Small screen suggestions?

[mrissa]

I watch a bunch of TV to get me through my workouts, and right now I don’t have a default thing of the right length that I’ve got momentum on, so I thought I would take the opportunity to ask for recommendations. I’ll list a bunch of things I’m in some sense “currently in the middle of,” and you can either suggest other stuff you think I might like or else ask what I like about the things I’ve listed. I am not current on anything: I watch DVDs or Netflix, so “current season” stuff will be spoilers for me.

Oh, and: I am a tough sell for sexual violence. It’s not a hard, fast line for me–for example, I watch Criminal Minds–but it’s pretty easy to hit my “this is no fun any more and I’m taking my marbles and going home” threshold on things like a certain popular soapy historical drama this season.

Shows I’m watching: Arrow, Avatar: The Legend of Korra, The Bletchley Circle, Elementary, The Good Wife, House of Cards, Inspector Lewis, The Killing, The Mentalist, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Ripper Street, Scandal, Sherlock, White Collar.

I am not at all limited to English language stuff, but the pacing of 22-minute episodes has to hit me right–some anime does and some doesn’t. Almost no live-action English-language stuff does. 55-minute shows can work, but they frustrate me because they’re pretty much exactly the wrong length for what I need for workouts. 40-to-44 are great, as are the 80-to-90 blocks.

Thoughts?

Originally published at Novel Gazing Redux

Comments

[laurel]

Jason Isaacs stars in it along with Amanda Abbington. Isaacs plays Jackson Brodie, a cop turned private investigator. Based on a series of books by Kate Atkinson. I actually haven't finished season two yet since I heard they aren't gonna do a third season. Silly, I know, but now I'm dragging it out. Though it can be rather grim, the soundtrack is excellent. Jackson seems prone to stumbling on cases involving violence to women and he's mostly surrounded by women in his personal life as well. (Here's a list of songs featured in season one.) I thought I read somewhere that the DVD set doesn't use the same music as the show did when it aired, which would be a shame.

PBS site for the show (I don't think season two hasn't aired on PBS yet.)
BBC website for the show
Kate Atkinson's pages about Jackson Brodie

I love The Hour more, but when I see all the fanatical fans of Sherlock, it makes me wish a few of them supported British shows like The Hour and Case Histories and likely others I don't know that could use the help in order to get more episodes ordered.

I realized I neglected to mention Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies in my previous post, which are both excellent fun.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The library has some. Hurrah.