Watching Monday

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Sleepy Hollow
AHHHHH FINALE.

I love how this show gives Andy such stereotypical Nice Guy/abuser dialogue. It's such a great deconstruction of the idea that it's okay to stalk/harass/bother women because you love them so much. Also, man, Abbie has a nice house.
Poor Frank Irving! I'm not sure what DNA you could possibly get in a broken-neck case (fingerprints seem more likely, though still not very realistic), especially not DNA you couldn't explain by Macey having hugged the priest or something similar. And that's assuming the results didn't come out as magic demon DNA! But Irving confessing is good for drama and angst, so I'm willing to go with it.
JENNNNNNNNNNNY. Abbie/Jenny hugs! The dollhouse! Jenny figuring out the 'saint's name'!
Ichabod gets new clothes! ...that are exactly the same as his old clothes. Whatever, the re-enactors are hilarious.
ZOMBIE GEORGE WASHINGTON. This show is amazing. ZOMBIE GEORGE WASHINGTON. And his tomb is so National Treasure-esque!
Ichabod burning the Purgatory map and then immediately re-drawing it is kinda weak, dude.
Purgatory! OMG CORBIN AND ANDY AND APPLE PIE HAPPY TIMES!! Ichabod's dad angst! (I totally want more backstory about the whole dis-owning thing.) Abbie volunteering to stay! SUPER INTENSE ICHABOD/ABBIE HUGS YES GOOOOOOD.
Katrina's reaction to being in the real world again was very sweet.
Abbie's dollhouse in purgatory! I LOVE IT.
Super dramatic reveal about Henry! OMG YES. I feel like I need to rewatch all his episodes to catch any clues. I didn't see this coming at all, but I love it.
And every single character is trapped for a super dramatic cliffhanger ending! So good.


American Horror Story: Coven
The silent movie at the beginning was cool! The Queenie/Papa Legba stuff was also quite good, though I feel like we've spent an entire season following Lalaurie just to end up back in the exact same place as she started. What was the point of that? Literally nothing changed. Is Fiona really dead? It seems like an odd choice to kill off the closest thing you have to a main character off-screen. I think she'll be back for the finale.

Leverage
"The Ice Man Job": I love Hardison's British accent! I love his ugly, in-character clothes. I love him talking to his fancy car. I love him getting kidnpped, and the others having to break in for him, I LOVE him and Eliot pretending to get into a fistfight, and Eliot pretending to refuse to rescue him. I really like Nate's phone call to Sophie at the end; I thought it did a fantastic job of showing that struggle between wanting to respect someone's privacy and wanting to be more intimate. And then the next episode sort of contradicted that entirely, but whatever.
"The Lost Heir Job": Did Nate seriously fly to London to have a not-even-five-minute conversation, and then fly back to Boston the same day? I mean, I guess he doesn't have to worry about money, but good lord that's a lot of time to spend on a plane. Maybe he bought first class tickets. I loved Parker as the heir– "We're gonna go get meth". I loved Hardison's PTSD prison guard,
"The Runway Job": OMG AMAZING. Guyliner! Eliot as fashion consultant because of his model girlfriends! Parker as a runway model!
"The Bottle Job": I love the homage to The Sting. I love the fake snowstorm and Hardison's weather broadcast. I love the "I haven't used that in months." "We've been the good guys longer than that." "Well, we had a break."
"The Zanzibar Marketplace Job": It's like the fairy market in Rivers of London! I love Hardison trying to teach Parker how to be a tourist. I love that Sterling apparently came equipped with his own Powerpoint presentation. I LOVE Parker's fugitive bag for Maggie. I love Hardsion in the van complaining about how he never gets to eat canapés. Of course, watching anything set it Kiev is a bit depressing currently.
"The Future Job": Oh god, poor Parker. That scene was perfect and painful. I love her wanting to kill the psychic and Eliot offering to do it. I love Tara's hippie outfit. Hardison's gummy frogs!
"The Three Strikes Job": OMG ELIOT'S JAPANESE COMMERCIAL. Eliot being so into his new baseball career! Poor Hardison, blowing up his van. But the hostage trick was very clever.
"The Maltese Falcon Job": I love both Eliot and Parker checking out naked Tara! I love Nate racing the elevator! "Briny despair"! Creepy killer Hardison with an Irish accent (HOT)! Parker almost throwing Tara off the building!
(I've only finished the second season, so no spoilers past that, please.)

Comments

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

I loved Parker getting pissed that Hardison was claiming credit for her thefts!
The PTSD prison guard thing was glorious. GLO-RI-OUS.
A runway model who falls down and ruins some guy's big day. I felt bad for him (I like to pretend the crew went back and fixed that, but they probably didn't). Also loved Hardison wanting to meet some of the designers.
Hardsion faking a weather forecasting in under five minutes is a thing of beauty, especially the mix up with the sides of the map.
Parker's friendship with Maggie is one of my favourite bits of background detail on Leverage. And of course Sterling has his own presentation; Of course. (I kind of want the Rivers of London/leverage crossover now. Or Neverwhere/leverage, there's a similar concept in Neverwhere. Possibly it is also the fic where they are all magicians?)
Parker's pain in that scene was so believable, I'm tearing up just thinking about it.
Eliot loving his Japanese commercial is the best thing! And the fake rumour and he calling radiobroadcasts and PArker speaking Spanish.
I loved both the naked Tara scene and Parker's matter-of-fact "she was naked" later on. And Nate racing up the stairs to stall Sterling.

THIS SHOW IT IS THE SHOW THAT ALWAYS PUTS SMILE ON MY FACE

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

I need to rewatch all of Sleepy Hollow. At least there's plenty of time to do it *head desk*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ha, I've already watched most of the episodes more than once, because I like to watch them with friends in different time zones. But eight months is plenty of time to watch them all yet again!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yes, I loved Parker getting annoyed!
Ah, the thing with the designer's show- I suppose I assumed that what the models at a show do don't actually have too much effect on how popular/well-received a line is. Though granted, I know pretty much nothing about high fashion! Although I can also imagine how something odd like a model collapsing might get you more attention, and thus end up being a good thing for your line.
I forgot about the market in Neverwhere! I suppose it's a fairly common concept. (I totally want that crossover too!)
And yes! Hardison and Parker starting the rumor on the radio show was amaaazing.

[shifty-gardener.livejournal.com]

I was very skeptical about the DNA on the dead guy, as well, and I don't understand why the disabled preteen was their primary suspect? Ah well, I've forgiven larger plot holes for this show. The ridiculousness is charming, at this point. :)

I thought Crane was going to take a picture of the map with the phone he'd badgered Abbie into lending him. I hope the trust thing between Ichabod and Abbie is tested and explored more next season, because I feel like while they're both really important to one another, Crane DOES do things more out of his own self-interest and gets away with it because Abbie emotionally needs him more than he needs her/generally does a little more in the relationship. I'll have to rewatch the season to see if I really feel this way, of course. Admittedly I've been watching Elementary lately and most relationships don't feel very solid in comparison to Joan and Sherlock's.

All of the Jenny was, indeed, pretty awesome :D

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ha, seriously. If they needed to do the "Macey is a suspect" plotline, then I think they should have the used the video surveillance we saw set up to have footage of her. I suppose Frank wouldn't have been able to claim responsibility then... maybe just enough video footage to show no one else coming in or out of the house?

I agree with you about the trust. It hasn't bothered me too much, because there's only been 13 episodes and there's been so many other issues to deal with, but I really would like to see that taken up next season.

I love Jenny!