I feel the same way. Pacing is glacial.

Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (2010)

Started watching "The Beast In Me" on Netflix, with Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys. Supposedly uses the production team from "Homeland", which I always like. The series follows an author (Danes) who begins writing a book about her new next-door neighbor (Rhys), a real estate executive who allegedly killed his wife.

Two episodes in, and it has captured my attention.

Stranger Things Season Five. Four episodes in and it's getting good. 

Just caught up on the Might Nein animated show and am now watching Fallout

On 1/2/2026 at 1:57 AM, Voltron said:

Stranger Things Season Five. Four episodes in and it's getting good. 

...it's getting good?  I've got some bad news for you...  🙃

Two more ST episodes to go. It's full of holes (pun intended) and the actors look ridiculously old for teens but the final season is a fun ride.

3 hours ago, philodox said:

Just caught up on the Might Nein animated show and am now watching Fallout

I have not watched the new animated series yet, but I did watch the original 550+ hour campaign 2 of Critical Role. I have been re-watching the original Campaign 1 (on Episode 42). If they kept the spirit and pace of The Legend of Vox Machina, I look forward to the Mighty Nein series.

Finished watching  the Beast in Me on Netflix, I have to tell you a must watch.

4 hours ago, mikeymad said:

I have not watched the new animated series yet, but I did watch the original 550+ hour campaign 2 of Critical Role. I have been re-watching the original Campaign 1 (on Episode 42). If they kept the spirit and pace of The Legend of Vox Machina, I look forward to the Mighty Nein series.

The animated shows are amazing. Vox Machina was fun (still ongoing, they're about to fight Raishan), but I think I liked the Mighty Nein even better, so we'll done. I've watched the campaigns as well. Haven't started on the 3rd one yet though, just the first 2.

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Dead Like Me

The Copenhagen Test (Peacock) - A government operative-turned-analyst discovers his eyes & ears have been hacked to transmit what he experiences to an unknown destination. The government agency he works for tries to make his weakness a strength by putting him back in the field. A "Quantum Leap" sort-of feel (to me anyway), and likeable actors make it an easy watch. Bring along a big hunk of your suspension of disbelief & have fun.

 

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Red Eye (UK) - season 2 brings Detective Sargeant Hana Li (Jing Lusi) back, this time substituting the confines of the US Embassy in London as the locale. Lots of twists & turns, and of course you don't know who is really who. Easy watch, especially if you liked series 1:

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Death by Lightning

Highly entertaining for history nerds (raises hand). I absolutely recommend this. Only four one hour episodes so commitment is low. 

Finished Stranger Things.

Now back to my first viewing of The West Wing. About to the end of S1.

This will be worth it to grok an Aaron Sorkin joke in 30 Rock.

Also, 93% chance I'm about to re-watch 30 Rock another couple times.

Oh, also constantly have on Wednesday as background whilst I'm falling asleep as of late.

The new season 

 

Bookish (PBS) - getting my Brit-TV fix with this new series starring Mark Gatiss & Polly Walker (#crush!) as store proprietors by day/crime sleuths by night "hubby & wife" (quotes intentional) in this series set in set in post-WWII London. British accents as thick as molasses, using the vernacular of the time, all require intense concentration, but worth it. By the by, young Buket Komur is one to watch as an up-&-comer in the biz, imo.

Broadchurch (Seasons 2 & 3) - Back in 2013, we watched season 1. While excellent, it was very intense, centering on the death of an 11 y/o boy in a tight-knit English coastal town. So much so, that when series 2 aired, we opted to not continue watching. 

In the last weeks, we circled back to binge thru season 2 & 3 in succession. These were just as intense as the first and reminded me how much I love Olivia Coleman's work. Definitely not for the faint-of-heart, or a casual watch. But these were the blueprint for many similarly-themed series over the last decade. 

Oh yeah!  And Jodie Whitaker and the rest of the Latimer family.  Every time they cut to the family, just..."WHO IS CHOPPING ONIONS?!"

Industry

I started watching this in the beginning and kind of thought of it as junk in the beginning. A bunch of new hires in a London bank/brokerage vie for permanent positions. Someone described the show as a cross between Euphoria and Succession, and can kind of see that analogy. It is in Season 4 now, and has gotten much much better. A lot of very unlikeable self-centered people, but for some reason I enjoy watching it. Kinda like waiting for the next car crash.

Not a standard TV show, but a YouTube channel.

Armistead Maupin was a young conservative Viet Nam vet. Who moved to San Fransisco in 1971. He moved there for a job with the Associated Press. He was a closeted gay man who learned quickly once in SF to be honest with himself and others about who he was. He made friends with many people, including Harvey Milk and Rock Hudson. He started a weekly story in the SF Chronicle, which turned into the 'Tales of the City' series of books.

I've run into him a few times in my life. First in a bar in Seattle, not long after reading the first book. And a few years back in the Castro, as well as the Pride Parade I attended with Colin and Brent.

One of the early jobs I did after moving back here in 2017, was to remodel his old house after he sold it to a Yuppy Tech. A-hole. Claire's chase lounge that Al and I built several years back is built from the primary bedroom deck boards the new owner had me dismantle. 

He now lives in London with his partner, and has been doing these 'fireside chats' on YouTube that are just amazing. He and his generation paved the way for me and subsequent generations. He talks about having to be completely closeted, the AIDS epidemic, Rock's friendship, Harvey and his assassination... 

It's history coming straight from a man that lived it, and it's fascinating to me.

Look up Armistead Maupin on YouTube if you may have any interest.

And for those not familiar with the Tales of the City books or TV series, you certainly don't need to be gay to thoroughly enjoy them. They're a fun romp through time, with lots of then current events tossed in for good measure.

Playing catch up on a show I missed the first time around - Jason of Star Command.

 

 

 

I think most everyone missed that one the first time around. 

Man, they had the worst ships. 

Returning to missed shows from the exotic 70s, when every channel needed their own Han Solo/Buck Rogers, they kinda needed a Wonder Woman too - The Secrets of Isis.

Starting with episode two, though one is further down. Personal space seemed different back then.