And boy, I watched a lot of them.
1. For All Mankind (Apple)
2. Reservation Dogs (Hulu)
3. Succession (HBO)
4. Scenes from a Marriage (HBO)
5. Hacks (HBO)
6. The White Lotus (HBO)
7. It's a Sin (HBO)
8. Maid (Netflix)
9. Ted Lasso (Apple)
10. Only Murderers in the Building (Hulu)
Of course, I only have access to some of the streaming channels and I didn't include anything from Britbox or Acorn as they may be older.
What were your favorites?
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Wow, tough call. The only one of your list we've seen (some are on channels we don't have) is MAID, which would definitely make my list. We don't have Apple + and only got Hulu at the end of the year so haven't caught up. Will have to see if I can remember what we watched this year.
Maid
Money Heist
Squid Game
Dopesick
Mare of Easttown
Ragnarok
Seaside Hotel
My choices will be up on my blog next week. Some of your picks are on my list, too! Great minds think alike.
Mare of Easttown would be #11. I have not seen any of the others except MAID. Funny, we live in different TV lands now. I am scared to see DOPSESICK and still have trouble with subtitled fare. I tend to fade out if there is too much to read on a TV screen. I'd almost rather have a dubbed version, which more and more is acceptable.
new episodes in series/new to me (as I didn't have DirecTV when it had Audience Network--thus relevant mostly to CONDOR, perhaps some imports) I've enjoyed this year:
CONDOR (Epix)
PENNYWORTH (Epix)
HIGHTOWN (Starz)
CITY ON A HILL (Showtime)
AMERICAN RUST (Showtime)
DEXTER reboot (Showtime)
THE SINNER (USA)
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (HBO)
THE WHITE HOTEL (HBO)
WELLINGTON SUPERNATURAL (CW import)
and at least one, about a hapless painter and his irresponsible friend, that I can't remember the title of and can't dig up.
Have rather enjoyed new/"new" imported episodes of NOVA and other PBS documentary series, a few cable documentary series, DEATH IN PARADISE, the CSI reboot, THE EQUALIZER reboot, and the occasional medical drama.
Rewatches/catching up in earnest: PERSON OF INTEREST, LIFE (the NBC crime drama series), CAGNEY & LACEY, HILL STREET BLUES, DA VINCI'S INQUEST/DA VINCI CITY HALL, THE GOOD WIFE. Scattered NUMB3RS before it was pulled from H&I network again. Likewise POLICE STORY. Sampled a few episodes of KOJAK on the Sony broadcast network GetTV.
Ah, yes, MARE OF EASTTOWN as well.
And the comedy chatters: ZIWE (Showtime), THE DAILY SHOW, THE LATE SHOW (Colbert), LATE NIGHT (Meyers), FULL FRONTAL, LAST WEEK TONIGHT, the occasional LATE LATE SHOW or JIMMY KIMMEL, a bit of THA GOD'S HONEST TRUTH.
Hey, I got only 18 wrong/didn't know them on JEOPARDY last night. Better than average for me, by no means my top form. But it did seem an oddly easy night, and some I missed were shameful.
See you have a different set of channels, Todd. I don't have Starz or Showtime or Epix or USA or CW. And I never watch talk shows, much to my good friend Kathy's distress. I have gone back and forth on CURB this year. Has it become even meaner?
CURB strikes me as about as much about irritable jerks as it usually is, as opposed to the eventual sociopathy of SEINFELD. It does seem at times as if it's tretching more than previously.
Your CW station is WKBD 50 on broadcast--CW these days is essentially CBS's kid sibling, and WELLINGTON PARANOMAL is basically a cousin, set in New Zealand, of WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS. (One can also stream CW shows:
https://www.cwtv.com/shows/wellington-paranormal/the-not-ness-monster/?play=e8fe9d25-c4c5-40c7-9370-4d6c1c5e4d4c )
It's pretty easy to jettison most of the chat shows when they get over to the chat, hence my unwillingness to waste my time with the current TONIGHT SHOW, or most daytime chat shows or most cable "news" (I do still enjoy "Weekend Update" on SNL). The monologues and deep dives are usually what draw me to the chats. I believe THE SINNER's on Hulu and/or Peacock, as NBC Universal still has a toehold in the former and owns the latter. I suspect at least some of these others are streaming somewhere or soon will be...
The cavalier attitude toward the pain and trouble of others in the phone-charger episode of CURB did have a certain SEINFELDian excessive nastiness to it.
Yeah, DOPESICK is dark and it is also pretty infuriating. After a while I was fast forwarding the Sackler family scenes. I do notice that when I watch foreign language shows, there is usually an option to get a dubbed version, though we generally prefer the original with the subtitles.
We watch mostly Amazon Prime (and, through it, Acorn and Britbox and PBS Masterpiece and MHz Choice) and Netflix, plus HBO and Showtime, occasionally USA and FX, also Starz/Encore, and now we have Hulu too.
Comedies?
WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS
SEINFELD
SCHITT'S CREEK
MOONE BOY
Love MOONE BOY, which I just discovered.
Having trouble with Larry David's treatment of Tracy Ulman character. There is funny and there is misogyny.
Liked the first three seasons of THE SINNER and waiting for the current one to turn up.
