( spoilers for this week )And now, on a non-spoilery note, a story from the boards of IMDB [aka, the sewer of media discussion]:
I was on IMDB the other day, and someone posted a discussion about how all the women on Life were HOT and all the men were, at best, AVERAGE-LOOKING, and I was sorely tempted to ask this poster what show she/he was watching.
Look, I know that by washboard-abs-frosted-tips standards, not one of the male leads on Life is hot, but what about for general astethic standards? Let me make my case:
Damien Lewis: Interesting-Hot. His face never looks the same way twice, and that is intriguing. He has crows' feet and a way that he sets his mouth that I CAN NOT stop looking at, and that is incredibly attractive. Plus, how can you hate a man with hair that red? It's impossible, I say. [See: Dunn, Conrad; Owen, Clive]
Donal Logue: Yes, his hair is a disaster [seriously, I can't decide if I want to cut it or study it, scene-to-scene], but he's got an incredibly kind face, and he's that type of barrel-chested solid that I have always found very attractive [See: Grunberg, Greg; Husband, The]. He's also very comfortable in his own skin, and that's attractive on a person so much more than weird hair.
Adam Arkin: SILVER FUCKING FOX. Straight up, SILVER FUCKING FOX. If you disagree, you're just wrong*. SILVER FUCKING FOX [See: Waterston, Sam; Laurie, Hugh]
*As long as you're not a dick about it, we're cool.