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[apocalypsos]

You know what I love? I love hearing people talk about why they love their particular fandoms. You know, the kind of infatuation you can only talk about with people online, because you have to be exceptionally lucky to find someone equally as obsessed in real life. Hell, look at me -- of all of my favorite fandoms, I only have my crazy Desperate Housewives-obsessed dad to fall back on in real life. I always try to imagine how my mom feels, in that she's more obsessed with CSI than some CSI fans I've seen online (if she could write fic, she'd probably be doing it nonstop for that show), but she doesn't have anybody to be obsessed with in real life.

So tell me about the current fandoms you're enraptured with and why. Tell me why they make you so happy and goofy just thinking about them.

1. Supernatural -- Well, duh. But seriously, I think I've figured out why I'm hooked -- because I have low expectations for the creatures of the week, and no expectations for Dean and Sam. That way, the creatures of the week don't disappoint me (even if they might on another show) and Dean and Sam just have to be their fucked-up, fascinating, pretty selves. (I also adore the fact that being a SPN fan means being free to be equal parts contemplative and shallow. ;))

2. The 4400 -- Okay, look, the stupid thing isn't even back on again until next summer (die, USA's scheduling department, DIE -- you're like the HBO scheduling department for people without HBO), but I'm still floating on a cloud about The 4400, especially after that finale. I mean, yeah, when it's bad, it's almost painful, but when it's good, it's FABULOUS. ("Hello, Shawn. I'm Isabelle." GYAH. How the hell is it possible for me to want to ship those two from one friggin' scene? And yet I just can't help it. *headdesk*)

3. Desperate Housewives -- Again, another show that when it sucks, it hurts, but when it's great, you want a cigarette afterwards. And I really have to give them points for making me get to the point where Gabrielle is still as big a bitch as she was at the beginning of the first season, and while I didn't like her last year, I adore her for it this year.

4. Lost -- I would like to register a complaint that I'm being emotionally manipulated by this fucking show. I feel like I'm dating the biggest asshole on the planet and yet I can't break up with him. He has lots of money and is damn gorgeous in the right lights, and when he treats me like shit, I beg for it. It's pathetic, and yet ... lovelovelove, even when I want to throw boomerang fish at everyone involved.

5. The Amazing Race -- You know what TAR this season has made me feel like? It makes me feel like I had this great husband, dependable, decent, handsome and witty, and while we've had our problems in the past, I can always forgive him. And then one day he hit me with a Mack truck. On purpose. And he keeps looking at me like he wants an apology, and I really want to give it to him because I am still in crazy, rapturous love with him, so I'm perfectly willing to accept him again if he fixes his problems. But first he has to let me set him on fire with a blowtorch. A LOT.

6. Veronica Mars -- I haven't even gotten to see this season yet, but seriously, the love? Still there. It's like an infection. I can't get rid of it. :)

7. Doctor Who -- It's weird, it's wacky, it's beautiful, and at this point, I can't wait to see Ten in action. *bounces around happily in anticipation*

Okay, your turn. Share the love, guys. :)

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[faith21.livejournal.com]

oh i really wish you could see this season of vm. because not only is logan everywhere, he's even MORE fucked up than last year. oh the love!

and if you get grey's anatomy where you are, check it out, it's so much fun *g*

[mayatawi.livejournal.com]

Honestly, what I'm loving about VM right now is the frequency with which Logan gets his ass kicked. I love the boy, don't get me wrong, but I love him more when he's getting punched in the face or begging people not to shoot his hand.

And if that's wrong, I don't want to be right.

[minotaurs.livejournal.com]

So, if your mom was writing CSI fic, who would she be shipping?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, she'd be blatantly Mary-Sue-ing herself with Gil. Gil Grissom is apparently the only man she's allowed to leave my father for. *snickers*

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

Ha!

