let's hear it for retreads!

[winterbadger]

I've been watching episodes of "This Life", a BBC ensemble drama from 1996 that BBC America has jjust started showing. It's simply wonderful, with all sorts of good actors in it (Jack Davenport of Coupling, Andrew Lincoln of Teachers, the beautiful and talented Amita Dhiri who's been in one or two one-off TV eps I've seen, and Daniela Nardini, Jason Hughes, and Luisa Bradshaw-White, who are also quite good). Good writing, good acting, engaging characters and stories... I hope we get all thirty-something episodes.

It, like some other 'young adult friends living in the city' shows, makes me wonder about how my life would have been different if I'd not got married basically right out of college, if I'd gone out and lived on my own, or with friends, for several years as I got used to being an adult. Would I be different? Would I see things differently? Would I have different attitudes on how to relate to people? I don't know.

Well, I should finish watching this ep; I promised to sort books with redactrice and shy_kat this afternoon.

Comments

[winterbadger]

That was one of the things that made me like Warren: a little speech he has in one of the early episodes about knowing people that always had big groups of friends and wishing he could be part of the group but, somehow, not being quite popular enough.

[dativesingular.livejournal.com]

I do feel like I'm part of the group back home (we've known each other since the start of high school if not earlier, and we're all in our mid-twenties now) but what with living halfway across the globe and all, I'm bound to be left out of things. :(

[winterbadger]

Indeed! I'm going to miss my cast of characters here :-). On the other hand, many of them have been moving off: bidger to PA, azbound to AZ, Mike to Japan, Jarad to Florida, and redactrice and shy_kat will be gone soon too. :-(