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alias_sqbrImagine You and Me (aka Ozymandias and Sarah Connor in a love triangle with Gile's daughter, the casting was amusing :)): a very cute British lesbian romantic comedy. A little self consciously stagey (and...sentimental, I guess), as British romantic comedies can be sometimes, but sweet, and very sympathetic to all it's characters.
Parks and Recreation: I'm partway through Season 2, but have heard good things about later seasons. A good natured low key show about the Parks and Recreation department of a small town in the US. Gentle humour and, again, sympathetic to all it's characters, sets up what feel like typical "and then it all goes horribly wrong" painful sitcom situations and then things go in unexpected, less painful, and still funny directions. One of the few shows I can think of with a female protagonist that's not about having a female protagonist.
Meanwhile by Jason Shiga: a funny and clever choose your own adventure scifi comic. I got confused a bunch of times and chose the wrong page, in the end I read it cover to cover to catch all the pages I'd missed and felt like I'd missed part of the experince, but I still enjoyed it. A black and white version is available online, but there's something very satisfying about flipping the pages yourself, plus the art is prettier in the book.
Aya by Margauerite Abouet: A graphic novel about a young woman and her friends on the Ivory Coast. A little slice of life, I liked the characters and enjoyed seeing an insider's view of a country I know very little about, but it felt a little like Aya was being set up as better than her friends for being more interested in being upwardly mobile through academia. Maybe that's my own upward mobility guilt talking though :/
Parks and Recreation: I'm partway through Season 2, but have heard good things about later seasons. A good natured low key show about the Parks and Recreation department of a small town in the US. Gentle humour and, again, sympathetic to all it's characters, sets up what feel like typical "and then it all goes horribly wrong" painful sitcom situations and then things go in unexpected, less painful, and still funny directions. One of the few shows I can think of with a female protagonist that's not about having a female protagonist.
Meanwhile by Jason Shiga: a funny and clever choose your own adventure scifi comic. I got confused a bunch of times and chose the wrong page, in the end I read it cover to cover to catch all the pages I'd missed and felt like I'd missed part of the experince, but I still enjoyed it. A black and white version is available online, but there's something very satisfying about flipping the pages yourself, plus the art is prettier in the book.
Aya by Margauerite Abouet: A graphic novel about a young woman and her friends on the Ivory Coast. A little slice of life, I liked the characters and enjoyed seeing an insider's view of a country I know very little about, but it felt a little like Aya was being set up as better than her friends for being more interested in being upwardly mobile through academia. Maybe that's my own upward mobility guilt talking though :/
