Gah, long title... but hopefully there's enough buzzwords to draw all the people who have crushes.
On the suggestion of my girlfriend I just went through all four seasons of the TV show Bones, which was an absolutely superb idea. The TV show is basically about actress Emily Deschanel and Actor David Boreanaz pretending to be a FBI agent and a charmingly anti-social forensic anthropologist, who solve crimes with the help of their actor friends pretending to be the anthropologists assistance.
Though most reviews of the TV show might erroneously think that its a show about Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, and FBI agent Seeley Booth, a (not really) close watch of the TV show makes it exceptionally clear that this is a TV show about actors. Because there are an exceptionally large number of situations where the "characters" are acting, and are all exceptionally talented at doing such. The point is really knocked home by the second to last episode in the third season, where Emily Deschanel does a great, and rather hot, rendition of 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun'
So basically the show is just a place to show off the talent of a pile of actors, and luckily Emily Deschanel is more than crush worthy. She has a wry smile that makes her look like she's up to no good (in a sexy way), she can do a great rendition of Cindi Lauper, and she's a vegan (ok, that's more a personal thing, as half the girls I ever dated were vegans).
The real kicker is when she does her "Clara Bow" impersonation. Which, though it has little to do with the real Clara Bow (its more a 1940s New Jerseyite impression), it shows three things which basically would show up in any dream woman:
1. She likes Clara Bow
2. She can make big eyes like Clara Bow
3. You can watch Clara Bow movies with her
Add to that the fact that she seems relatively intelligent and can quite definitely act, sitting around watching her have a conversation seems like a perfectly wonderful use of your time.
David Boreanaz impresses as well, though without the crush factor (unless, you know, you like guys). I never watched Buffy, or the spin-off, but the TV show seems to try really hard to accentuate the fact that he's an adult (he's called 35 in the show, whereas the actor is actually 40, but they continually refer to the character having a kid, and other "adult" stuff). He also does a fair amount of in character acting, and its always fun watching it whenever he goes into another character.
The TV show has three other things going for it, the first being a rather mature understanding of female sexuality - though I'm going to let people watch it rather than get into that prickly bag of worms here (is that a mixed metaphor?). The second is a fair amount of commitment when delving into moral issues, which I think is increasingly common for cop shows, but is a good trend which I'd like to see continue, as "moral relativity" is filled with all sorts of sloppy thinking. Last is a willingness to go into full blown pulp, and then make fun of itself for it. Though the pulp trend of the show was present as early as the first season, when they were discovering buried treasure, it really got full blown in the third season, when one of the main characters joined a cannibalistic secret society. This partners up with how the actors occasionally leave character, to make the show one of the more "playful" shows out there. More about finding little bits and pieces that charm you, like lines in a notebook, than grand plot.
Which I very much like.
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