I love the DC Comics universe, but I love the fandom more than the actual comics right now. XD

We have some awesome writers and drawers and honest comic-script writers. When another one of our favorite characters dies, we chuckle and plan a Zombie Justice League. We also have any type of slash or het you can think of. :D

Not to mention the pretty pretty people. Mmm.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

So much pretty in comics. Oracle? Wonder Woman? Nightwing? SO PRETTY. *swoons out of her chair*

Despite the fact that I don't own any of the recent issues, I am a crazy Runaways fangirl. IT HAS THE GIRLSLASH /PLUS/ AWESOME WRITING AND ART, COME ON. *cuddles icon*

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[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

Smallville: I've been feeling a resurrgence of the love for this I gotta tell you. I watches seasons one and two like a stalker and then moved into a dorm for season three and watche Lost for four. And from what I heard? Season four sucked. I watched the Aquaman ep and the Splintered ep and my Mom just got me Season One ($20!) so I'm suddenly remember how good this show used to be. I've been a die-hard Superman fan for... so long. I always hatred Luthor with a passion until Smallville, suddenly I was loving Lex and by season two it was Clark that was pissing me off.

The early season were great, Lex was an outsider and Clark was his friend. When all was said and done at the end of the day Clark and Lex were best friends and you just felt great and horrible at the same time for it. Now? It's... bad. And the characterizartion blows. But back in the good old days? There was so much love. And Pete was there, for however little they used him...


Stargate SG-1: This show... I've actually seen hardly any episodes, especially considering it's going into season 10 soon... But there's just... something aout it. I love Teal'c and Jack and Sam and Daniel... I love Hammond and the Goa'Uld, and I love window of Oppurtunity and all the random fuckyness of this show. I want to do verreh bad things to most everyone on the show one way or another. And Guh. Michael Shanks arms are just... only thisfar behind Christopher Judge's.


Prison Break: So much pretty. So much wrong. So much Irish Vigilante flavored wrong... All the twists and turns and the unexpected shit and the tattoo and Sucre and fucking T-Bag the fucking pedophile that needs to die and Michael and his complete and utter love for Linc... I swear, this show is layer upon layer upon plan upon conspiracy upon pretty upon some awesome guys and shitty girls and completely unrealistic prison-things but... I love this show and it's eaten my brain dammit.


DC Comics: Superman. Batman. Kyle Rayner. Wally West. Dick Grayson. Tim Drake. Kon-El/Superboy/Connor Kent. Bart Allen. Grace Choi. I could list for so long... I want to beat our writers sometimes (He-who-shall-not-butcher-Timmy) with a fucking sledgehammer but you know what? When all is said and done?

We didn't have House of M.


Quantum Leap: Wow. My first love. I was obsessed with this show before I even knew what the hell the internet was. I love Sam and his huge complex geniusness, Al and his horrible suits and humor and their entire dynamic. I don't even know where to begin with how much I love this show but I will say that this show is perfect for crossovers and I don't know why their isn't more fic in it's fandom.


Fastlane: Guh. Pretty and slashy and guh. Superficial as fuck? Yes. But in my mind I have this whole huge backstory planned out and I even have a fic in this fandom that I need to type up and post somewhere. The cars are awesome, the writing was sweet and really? So. Fucking. Pretty. Stupid FOX couldn't afford to run the show and we got left with a massive cliffhanger and reruns on a channel I couldn't get even with cable.


Great Teacher Onizuka (Manga): Onizuka is a huge gigantic pervert who can do pretty much anything and can and will do anything for his kids. Hell, Onizuka got shot while rescueing a kidnapped student from the Yakuza and went back to his school to take an exam while bleeding all over the place. He's jumped off the roof of the school, with students, a few times, and has been in the hospital... a lot. He cares about his kids and he's the kinda teacher you always wanted.

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[lots42.livejournal.com]

Onizuka is a gigantic psychopath who needs to be locked away (from everyonem, especially kids) for the good of society.

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[dancinguniverse.livejournal.com]

Quantum Leap is indeed teh Love. Sam is such a puppy dog, and Al is just amazing, and Sam can break my heart with his notions of doing what's right, and there are episodes that can still make me cry. Word on the QL love.

