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Which TV shows did you start watching in 2019?
Quite a few this year!
You, Sex Education, Russian Doll, The Umbrella Academy, When They See Us, Unbelievable, The Act, Chernobyl, Euphoria, Looking For Alaska, The Boys, and Derry Girls. Also watched the first season of American Horror Story (only nine years after everyone else has lol) and really enjoyed it, but I can’t decide how quickly I want to catch up with the rest as it is an anthology show and each season will be so different. Also watched the first season of True Detective which I absolutely loved, but couldn’t get into season 3 at all when I gave that one a go, so I think it’s best if the first remain a perfect standalone series for me
And I started watching Elementary and The Good Doctor, both of which were very good, but I did find it harder to get back into that style of procedural television. I actually really loved the first season of Elementary and fell in love with the characters and their growing relationship completely, but then found that the episodes started to drag after that for me. Didn’t help that I was not at all a fan of the casting of Sherlock’s brother in season 2! I’m now halfway through season 3 and still loving all of the character moments, but the episodes themselves are just so hit and miss for me. It’s not that they’re bad exactly, but more that they all kind of blend into one another after a bit. Maybe some shows are better designed if you try and watch them weekly, rather than an entire season all one after another, or maybe I’m just not used to 24 episode seasons any more 🤷♀️
Which TV shows did you let go of in 2019?
The Handmaid’s Tale. I wish that the show would have switched to following Emily and the other characters in Canada, all of the close-ups and heroic cameras shots of June got old fast, and this just doesn’t feel like a show that needed to be stretched into so many seasons. I think that the show died for me after June decided to stay in Gilead at the end of season 2, the writing tied itself into knots after that to justify her safety as the protagonist, even as everyone died around her because of the risks that June was taking.
Which TV shows did you mean to get into but didn't in 2019? Why?
Couldn’t get on with Fleabag at all personally which was a bit disappointing after all the hype that it’s been getting. It had some very funny jokes, but it was waaaay too self aware and smug for me, and tbh I didn’t really like the main character enough to keep watching past the first two episodes.
The Crown was another show that I really expected to get into as I find a lot of the online discussions of the characters and the history very interesting, but I ended up dropping it after the sixth episode as it was just really dragging and feeling like such a chore to get through. A real shame as it’s a show that I did want to love, and it all looked gorgeous, but the pacing of it was sending me to sleep unfortunately!
Which TV shows do you intend on checking out in 2019?
As ever the answer to that is too many! But just a few I’m considering at the moment are Schitt’s Creek, Stumptown, Nancy Drew, Roswell New Mexico, Broadchurch, V Wars, Servant, Truth Be Told, and Dickinson (actually just starting that one now!) Of course a few of those shows depend on if they ever get an air date here in the U.K. , but I’m definitely hoping to catch up on most of the shows that are easily available to watch on streaming services like Netflix and Apple
Your favorite film you watched this year?
I thought that Get Out was excellent
Your favorite book read this year?
Naomi’s Year In Books
Probably A Silent Patient was my overall favourite. I didn’t understand the hype that My Lovely Wife got at all, much like Girl On A Train in fact it was a thriller that I couldn’t get into at all, but then A Silent Patient was a case of the hype being well deserved! I did start to guess the twist towards the end admittedly, but it was still very well done imo and gripping to follow. I also thought that Verity by Colleen Hoover was very good and extremely creepy, although I was quite perplexed to see it listed under romances in the Goodread reader awards! Not that it wasn’t sort of a romance I suppose, but that’s not exactly what stands out to me with it?
Your favorite TV show(s) of the year?
Sex Education, Derry Girls, The Marvellous Mrs.Maisel, The Boys, The Act, Looking For Alaska, Veronica Mars, and True Detective
Your favorite online fandom community of the year?
