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So this weekend in between making ALL THE JEWELLERY (and other stuff) I have been watching s2 of Utopia and s1 of Penny Dreadful (eps 1-6, anyway, so please no spoilers for last two episodes!).
I am enjoying Penny Dreadful an awful lot - everyone has ridiculous amounts of chemistry with everyone else, and somehow even Josh Hartnett is doing a good job. It is daft and over the top and incredibly bloody (seriously, so much blood) and OH MY LORD Billie Piper's accent is terrible, but everyone else is great and I love Vanessa and Caliban especially (Victor, however, IS A DICKHEAD). I am glad it is getting a second series.
I am not so sure I enjoyed Utopia. I appreciated certain things about it - it's very striking, and it's certainly a unique show and I do like conspiracies, but on the other hand it is very very bleak and Carvel - excuse me repeating myself - is such a dickhead. I think after episode 1 I hated him so much (although Tom Burke is still very good at looking wrecked and desperate) that it affected my enjoyment of the rest of the series. I didn't really recover from that. I felt quite distanced from it all as well, which may be partly down to the styling of the series. Still, it is very well written and I do like how they wrap things up in each series. After series 1 I couldn't really see what else they could do but having now watched it, it does seem to make perfect sense.
I am also watching The Honourable Woman at the moment but I have three episodes of that left so I will post at the end when I can say something other than asjf;jsd;flkds;lkg;ldkg; and why don't I own The Shadow Line yet?
(the answer to that, as usual, is that I keep forgetting to go and look for it in the shops)
I am enjoying Penny Dreadful an awful lot - everyone has ridiculous amounts of chemistry with everyone else, and somehow even Josh Hartnett is doing a good job. It is daft and over the top and incredibly bloody (seriously, so much blood) and OH MY LORD Billie Piper's accent is terrible, but everyone else is great and I love Vanessa and Caliban especially (Victor, however, IS A DICKHEAD). I am glad it is getting a second series.
I am not so sure I enjoyed Utopia. I appreciated certain things about it - it's very striking, and it's certainly a unique show and I do like conspiracies, but on the other hand it is very very bleak and Carvel - excuse me repeating myself - is such a dickhead. I think after episode 1 I hated him so much (although Tom Burke is still very good at looking wrecked and desperate) that it affected my enjoyment of the rest of the series. I didn't really recover from that. I felt quite distanced from it all as well, which may be partly down to the styling of the series. Still, it is very well written and I do like how they wrap things up in each series. After series 1 I couldn't really see what else they could do but having now watched it, it does seem to make perfect sense.
I am also watching The Honourable Woman at the moment but I have three episodes of that left so I will post at the end when I can say something other than asjf;jsd;flkds;lkg;ldkg; and why don't I own The Shadow Line yet?
(the answer to that, as usual, is that I keep forgetting to go and look for it in the shops)
