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Have spent entire day on couch alternately sneezing, sniffling, changing channels, coughing, and napping. Am fascinated by how old-school Mafia the Old Man on Pawn Stars looks.

myrialux has brought me donuts, Wendy's for lunch, new earphones since the wire in mine broke, and is going to cook dinner. Think I may keep him.

Also now addicted to New Tricks, after seeing the pilot and the first three episodes. It's a British cop series about a woman Detective Superintendent who botches a hostage situation ("You shoot one bloody dog in this town...") and is put in charge of a new cold case squad made of cranky retired detectives. Netflix has the first two seasons, and I found out last night that my local PBS station is playing episodes from somewhere in the 4th season, so I've set it to record them so I have something to watch once I finish the Netflix-available ones. Note for people interested in strong female characters - while the squad is made of men, Detective Superintendent Pullman is a very strong character, well able to hold her own with her subordinates, and I admire the way they made a great virtue of hers into a great flaw as well (hardly a spoiler unless you want to encounter it pristine, but...) her driving need to be the best: the best cadet, the best police officer, the best woman, also leads her to prove her "bestness" by taking other women's men. She's aware it's a flaw and isn't especially happy with that tendency of hers.

Anyway, off to figure out what

myrialux is doing as strange noises are emanating from the closet in the spare bedroom.

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Hmm, I might like that.

I think you might. We watched the last 3 eps of season 1 last night, and aside from a couple of Hollywood forensics moments* and a bit of WTF?! in the last ep, enjoyed them. Not sure if the last ep WTFery is due to it being a cliffhanger, to be continued in the next season, or if it's just loose ends - the dangling plot ends don't seem to add up to enough to fill a full episode, but seem to be too much to be a deliberately open-ended episode, if that makes sense.

I watch it for the characters and not the plot, anyway - we've guessed whodunnit before the reveal in every ep so far. :D

* I accept that in TV-Land, DNA results come back when it's convenient to the plot, not several months later, but I still squirm when grainy film footage is enhanced to show detail not present on the original.

I always watch mysteries and cop shows for the characters, not for the plots.

* On Criminal Minds, the serial killers invariably begin escalating and decompensating right before the third commercial break.

You might find this interesting - the character who has three ex-wives is friends with all of them, and they're all friends with each other. XD

I spent part of the afternoon reading through the archives at awfulplasticsurgery.com and it was SO NICE to go to episodes of a show where the late-40s/early50s female lead LOOKED LIKE IT. (Maybe she's had work, but if so it's subtle and good.) And she's treated as a sexual being, both desiring and desired.