TeeVee

Aside from 2 shows deciding to do really annoying things in their last 5 minutes (actually, pretty much the same annoying thing...) this was a good week of TV for me.

Call the Midwife: Season 1: CtM is a six-episode season (everything is wrapped up, but it was renewed for a second season) about midwives and nuns in London's East End in the 1950s. You wouldn't think that's a recipe for insta-awesome but it is. Not quite Bomb Girls levels of awesome, but it'll do. It's based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, who died last year. I can't speak for anyone else, but I always feel a bit awkward watching fiction about people who are still alive, or whose kids are still alive? I'm always afraid that they disapprove of the liberties that are no doubt taken. Hopefully Worth's kids are pleased with the result. BTW, this has possibly the best in-canon response to incest ever:

MIDWIVES: OMG THAT IS INCEST! IT IS SINFUL AND WRONG!

NUN: Theirs is a lifelong love that has surpassed endless hardships and you don't understand what they mean to each other HDU JUDGE THEM!!!"

(Nuns, why do you automatically make most fiction better? I mean, except when it's about how you/the church is awful and mean and resistrictive.)

The same episode may have involved necrocuddling. I figure people were duly scandalized especially as the show was playing it pretty clean and safe, despite some graphicness regarding medical proceedings. (If anything, my only real complaint about the show is how the bulk of cases wrap up so happily and tidily. Not that I WANT dead babies or women dying in childbirth flooding my screen it just felt like it was trying to pull the punches that you expect and brace yourself for given the premise.

Lost Girl 2.19:

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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries 1.4:

INSPECTOR CRANKYPANTS: We need to establish who wears the trousers in this relationship.
PHRYNE: *walks downstairs in trousers that probably cost more than he makes in a month*
INSPECTOR CRANKYPANTS and CONSTABLE: ... ... ...

Probably the best summary of that particular character dynamic.

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Nikita 2.16:

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Side note: Apparently, Maggie Q will be voicing Wonder Woman in Young JusticeI...may end up watching that.

Once Upon A Time 1.15: Only in this show would the phrase "Emma was my lemur!" come across as borderline romantic.

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Ringer 1.17:

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