Jul. 31st, 2011

sasha_feather: monster on the phone (monster on the phone)
I'm watching "The IT Crowd" which is streaming on Netflix. Episodes are short, very funny, and generally kind of sweet. It's a British comedy about an IT department in the basement of an office building; the team consists of Roy, Moss, and Jen. Jen is the "relationship manager" and doesn't know anything about computers. I like the whimsy and creativity of this show and that it's about geeks in an affectionate way. Some of the episodes get me laughing really hard. Moss in particular is wonderful, as a guy who embraces his weirdness and has wonderful delivery of hilarious lines. I'm partway into Series 3.

A couple of advisos: Jen is the only female character, so while there are some other recurring male characters (the boss, a goth guy, etc), there are so far no recurring women besides Jen. Particularly disturbing to me: an episode I just watched, S3 ep 4, "Speech", had partner violence that was also transphobic, and was played for laughs. I would recommend skipping this episode. The 2nd boss, Douglas, is a serial sexual harasser, and this is also played for laughs. It's basically his character, as if the writer(s) put "sexually harassing boss" as the character description. He does seem to be developing a few more character traits but not many.

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