Cool list:
Let’s see how many of them I’ve seen. Will . . . yeah, I’ll just list the ones I’ve A) seen all the way (will bold the favorites), and B) seen some of, might still be watching (will underline the ones I’m still watching):
SEEN
SEEN SOME OF
- The OA
- House
- Dexter
- Reservation Dogs
- Justified
- Barry
- Mare of Easttown
- Stranger Things
- Happy Valley
- Watchmen
- The Pitt
- Andor
- Severence
- Better Call Saul
- Deadwood
- Lost
- Arrested Development
- 30 Rock
- Game of Thrones
- The Wire
- Breaking Bad
- Community
- Station Eleven
- Ted Lasso
- Squid Game
- Slow Horses
- Chapelle’s Show
- I Think You Should Leave
- Parks and Recreation
- Bojack Horseman
- Battlestar Galactica
- True Detective
- Black Mirror
- Mad Men
And the one I feel worst about not having even started? Twin Peaks: the Return. I’ve got it on blu, too. But? Once I watch it, Twin Peaks is over. So, I keep not watching it.
Anyway, I’m a slow, sloooow, television watcher. My daughter and I, we started watching X-Files in 2020, and we’re only now on the last season. Been watching Bojack for, man: a year, now? Think I’m on the third season, maybe. Started M*A*S*H about six, eight weeks ago, and am now six eps in, if that. I tend to forget I’m watching something, drift away, and then, if I want to get back in, it’s a climb, remembering where I am in the story/what’s happened so far, who’s who, all that. Unless it’s Deadwood or Justified. However, of all of these, my favorite, by far, is Mare of Easttown. That one just blew me out of the water (Task was solid, too). And, not listed here—crime, crime—is Vigil. That and Happy Valley are about as good as television gets, to/for me.
Also very much missing here was/is Starfleet Academy. I know I’ve got Trek goggles on, always, so will never be critical of that universe. But, man, this show: every single episode brought the emotional punch.
And, I mean: Star Trek: Discovery as well. I mean, yeah, once they went way into the future, it was kind of . . . kind of how Eureka suddenly felt like a sandbox, after reality/the universe shifted (sandboxes: fun to build castles in, but those castles finally don’t really matter)? But those seasons of Discovery that happened in the usual timeline, man: flat out amazing. Untouchable.
Guess I also miss Fringe. It also didn’t quite hold together, but those first seasons . . . we can call that the “Lost Syndrome,” maybe? Where a show’s so great at asking questions, setting up houses of cards we can wander through, be in absolute awe over.
Anyway, I think, both my lists together, that I’ve seen or am watching or tried watching thirty-four of NYT’s 100 best? Good enough for me. Wonder how I’d do on their list of novels. Guessing there is one.
