TV Shows Watched 2023

1. Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama - My housemate wanted to watch this because Michael Sheen is in it. I don't even have that excuse, although it's always nice to see him in things. IDK I wasn't obsessively following the court case when it happened, but my boss kept giving us updates because she found it highly entertaining. I think it was just something silly to focus on to distract us all from the shit that's going on in the world. Anyway, the cast were great and it was highly entertaining. I don't think we were supposed to laugh as much as we did but it was kind of ridiculous.
2. Ghost Doctor - This is one I've been group watching with friends over the past few months. It was a lot of fun. A rather silly concept (brilliant surgeon is in a coma after an accident and haunts the hospital where his body is) with a surprising amount of heart to it. I enjoyed it.
3. Dragon Age: Absolution - I loved this! I don't know how well this would stand up if you haven't played the games. It's mostly a stand alone story with a few nods to previous canon. I, however, have played the games and they are pretty much my favourite game franchsise. So, yep, this was great. Very much in the vein of the games. Everyone is gay and it's delightful.
4. The Eclipse - This was okay. It was in a similar vein as Not Me in terms of being a BL drama about social justice, but it lacked the maturity and tight storyline that Not Me had. The two main leads were both excellent it just lost its way a bit towards the end. Still very enjoyable.
5. Welcome to Chippendales - Honestly this show wasn't even on my radar until Jacqui was looking for something to watch and saw it on Disney+. She told me she'd watched a documentary about the founder of Chippendales a while back and gave me a brief synopsis. It was such a wild story that I had to watch this. It was really good! The cast did a phenomenal job
6. About Youth - I'd had this recced to me a while back so when my Saturday group watch gang suggested we watch it I was all in. It was great! Incredibly sweet, occasionally heartbreaking. We all really enjoyed it.
7. Hotel del Luna - I enjoyed this a lot even though I cried WAY more than I was expecting to. I thought it was going to be a wacky comedy about ghosts, and there are lots of funny bits, but there's also a lot about death, grief and making peace with your life. I think I cried at least once in just about every episode. Do rec though. It was good.
8. Roommates of Poongduck 304 - This is one I started group watching before Christmas with some friends and never got around to finishing. It was cute. Nothing amazing, and not one I'd particularly want to watch again but it was fine.
9. Choco Milk Shake - I did enjoy this. It was very cute and funny in places. It was also WAY sadder than I was expecting and I ended up crying a lot. I wish they'd spent a little more time explaining the mechanics of everything (basic premise is a guy's childhood dog and cat come back in human form because he's lonely) and the ending was a little bittersweet. But overall I think I did enjoy it.
10. The Blood of Youth - I absolutely loved this! It had a lot of of the classic wuxia tropes in it, but an interesting enough story that I was hooked. The cast were great, the characters all had fantastic chemistry. I definitely want to check out some of the other dramas the lead has done because he was great.

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18. A League of Nobleman - This was fun. It was quite silly, buckets of queer subtext and some political intrigue thrown in for good measure. It wasn't particularly deep or heavy going but I enjoyed it a lot.

Some RL Stuff

Just got back from a week in Scotland for my dad's 70th and it was fine. There was only a small amount of bigotry from my dad, I had a nice walk on the beach with my mum, and my sister, my cousin, and me formed the 'below retirement age' contingent at my dad's party which was nice. Had a nice meal at my aunt's, got filled in on the village gossip and got to see the work my aunt's husband (is it weird that I don't call him my uncle? I knew him before they even started dating) is doing on the church he's renovating.

So, yeah, pleasant enough. I could have done without getting woken up at 6am every day by their dog barking and the fact that my dad hadn't fixed the blind in the guest room so the sunlight poured in (it's an attic room so no one can see in).

I am very much looking forward to my fandom treehouse vacation in a couple of weeks, though. I suspect that will be more restful since everyone seems to be in agreement that the plan is just to lay around and read or create fanworks. I, very foolishly, have decided to write what is shaping up to be a very long fic for an exchange I signed up for. It's already nearly 10k and I'm not even at the halfway point. So I'm trying not to panic and just work on it whenever I have time. So that's what I'll be doing on my vacation.

Work news we are back to recruiting but it's not as dire as it was last year. We've hired one dude who is due to start next week and the search goes on for a couple of temps we need to cover some secondments.

And this week I finally started Couch to 5k which I said I was going to do weeks ago. JFC I am way more out of shape than I realised. I didn't manage to finish the first session because everything hurt but I am not deterred. Doing something is better than doing nothing. I'll stick to the schedule of doing as much as I can 3 times per week and I know eventually it'll get easier.