Tonight on WTTW and tonight on YOUR PBS station too or very soon hereafter and also on DVD. Watch the trailer.

I have loved this play since it's original pre-production album. I can sing every part and often have. I kind of wish I could play the Arbiter because he is such a badass. I saw the touring production of it years ago in the late-80s after it had bombed on Broadway and undergone a lot of changes, and it was excellent.

Love, love, love. The trailer's great; I hope they do the whole show proud.

Here I am in the post-Battlestar Galactica era of my TV watching, and I thought it would be a good time to review everything I’m watching right now.

Unlike many (and like many), I loved the end of the BSG series. I did have a few issues with the last hour, but my perspective is that it was true to the show-runner’s vision and those issues didn’t bother me enough to spoil the show. Others differ. That’s fine. This seems always to be true – things I completely adore have a strong, loud contingent of People Who Hate It. Wev.

But this is NOT about BSG!  This is about all the rest.

So TV is good right now in Jenna-land. What are you watching?

So Dollhouse seems to have found its level which is "good but not by Buffy/Firefly standards." In other words, good for a show not created by the guy who brought us those two shows. Grading on a curve, it is an okay, watchable show by someone who can do much better. I was discussing this with a friend and we've agreed that this is largely a casting problem. Dushku is a perfectly fine actress, but she is not the actress to anchor this show. You know who would've been a great Echo? The actress who's playing Sierra. She shows fabulous range and a real chameleon-like quality in the few engagements we've seen her on. She's also riveting from the moment she comes on screen in the first episode. I like the show, but I'm kind of having to pretend it isn't a Joss Whedon show so the poorly thought-out/executed details do not drive me crazy. This last week we DID get a locational reference, so we at last have evidence that an engagement took place outside of LA County. That's kind of nice.

 

I just finished watching Prayers for Bobby which I'd DVR'd a week ago when it was on Lifetime. I spent a good third of it sobbing. I don't cry for-real very often over tv, movies, books, etc. (sniffle or tear-up but don't actually cry) -- so when I do, you know its a real gut-kicker.  It is free to watch on the Lifetime website if you missed it, and Sigourney Weaver is just wonderful in it.

Also on tap at ABC this spring:

Castle, premiering March 9, is a mystery/comedy starring Nathan Fillion (Desperate Housewives) as a best-selling crime novelist who stops writing about murders and starts solving them. You can think of the character, he says, as the male equivalent of Murder, She Wrote's Jessica Fletcher. "I'm Angela Lansbury, if Angela Lansbury were more manly. Just a little."

Or I sincerely HOPE so.  Some random things of note during this nasally-challenged past few days:

• Dayquil/Nyquil, where would I be without you?
• Nuala was trying very hard to get herself murdered last night.  I don't know why, but she felt it very important to keep waking me up. She is very lucky she is so adorable. Liffey who never, ever, EVER wakes me up, though is currently my favorite.
• Go download this free iTunes song by Regina Spektor before it isn't free anymore -- it is everything a new year's song should be, sweet, simple, melancholy, elegant... (if the link doesn't work, go to the iTunes Store and search for "My Dear Acquaintance")
• What Not to Wear is a perfect distraction from constant nose-blowing.
• No, really, I love Nyquil.  And Vicks VapoRub.
• Wow, does a person get dehydrated from all the nose-blowing!

• This weekend, I have watched an inordinate amount of TV (in downloaded, DVR, regular broadcast, and DVD forms).  This is very unlike me.
• I am not going to make 50K for Nano (though I might make half-Nano by the 30th which would suit me fine 'n' dandy). 
• Driving both to and from my hometown in one day is exhausting. 
• My upstairs neighbors are the Stompiest McStompersons yet.  I kind of hate them.  They aren't home much which is what makes them just barely tolerable.
• I have figured out how to make really, really good coffee with my espresso machine with a few hints from marimarguerite  and some trial and error.
• The little space heater I finally broke down and purchased for my vast, drafty office works really well.
• I'm definitely getting Doctor Who, Series Three for Christmas. :)
• A friend and I are going to I want to go see Enchanted!, but everyone is out of town for the weekend, so I may have to go by myself :(