Aesthetic observation of fall TeeVee

[meganbmoore]

Or at least,onces I've checked out/plan to check out.

Ones I'm watching:

Revenge:  Blonde leading lady.  (Character is bottle blonde, unless she was dying itdark as a teen.  No idea about the actress.)  All but 1 supporting female character is brunette. Other is blonde.

Ringer: Blonde leading lady in dual role.   All but 1 supporting female character is brunette. Other is a redhead.

Once Upon A Time:  Blonde leading lady.  All supporting female characters in pilot were brunette, except the grey haired granny.

Pan Am:  So far, the screen time is fairly evenly divided between the four leading ladies: 1 blonde, 2 brunette, 1 redhead.  However between being the new girl + the fairly central sister relationship + being 1/2 of the 2 romances the show is building up to = heavier narrative and POV focus the blonde, though not, so far, to the point of actua putting her forward as a corelead as opposed to part of an ensemble.

Shows I checked out but will not be watching more of unless people whose judgement I trust start consistently saying things about them that make me think I'll likethem more than what I hav seen would lead me to believe:

Grimm:  I think the main cast list onl has 1 female character, but I'm not sure if it's the aunt (bald) fiancee (I think light brown?) or the blonde monster lady.

Secret Circle:  Blonde female lead, other female characters in her age group brunette, I think both female characters in the older generation were blonde?

Show I intend to check out:

Homeland:  As I haven't watched it yet, I obviously don't know the full cast, but the female lead is blonde.

(The problem with Homeland is that I've heard a variety of things good and bad, but from all of them I get the feeling that I will desperately want Claire Danes's character to be right, but then that means I'll be wanting the male lead to be a traitor...)

Now, I quite like all the blondes I mentioned and a while back there were a bunch of ladies in various fandoms who were all blonde that I was seeing hated on all at once so I went and added "little blonde heroines" to my now-woefully-out-of-date interests in a fit of pique so I don't exactly have an issue with blondes, and I knowthere are other new shows where the female lead isn't blonde, but that's some trend there, at least in my viewing.  (Is this a trend that just mostly showed up in the shows more likely to interest me?  I remember last fall's new shows being more skewed towards brunettes, at least in the ones I checked out.  Though, were there any new shows beside Nikita and Undercovers last fall that I watched?  I actually can't remember now.)

TBH, I actually have no idea what I think of it beyond the normal going on about standards of beauty and such, I just notice these things...