Aesthetic observation of fall TeeVee

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were all blonde that I was seeing hated on all at once so I went and added "little blonde heroines" to my now-woefully-out-of-date interests in a fit of pique so I don't exactly have an issue with blondes, and I knowthere are other new shows where the female lead isn't blonde, but that's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...

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Guys, did Lost Girl 2.6 ever actually air?  I feel the last I heard on the episode was the cast being on Twitter and being all "WTF guys we're sorry they told us it would air tonight and then it didn't!"

Var. Georgette Heyer mysteries

Georgette Heyer's mysteries are really not particularly good. They aren't as bad as I've heard some say they are, either. They exist in that realm of "entertaining, but stick with your strength." They're all English Country House mysteries in which everyone hates hates hates the victim (who deserves it) and most suspects are relatives. They're also very prone to making sure that, in the romantic plotlines, we realize that the guy is way way smarter than the girl. The romantic plotlines are also of the Sekritly In Love With (For Years) variety at times. Most books follow the same formula pretty closely, and they're entertaining. Though Heyer's formula is pretty standard for the time, but...well...I like the formula for manor house mysteries of the time. That said, Heyer is rather awkward with people of her own time, and the dialogue sometimes reads as if she's having to write people of her own time, not the Regency or Georgian eras. Actually, I sometimes pretended that somehow cars and telephones were in the early 19th century.

 

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