Being Human

A six part British series about a vampire, a werewolf and ghost living in a house together, and is basically a cross between Spaced and Ultraviolet, flipping from charming everyday-life humour to tense, whack you in the chest fantasy/horror/thriller/drama in turns.

Overall I really liked it, it was actually a thoughtful exploration of what it would really be like to be kind of dead and not human, but still..kind of human too (rather than "ooh, aren't vampires scary/sexy?" Which is not to say they weren't that too, sometimes :)). Gender roles were a bit skeevy in parts but didn't piss me off in the end as much as I thought they would. It was very intense and succinct, I think I would have enjoyed it more slightly more stretched out, as it was I had to take a break in the middle of every episode to climb down from the edge of my seat.

There is apparently a pilot with a slightly different cast.

Chuck

Just mainlined 2 seasons of Chuck.

This is sheer, unashamed geekboy wish fufillment. There were definitely real geeks involved with this, being a geek girl I didn't get all the references and found some of the gender stuff a bit skeevy, but still really enjoyed it. It's like tasty popcorn, not very deep or sustaining but fun and moreish (it made a very good antidote to "Being Human"!).

The premise: Chuck, a computer nerd who failed uni and works fixing computers in a Walmart Buy More inadvertently has all of the CIA and NSA's secrets downloaded into his brain and has to become a spy. With a hot CIA handler. Who he has to pretend to be going out with.

So there's wacky hiijinks at the Buy More with his coworkers, and thrills saving the world, and lots of adorkable flailing, and can't-break-protocol UST. Oh and LOTS of crack-tastic slashy and/or self indulgent cheese(*). *takes a moment to snicker to self about the final line of season 2*
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