BBC Stuff: So, out of fairness to Neil Gaiman and the folks at the BBC, I rented the Neverwhere miniseries.

It was okay. Door is cute, the Marquis is fun, and the two heavies are just as drool as you want them to be.

But other stuff--for example, it's obvious the bad guy is the bad guy from the moment he appears on screen, where in the book, it is sort of a twist. And the sets and costumes aren't much. I wouldn't even count that against the series, except that in the DVD interview, Neil Gaiman keeps going on and on about how great the sets are, and how they're glimpses "Inside his head," that are "better than he imagined" whatever that pair of phrases mean together.

So I liked it. But I wouldn't recommend it to anybody who isn't British or patient with the British.