It’s too hot.
I don’t know what the temperature was today but this house I live in is a sweatbox. A couple of days of sun and it takes a least a week to cool down to human levels. I am light-headed and my brain is sweltering. I used to love the heat but I haven’t been able to tolerate it since having heat stroke in the first few days of my pregnancy.
So my day was spent lazily on the couch, watching television while Caspar played with a big salad bowl full of water in the middle of the living room floor. This is a great new amusement I’ve found, and he gets to keep cool without me having to take him out to the tiny blow up pool in the yard which I have only twice been able to justify (to myself) putting water in. There’s that pesky little drought, you know.
Besides, the sun is too harsh for his not-quite-baby-anymore skin.
So. The couch. And one of my favourite television shows which I had gotten behind on. I watch pretty much all my television on my DVD now because Big Sis downloads everything I like (and a lot of things I can’t stand). I can’t imagine going back to watching it “live”, wading through the commercials and having to remember what channel and time it’s on so I don’t miss an episode. I always missed episodes and then gave up. I don’t have room in my head to manage that sort of thing.
And the show? ReGenesis.
It’s possibly my No.1, but at the very least it’s in my Top 3.
They’ve completed 3 seasons already, and I just finished watching the 3rd today. They have been signed up for a 4th now but I don’t think it airs here in Australia at all yet. If you see it advertised, I promise it’s worth making the brain space and watching it. In fact, don’t wait. You can buy it on DVD. Go out now and get it.
What? You want to know what it’s about? I don’t think I can do it justice. It’s a science drama, dealing with biotech and genetics and epidemiology at a global level. If you like watching shows like House, you’ll love it. If you like watching shows like 24, you should love it, but it is way smarter than 24. One of the things that sets it apart (besides the absolutely electric cast) is that there are no moral absolutes. It’s sci-fi, but contemporary and plausible, dealing with some real cutting edge technology and all the ethical questions the science we’ve let out of Pandora’s Box raises.
Here’s a review of ReGenesis Season 1. Go out now and get it. Seriously.
I can’t believe I just wrote a post about a TV show.
But it’s too hot.
Er. Edited to fix all the typos and add a post title. Yes, it was that hot. If there are any errors left, I don’t care. Brain still sweltering.