it was one of those shows that could have been a disastrous MTV Real World fiction imitation, but actually managed to have amazing characters in it. it's theme was to follow the characters sharing a house together in london and their lives at home and at work as lawyers and cooks and whatnot and to show them bullshitting and crying and shagging and seeing their therapist, all while drinking an ocean of wine. and i loved it. *sniffle*

apart from "homicide: life on the streets" it is a rarity that i get so very wound up in a show where i really don't care that the people can't hear me through the tv-screen. i completely ignore the fact that they are actors, and that somebody has written a script and just wail away at them. i get deeply upset when they do things they shouldn't, and i hate it that they never do what i want them to do, but i love them all.

and this is why i will now tell you about the characters and what i think about them and who should be together or else i will scream okay? okay??? okay. hehehe. (don't you love it when i get obsessive -and- annoying at the same time? yes, you are allowed to skip or skim the rest of this page. i just need to write it.)

this is anna. anna is my hero. or at least one of my favourite characters in the whole, wide world. she's an up and coming barrister, she's got a big mouth and isn't (visibly) scared of saying anything out loud. she flirts with anyone (no, i mean it) and has few reservations about (safe) one night stands. she drinks wine like a camel drinks water and has been known to listen to pj harvey.

(no really - in one episode she put on an album [dance hall..] while chatting with milly, and when they cut back to them talking later on the album was still running, and follow the real playlist too. also, were not actual singles released off the album, so it wasn't like marketing - the character was simply listening to music. now there's continuity for you.)

miles! he's such an adorable bastard. he can be incredibly childish, stubborn, snobby, misogynistic and homophobic, yet he's so.. yummie. argh. well. to be fair, he can be nice, but he's so bloody stupid at times. moron act of late: voting against anna becoming a full member of the law firm they both work at. bastard.

this is milly. she's a lawyer at some other firm, and a certified anal pedantic woman, but she's allright. she and egg have been together for years, but for some reason in season 2 she decides to have a damn affair with her creepy 45-year old not yet divorced boss O'Donnell. this action has caused me to scream an amazing amount at the telly-screen because she's being so stupid! how can she cheat on egg?

i think she's doing it just to get back at rachel, because she hates rachel coz she's convinced rachel is an intrigant bitch who wants to stab her in the back as much as possible. milly is infamous for taking hot bath's whenever she is stressed, and i think the further into the cheating she got she got up to 3-4 hot baths/episode.

egg is a bit of a bore - in the first season he quits his job as a barrister and becomes a house-husband. or 'aspiring writer' as he calls it. he cooks a lot though, and i appreciate that, and he's a nice guy, but him and milly seems to have a son-mom relationship, which is never healthy. i can't believe milly is cheating on him though!! anyways, in season two he scraps his plans to become a writer and starts as a cook in a small cafe, and by the end of it he's bought the cafe (which sort of tanks) himself.

warren was only in the first season, but totally rocked. it's the first good portrayal of a gay man i've seen in a tv-show, heh. they let him shag and neck and whatnot as much on camera as the other characters did, yet it wasn't in a flashy "look we're so pc and showing gay sex" kind of way. he got caught in a public restroom with another man though (very george michael) and the law firm he worked at suspended him, so he simply quit and travelled around the world to places like florida.

ferdy and warren had a relationship, right? but then ferdy wasn't 'just' gay, he was bisexual and actually engaged to be married to a chick... and the wedding wasn't called off until on the very day so, um, let's just say things were tricky for a bit. he then denied being into men at all, so him and warren were definately broken up, but then he needed a place to stay and warren let him stay in his room and even though nothing happened it was pretty obvious that ferdy still liked warren and warren hated that he still liked ferdy so there's another reason warren left the country. ferdy then took over warren's room in the house and proceeded to have a troubled relationship with a cute, scottish handy-man named lenny. wah.

kira is warren's cousin and i think that's how she got a job at milly's law firm. she's a real perky, spunky chick but can easily get annoying, and she keeps telling her 'friend' kelly in the reception how fat she thinks kelly is. kind of nasty. one of those 'well, she means well but..' people.

jo is a bit weird. i mean he's handsome, but he still lives at home and i don't know. him and kira were together for a while, but then he freaked out a lot when she thought she was pregnant, so kira broke up with him and he's been a lost puppy ever since. once upon a time long before kira he and anna had mad wild close-up sex in an office, though, when they were drunk of their asses. heheheheh. that was fun.

rachel works at milly's office and is sort of a bitch but not really. first time i saw the show i thought she was so horrid, but this time around i have more perspective on it and have come to see that it's actually milly being a bitch most of the time. rachel is still a bit annoying - one of those perfect people who's an expert at secretly jabbing at you with a knife in a way that only the one being subject to the stabbings notice, and the rest think she's a jolly nice girl.

the relationship that just won't happen: anna and miles

okay, the deal is that anna and miles had a 'thing' years before they meet up again in the show. somewhere late season 1 or early season 2, she and miles get drunk and sleep together, and it's perfectly set up so that they can have a relationship but because both are stubborn and don't quite know how to handle it, they fuck it up and spend the rest of the show pining for each other.

this drives me INSANE. it is so obvious that they are perfect for each other and it drives me up the wall that the damn show won't conform to every other show and simply shove the two together as they should be. nooooo, instead they talk and fuck up and won't admitt that they are crazy about one another and i just want to shoot the tv-screen. bah. i don't think i have ever seen such on-screen chemistry before, either.

what complicates matters is that miles decides that he's going to 'move on', so he gets engaged with this (unfortunately) nice older woman, franscesca, and anna doesn't try and screw it up even though you can tell she's hating it, instead she offers advice and does what she can to buffer their relationship.

of course, miles and anna fuck it up anyways because one night when anna is extremely depressed they have hot wild sex on the livingroom couch (while franscesca lies naked in miles bed upstairs!) but it remains a secret and they seem determined to pretend it was just a one-time thing. HAH.

all i know is, towards the end miles confesses to anna that he loves her (my scream could be heard across the nation, i tell you) and the damn cow decides to be all clever and do the right thing and won't tell him she loves him back so he can call off the wedding because she thinks it's his decision (duh) independently if she loves him back or not, and so i think he goes though with the wedding after all! bastard! *sigh*

and there you have it. blah. look how cute they are together dammit: