The Chair that Would Not Die!

I think this is pretty special.

It would be even better to have a bitter guy smashing the chair in a fit of pique, storming out and then letting the chair do its thing.

We Like to Watch

We finally saw Pride and Prejudice last week. It was awfully fun and the acting ensemble was in fine form. Good sense of class and economic reality (for instance, they didn't make the country ball too chic and rich) and the colours were spectacular. That being said, the cozy little finale where she gets the rich rich rich man and she's all happy yet supposedly still pure and true to herself made me retch a bit.

Then we saw this totally brilliant film by Don Roos (who also wrote and directed The Opposite of Sex). This one, I never even heard of: Happy Endings. Another bit of brilliant ensemble work including Lisa Kudrow
and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Hilarious and quite sad and totally surprising throughout.

Finally, we're watching our way through season 1 of the BBC series MI-5 (which is called "Spooks" in the UK). It's okay. The melodrama is a bit underwhelming but the political intrigue is very cutting and tough. It stars Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice but without the sloppy hair. He's got delicious eyes, a wonderful nose and a stick up his ass. Don't know yet if we'll bother with the other four seasons. I'm guessing the cute black guy with tiny shoulders will be revealed as gay at some point.

EDIT: Finished MI-5 Season 1 and we won't continue. It's too rushed with one major world terrorist action per week and no time to really care about the characters. And the cute black guy turns out to be a (very unconvincing) serial womanizer. HA!