

Tonight here in the States, the penultimate episode of Endeavour airs.

It's bittersweet, this ending. Baby Morse (well, he's hardly a baby any longer) has been broken so that we see where the grouchy elder Morse has come from. Because I know the spoilers from when the series aired in the UK, I know that we'll learn (alas) why Fred Thursday is never mentioned in Morse. Still, as always I love the beauty of the show and the brilliance of Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, et al. I think the ending will work, and we'll always have nine series of wonderfulness to hold onto.

The other great British detective I've been spending time with is Adam Dalgliesh. I've rewatched Series Two of Dalgliesh -- I heart Bertie Carvel so, so much -- and I've managed to read five of the later P.D. James novels.

For many years I've bounced off the James novels, but now that I have BCarvel in my mind's eye and ear, I can soldier on (at least with the later novels). I realize why I've had such difficulty in the past, though: there's something not just austere but also rather humorless in James's work, which is also my only qualm with the Dalgliesh series. It's hard to understand how James would have liked Jane Austen so much, because those Austenian delicious ironies are just not present in P.D. James' work at all. Ah well, I'm still fascinated by the attention PDJ pays to enclosed societies (church, hospital, Cornish island, etc) and the way she analyzes the faultlines therein.

Still, I love the TV show more (you know, because Bertie Carvel), and unless or until the producers and writers give us Emma Lavenham, I am happy to ship TV Adam Dalgliesh and TV Kate Miskin.

So I've written this: "Proper Date," in a world where after Series 2's "The Murder Room," Kate Miskin goes off to work elsewhere and she and Adam try to date. If only their schedules would cooperate.... (This is also set in the late 70s, as is the TV show so far.)

Who's your favorite TV version of a great British detective? Whoever it is, may you enjoy the question. Hugs to all.

Instead of talking about boring things like my life, let me say this:

The second series/season of Dalgliesh (Channel 5 in the UK, Acorn TV in the US) is EVEN BETTER than the first one.

Bertie Carvel as Dalgliesh is my everything: so solid and so good, so clever, such a good boss, so tortured and lonely. I love his portrayal of the character so much. (I need an icon!!) And I've just enjoyed the hell out of Carlyss Peer as DS Kate Miskin, also so solid and so clever, and pining like a forest for her boss. (This should not be a spoiler.)

The TV show is diverging from P.D. James canon in some interesting ways, taking cases out of book order, keeping everything in the 70s, and cutting out almost all the side-characters, including Dalgliesh's canonical love interest Emma Lavenham. Well! What can we do about that?

Fic, baby!

This is set after the last episode of Series 2, "The Murder Room," at which point it diverges from canon. If you're watching Dalgliesh, wait until after you've watched to read; if you're not watching Dalgliesh, I'd love you to read it anyway. I have taken a plot device from James and used it to a different end. ;)

Anyway -- "now come on baby let's start today", title taken from Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders' "Game of Love."

Cheers and hugs to all!

Happy Monday to all!

I am kind of struggling right now, so let's post 5 Good things, or, Whatever:

1) My little Giles/Anya heart smiled at this Twitter exchange. ASH is wonderful, and so is Emma Caulfield.

2) Miss Adventure is at her regular Monday daycare day, which brings her such joy.

3) As Miley Cyrus sings, I can buy myself flowers, and I did on Saturday. They're bright and lovely, and it's nice to have them.

4) Wearing an old J.Peterman blazer with a multi-colored scarf I knit myself and a ceramic and gold bangle I got at Fortnum's 5 years ago.

5) Um... five things... I'm enjoying Shrinking on Apple TV, largely because of HARRISON FORD and Jessica Williams.

Hope you have five amazing things to start your week!

We made it through January. For a while there, I wasn't sure I was going to.

We made it to Friday, too.

While I've got work to do, I thought I'd also link the Medium post I did yesterday on a sartorial craving. "The Craving, The Hunt" is what I call it.

Other than hunting for that piece and enjoying a sale item I purchased at the first of the year, I've started to work on culling clothes a little and organizing my ideas for packing for Cornwall in June. La la la!

Not much else is going on with me. I've started watching Slow Horses, the AppleTV series based on Mick Herron's spy novels. While as you know I am in general fond of spies, I will also say that these spies are not quite my kind, which is in fact their draw. I further will admit that Jack Lowden is cute and Gary Oldman, brilliant in the role of Jackson Lamb, is so unkempt and borderline disgusting that one can almost smell the character through the screen. ;)

Anything fun for you all? Sending hugs for the first days of February.

Work has started back in earnest, alas. I've done this job for a long, long time, and I fear I have lost the spark. But on we go.

I've a list of media to watch -- I do not binge, but watch maybe an hour every other night -- but I do enjoy the weekly drops of Leverage: Redemption and Abbott Elementary, and I need to start this season of All Creatures Great and Small. Christian Kane as Eliot and Sam West as Siegfried are lights in this no-spark January.

(In fact, after watching a Leverage: Redemption episode last week, I pulled out an old Christian Kane CD to hear that mellifluous voice. I'm tempted to do an Angel rewatch of the first 2 seasons, and then the Wes/Lilah arc....)

And I'd love to write a few short fics, but I'm not feeling any inspiration. Again, no spark. But on we go.

What's giving you joy this January? Hugs, and may you have more of it.

Hope all is well where you are....

During a bitterly cold Christmas weekend, I managed to warm myself by watching Glass Onion, the second of the Knives Out movies, on Netflix.

What a delight. :)

Beyond the homage to a certain kind of murder mystery (vacation in a warm place, a la Death on the Nile), the deconstruction of the rich-people characters was so much fun. Janelle Monae was AMAZING, and the costumes alone for Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc filled me with joy. Fun dialogue and high style: a happy place.

( spoilers )

Hope that you've found something fun to watch during these last days of 2022!

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Entries tagged with beloved british thespians

Waiting for the Season to Change, Post #22

Kaos and More Twisters Fic, Post #21

March, Drury Lane, Hiddleston and Atwell: Post #19

End of June, Post #16

Fifteen, Post #15

Spring with the Spymasters, Post #10

Watching (or Reading) the Detectives, Post #7

the Loki Finale and 'glorious purpose', Post #25

Hodgepodge, Post #24

Loki Episode 1 Series 2, Post #22

18 Things, Post #18

Good Omens 2 + Almost Paradise, Post #14

Faves, Post #12

Strike, Post #11

Great British Detectives, Post #10

Dalgliesh and (what??) a fic, Post #7

Whatever, Post #4

A Little Blog about Clothes and Craving, Post #3

On We Go, Post #2

Glass Onion, Post #33