It's interesting. We're watching the SEINFELD episodes in order from start to finish on Netflix (halfway through season three), There have been two or three episodes so far where Larry David's voice was used on the phone but he didn't appear. One was Newman (before he became a regular character as the obnoxious mailman feuding with Jerry) leaving a message on Kramer's phone that he was going to kill himself. In "The Alternate Side" David plays the guy who stole Jerry's car, again on the phone only. Of course, he did George Steinbrenner's voice in a number episodes later on.
No special channels, no streaming, just regular cable, so I’ve no horse in this race. We watch the news, some football, sometimes Rachael Maddox, Barnwood Builders, Nature, Nova, sometimes Masterpiece, and an occasional movie on TCM. I messed up the DVD player so we can’t watch those until I figure it out. Glad you all have so many things you enjoy!
Steinbrenner is the only one I remember but of course, I didn't know his voice in the early years.
Steinbrenner is the only one I remember but of course, I didn't know his voice in the early years.
A lot of these streaming channels are only $7 a month. These days I would go crazy without them. And most podcasts are free.
I can only read so much. And it's too cold to be outside. But of course, some of you have a spouse or roommate to occupy you.
Many of the shows mentioned here I have heard of but not tried.
I would like to try Only Murderers in the Building someday, but we don't have Hulu.
We are enjoying the CSI reboot. Person of Interest is a favorite but we rewatched all of those fairly recently.
I liked Schitt's Creek (love the actors) but we only watched the first season so far.
SC gets better . POI is one I always mean to watch.
Loved Person of Interest. Schitt's Creek does get better. There are characters I don't care for but I can fast forward if they get too much air time (but that rarely happens).
We're also watching the Japanese half hour show MIDNIGHT DINER. We're up to series 4, now titled MIDNIGHT DINER: TOKYO STORIES (all on Netflix). "Master" operates a small diner that is only open from midnight to 7 AM. Various regulars and strangers come there to eat. He will cook anything you want as long as he has the ingredients on hand. The first three series were better than the fourth. There is a fifth series too.
Midnight Diner sounds right up our alley, but Glen also has problems with subtitles right now.
Patti, we pay $260 for basic cable, so any more puts us over budget. For what we pay, Comcast OUGHT to give us those channels for free!
Yes, I've been watching CURB in an almost-asleep mode, last thing Sunday nights, and the degree to which his only interest in Ullman's character is to get a certain ordinance changed is definitely one of the stretches...and is more in the direction of sociopathy than I had been allowing for...well, one more episode this season. Nearly all my Sunday premium cable series wrap their seasons (and CONDOR presumably the series) next Sunday.
Rick, you're not wrong. I pay $226/mo for our Verizon package, which includes phone, but it still feels oddly constricted (and channels, mostly basic cable but also Cinemax, have been dropping like flies), and FiOS doesn't carry all the local broadcast (some, such as CBS-subsidiary Decades, I'd like to be able to see again)...yet is certain to slip in all the evangelist and shopping channels.
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Mare of Easttown
The Squid Game
John Oliver
Dexter
Only Murders In the Building was a bit of a letdown for me. More lightly amusing than funny. Have never found Schitt's Creek funny. Just don't get it.
Thought my cable bill high. I pay $184 for basic cable, HBO and internet.
I don't know. I know Jackie has negotiated with Verizon Fios several times and looked for the best deal, etc. but we're paying less than Steve and we have all the channels mentioned above. We dropped some of the pay channels we weren't watching much, but still ended up with most of what we had before, and our bill went down quite a bit - like from $237 to $173 a month!
Given how little I watch FNC and Fox Business except for bad laughs, and ESPN,, I should see if I can have them extracted and have my bill reduced by at least $50, as well.
I was watching SCHITT'S CREEK from its first run in the US, on the CBS cable subsidiary Pop, since I will never not try anything that heavy with SCTV talent and extensions. It gets a bit less arch as it goes along, but it always has some of that. It's kind of remarkable how its star rose, certainly after the Emmy sweep, and then it was widely syndicated on broadcast and then gone again (or shunted to late late night)...its audience finds it on streaming, much as they found it on Pop (or CBC when they were able to). Of course, I was still working at what was still Mostly TV GUIDE in 2015, so I could see it coming. (Pop, for that matter, was the former TV Guide Network before it was sold to CBS.)
Comcast doesn't have rights to show them
I pay $160 but all I have is ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, HBO MAX, high speed Internet, a DVR and a landline. No other stations at all. My verizon cell phone is separate.
Lightly amusing suited me at the time. Not sure it will later.
So I am paying for netflix, amazon, hulu, apple, criterion. I get Kanopy and Hoopla for free from the library and they have a billion good movies, which I rarely remember to check out. Oh, and I just got Disney to watch the Beatles doc. Hope I can figure out how to get rid of it. In total it probably adds $100 a month to my bill. But what else do I spend money on now.
Comcast is legally required to give you the "legacy" broadcast stations such as WKBD, the CW station...or at least should be, and they might be getting away with something. It looks like Comcast usually sticks the CW station on your local cable arrays on Channel 5...but I can believe there's something weird being pumped in, instead.
I have to join a non-local library (and thus pay a sub fee) to get Kanopy, etc....or most inter-library loans. Collingwood's library is small and strapped.
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