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[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

Lost: Damn. I don't think I even need to say anything about this because, really? Yeah. I want Kate and Jack dead (Can we trade them for Boone and Shannon?) and sometimes I just want to give up the show forever (What Kate Did anyone?) but... I need to know. And but damn if I don't just fucking love nearly everything else about it. And to it's credit? The last episode was one a the very few episodes that I watched like a bad fic, you know, where it's horrible and bad and you don't wanna watch but you started it and you know if you don't watch you're gonna go completely buggy.


Boy Meets World: Cory and Shawn are idiots and I love them to pieces. The writers knew about the slashy thoughts out there and played it up very obviously. This show had some bad bads but the good bits made up for it. And the slash. Wow. So much of the anvils. Bigger even then the SuperAnvils on Smallville.


Damn. I could go into all this so much more dammit...

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[lots42.livejournal.com]

Shannon always made me want to punch her in the liver. She clearly had no sense of reality.

If we gotta trade Jack and Kate, let's get Boone and Scott/Steve.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

1 - Furry Fandom - It's all so fun. There's little to no emo wangsting. Many problems can be solved by a flying tackle hug. Not much room for racism when everyone has a different fur pattern. Plus, lots more room for creativity. A good human artist (Rick Leonardi) is fantastic and I'd read anything he drew but a good furry artist is like a non-annoying version of Where's Waldo. Plus, how society changes due to furry aspects (chairs with holes for the tail) is endlessly fascinating to me.

2 - Lost - More Hurley/Charley please. I love how all the survivors banded together. A rock god, a lottery winner, a pregnant Aussie chick, a con man, a crook, a businessman and even Rose, they band together because the alternative is boatloads of being screwed. No stupid power struggles. Everyone pitches in when needed. No whining (except for Arszt, who was just too dumb to realize the others would have been friends with him if he tried).

3 - Buffy - First three seasons. No technobabble. Just simple common sense. Like using a mirror to reflect a magic blast, or corraling a monster into a guilliotine.

4 - G.I.Joe - Most of the characters are very well thought out. And designed very well. And each new figure one buys increases the creativity potential exponentially. If that makes any sense. Plus, Cobra has all those legions of guys with identical uniforms. The head-to-toe outfits of the (FillInTheBlank)-Vipers are supposed to cover entirely seperate individuals. Very few companies can get people to buy more of the same thing and love it.

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

Leonardi's doing furry now? I... wow. I remember him on Spider-Man 2099. Man, I loved that book.

[auntiea-33.livejournal.com]

Ah!!! Another Joe fan! Cool. G.I. Joe was my very, very, very first fandom. My love for G.I. Joe is still lurking in the background now, even though it's been years since I've read the comic.

Crossposting this to my own LJ (with a bit of editing)

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

Since I'm rarely home and am watching very strange things over at Frank's place, my fandoms are all skewed. But I will talk about what I'm watching right now.

1. The Boondocks -- Oh, so wrong, and yet oh, so right. Regina King gets mad props from me for voicing both Huey and Riley and making them distinct personalities. And there are so many things that happen on that show where I just think, "Man. Did I really just see/hear what I thought I heard on a national station for cartoons?" There is no way that Doonesbury would even make half as funny a cartoon as this comic strip-based one is.

2. Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations -- It's on the Travel Channel, so you might not see it on your TV lineup. But if you do get the Travel Channel, you must check it out on a Monday night sometime. The premise is this: chef/author Anthony Bourdain goes and does non-touristy things in exotic locales. He has drank wine made from fermenting stomachs, danced in a remote village in Vietnam, chain-smoked his way through the jungles of Malaysia while picking leeches off of his producers... it's a wonderful, wonderful show. Part of my love for this show is that Bourdain's cute in this grizzled older man sort of way. He's wiry and has salt and pepper hair and what looks like leathery tanned skin. I'm so hot for him. The other part is that there's a chance that some day, when I get the money and the cahones to go, I can trip on down to his restaurant in Manhattan and probably behave like a fangirl. And then convince him to let me go traveling with him.

3. House -- I traded "Lost" for "House" this season because I missed too many episodes in a row and it was something I shared with my ex-bf. The cast is growing on me as I learn their quirks. But of course the best of all is Hugh Laurie as Dr. House. He steals every scene from everyone and doesn't give a damn because the producers chose him to be an American doctor and he's British! It's the best of both worlds!

