Shakespeare would be working for the BBC

Have you seen BBC America lately? They just keep hitting them out of the park. The Footballers Wives would kick the crap out of those weak bitches on Wysteria Lane, and rumor has it Life on Mars is another brilliant piece of fiction. It premieres this week.

I've been watching a lot of Hex recently, so MAJOR SPOILER WARNING if you're into that show and didn't see the last episode. The writers went balls out on the way to the season finale.

Cassy is the main character on that show. Blonde, pretty, a talented witch in a line of mystical ancestors, and she recently got pregnant with a seemingly evil demon baby who has yet to do anything particularly objectionable. Her best friend is a lesbian ghost. They kept building up that the ghost was finally going to disappear soon. Her days were numbered; even she accepted it as an inevitablility. No more Thelma.

Then, in the middle of a ritual Cassy jumped under the knife to save her baby, sending her into some dark shadowy oblivion. It happened suddenly, and Thelma had about thirty seconds to say goodbye, but it was long enough to send tears down my face.

They killed off the main character. Killed her in a way that I'd be hard pressed to see how they'd bring her back. It was like something they would have done on Angel, like when they killed off Fred but more shocking because of its suddenness. Good on the writers. They convinced me that Thelma the ghost was out, then killed off the lead. A ballsy move. I can't think of a show on the air in America that would have taken that risk with the story.

If you haven't seen Hex, check it out. The writers have cajones the size of Great Britain.