Good God! A TV Show…

Blame it on my inner nerdiness or fortunate position of the constellations but I find TBBT hysterically funny. The casting is brilliant, the chemistry on screen — unmistakable, the scripts — pure joy. It’s one of those rare character-driven gems that lighten up your day after some TV show goes sour. I haven’t laughed that hard since IT Crowd (and with two seasons and 12 episodes total that was simply not enough).

The premise of the show is rather simplistic: The Nerd and The Nerdier roommates Leonard (IQ 173) and Sheldon (IQ 187) meet their new neighbour, pretty material girl Penny. The brainiacs have two friends: a horny engineer Howard Wolowitz and Raj, a cute astrophysicist who turns mute in front of girls. Leonard is less smart more social, so he immediately falls for Penny.

Ok, I can’t stand silent. I wanted to do a full size review but I am just not able to bear it.

Serena is plain annoying, not so bad herself as a character but the quest of bringing her on a level higher than Blair makes the sunny blonde almost intolerable.

Dan was so sweet and good he made my teeth hurt. Then the whole Georgina affair, the aspiring young b*tch Jenny setting a bad example worked as a makeover. Yet the good-boy-turned-bad overture to new subplot did nothing to improve Dan’s rating. And yet, and yet…

OMG, that’s Milo Ventimiglia in there, playing a bad boy! So cute And I thought I caught a glimpse of Masi Oka (Hiro from Heroes) when Rory visited Harvard. Had to check it on imdb – he used to be much thinner.

UPD: Jeez, the deceased Desperate Housewife (Brenda Strong) was there too.

UPD2: the crazy Mia from Californication is there, looking so innocent and helpless.

UPD3: Rory’s father new girl Sherry is Mädchen Amick who had a perfect b*tchy presence on Gossip Girl (playing a gold digger wife) and Californication.

It’s been a long, long time since I’ve read the last book (at the moment) in Sword of Truth (SoT) series. It was the 7^th or even 8^th, I think.

My feelings about the book were mixed. I loved me some fantasy back then. And it appeared to push all the right buttons. Behold:

1. Cute guy living in a forest who is destined to get the sword out of the stone and become a king for great things — check.
2. A seemingly harmless old man who is a mighty wizard in disguise — check.
3. A magic sword that is meant only for one person (guess who?) — check.
4. A pure evil that is a major peril to the kittens, dolphins and vicunas along with democracy and human rights all living things — check.
5. A pretty girl whose fate is intertwined with our hero’s and a miserable fate it is — check.
6. Dragons — what, only #6? How could I forget the dragons? — check.
7. Many other traditional things such as witches, trip to the underworld, evil kings and queens (or duchesses, I don’t remember exactly), curses, other magical artifacts, etc. — check.

Gilmore Girls caught my attention because I kept seeing references to it in various blogs.