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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
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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
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