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May. 7th, 2015 08:35 amI have been watching Nothing Trivial, a New Zealand TV show about a pub quiz team. It is pretty goddamn great (when the characters aren't being uncorrectedly homophobic). I also like the casting, everyone is in their late 30s/early 40s, and out of the core 5 cast members, 3 are women, and 2 are black.
The best part, of course, is that every episode they go to at least one pub quiz, and there are questions that you can think about, and then answers you can hear a bit later. And the quiz is part of the script, and new characters come in and show their true colours by how they interact with the regular team and how they answer the questions. There is a whole plot point about another team cheating, and another about the quiz master being replaced with a rubbish comedian. Good solid quizzing stakes, in amongst the more typical relationship, parenting and work issues.
I have also been led into a mad crush on the guy who plays Mac - he was also Loki in The Almighty Johnsons, a character that I found repulsive, so it is very confusing to be so very attracted to him now. (Mike from TAJ is also in it, but hasn't changed my opinion of him.) His name, it turns out, is Shane Cortese, but I strongly suspect it is only Mac I like and not actually him. There is a very nice scene when he and another character are frantically about to have sex and he pulls her knickers off and I commend it highly to you all.
Unless the remaining season I have goes to pot, I think this is going to be one of those shows that leaves me feeling bereft for several days after I get to the end. I wish I was like Holly and could wipe my brain of culture so that I could experience it for the first time again. But then I might not like things so very much in a different time and place, and then I'd be without the pleasant memories I had to start. Maybe you could wipe it so that it was like meeting it for the first time but you retained the ways in which the media had affected your taste, and other associations with it? Actually, I'm now noticing that the only things I want to be wiped are the things that feel a bit throwaway - so I don't want to wipe and relive Antonia Forest, because I get so much pleasure out of revisiting her books, and the same for JUMP! Street, which I love to rewatch with new people, but I would like to come freshly to Two Guys and a Girl because I don't think I'll get much out of rewatching it, and Nothing Trivial is something I mostly like to see what happens in, but probably won't enjoy as much once I know.
The best part, of course, is that every episode they go to at least one pub quiz, and there are questions that you can think about, and then answers you can hear a bit later. And the quiz is part of the script, and new characters come in and show their true colours by how they interact with the regular team and how they answer the questions. There is a whole plot point about another team cheating, and another about the quiz master being replaced with a rubbish comedian. Good solid quizzing stakes, in amongst the more typical relationship, parenting and work issues.
I have also been led into a mad crush on the guy who plays Mac - he was also Loki in The Almighty Johnsons, a character that I found repulsive, so it is very confusing to be so very attracted to him now. (Mike from TAJ is also in it, but hasn't changed my opinion of him.) His name, it turns out, is Shane Cortese, but I strongly suspect it is only Mac I like and not actually him. There is a very nice scene when he and another character are frantically about to have sex and he pulls her knickers off and I commend it highly to you all.
Unless the remaining season I have goes to pot, I think this is going to be one of those shows that leaves me feeling bereft for several days after I get to the end. I wish I was like Holly and could wipe my brain of culture so that I could experience it for the first time again. But then I might not like things so very much in a different time and place, and then I'd be without the pleasant memories I had to start. Maybe you could wipe it so that it was like meeting it for the first time but you retained the ways in which the media had affected your taste, and other associations with it? Actually, I'm now noticing that the only things I want to be wiped are the things that feel a bit throwaway - so I don't want to wipe and relive Antonia Forest, because I get so much pleasure out of revisiting her books, and the same for JUMP! Street, which I love to rewatch with new people, but I would like to come freshly to Two Guys and a Girl because I don't think I'll get much out of rewatching it, and Nothing Trivial is something I mostly like to see what happens in, but probably won't enjoy as much once I know.
