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I swear that I write lengthy reviews and sometimes they just disappear. Anyway, it was the best review in the world... and you would have teared up a little bit... in its shear beauty and profundity.

I like home repair shows, and this one has some unique aspects, but after 11 episodes it has almost completely stopped showing the home renovations and instead is focusing on host/designer/builder seeking hugs and compliments from the people who have obviously paid too much for the sometimes very little work she does for them for the money. You can see it in there faces in certain episodes, like... "is this it, for 55K, this is all you did." Other episodes she knocks it out of the park. Very hit or miss.

The show has fallen into a very rigid formula, and she does the same type of thing for every client. Here, let me take this junk I found in the wall and make it into some piece of junk you can hang on your wall and show visitors a piece of junk that was in your old wall. Hugs!!

If you like home reno shows, I would recommend watching the first 6-8 episodes and then dropping it.

The plot of the show is that Miranda owns a Joke Shop, and it has the feel like its the 1980s, but its hard to tell. The shop clearly makes no money, so its hard to see how she never does any work and can afford to hire a store manager. Its contrived, but it makes for some funny set ups.

If you like 1980s brit comedy, give this a try.

I've only watched five episodes, but I can't imagine it changes much. Miranda is the main character, and the entire show seems to be based on the woman's low self esteem. Having said that, she certainly is good at making fun at herself, and for all I know she is nothing like the character.

I will say that she is somewhat difficult to look at. She is not an attractive person and they accentuate that on the show. But you get over that and enjoy the comedy for what it is... occassionally funny.

The comedy is mostly bathroom-type humor, situational skit comedy, and prat falls. But that doesn't mean it isn't good. In the second episode, I LOLed at one skit, seriously funny stuff. Though 5 episodes in, it gets repeatative and I haven't had a really good laugh since episode 2.

Doctor Who fans might like that Peter Davison does a cameo as a randy French teacher. That was quite fun, since I've watched Doctor Who all my life... your Doctor may vary.

Update: I stopped watching after season 2, season 3 is a 'reboot' and is effectively a new show. Out of the first two seasons, I would say there are three great episodes. It gets progressively more repeatitive, especially with the 'Gary' relationship. I think they finally marry her off at the end, but it wasn't worth the time to get there.

The first season is good, with nice alien abduction origin stories. The characters are very creative, and the 'Jeff' Grey alien character is at times hilarious. But the second season gets overly complicated and the season ends in a weird place, which makes it being canceled even worse.

If you liked the goofy episodes of X-files you might like this show, but it is campy and eclectic. Seems like Cenac had other things to do and they wrote him off the show, which was probably a main reason for canceling it. They could have easily done a third season and tied up the plot issues, oh well.

Excellent first episode. Everything you would want a CIA false flag operation show ...

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UPDATE: Three episodes in, its like a movie. Loving it. At least 4 out of 5.

** Spoilers ** Forgot to check the box ** - This is basically a Japanese version of Elementary. Both Sherlock and Watson are women. Its set up to be a murder mystery of course with the unfortunately psychotic Sherlock character making deductions to solve the cases. I say 'pychotic' because that is how her character is written. And while the Elementary Sherlock character is a bit of a pycho at times, this Japanese version makes him look normal. Its as if the writers said, a female Sherlock won't be believable, so let's make her a cartoon character with traits taken to the extreme. Near the end of the first episode she apparantly delights in mentally torturing a woman who has commited murder to avenge her murdered daughter. The pycho grin on her face as she kicks back on the couch and watches the victum-come-murderer have a nervous breakdown is just sick.

The crimes and investigations are also a bit contrived with Sherlock making huge leaps of non-logic to arrive at the solutions without any intermediary steps. This is my main complaint about all the Sherlock Holmes related stories to date, Doyle just wrote a very unrealistic character and people keep making the character even more unrealistic.

On the bright side, Sherlock is a Japanese fashion plate wearing great outfits and $1000 shoes. You know, realistic detective footwear. Lucy Lui got nothing on her.

This is an amazing show and more than does justice to the original from the 1970s. The first season is somewhat an origin story and there is a lot of mystery and cool tech and the androids becoming conscious going on to keep you enthrawled. The best part was Anthony Hopkins as the puppet master.

But after a couple episodes of the second season I decided to drop it. It is a very violent show and I just don't want to watch any more human-like androids acting human-like and being dispicably human-like.

Its basically a show about how much humans suck and how we just end up creating technical cratures that suck to a higher degree of accuracy. There are all kinds of 'we are gods' themes flying around and allusions about what it means to be human, but its all philosophical nonsense, in the end it just ends up being about murdering people to get what you want.