Got some catching up to do, after slaying my English comprehensive exams, getting my thesis back with a very pleasing grade attached, and going off to Philly with Neighbor C from Florida where we rode the Duck Boat and then met up with a friend of hers who graduated from Princeton in '06.

Day 21 - Favorite relationship
Again, I'm picking two, because I can't control myself (and also because one of them is coming back in a different form in a later prompt).
First up: Tim Baylis and Frank Pembleton from Homicide. Prickly, close, working partnership, unquantifiable friendship. I wish I'd written it myself.

And I clearly like friendship relationships so much more than romantic relationships in television, because my second selection is Leo and the President's affection from The West Wing, on display here.


Day 22 - Favorite series finale
No. Question. Six Feet Under made the very gusty (but very in keeping with their theme) move of going years into the future and showing how each of the central characters die. And the song they use in the montage will always make me tear up. Nicely done, Alan Ball. Here are the last ten minutes. Now excuse me while I dislodge my cornea, crying.