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Damn you, America - why can't you be watching Hustle, and not Leverage?!? Because Leverage sounds good, but isn't playing here, and Hustle is awesome, but I have much fewer people with whom I can discuss it.

Because I miiiiiiiiiiiiss Stacie and Danny, but I prefer the lack of them to the lack of Mickey in the last series, because they need a centre, a leader, a reason to stay together as a gang, and he's gorgeous, and complicted, and I can't believe he nearly beat someone to death (did we know that before? I don't remember). But I'm sad because the friendship / antagonism between Mickey and Danny was kind of the centre of the show during the first two seasons, and the are they / aren't they relationship between Mickey and Stacie was awesome, and I just don't think he and this new girl have any chemistry whatsoever. I mean, Mickey has chemistry with everyone, and all the potted plants, but she just has none. She's nice enough, but she's got no oomph. I can't believe she's a con artist. She just wears different wigs. And her brother is sweet but forgettable.

And I love their ridiculous camera tricks and talking directly to the audience, and the way they STOP and REWIND, and stroll back through past events with a new view. And I love Ash, and his tragic backstory, and his mischief and his honesty, and I adore Albert and would listen to him tell stories all day. And they're so mean to the bartender! And wasn't that last victim hilarious, when he just got so incandescent with rage that all he could do was shout "ARSE!", and flail wildly? He couldn't even come up with a threat. Just a finger waggle, and, "...Arse!"

And Mickey = Michael Caine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Danny = Steve Martin. Except Albert is also slightly Michael Caine, too. But I want Danny to come back and for Mickey to call him Ruprect on a con. And I want Stacie to come back and to be awesome as a brace-faced geek girl or a distractingly sexy art student or a glamourous financial high-flyer, or whatever, because her disguises always rocked, and she threw herself into anything wholeheartedly and without hesitation.

And I love that, although they mostly end up on top, there's a feeling that it could all end in tragedy.

Okay, I'm done.

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I just searched for it on fancast. No dice. Zats and I discuss MI-5/Spooks from time to time though, if you want to play there. (she's also trying to get me into "To the Manor Born" while I'm pushing "As Time Goes By" on her...which have nothing to do with anything except they're British shows. Heh).

But did I see that Robert Vaughn is in this series? Seriously?! That's cool!

Robert Vaughn is in it, and is so adorable as the Grand Old Man of cons. He reminds me of Hammond, in a way, only more elderly - he has that authority and gravitas, but still playing with the cool crowd.

Aw, thank you for trying to hook me up with fellow fans of it. *g*

And I can totally see the connection between To The Manor Born and As Time Goes By. I've watched some of the latter (I squeed quietly to myself when Geoffrey Palmer appeared in... whichever Bond film he was in), but the former is before my time. I've not watched Spooks, though.

Hustle was on here a couple of years ago. I watched a few eps, but it was at an inconvenient time slot and I could never get into it.

Leverage grabbed me right away, because Timothy Hutton is in it. Oh, Archie Goodwin, how I missed you. Then I was totally drawn in by the other characters and now I love them all madly. (And find myself slightly disturbed that I relate to Parker a lot.) And they have really awesome gueststars too. Data from ST:TNG was in the last one (and I feel like a very bad fan for not remembering his real name and am too lazy to look it up).

The only thing that really bugs me is that they've been airing the eps out of sequence, so character arcs and relationship evolution seem a little weird and confusing at times.

Programme schedulers suck. They've made it unlikely I'll watch certain shows, and killed off some shows completely, by moving them around, putting them on out of order, moving them to late-night slots... I mean, do they not want the shows to do well? It's so frustrating.

I don't know who Timothy Hutton is. Brent Spiner, however, I do know. *g*

Timothy Hutton started out as a teenager in the movies like Ordinary People and Taps. Both very good.

I really know and love him playing Archie Goodwin in the Nero Wolfe TV series from a couple of years ago. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. Also the Nero Wolfe books, especially if you like fun, slightly zany, and sometimes darkish mystery novels. Quick reads, but general satisfying. 'Some Buried Caesar' is probably my favorite because you see Wolfe leaving the house and Lily Rowan is first introduced.

Eee!
I saw the first couple episodes a while ago and it was A LOT of fun.

Yay! Did it have Mickey and Danny and Stacie, do you know? Or some other combination? There's been a few variations. They're on season 5 here.

Oh, and of course, Marc Warren (Danny) is in Band of Brothers!