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icepixieI 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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Date: 2009-08-07 05:06 am (UTC)I did exactly the same thing a few weeks ago! It's amazing what I can hear now! Um, perhaps we should replace our headphones more often...
Ha, you discovered Spaced too? I've only made it through the first few episodes so far, and... yeah, it's not quite doing it for me. Fits and starts. But if it truly does get better as it goes along... perhaps I'll stick with it.
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Date: 2009-08-07 05:26 am (UTC)There are drums on my favorite Patty Griffin song! I did not know this!
Um, perhaps we should replace our headphones more often...
Perhaps? I was tempted by the earbuds for small ears I saw at Target, but decided I was too conventional for that and went with the regular headset flavor. Which I will perhaps replace sooner than 2019.
Ha, you discovered Spaced too? I've only made it through the first few episodes so far, and... yeah, it's not quite doing it for me. Fits and starts. But if it truly does get better as it goes along... perhaps I'll stick with it.
The one with the zombies was a definite movement in the right direction, and then the one where they rescue their dog totally sold me on it. I mean...it's still a show that would probably be better processed under the influence of psychoactive drugs, but I enjoy it. And the end of the season finale was really cute.
I hear the DVDs have an "Homage-O-Meter" in the subtitles that I will have to check out when S2 ships. (Alas, I had already packed up my S1 DVD before I read that...but I think I got most of them anyway.) Perhaps it would help explain some of the more surreal bits?