Honestly I feel more out of step with fandom every year. I’ve been spending more time on twitter lately, and the shows I come across the most in my little corner are probably Farscape, X-Files, Hannibal, Doctor Who, and Veronica Mars, but with DW and VM everyone just seems super angry and opposed to one another. And then even in a fandom which is all positive like Hannibal, I feel like I don’t quite fit. Maybe I’m becoming a gigantic prude in my advancing age, but while I love reading any kind of fan fic in private, sometimes it feels like most of Hannigram fandom consists of sharing sexually explicit jokes and artwork which isn’t really my thing. That’s probably not an entirely fair summation of the fandom, and I’m sure it’s more of a me thing, but I just feel extremely uncomfortable jumping in to a discussion for example on what a needy bitch Will is and look at him here blatantly presenting his bottom to Hannibal in this screen cap. Honestly I’m cringing just writing that, I’m definitely getting old XD
People can talk about whatever they want of course to be clear, it just makes me feel a bit at odds with the general fandom feel I suppose when I feel like I don’t fit at all, even when it’s a show and a couple that I do actually love. The fandoms I have been enjoying the most on twitter are Farscape and X-Files, it’s nice to see how active they both still are, and it feels easier there to just focus on appreciating the characters and the storylines
Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
Maybe The Boys? Although I’m not really in the fandom as such
Your fandom that made an unexpected comeback this year?
Veronica Mars
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
Probably Big Little Lies. Turns out all of the people saying that it didn’t need a follow up were absolutely right :( I didn’t hate it, but certainly the ending of the first season would have been a far more powerful image to end it on. At least it gave us a lot of funny and memorable Renata moments I suppose?
Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Gosh I don’t know, probably anything to do with the fifth episode of The Marvellous Mrs.Maisel? Absolutely love Midge and Lenny Bruce, so I was pretty much dying of squee throughout their scenes!
The most missed of your old fandoms?
The Big Bang Theory ended this past year and I will miss it, even if I do sometimes feel like the sole fan of it online *g* I had a ton of trouble buying the special limited edition for the complete series actually! I had it ordered with amazon.co.uk, and then nobody there seemed to understand my frustration when they send me an email saying that it was cancelled because of trouble with their supplier, and so then when it did briefly come on sale after that I lost out on buying it completely because all the available stock sold out within minutes and my order had obviously already been cancelled by then. I was so pissed that they had interfered with my order, I send them several emails arguing that I had been happy to wait until it come in stock and they should have never cancelled it without my agreement, but I couldn’t seem to get through to anyone :(
I’ve got a copy ordered from the American site at the moment anyway, just annoying that it’s costing me over £60 more than my original order with amazon.co.uk, fingers crossed that it’s all okay when it gets here
Quite a few this year!
You, Sex Education, Russian Doll, The Umbrella Academy, When They See Us, Unbelievable, The Act, Chernobyl, Euphoria, Looking For Alaska, The Boys, and Derry Girls. Also watched the first season of American Horror Story (only nine years after everyone else has lol) and really enjoyed it, but I can’t decide how quickly I want to catch up with the rest as it is an anthology show and each season will be so different. Also watched the first season of True Detective which I absolutely loved, but couldn’t get into season 3 at all when I gave that one a go, so I think it’s best if the first remain a perfect standalone series for me
And I started watching Elementary and The Good Doctor, both of which were very good, but I did find it harder to get back into that style of procedural television. I actually really loved the first season of Elementary and fell in love with the characters and their growing relationship completely, but then found that the episodes started to drag after that for me. Didn’t help that I was not at all a fan of the casting of Sherlock’s brother in season 2! I’m now halfway through season 3 and still loving all of the character moments, but the episodes themselves are just so hit and miss for me. It’s not that they’re bad exactly, but more that they all kind of blend into one another after a bit. Maybe some shows are better designed if you try and watch them weekly, rather than an entire season all one after another, or maybe I’m just not used to 24 episode seasons any more 🤷♀️
Which TV shows did you let go of in 2019?
The Handmaid’s Tale. I wish that the show would have switched to following Emily and the other characters in Canada, all of the close-ups and heroic cameras shots of June got old fast, and this just doesn’t feel like a show that needed to be stretched into so many seasons. I think that the show died for me after June decided to stay in Gilead at the end of season 2, the writing tied itself into knots after that to justify her safety as the protagonist, even as everyone died around her because of the risks that June was taking.
Which TV shows did you mean to get into but didn't in 2019? Why?
Couldn’t get on with Fleabag at all personally which was a bit disappointing after all the hype that it’s been getting. It had some very funny jokes, but it was waaaay too self aware and smug for me, and tbh I didn’t really like the main character enough to keep watching past the first two episodes.
The Crown was another show that I really expected to get into as I find a lot of the online discussions of the characters and the history very interesting, but I ended up dropping it after the sixth episode as it was just really dragging and feeling like such a chore to get through. A real shame as it’s a show that I did want to love, and it all looked gorgeous, but the pacing of it was sending me to sleep unfortunately!
