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[the_rck]

Scott got kind of sick last night. I was wondering if he'd make it to work this morning, but he did. His work called at 10:30 last night, wanting him to go in at 3:00. We didn't answer the phone because we suspected it was them, and he was feeling so terrible that getting only two hours of sleep would have been even more horrific.

I've finished watching all the episodes of Good Eats that Netflix has available streaming, and I'm almost done with The Magic School Bus, too. I think I'll try season 3 of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries next. I have no idea what to do after that. Cordelia wants me to go on with Once Upon a Time, but I'm very thoroughly stalled on that. I think the only way I can go forward with OUaT is if I start watching partial episodes and skipping around. Cordelia will be very displeased with me.

I'm going to have to renew pretty much all of the books I have due back to the library tomorrow. I'm midway through three of them and unlikely to finish before we go to the library tomorrow, and I haven't so much as opened the others. I like all three of the ones I'm in the middle of and want to finish them, and I'd like to at least try the other books. Of course, I've got about twenty holds waiting to be picked up, so I sort of feel like I should return as many things as possible, so maybe I should put some of these romances back on my list of things to try and just return them.

I need to see if I can persuade Scott to figure out what the problem is with the Apple TV. (I think he knows but thinks it's too much trouble to deal with.) I'd like to be able to play YouTube stuff there while I do other things with my laptop. YouTube has been balking a lot for me recently and insisting, halfway through videos, that I need Flash in order to go on. I actually rather like not having Flash working, except for the problems with YouTube; it means that a lot of annoying things just don't show up on my screen. It is possible to play stuff on Scott's laptop or one of the iPads and have it appear on the TV, but I don't know how to do that. I might be able to figure it out, but the iPad puts itself to sleep every three minutes when all it's doing is playing a YouTube video, and Scott couldn't figure out a way around that. I'd really rather not fiddle with Scott's laptop when he's not around. I don't know that he'd mind, but it feels like a violation of his privacy in a way that using the iPad doesn't.

I keep telling Cordelia to get me up before she goes to school so that I can put the steroidal cream on her back. She nods and then doesn't do it. She also doesn't try to put it on by herself. She's just decided that she'd rather skip the morning application altogether than get me up. I'm not sure if she's worried about my health or if she just doesn't want me around to interrupt her bit of morning solitude. I probably ought to start setting an alarm of my own so that I get up independent of her. I think the medication will work much better if applied as prescribed.

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[evalerie.livejournal.com]

Have you watched Gilmore Girls? I am not sure if it's up your alley. It's about this mom who is 32 now, and had a daughter when she was 16, so now the daughter is 16. They live in a tiny town called Stars Hollow that is full of eclectic characters. The daughter is a great student and gets in to a fancy private school, so the mom has to ask her rich parents if they will pay the daughter's tuition. They say yes, but on the condition that the mom and daughter come to dinner at their house every week. There is pretty much *zero* violence in the show, and lots of lively dialog. Arlo says that the people yell at each other a lot, though, and I guess he's right, so I don't know if that would be something you wanted to watch. I really like that everybody has good motivation for the things that they do (except for season seven, after the network fired the show's creator and the new writers didn't know what they were doing), so they are all trying hard to be good people and make the right choices, and it's just that they have different values and different ideas of what the right things are. Anyway, I don't know if you would want to watch this show, but because of the zero violence I thought it might be a possibility, so I figured I would suggest it.

[the_rck]

I have not watched Gilmore Girls. I generally stick with fantasy and SF type shows, but I occasionally branch out, so it seems worth trying, especially right now.

[carbonel]

I've been watching Gilmore Girls with lydy. We're only partway into the second season, but we're enjoying it. It's not SF or fantasy, but it does have its moments of magical realism -- no small town is really like that.

You might give Rosemary and Thyme a try if British TV is at all your thing. (They're gardeners! They solve crimes!) The plots aren't much, but the gardening portions are fun, and Felicity Kendal is always a plus. ETA: And it's available from Netflix via streaming.

[the_rck]

I watched Rosemary and Thyme a while back and really enjoyed it-- It's so rare to see a show with older female characters front and center and not at all made fun of that I'd have loved it for that alone, but I liked the gardening and the acting and all of that. It's on my list of things I might watch again if I don't find new to me things to watch.

Thanks for the additional information on Gilmore Girls!

[carbonel]

Netflix recently suggested that I might like a British detective show called Vexed that's available for streaming. Definitely not my cup of tea because it's too far over on the comedy side of things, but possibly worth your consideration.

Oh, and have you tried Call the Midwife? The fourth season has just become available for streaming.

There are many other things I loved that I had to acquire by, um, more informal means, like Scott & Bailey and The Bletchley Circle, though the latter is quite dark. I don't know enough about your tastes to calibrate further recommendations.

[the_rck]

I tend to be on the lighter side of things for mystery series. I liked Murder, She Wrote and Monk and Psych (though I often cringed in expectation of the main character's lies coming crashing down). When things are funny, I prefer that they not cross over into being mean.

I enjoyed the adaptation of Nero Wolfe with Timothy Hutton as Archie.

I can't handle any of the Law and Order series or NCIS or anything like that.

I also liked the TV adaptation of the Ladies' No. 1 Detective Agency. I think I liked that better than the books.

I like a lot of shows that are on the borderline between mystery and other genres. Things like The Librarians and Warehouse 13, for example. Leverage and The Pretender and even Burn Notice (though I really did not like the last season at all).

When I was a kid, my family used to watch an adaptation of Ellery Queen that I haven't been able to track down. We watched it in the 1970s, so I assume that's when it was made. It wasn't airing at a time that would be likely for an old show in reruns. Then again, I have a vague impression that it may have been in black and white, so it could have been a decade older.

Remington Steele was the first 'adult' show that my mother let me watch regularly without her supervision, so I have a fond spot for that in my memory. I missed the final season completely for some reason (maybe that's when I went away to college?), and I have the impression that that was all for the best.

I think that I don't have much patience for the world weary and cynical detective, be they amateur or police. I want people who actually like other people.

I will take a look at Vexed. Maybe it will be my sort of thing. Looking at my list above, I think I definitely tend toward the humorous side of things.