I bought a new pair of headphones yesterday. They are replacing the old ones, which are at least seven years old by now and probably more like ten, and which finally died the other day. (Well, if I get the angle of the jack juuuust right I can hear out of both ears, but it's become more trouble than $10 for a new pair is worth to me.) Anyway, with the new headphones, I discovered some songs I acquired relatively recently (like, within the past year) have bass parts. Who knew! Apparently my old ones had been cutting out anything below a certain hertz. It's like getting new songs for free!
Cheap thrills, folks, cheap thrills.
ANYWAY. I watched the first season of Spaced tonight. (It's a British show; the seasons are only seven episodes long, and apparently there were only two of them. Boo.) I admit, the first couple episodes, I was sort of, "Uhhh...this is weird and not entirely funny," but by the third episode, something clicked and I was really enjoying it. And that last episode, particularly the bit at the end with Daisy and Tim dancing? AWWWWW. I'm a complete sucker for the relationship-of-convenience trope, but those two are completely charming even without it.
I maintain that it's very much like an urban, British version of Corner Gas with an actual romantic plot. So, uh, not much like CG at all, except for the similar style, with the cutaways to imagined scenes and continuous comic book/sci-fi references. My other thought was that it's a version of Friends with dorks, but I haven't seen more than about half an episode of Friends, so I'm not sure about that comparison. It does kind of feel more like "Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson Make a Sitcom" than an actual sitcom, but I think that's because a.) the actors are obviously enjoying it so much that it comes through even when the characters aren't necessarily supposed to be happy at the moment, and b.) the stylization of it, with everything that happens being over-dramatized for comic effect.
At any rate, I'm definitely looking forward to S2.Although I could live without Martha.
Cheap thrills, folks, cheap thrills.
ANYWAY. I watched the first season of Spaced tonight. (It's a British show; the seasons are only seven episodes long, and apparently there were only two of them. Boo.) I admit, the first couple episodes, I was sort of, "Uhhh...this is weird and not entirely funny," but by the third episode, something clicked and I was really enjoying it. And that last episode, particularly the bit at the end with Daisy and Tim dancing? AWWWWW. I'm a complete sucker for the relationship-of-convenience trope, but those two are completely charming even without it.
I maintain that it's very much like an urban, British version of Corner Gas with an actual romantic plot. So, uh, not much like CG at all, except for the similar style, with the cutaways to imagined scenes and continuous comic book/sci-fi references. My other thought was that it's a version of Friends with dorks, but I haven't seen more than about half an episode of Friends, so I'm not sure about that comparison. It does kind of feel more like "Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson Make a Sitcom" than an actual sitcom, but I think that's because a.) the actors are obviously enjoying it so much that it comes through even when the characters aren't necessarily supposed to be happy at the moment, and b.) the stylization of it, with everything that happens being over-dramatized for comic effect.
At any rate, I'm definitely looking forward to S2.
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