Joy the Baker

Here’s What We’re Binge Watching

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I read somewhere that Thursday is the new Friday.  Just in case that’s true, let’s talk about our weekend plans.  

There was a brief time between 1997 and 2000 when I worried about solid Friday and Saturday night plans, out of the house, out on the town, likely in uncomfortable shoe choices with an aggressive amount of eye liner.  Those days are now few and far between, and with age comes much more expensive, far comfortable shoes.  These days I’m very protective of my Friday nights and they usually involve yoga, takeout dinner, popcorn and white wine and television binge… full decompress.  According to me, this is a glorious along with cat companionship, buying myself roses, and eating Nutella from a jar until I can’t possibly any longer.  

Adulthood.  Amen.  What a time to be alive.    

There are all sorts of ways to finagle quality binge television watching from laptop computer to full HD television.  I don’t have traditional cable, but opt instead of the Amazon Fire television box (which I love) souped-up (is that right?) with a Hulu and Netflix subscription.  Between all of the shows available and streaming of Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Netflix, I feel like I have everything ever made on my tiny television (hieroglyphs excluded). 

 •  The X Files Season 1 (1993)  •  Let’s go back to the time before we all had the Internet in our pockets and we believed in alien abduction along with Mulder and Scully.  If you’re in your early 20’s you might not understand the drama, intrigue, and amazing mystery that occurs when aliens are real in The X Files.  I wanted to be an FBI Agent for several years in the mid 1990’s.  Obviously.  Turns out I make a much better baker.   This show was scary and odd and it’s coming back so we need to study up:  Find The X Files Season 1 here on  Amazon Prime or here on Hulu.  

•  Making A Murderer Season 1 (2015)  •  This is all (literally) everyone has been talking about for the past month.  If you’re familiar with the podcast Serial, you understand the intrigue of the real-life murder mystery.  Making a Murderer seems unjust, painful, heart-wrenching, and just…. it’s deeply messed up for everyone involved.  And here we are.  Is this just ‘highbrow vigilante justice’?  This article: Dead Certainty.  Find Marking A Murderer here on Netflix.  

•  The Missing Season 1 (2014)  •  Maybe I binge watch some pretty gnarly stuff.  I have yet to mention Amy Poehler or Zooey Deschanel.  The Missing is the tragic story of a couple whose young son goes missing while they’re on vacation.  The characters are complicated and emotional and I couldn’t stop watching.  Find The Missing here on Amazon Prime.  

•  Mr. Robot Season 1 (2015)  •   is a show about a computer programmer who knows all the codes to all the things, is dark and twisty, with moral dilemmas and take-down-the-man attitude.  Also, Mr. Robot looks like my long-lost brother according to Tracy Shutterbean… but I don’t actually have one of those so it’s just a coincidence.  Find Mr Robot here on Amazon Prime.  

•  I watched The Jinx (2015) on a very long airplane flight and was sufficiently horrified by the time I got off the plane.  It’s the life of millionaire Robert Durst and details of some of the mysterious deaths that occurred around him  Some people are weirdo, eccentric, lying, murderers.  This show was really well done, right!?  Good grief. Find The Jinx here on HBOGo.  

•  Difficult People Season 1 (2015)  •   is SO FUNNY, so pup-culture, and full of so many guilty-laughs.  It’s about two aspiring comics in their 30’s in New York City.  They’re mean.  And funny.  Find Difficult People here on Hulu.     

•  I’ll watch Olivia Pope save the world on Scandal Season 1 (2012) if only for her outwear choices alone.  Shows with strong female leads who solve problems and look amazing and occasionally get kidnapped?  I mean… they’re just like us.    Find Scandal here on Amazon Prime.  

•  Hotwives of Orlando Season 1 (2014)  •  This comedy is so ridiculous and so off-the-wall, yet deeply amusing if you’ve seen every episode of every Real Housewives of Everywhere like I have.  This isn’t a proud moment for me.  I’m just saying.  Find Hotwives of Orlando on here on Hulu.  

For your snacking consideration:

//  Roy Choi’s Furikake Kettlecorn   //  Hot Tamales  //  Peanut Butter and Nutella Sandwiches // Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies  //  Pistachios  //  Root Beer

Now tell me, please please.  What are you watching?  

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  2. We have the same television options as you. I heard so much about the Blindspot that we paid $1.99 each for the first five episodes on Amazon, and then watched the next five on Hulu. I can’t wait until it starts back up again at the end of February. I need to check out Making a Murderer. I loved Serial season one and now I’m binge listening to the follow up, Undisclosed.

