The sucking black hole of fandom claims another victim!

Well, Leverage is on temporary hold right now, because Being Human ate my soul. OMG, f'list! Is anyone watching this? Because you all have to run out and get hold of it right now! It's a British series, apparently very obscure (I think there's one(?) person on my f'list who posts about it); its first series (6 episodes) just finished up, and apparently there's a second series coming next year. Only six episodes! It's not much of a viewing commitment!

And omg omg omg, this show ...! Okay, it has its WTF moments and one particularly awful special effect that makes me cringe every time they do it (maybe they'll have enough budget next year to do it better, because it utterly breaks the mood when they're trying for serious and angsty and then bring out the impossibly cheesy f/x) -- but all in all, I give it five out of five pineapples on the Psych scale of total character adorability. XD I was only going to watch episode 3 this morning, but ended up spending the whole day mainlining the rest of the series. I couldn't stop!

The basic premise is that a vampire, a ghost and a werewolf rent an apartment in Bristol together. (Well, the vampire and the werewolf rent the apartment; the ghost was already haunting it when they moved in.) It sounds like the pilot for a truly awful sitcom, but instead it's done with a wonderful mixture of humor and angst and compelling character arcs for all three characters -- in just six episodes! I kept having to pause playback so that I could squee and flail (or, as greyias says, "squail") -- I believe there was literal flailing at some points. This show mashes all my buttons for "found family" and dorkily adorable characters and broken people finding comfort in each other and (mostly) platonic boy/girl BFFs -- plus a fairly complex overall story arc (though it feels a bit rushed or oddly paced at times, as there are only 6 episodes).

(FYI, if you do go looking for it, there is a sort of "episode 0" -- the original pilot -- which has an almost completely different cast. Do not watch this first, because they change most of the actors and it's really, really disconcerting. There's nothing in it that you have to see in order to understand the rest of the show; you can pick up just fine with 1x01 and carry on from there. I haven't actually watched "episode 0" all the way through yet; I started with 1x01, then went back and tried to watch it, and having other actors in the roles instead of my adorable dorks was too weird.)

The sucking black hole of fandom claims another victim!

Well, Leverage is on temporary hold right now, because Being Human ate my soul. OMG, f'list! Is anyone watching this? Because you all have to run out and get hold of it right now! It's a British series, apparently very obscure (I think there's one(?) person on my f'list who posts about it); its first series (6 episodes) just finished up, and apparently there's a second series coming next year. Only six episodes! It's not much of a viewing commitment!

And omg omg omg, this show ...! Okay, it has its WTF moments and one particularly awful special effect that makes me cringe every time they do it (maybe they'll have enough budget next year to do it better, because it utterly breaks the mood when they're trying for serious and angsty and then bring out the impossibly cheesy f/x) -- but all in all, I give it five out of five pineapples on the Psych scale of total character adorability. XD I was only going to watch episode 3 this morning, but ended up spending the whole day mainlining the rest of the series. I couldn't stop!

The basic premise is that a vampire, a ghost and a werewolf rent an apartment in Bristol together. (Well, the vampire and the werewolf rent the apartment; the ghost was already haunting it when they moved in.) It sounds like the pilot for a truly awful sitcom, but instead it's done with a wonderful mixture of humor and angst and compelling character arcs for all three characters -- in just six episodes! I kept having to pause playback so that I could squee and flail (or, as greyias says, "squail") -- I believe there was literal flailing at some points. This show mashes all my buttons for "found family" and dorkily adorable characters and broken people finding comfort in each other and (mostly) platonic boy/girl BFFs -- plus a fairly complex overall story arc (though it feels a bit rushed or oddly paced at times, as there are only 6 episodes).

(FYI, if you do go looking for it, there is a sort of "episode 0" -- the original pilot -- which has an almost completely different cast. Do not watch this first, because they change most of the actors and it's really, really disconcerting. There's nothing in it that you have to see in order to understand the rest of the show; you can pick up just fine with 1x01 and carry on from there. I haven't actually watched "episode 0" all the way through yet; I started with 1x01, then went back and tried to watch it, and having other actors in the roles instead of my adorable dorks was too weird.)