Recently we have been watching...

[andrewducker]

Lost Girl - which you can think of as "The Canadian Angel", insofar as it's got a somewhat-brooding main character in a world full of different kinds of magical creatures, taking jobs to help people. The main difference is that the supernaturals are all "fae", which is used as a catch-all term for everything from werewolves to Baby Yaga - no vampires yet. The writing is fun, if patchy, the actors are clearly having a great time, and the setup (the main character is a Succubus, refusing to join either of the two factions who control all of the fae) gives them a lot of scope for different plots.

Once Upon A Time - The setup is that a bunch of fairy tale characters (Snow White, etc.) trapped in our world by a curse. It has some similarities to the comic series Fable, but only very limited ones. I'm only two episodes in, but this is very slick, sets up a good arc plot, and flashes back and forth between the fairytale world and our world nicely.

Both of them are worth checking out. Lost Girl is showing on SyFy, Once Upon A Time is coming to Channel 5 later this year.

Oh, and both are female-led, if that helps :->

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Vampires also show up in Lost Girl. I'm also enjoying that show quite a bit. I am curiuous about how it goes - the first few episodes were quite light, and the most recent one was considerably darker seeming, and so I'm definitely interested to see how it goes. My initial opinion was that Lost Girl was fun total fluff, and it seems like it might become something a bit different from that.

I had to stop watching Once Upon a Time because I found the fairy tale-land scenes to be excruciatingly terrible

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recommendations, sounds like I might have something other than Castle to watch on 5 at some point :) Also, I should really get around to reading some Fables - I wonder if the library has it...

[andrewducker]

Fables is entertaining. But if you get the chance to read The Unwritten then go for that.

[laplor.livejournal.com]

I've been wanting to watch Lost Girl because the star is a home-town girl, but I rather lost my way in the months without TV.

Here is Anna Silk's hilarious Nicoderm ad:

We do keep watching Once Upon a Time, partly because Ginnifer Godwin is just do darned cute!

[andrewducker]

That's awesome!

And yes, terribly cute.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

We've been watching Once, recording-but-not-yet-watching Lost Girl, and also recommend Grimm, if you can get it.