I have gone from:
"I need something a bit shit to watch on TV while I hang the washing out/file paperwork/sew buttons on"
to:
"Hmm, this is really rather good"
to:
"I am obsessed and think it's one of the best things I've seen in ages".
It's fantasy - 1920s Australia, and there's a surprising number of open-minded people about - but I could do with a bit of feel-good fantasy at the moment. It's also a fairly cosy murder mystery series, which I am also in the mood for at the mo.
The lead is just WONDERFUL. I adore her. She is a private investigator who is entirely undomestic (has no interest in children and has a lover-of-the-week, who she then discards) and yet has established a "found family" by episode 2. She's reckless, intelligent, pushy and will not be controlled.
The supports are also wonderful - I particularly love Mac, the lead's (very clearly lesbian) best friend, who is a Lady Doctor working in a women's hospital.
There's UST with a police inspector, which has some of the best chemistry I've seen on screen in a while. It's an incredibly unusual portrait of a fairly conventional, monogamous man gradually falling in love with a very unconventional, non-monogamous woman, and it's done incredibly well, with very little possessiveness or jealously. There's an episode in series 2 (the one with the racecar, for those that have already seen it) where the first five minutes has some of the best acting I've seen in a while, and which is worth the price of admission alone.
Also I normally don't give a shit about clothes, but the clothes in this are fantastic.