“Sherlock”, the new BBC series. It was good, I enjoyed it very much. Sherlock portrayed as a sociopath with entertaining eccentricities was fun – I particularly loved when he was watching daytime tv. Watson was well-cast. Overall the move to the 21st century worked quite well.

“The Young Victoria”, the movie about young Queen Victoria. I’ve been wanting to see this for ages, so I almost leaped for joy when I saw it at Redbox. The costumes are beautiful, the actors playing Victoria and Albert both well-cast and talented, and the story was lovely. Highly enjoyable movie. Squee-worthy love scenes, in that corsets and petticoats kind of way, which I love. Lots of lovely actors: Paul Bettany (who I often recognize by his voice first, because hair and makeup often make him look so very different), Jim Broadbent, Mark Strong, Miranda Richardson, Harriet Walter. They do gloss over historical events, in the way film and tv always does, and invent one in particular, but I still really enjoyed it.

“Warehouse 13″ on the SciFi channel (I’m sorry, I refuse to use their ridiculous new misspelled name). Quite like this show. My mother is really into it, and I’ve caught a few episodes now. May have to go back and watch from the beginning.

Zahi Hawass’s “reality” show. This one cracks me up. He’s a well-known dickhead among archaeologists, and it’s hilarious to see him faking archaeology (seriously, no one believes you popped that out of the ground so easily, and by the way, you’d be wearing gloves if that were real) and yelling at fake grad students (who all have acting credits on IMDb) such gems as “You will never work for me again!” The fake grad students ask the dumbest-ass questions. The whole thing is just so very stupid that I think it’s awesome. The sheer weight of epic fail tips over into win, much like the Black Pearl righting itself to emerge from Davy Jones’ Locker.

The other thing that’s been on our tv (constantly) is the original Star Wars trilogy, which my kids are currently obsessed with, especially the AT-ATs, AT-STs, the Battle for Hoth, the Battle for Endor, exploding Death Stars, exploding AT-ATs/AT-STs, exploding X-wings, exploding speeders, and the Ewoks. They lay in their tauntaun sleeping bag (Husband’s bestie gave it to him) and watch. Over and over and over. I’m so tired of hearing about AT-ATs, y’all. And so tired of being lectured about Darth Vader. “He Luke’s dad, but now he a bad guy. He used to be a good guy, but then he was angry and did bad things, and now he on the Dark side of the Force.” There are Lego Jedi dying in my kitchen (Hoth) as we speak. Someone please make it stop.

Tues, 8pm, CBS: NCIS (and probably NCIS-LA afterward, though it’s not as good, and then the Good Wife)

Wed, 10pm, ABC: Eastwick

Thur, 8pm, Fox: Bones

Thur, 9pm, ABC: Grey’s Anatomy (and probably Private Practice afterward, though again, not as good)

Aside from that, I’ll be writing. It’s NaNoWriMo time again!

The aptly titled “Bizarre Foods”, or as I like to think of it, “Dude Eating Weird Shit”, is Andrew Zimmern’s show on the Travel channel. You’d think that watching a guy eating strange regional foods around the world wouldn’t be very interesting, bur it’s extremely watchable. Andrew is a personable guy and the gusto with which he eats weird shit is strangely endearing. He’s just so damn excited to try everything, and he likes almost everything. The overseas episodes are my favorites for the views, but the American episodes are fun too because who knows, maybe I’ll run across these foods one day.

Mike Rowe’s Dirty Jobs is on Discovery if I recall correctly, and is equally entertaining and very funny too. Mike cracks me up. This show is slightly more well-known I think, since I’d actually heard of it before. He is a very funny guy and clearly a good host too, it’s great how he interacts with the people whose jobs he’s showing that week. He says on one episode, “We did research, and you guys will watch anything.” Yep, we will, if Mike’s snarky commentary is involved