Looking for new Netflix series
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dreamsharkMy current obsession is Mad Men, but I'm caught up through Season 3, which I guess means I'll have to wait another YEAR to see Season 4 *sob*. I'd like to see the second season of Dollhouse, but apparently it's not released yet.
We finally finished Veronica Mars. I gave Gilmore Girls a try, as it has been recommended by several people. I was disappointed - I couldn't even make it quite to the end of the pilot. I found it teeth-achingly cutesy with a nasty aftertaste.
This left me idly wondering why, if that's the way I feel, I liked Northern Exposure so much yet disliked this show so immediately and intensely. Like Gilmore Girls, Northern Exposure was a show built around a not entirely likable protagonist plopped into the middle of a town full of over-the-top Quirky Supporting Characters. However, in Northern Exposure the QSPs were mostly pretty likable. And their quirkiness, while not exactly subtle, was introduced gradually as the first season evolved. None of them were just walking caricatures, like the Accident Prone Cook, or the Snooty French Hotel Clerk, or the Health Nut Diner Employee who spends all day trying to discourage customers from consuming anything sold at his diner. Even in the sitcom world you have to wonder how these people keep their jobs.
But my main problem is Lorelei. I am neither amused nor charmed by adult women who act like children, in fiction or real life. I'm pretty sure that we're supposed to see her as flawed but nonetheless adorable. I didn't. In fact, I found her relationship with her daughter to be intensely creepy. I realize that there are mothers in this world that are no more mature than the children they are supposed to be raising, but I don't find them cute. So.... no. I sent the disc back largely unwatched.
Maybe I'll just queue up another disk of Northern Exposure. We've been watching that on Netflix off and on, and it holds up surprisingly well.
We finally finished Veronica Mars. I gave Gilmore Girls a try, as it has been recommended by several people. I was disappointed - I couldn't even make it quite to the end of the pilot. I found it teeth-achingly cutesy with a nasty aftertaste.
This left me idly wondering why, if that's the way I feel, I liked Northern Exposure so much yet disliked this show so immediately and intensely. Like Gilmore Girls, Northern Exposure was a show built around a not entirely likable protagonist plopped into the middle of a town full of over-the-top Quirky Supporting Characters. However, in Northern Exposure the QSPs were mostly pretty likable. And their quirkiness, while not exactly subtle, was introduced gradually as the first season evolved. None of them were just walking caricatures, like the Accident Prone Cook, or the Snooty French Hotel Clerk, or the Health Nut Diner Employee who spends all day trying to discourage customers from consuming anything sold at his diner. Even in the sitcom world you have to wonder how these people keep their jobs.
But my main problem is Lorelei. I am neither amused nor charmed by adult women who act like children, in fiction or real life. I'm pretty sure that we're supposed to see her as flawed but nonetheless adorable. I didn't. In fact, I found her relationship with her daughter to be intensely creepy. I realize that there are mothers in this world that are no more mature than the children they are supposed to be raising, but I don't find them cute. So.... no. I sent the disc back largely unwatched.
Maybe I'll just queue up another disk of Northern Exposure. We've been watching that on Netflix off and on, and it holds up surprisingly well.
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Date: 2010-06-28 04:39 pm (UTC)