4. Project: Runway -- I don't CARE if it's something I shared with my ex-bf. He can't have this one. I want to be able to see all the drama from the beginning this time! And I have to have the first season on DVD. It's a moral imperative. I love this reality show because there's more at stake here for the contestants than the others because their professional lives and dreams are on the line, more than with American Idol or The Apprentice. If folks make a total ass of themselves here, no one will be able to take them seriously as a designer ever again. I mean, even though I never heard of them before the show started, I now know that I would never buy anything from either Vanessa Riley or Wendy Pepper ever.

Re: Crossposting this to my own LJ (with a bit of editing)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, do I second the Project Runway love. It's just so true that not only can you not take them seriously as a designer afterwards, it's one of the few reality shows on TV that requires you to have real hardcore talent to win it. Don't ask me to start in on how much I loved Jay's line in that final. Especially the lavender one. *swoons* And Jay and Austin should have their own show where they have an apartment together and just make snarky comments about everything else on the planet, because HEE.

And I can so back you up on wanting to watch the drama from the beginning this time. I only saw one episode for the longest time, until a few weeks ago when they had that marathon of the last few episodes. Wendy and Vanessa both need to shut the hell up, and I'm pretty sure I'd pay to watch Morgan be hit by a truck.

I'm already playing "Guess the Male Contestant's Sexuality!" with this new season's prospects. So far, I think we might have one heterosexual, and THAT's a big 'might'. :)

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

I have a multitude of fandom glee, mostly because of my flist but I'll stick to Lost I think.

I've only just recently figured out what both annoys the crap out of me and makes me want to watch ten seasons at once. I couldn't quite name it till someone on the special features mentioned that the story structure plays out like a video game, like an Xbox or Playstation doover. Others have probably seen this long ago though. Watching the pieces of information moving towards each other, even watching them missing each other completely and yelling at the TV/writers/characters is fun. Much less pain, rage and confusion from me now, I hate being locked out of a meaningful resolution in an ongoing show.
I'm even enjoying the mindbendingly obtuseness of Locke 'n' Echo.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Video game? Matches my theory that the characters are real people who have crash landed into a fictional setting. Sort of like Q making Dixon Hill real as hell.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

So tell me about the current fandoms you're enraptured with and why. Tell me why they make you so happy and goofy just thinking about them.

I hope I didn't forget anything. I waffled a bit on my list as there are quite a few other shows that I make sure to watch regularly (West Wing, Desperate Housewives, EastEnders) but I wouldn't say they were one of my fandoms. To me, that involves seeking out extra stuff - fanfic, easter eggs in official websites, searching for spoilers, etc...) That said, maybe they are fandoms of mine and I just don't know it yet. Anyhow, my fandoms - current and classic

• Lost - how can you not love a show that keeps you looking puzzled and squeeing at the same time. Oh sure, I have moments where I want to reach through the TV screen and smack Jack or Kate as hard as I can but these moments are tempered by the admiration I have for the jolts and twists (and the bizzaro humor) that keeps peeping out at me.
  
  
• Doctor Who - both a classic and a current fandom of mine. It's interesting to me how there are so many things about the show that I like now that were the things that attracted me to it before. I've always loved watching the relationship between the Doctor (in whatever incarnation) and the companions (which ever they were at the time) because it always seemed like they were having a better time since they were both (or in some cases) all there together. Even in the Doctor's crankier incarnations, the companion was an integral part of his experience and even knows it better with two (or in some cases three or four). Of course, there is the addition adult level to the OMG he's a hottie" factor now but my love for the show now is much the same as my love for it then.
  
