entirely ruined her disposition with books

+ I watched the first episode of Capital Scandal, and while I liked the fierce little rebel girl school-teacher and definitely want to return to her story at some point, I decided I wasn't quite in the mood for that show right now. So:

+ I am about 15 minutes into City Hunter and my only response thus far is HOW ARE THE PRODUCTION VALUES SO GOOD? Seriously, this is gorgeous and so well-made so far! And it's moving so briskly! Sometimes I have a hard time getting into Kdramas (I tried Capital Scandal like twice before and for some reason I couldn't get pass the first five minutes--same with Coffee Prince, which I know I will watch and love at some point), but this is so attention-sucking, just right away! And it looks like a movie! It reminds me of how much better series 5 of Doctor Who looked than the ones before it. Production values on another level.

+ Happy Endings continues to be the best, and P&R was much better this week! Yay!

+ I just realized I haven't watched an episode of Pan Am since the girls went to Russia. Um...is that still a show? I haven't heard anyone talking about it lately. Did it get bad? Should I catch back up? I had such intense love for it at first and now I'm kind of meh.

+ I watched the first episode of Capital Scandal, and while I liked the fierce little rebel girl school-teacher and definitely want to return to her story at some point, I decided I wasn't quite in the mood for that show right now. So:

+ I am about 15 minutes into City Hunter and my only response thus far is HOW ARE THE PRODUCTION VALUES SO GOOD? Seriously, this is gorgeous and so well-made so far! And it's moving so briskly! Sometimes I have a hard time getting into Kdramas (I tried Capital Scandal like twice before and for some reason I couldn't get pass the first five minutes--same with Coffee Prince, which I know I will watch and love at some point), but this is so attention-sucking, just right away! And it looks like a movie! It reminds me of how much better series 5 of Doctor Who looked than the ones before it. Production values on another level.

+ Happy Endings continues to be the best, and P&R was much better this week! Yay!

+ I just realized I haven't watched an episode of Pan Am since the girls went to Russia. Um...is that still a show? I haven't heard anyone talking about it lately. Did it get bad? Should I catch back up? I had such intense love for it at first and now I'm kind of meh.

+ First of all, it is absolutely unacceptable that Dean Devlin keeps letting his writers write dialogue that keeps talking about the Donnelly boys. Every time he does it, I am plunged into despairing love for my prematurely cancelled show. Also, the Doctor Who reference was absolutely perfect. Leverage is such geeky love.

+ As happy as I am that Pan Am is back, I have two complaints: ( spoilers )

+ As for Shameless, ( spoilers )

+ Y'all, this episode of The Good Wife was so delightful! ( spoilers )

“In 1955 Pan American World Airways began recruiting Japanese American women to work as stewardesses on its Tokyo-bound flights and eventually its round-the-world flights as well. Based in Honolulu, these women were informally known as Pan Am’s ‘Nisei’—second-generation Japanese Americans—even though not all of them were Japanese American or second-generation. They were ostensibly hired for their Japanese-language skills, but few spoke Japanese fluently. This absorbing account of Pan Am’s’“Nisei’ stewardess program suggests that the Japanese American (and later other Asian and Asian American) stewardesses were meant to enhance the airline’s image of exotic cosmopolitanism and worldliness. As its corporate archives demonstrate, Pan Am marketed itself as an iconic American company pioneering new frontiers of race, language, and culture. [This is] the story of an unusual personnel program implemented by an American corporation intent on expanding and dominating the nascent market for international air travel. That program reflected the Jet Age dreams of global mobility that excited postwar Americans, as well as the inequalities of gender, class, race, and ethnicity that constrained many of them.” – the blurb for Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways by Christine Reiko Yano

( check out the casting )