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  3. I can’t wait until Sunday for the new X-Files to start back up.

    Making a Murderer is soooo messed up! I was ticked off with the law enforcement the whole time.

    Mr. Robot was GREAT! My husband guessed the plot in the 1st episode, but it was so good I watched it to the end.

    Right now I’m watching Point & Shoot on Netflix. Bloodline, Sense8, and Jessica Jones are really good, too.

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  4. Can’t wait to watch the shows listed by you all! I just finished Falling Skies on Amazon. Fighting an Alien invasion apocalypse style. Lots of sappy, but great action and interesting story.

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  5. I love this post – it is so honest and funny, and I can 100 percent relate!
    The Affair – Showtime
    The Master of None – Netflix

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  6. iZombie… I don’t know what I was expecting from it, but it’s adorable (as adorable as zombies can be), The Sopranos (because I’ve never seen it before), Avatar the Last Airbender (it’s just SO good), Clone Wars (also… SO good, and it will make you forget all about the crappy Star Wars prequels… or, maybe just wish really hard that they’d been made by the maker of Clone Wars instead), Star Trek (all of them – because I’ve never seen these before either and I hate having a huge gap in my pop culture knowledge, LOL)

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  7. ANGIE TRIBECA!!! it’s hilarious :)
    like an updated ‘naked gun’, in tv show format!

    also the unbreakeable kimmy shmidt and f is for family
    i like to laugh

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  8. Loving Mozart in the Jungle and Transparent on Amazon Prime. Also Aziz Ansari’s show on Netflix, Master of None. Love my TV nights!

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    • Yes! A job change that hit right about the same time I hit the end of S2 broke my binge, (plus S2 was just weird w/the writers’ strike and all), but I need to get back into it. I also just listened to WNYC’s great podcast The Season which put me back in the mood. And I don’t even like football!

      Making a Murderer is normally something I’d be all over (loved The Jinx), but I couldn’t even make it through the first episode. Everyone is so awful :(

      Lately I’ve been getting back into Survivor, of all things, after watching the most recent season because an acquaintance was on. Hadn’t watched in years but got totally sucked back in and have been binging some of the better seasons I missed. Still hoping a genuinely deserving person will win…

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  12. I am so enjoying Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries on Netflix. Love the music, the clothes are gorgeous and the plot lines are very interesting. I am hoping there is a Season 4 in the works!

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  13. Right now I’m rewatching Buffy the vampire slayer for the (probably) fifteenth time. But I finished Making a murderer recently too, and I’m so confused as to what to believe really. I hope it’s possible to find out what really happened there. Oh and the Jinx is just…crazy.

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  14. I know i am late to the scene ..I just finished all 5 seasons of downton abbey on prime!!!! will start boardwalk empire and the sopranos soon.

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  15. I love it when peoe ask what I’m watching…just finished Person of Interest, great characters, great scifi, about a machine that watches us all and gives warning to two man team…ack, cant explain, very good. And The Following, fantastic, Um, Mevin Bacon, cutest smile on a 57 yr old man. I’m 62, so heart’s a flutter. Got to watch his 30th anniv. of Footloose on jimmy fallon – he redoes the dance in the warehouse from the movie. Amaaaazing!

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    • The Following is SO GOOD, and very intense. It reminded me of Breaking Bad in the fact that you are never quite sure what will happen next. I’m with you Maris, I keep telling my husband that Kevin Bacon (I read Melvin the first time too) just has a swagger to him that is attractive (I’m significantly younger than him) but the hubby just doesn’t get it.

      Vikings on Amazon is FANTASTIC! Lots of fighting, cute boys, and great story. Not as many twists as the Following, but a good dramatic show.

      Supernatural, if you haven’t watched it, go do it now. It’s on Netflix and Amazon. There are like 10 seasons, and it just gets better and better. About two brothers that are “hunters” of the supernatural after their mother was killed by a demon. Plus the leads are just good eye candy, AND seem like decent human beings in real life based on how much they love their fan base (which doesn’t hurt, right?!?). Not too serious, not too comedic, but an excellent combo of both.

      Also good on the opposite end of the scale is The Great British Bake Off. It has to be the cutest reality TV competition I’ve ever watched, and I loved every minute of it (Netflix)

      And New Girl, and Parks and Rec… those are a given. They make me so happy.

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