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Originally Posted by notcasesensitive
I love Jane the Virgin. So clever and original. I read an article about the man who does the narration and how worried he was that doing that accent was going to play into stereotypes in a bad way, but his part turned out to be one of the best things in the show.
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It really is. And his asides that appear on the screen. And, unlike other shows, they seem to be resisting the urge to overdo it. Mrs. Not Bob and I are about halfway through season one on Netflix. It seems from the periodic tweets I see from TV critics that it's still really good.
We're also watching "The Americans" on Amazon streaming or whatever it's called. (Side note - if you have Amazon Prime, it's free. Don't know why we didn't start sooner. They have things that Netflix doesn't, like Felicity the Spy, so it's worth the initial annoyance* of the sign up process.)
We were watching it when it first came out, but missed the third episode, and our cable company's DVR couldn't figure out the actual time that the show aired, so we kinda gave up. Anyway, we're watching now and it's great brain candy. Plus, it's set in 1981 and that is just fun for me. They're not quite up to Mad Men level of set design, but I don't think I've seen an anachronism yet. The smokey brown wine glasses on the table as Phillip and Elizabeth discussed a coded message were a total Proustian cookie moment for me - it was a few years after the move from the Ancestral Homeland and I was back in the kitchen of one of my neighborhood friends, and his mother was drinking Mateus rose from a identical glass.
Anyway, carry on.
*We watch our streaming stuff via the xBox 360 that I stole from my daughter who grew tired of Guitar Hero a few years ago. It was kind of a pain to find, download, and install the Amazon app - especially compared to how easy Netflix was. But whatever.