  
• Vengeance Unlimited - I don't care that the show ran for so short a period of time just a few years ago. I don't care that I never really found out why Chapel was the single most damaged person on the planet. I don't care because the show was black comedy gold that brought Michael Madsen into my living room for an hour a week. It also introduced me to the delightful Kathleen York (yes, Andy - Toby's ex- on West Wing). Mr. "No First Name" Chapel was a fantastic character - adores children, loves chocolate, and hated The English Patient. The other reason I loved the show - it was gorgeous. Not in the "spent wayyyyyyy too much money on the sets way" but the way it was shot. Very much in the way one would shoot a film noir. Atmosphere so thick you could slice it and dice it and primarily all through camera work.
  
  
• Alias Smith and Jones - those dimples, that hair, the mugging for the camera, the hilarious 70s version of Old West fashion. All this is good and underneath it was a show trying (and often succeeding) in getting quality out under the radar.
  
  
• The Monkees - Once again, courageous American youth leaps into the fore....or five. I love three out of the four of them. Davy's OK too. Such is the contrariness of my fandom love.
  
  
• Forever Knight - ah, my classic fandom or fandoms. Demented, funny, often brilliant. Just as often way off course but it had a quirky charm I still love.
  
  
• Nero Wolfe - high gloss productions are NOT usually my thing but this most recent incarnation of the Stout mysteries is like a decadent dessert you cannot resist. The "repertory" gimmick works beautifully, Timothy Hutton and Maury Chakin are spot on (there is not a general agreement amonsgt Wolfe fans on this but they really encompass all I love about the characters so who cares about general agreement). The adaptations are - as these things will be - often smushed or bent by virtue of the change in media but they are absolutely faithful to the tone and feeling and spirit of the books and THAT is no small feat. It was a jewel and deserved more support from A&E and a much longer run.

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

It was a jewel and deserved more support from A&E and a much longer run.

Amen. We've been snagging the DVDs from the library and rewatching around here again, and while it's not perfect, it's generally some of the best book adaptations I've ever seen done. And Timothy Hutton is Archie to me; I hear him in my head while reading the books, now.

almost forgot!

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure these are fandoms per se because I have no idea if they ever have fandoms but I love watch them constantly and love them all the same

• HIGNFY and QI - I don't know if you can have a fandom for quiz shows but if you can, than these would be the ones to have them for. Have I got News For You and QI are two of the funniest, most random things I have ever seen (thank you *cough* bittorrents **cough**). Few things if life have delighted me more than Stephen Fry asking, "Why shouldn't I strip Alan naked and paint him gold?" Except for the answer, "You'll win your Oscar properly like everybody else!"
  
  
• Most Haunted - since practically every other show I watch these days is from the UK, here is another that has me rolling on the floor and changing my routine to make time for. This group of "investigators" scream louder and run faster than Scooby-Doo on fast forward and they get SOOOOOOOOO excited when dust particles - oh, sorry, light anomalies - float across the screen that you just want to pat them on the head and give them sweets before bed. Karl, the producer and resident "MAN" on the show (not to be confused with Richard who screams like a girl, Stuart who gets the vapors or Jon who catches as little sound as a sound man can catch) has tried to cajole, bully and bribe ghosts into showing themselves while climbing lithely out onto ledges, hammering down walls and generally looking as fetching as one can look in night vision. I adore Karl.

[catystorm.livejournal.com]

The West Wing - Okay, I am completely not caught up on this show recently, but for the first few seasons you could not tear me away from the television Wednesday nights. I don't know what it is about Aaron Sorkin shows... it's probably the dialogue; the quick and natural way it's delivered and the way the scenes are filmed that makes me love his shows. Sports Night died well before its time... at least the West Wing still has some legs to it.

Lost - I don't know why I'm still watching it. If I miss it I don't feel like I've lost anything but if it's on, good God I cannot change the channel and I'm glued to my seat. It's unhealthy, but I like it.

Rurouni Kenshin - I have a thing for samurai. I willingly learned way far more about the Restoration and the last Japanese revolution than I would have thought possible, just on the grounds of this show. Oh, and the amusing characters and really cool (if quite improbable) swordfights helped a bit, too.

Fullmetal Alchemist - I came into this show knowing a moderate amount of random alchemical knowledge from a few fantasy stories I dabbled in ... now I scare myself on occasion. I can gibber about the symbolism in the show, about the amount of research the creator and the animators did, about the realistically flawed characters, about the humor and about the drama ... but then I'd never shut up.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I see your West Wing and I raise you a Sports Night!

