I watched the first season of Jeeves and Wooster this week. I love it so much! The characters are well-played and likable, even though the plot sometimes borders on everything-goes-wrong-in-an-I-Love-Lucy(translate, "annoying!")-type-way. But it doesn't get to that annoying level. It achieves a precarious balance. It says a lot that I don't come away from the show hating Wooster like I do Lucy. Actually, I love Wooster! It doesn't hurt that he is played by a very young Hugh Laurie. It might also have something to do with his amazing vocabulary and enviable sentence structure :)
The stories are so entertaining, but I think I love the show so much because of the way they talk. Very English, very proper, and very like the way people talk in novels. Not new novels but old ones. I mean, it makes sense because the show is based on written short stories. I'm just saying that's what I like about it. Who says stuff like, "I shall go purchase the comestibles" in real life? No one. But I wish I did! Not all the time, of course :) But I wish I could pull out words like that when I wanted to. Words like, "remonstrate," "assiduity," and "imbroglio."
Check out these new words I've added to my vocabulary:
- sobriquet (n) - an affectionate or humorous nickname.
- opprobrious (adj) - Expressing contemptuous reproach; scornful or abusive.
- propinquity (n) - Proximity; nearness.
- concatenation (n) - A series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
