Whee!

First of all, I wish the happiest of birthday to elisi!

Second, I've been in a no-writing mood lately - lots of things to write about, but no desire to write. So to move out of it, I tried my luck with the Diesel Harlequin Horror Mashup contest. The task was to re-write a regular romance description into a supernatural one. And suddenly I am a semi-finalist! Yay! Mostly because, I think, I didn't include either vampires or werewolves. ;)

You can read my entry here, on Diesel ebooks Facebook page. I am insanely excited, even though I don't believe I'll actually win.

Ye Olde British TV

One of the features of the 90s for me was the amazing amounts of TV I was watching. Mostly together with reading some boring laws. There were occasional TV imports in Soviet Union, but when it passed we got a plethora of Weird and cool TV stuff we have never seen before. I can’t say we watched the same things that you did. Some of the stuff you can’t imagine 90s without got to Russia much later, and some never got there at all. Really. But instead we got all kinds of series from all over the world and from all the TV eras. We got telenovelas from many Latin American countries, we got awesome French Canadian series (that I couldn’t find in Canada in English and still sad), we got Green Acres and Get Smart, we got hilarious Spanish sitcoms, German criminal dramas, Italian soup operas (crack with eye candy!), and many more. We had lots of contemporary American series, the highlights of which were Highlander, X-files and Homicide, but I can’t always remember the names the rest were given - especially considering the change with translation. We also had lots of British shows. One that really stuck was a small and relatively short detective series Dempsey and Makepeace.

Why did it stay with me? Well, because of the main characters and the unbearably hot UST between them. It was so scorching that the actors Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber caught the bug and are still married (according to IMDB).

I used to think of them nostalgically like about a pleasant half-forgotten dream. and this week I checked the Internet. Well, happy me - several kind souls uploaded it on YouTube (not sure about the whole thing, but many episodes are there).

I watched several episodes, and I am happy to report that the characters are holding up well. They are as good as I remember. He is a tough New York cop, she is an upper-class British policewoman. Naturally, together they fight crime! The crime-fighting is only incidental to the relationship between Dempsey and Makepiece, even though it's all they do on screen. It's hard to care much whom they are chasing, shooting, trying to find by going undercover, if all that grabs your attention is how they talk and look at each other.

They argue and bicker, of course, but they are never antagonistic. And what I liked the most this time around – the real friendship between them and warmth that gives out more heat than passion.

Anyway, you can always see for yourself:

This is the third clip of the pilot episode – their introduction. But of course, it is better to see from the beginning.