MI-5
I had just worked up the resolve to stop watching several television shows when I found out that A & E would be re-running episodes of the spy show MI-5, (titled Spooks in England) of which I’d read several good reviews. It hooked me with the first episode. Well-plotted and well-paced, it didn’t pull punches. It had the kind of complex darkness that I often bemoan the lack of in American television.
My husband and I recorded and watched all of season one. We got midway through season two, but now there are no more episodes airing. We’re left with a conundrum. Should we wait for A & E to run the rest of season two? Splurge on the DVDs with birthday money, even though we’ve seen most of the episodes? Check with local rental places to see if it can be rented? Sign up for Netflix again just to rent those? I already checked the libraries. It’s only at the suburban library, and we’re 19th on the wait list.
The voice of reason in my head says we should wait, and not do anything rash to acquire season two unless we’ve got episode one of season three queued up and ready to go. The ender for season one left me wide-eyed and agape with sorrowful disbelief. I hate to imagine if we hadn’t been immediately able to watch the next episode. But the other voice–the one that has elected Matthew MacFadyen Boyfriend #3 and that can’t wait to find out what happens–is getting harder to ignore.
FYI, Boyfriend #1, and Boyfriend #2. My husband G. Grod is both tolerant of and amused by my crushes.
Later. Good news: Matthew MacFadyen is going to be playing Mr. Darcy. Bad news: He sounds like a jerk, and the ubiquitous and rather cloying Keira Knightley will be Elizabeth Bennett.
March 15th, 2005 at 4:16 pm
You can rent season 2 through Netflix.
March 15th, 2005 at 4:31 pm
Yes, but do I want to get ensnared in the Netflix web again, when it went so horribly awry before?
March 15th, 2005 at 10:52 pm
Of course you like both Clive Owen and Matthew McFadyen. They’re basically the same person - same look, same personality.
I’d get hold of the rest of season 2 sharpish - it’s very hard to break part way through a series. But be prepared for deep sadness half way through season 3…
March 16th, 2005 at 10:26 am
i’m with you on clive. did you see ‘i’ll sleep when i’m dead’ ?
March 16th, 2005 at 1:23 pm
Em, you’re right, they are remarkably similar. Based on your comment, I think I’m going to have to own these, rather than rent/library them. I already know that I love them, but I am guilted by the many DVDs currently residing on the home shelves that I’ve neglected.
Carolyn, I did not, but after reading your comment I promptly put myself on the reserve list for it at the library. Did you see Croupier, by the same director, I think? My friend Rock Hack recommended it to me, and that was Clive’s induction as BF #2.
March 16th, 2005 at 3:44 pm
Best Clive Owen: Second Sight. Sooooo brooding and intense.
And for Matthew MacFadyen: Perfect Strangers. He’s brilliant in this and I found it one of the best things I’ve seen *ever.*
Oddly, Claire Skinner plays the love interest in both of these. Bitch!
March 16th, 2005 at 7:24 pm
I saw one of the Second Sight series; I think it was the second. He was quite good in it.