Can I just say, I love TV? My love of good TV actually rivals my love of knitting. And I'm not ashamed to admit it. So there. Well, okay, maybe I'm a little ashamed.
My absolute favorite new show this season is Pushing Daisies. It is by the guy who created Wonderfalls, which I saw on DVD last year and absolutely loved, as well as Dead Like Me. The style is highly whimsical, while also rather twisted. It's about a guy who can bring people back from the dead by touching them once, then can make them dead again with a second touch. And if he leaves them alive for more than a minute, someone else in the vicinity dies instead. He goes around with a P.I. solving murders by waking up dead people and asking them who killed them. He also makes delicious pies. And it's very romantic as well - he woke from the dead his childhood sweetheart, a girl named Chuck, couldn't bring himself to make her dead again, and now he can't touch her (because she would die again) even though they're totally hot for each other. It also features Kristin Chenoweth (whom I adore) as his pie-shop employee who is hopelessly in love with him. (On last night's episode, she actually broke out into "Hopelessly Devoted" from Grease, to hilarious effect.)
Whimsy. I really like whimsy. If you liked the movie Amelie, you'd probably like this show.
Oh, and there's knitting! By the P.I., played by Chi McBride (who is obviously not a knitter in real life), whose knitting needles actually plays a vital role in the plot of the second episode. I particularly liked when he knit a sweater vest with gun cozies.
I'm also digging the new seasons of House, Ugly Betty and Heroes, and am taking a wait-and-see approach with Grey's Anatomy. It had been an obsession of mine in the first two seasons, but the show went horribly, horribly wrong last year. The writers claim this season will be back on track. We'll see. Please, Grey's writers, please, please stop the George and Izzie madness. Watching them almost-kiss is like watching brothers and sisters kiss.
That reminds me - I also love Brothers & Sisters. Fantastic cast, delightfully soapy.
What are you watching?
I started this lace project back in June, and worked on it bit by bit through the summer. It was a great project to return to every now and then (like when I put down the Mystery Stole in indecision about whether or not to knit the asymmetrical wing), because it had no shaping and a very easy-to-memorize pattern. Finally I completed it in September, got around to blocking it a week or so later, and today - ta da! - managed to snap a picture.