[dancinguniverse.livejournal.com]

Rent: Because not only is Collins/Angel the cutest thing ever, but they sing. And then there's the swesomeness of Joanne, who rocks my world, and the shining star that is Mark. That dorky white Jewish kid owns my heart. And his love for Roger breaks my heart, and yes. Mark is my squishee.

Smallville: Really, it's funny. It's not a great show. The dialogue often sucks, they go for naked Lois over plot, when both the plot and the visuals could be better with Chloe, they insist that we should care about Lana, and Tom Welling often can't act. But I love it anyway. In my head, it's Clark that's the asshole, and Lex who just can't win, but they could be something great if they could talk to each other for once. And because Lex is a woobie. And Clark (well, TW) is an ex-porn star. And then there's Lionel Luthor, and eef! Yes, this show also eats my brain.

RPF: Of the Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck kind. Not all together, but between Brad and George buying a gay bar (http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/brad-pitt/update-pitt-and-clooney-from-vegas-to-gay-guests-134810.php), George and Matt's interview (http://movies.aol.com/unscripted_syriana_movie_clooney_damon), and just the Matt/Ben love that everyone knows about, I've been in love lately.

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I am such a huge RPF/RPS whore. I toyed with putting it in my bit but realized it was two in the morning and I wouldn't have gotten past "SQUEE!!!!!" coherently then.

Matt/Ben is just so freakin' cute and guh at the same time and really, I swear I thought I was the only one who had a liking of George/Brad...

[penmage.livejournal.com]

Do you have a copy of the second season of VMars? Because if you still don't by the end of March, I will totally make you a copy and send it to you. Payback, man.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

[via metafandom]

I love Stargate: Atlantis because it's geeks in space! It's not heros, it's people like me, muddling about and screwing up, and when they succeed it's because of their essential goodness and humanity. Plus, John Sheppard is sex on a stick, and Rodney McKay is woobie love, and they obviously are boyfriends.

[thirdblindmouse.livejournal.com]

I love Stargate: Atlantis because it's geeks in space! It's not heros, it's people like me, muddling about and screwing up, and when they succeed it's because of their essential goodness and humanity.

That sounds like why I love Firefly. As Joss put it, "this show isn't about the people who made history; this show is about the people history stepped on." They aren't heros, and they generally don't act like heros. On the rare occasion when they do, you can tell it really means something. When Simon tackles Early, dispite being in great pain and danger, it shows just how much he'd do anything for his sister. He doesn't do this regularly out of an altruistic love for humanity.

[thirdblindmouse.livejournal.com]

Buffy is witty, silly, sarcastic, cheesy, and occasionally tragic. And the characters? Damn sexy! I came for the dialogue, I stayed for the naked Spike.

[auntiea-33.livejournal.com]

I can see this above sentence showing up on a bumper sticker or a button. I came for the dialouge, I stayed for the naked Spike. :-)

[auntiea-33.livejournal.com]

NCIS This show is so witty and funny and 'it could possibly happen' that I just have to watch. Besides, Mark Harmon is damn sexy! Yowza!

CSI:Miami Just a really good story told on this show. Yeah, David Carusso tends to get carried away sometimes but the actors keep the show moving.

Numb3rs I have no idea why this show works but it does. And it's delightful. Again, witty dialouge, good storytelling, great actors. What's not to love?

To Catch A Thief This show is on The Discovery Channel in the afternoon and is about two guys who used to be burgulars and now go around to peoples houses, convincing homeowners to let one of them break in, just to show how unprotected the homeowner is. I'm not giving the show the best description but it's fun to watch and the two former burgulars are cute!!!!!!!

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy Love, love, love this show. If I can ever remember when it's on! Kyan is my buddy!

[lots42.livejournal.com]

They need to go all out for just one episode and do 'Queer Eye For The Queer Guy'. Not all gay people are fashion mavens.

I also watch the show when it is on. The bitchy comments are the best.