Which TV shows do you intend on checking out in 2019?
As ever the answer to that is too many! But just a few I’m considering at the moment are Schitt’s Creek, Stumptown, Nancy Drew, Roswell New Mexico, Broadchurch, V Wars, Servant, Truth Be Told, and Dickinson (actually just starting that one now!) Of course a few of those shows depend on if they ever get an air date here in the U.K. , but I’m definitely hoping to catch up on most of the shows that are easily available to watch on streaming services like Netflix and Apple
Your favorite film you watched this year?
I thought that Get Out was excellent
Your favorite book read this year?
Naomi’s Year In Books
Probably A Silent Patient was my overall favourite. I didn’t understand the hype that My Lovely Wife got at all, much like Girl On A Train in fact it was a thriller that I couldn’t get into at all, but then A Silent Patient was a case of the hype being well deserved! I did start to guess the twist towards the end admittedly, but it was still very well done imo and gripping to follow. I also thought that Verity by Colleen Hoover was very good and extremely creepy, although I was quite perplexed to see it listed under romances in the Goodread reader awards! Not that it wasn’t sort of a romance I suppose, but that’s not exactly what stands out to me with it?
Your favorite TV show(s) of the year?
Sex Education, Derry Girls, The Marvellous Mrs.Maisel, The Boys, The Act, Looking For Alaska, Veronica Mars, and True Detective
Your favorite online fandom community of the year?
Honestly I feel more out of step with fandom every year. I’ve been spending more time on twitter lately, and the shows I come across the most in my little corner are probably Farscape, X-Files, Hannibal, Doctor Who, and Veronica Mars, but with DW and VM everyone just seems super angry and opposed to one another. And then even in a fandom which is all positive like Hannibal, I feel like I don’t quite fit. Maybe I’m becoming a gigantic prude in my advancing age, but while I love reading any kind of fan fic in private, sometimes it feels like most of Hannigram fandom consists of sharing sexually explicit jokes and artwork which isn’t really my thing. That’s probably not an entirely fair summation of the fandom, and I’m sure it’s more of a me thing, but I just feel extremely uncomfortable jumping in to a discussion for example on what a needy bitch Will is and look at him here blatantly presenting his bottom to Hannibal in this screen cap. Honestly I’m cringing just writing that, I’m definitely getting old XD
People can talk about whatever they want of course to be clear, it just makes me feel a bit at odds with the general fandom feel I suppose when I feel like I don’t fit at all, even when it’s a show and a couple that I do actually love. The fandoms I have been enjoying the most on twitter are Farscape and X-Files, it’s nice to see how active they both still are, and it feels easier there to just focus on appreciating the characters and the storylines
Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
Maybe The Boys? Although I’m not really in the fandom as such
Your fandom that made an unexpected comeback this year?
Veronica Mars
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
Probably Big Little Lies. Turns out all of the people saying that it didn’t need a follow up were absolutely right :( I didn’t hate it, but certainly the ending of the first season would have been a far more powerful image to end it on. At least it gave us a lot of funny and memorable Renata moments I suppose?
Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Gosh I don’t know, probably anything to do with the fifth episode of The Marvellous Mrs.Maisel? Absolutely love Midge and Lenny Bruce, so I was pretty much dying of squee throughout their scenes!
The most missed of your old fandoms?
The Big Bang Theory ended this past year and I will miss it, even if I do sometimes feel like the sole fan of it online *g* I had a ton of trouble buying the special limited edition for the complete series actually! I had it ordered with amazon.co.uk, and then nobody there seemed to understand my frustration when they send me an email saying that it was cancelled because of trouble with their supplier, and so then when it did briefly come on sale after that I lost out on buying it completely because all the available stock sold out within minutes and my order had obviously already been cancelled by then. I was so pissed that they had interfered with my order, I send them several emails arguing that I had been happy to wait until it come in stock and they should have never cancelled it without my agreement, but I couldn’t seem to get through to anyone :(
I’ve got a copy ordered from the American site at the moment anyway, just annoying that it’s costing me over £60 more than my original order with amazon.co.uk, fingers crossed that it’s all okay when it gets here
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Date: 2020-01-01 03:59 pm (UTC)