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While doing my Yuletide nominations this morning, it occurred to me that Hope Springs is to the, IDK, caper genre as The Good Wife is to the legal genre - female-led, character-driven, emphasis on relationships between women, using the constraints of the genre rather than adhering completely to them; Ellie's husband, like Alicia's, is only a recurring character rather than a main character. I haven't watched all of Hope Springs but feel pretty confident that The Good Wife is better; still, it's almost surprising that the US network version is thriving while the UK version didn't. Go American audiences, I guess! (eta: can't believe it took me this long, but now I kind of want a crossover...) Also, to whoever nominated Batwoman and did not initially include Renee in the character list: what were you smoking, crazy person? Fixed that for you.

Some filming pics have leaked from last night's Doctor Who set. SO EXCITED. It drives me nuts the relaxed attitude to spoilers that seems to have suddenly become pervasive in fandom, though. Tumblr is particularly bad - I don't think you can even do a spoiler cut on reblogs - but LJ/DW is getting laxer as well. I'm not super spoiler-averse, but people were posting uncut lines of dialogue from last night's filming, which is a little farther than I personally want to go. I hate waking up to find my Tumblr dash covered with gifs and quotes from a show that aired in North America the night before, too - at least give me time to download it! argh!

Today I have 800 pages on the history of MI6 to read. It is a truly exciting alternative to the gajillion hours of 24 I watched yesterday (more than halfway through s6, wooooo).