Round the twist

I could say 'they don't make them like this anymore' but they might. How would I know? Alls I watch is The Hills and The Wire (I refuse to watch any program without a definite article in it). I have seen bits of Raven (that is because I fancy the half crow/half man Raven. Only when he's a crow though obviously*). Still though, they really don't make them like this anymore do they? Do you remember the one where she fell in love with a merman but he wasn't quite a merman yet and he had to wear white gloves to hide his scales and then dived into the sea at the end after they kissed for the first time and it was sad. I do. That was so sad.

On a brighter note, the song is officially the best.


*This is a joke. I'm not some kind of sick bird lover. I like them a normal and healthy amount.

Knot's Landing

So, I was gonna do this thing about how the sound of a sax playing soft jazz makes me feel like I'm wearing leggings and a scrunchie, sat next to my mum on a patterned sofa with her permed hair and face adorned with Deidre Barlow glasses about to watch this. It's a very visceral Proustian rush. I can see the wicker furniture and word processor left open on the dining room table. I smell an M&S lasagne bubbling away in the oven. Even just the 'woooooah' of the 'O' flying over your head and through your tv makes me feel very safe and secure in a little 3 bed semi detached house in a provincial english town. However, 21 seconds in and this happens:


and now I'm back down that darned rabbit hole.

Sorry. What? Alec Baldwin used to be in Knot's Landing? Not MY Alec Baldwin though right? Some other Alec Baldwin surely? There's enough Baldwin brothers that one of them must have been named Alec again after they got through all the other names in the baby book and had to start the naming process again, RIGHT?

NO?!?!

How do I remember everyone else face but never remember him being in it (who could forget Constance McCashin though? Let's be serious about this).

This guy is not a forgettable guy

why has my mind blocked him from this show, the show that along with Moonlighting and Perfect Strangers, makes me feel like a child again (it is possible I was one of those indoorsy type kids).

This is my boyfriend Alec Baldwin, the one I'm going to marry when he gives up acting and becomes a househusband (I am not so sure about the 'mommy works' part of the equation but I'm sure we will figure it out. Our love is strong). How could I not know about this?

Kids, mommy needs a lie down in a darkened room. No no, leave the picture. I'll erm... keep it safe.

P.S. What or where is a Knot's Landing? No one ever explained that to me.

Veronica Mars

If you call this 'tv for girls' I will kick you in the face (I probably won't kick you in the face, I do yoga sporadically and even then - chubby girls ain't never gonna make it as ninjas). This rivals The Wire for characterisation, overall story telling and being honest. Though, maybe not 'honest' in the way The Wire is (i.e. 'this shit actually goes down'). I don't know of too many high schools that have motorcycle gang leaders from the wrong side of the tracks AS WELL AS the offspring of famous movie stars but then, I don't know many high schools full stop. I live in a provincial town on the south coast of England. For all I know Baltimore is in fact all white picket fences and ticker tape parades rather than drug dealers and violent crime. What the fuck do I know you know?

Fact is. I love this show. And I love the titles. Fits 'like a glove' as Ace Ventura would say (1994 called, they want their pop culture reference back)

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

Simple but efffective and Leonard Rossiter gets his kit off. All topped off with a 1970's 'plinkplonk' noise at the end (there is no sound so 1970's as the BBC 'plinkplonk' noise. Deal with it Rick Wakeman). Could you want for anything else?

Maybe this:


I bloody love Cinzano Bianco. Maybe even as much as I love Joan Collins (which is a lot).

True Blood

Even if my boyfriend hates it, I think the opening title sequence is stunning. Is a little saucy.

Moonlighting

Ain't nothing like a slow jam from Al Jarreau.


I have no idea what half these images have to do with a sparky comedy-drama detective show. Barring the ones that actually contain the stars of said show of course.

Mad Men

Another awesome one. Like the show itself, they's just don't make tv art of this quality enough.

However, 'embedding disabled by request' being the bane of my existence it won't let me post anything more than a link so you get two for the price of one with The Simpsons version as well (embedding also disabled by request, who knew this would one day be a sentence with meaning?) which, it has to be said, is as good if not better.

Even though I hate The Simpsons nowadays being, as it is, an unfunny pale imitation of its former self.

Which reminds me too much of myself for me to be comfortable watching it.