CM can be bleak, and the subject matter certainly is, but there's something about the way they show it - no black and white, but interesting shades of grey - that I really like and that gives me hope. There are no easy questions and answers, which is the other thing I like about it.

*g* I has a sheep! (http://jadesfire2808.livejournal.com/326516.html#cutid1). How else am I going to keep him clean ;D