Reading this, I realised I don’t have rules for telly, although I guess I have certain habits. I don’t watch anything heavy before bedtime and like a little chuckle. I changed the settings on Netflix so that I have to manually choose to watch the next episode. Most of the time, I’m not on my phone while watching something. Prefer to give it my full attention. I laughed at the idea of having just one subscription as I think husband and kids would lose their minds. Although we have talked about offing Netflix if they put their price up again. If I’m chilling at home on a weekend afternoon, I tend to watch Murder She Wrote or Columbo. I don’t watch the news, especially news channels — repetitive and draining.
Friends saw me through the early months of the pandemic when I needed lightness from the end-of-days feeling. I watch it or Seinfeld if I wake up in the night and am struggling to get back to sleep. Big Little Lies and Chewing Gum, plus Ghost and Coming to America (my all-time favourite films) were what I watched in the week or so after burying dad. SATC is like getting together with old pals and maybe connecting with my twenties.
Love this! I watch TV in such a similar way as you, I'm ready to buy Netflix again entirely for One Day - and maybe Love is blind whilst I'm there but now that they phase out the episodes it gets a bit frustrating! I also cannot multitask and watch tv with a phone nearby - liking to be entirely absorbed. Hope you're well and thanks for this!
Some really good principles in there. I am guilty of being on my phone while choosing to re-re-rewatch Supernatural. I don't know what's even happening. But I do like to have access to the things I like and the things I've finished... Maybe there's some internal digging I have to do to figure out why.
Thanks!! I was looking for something to watch as I was convinced that everything that could be streamed, has been streamed. That was the premise of my latest harmonica video anyway, which is what I binge out on when I’m feeling sad, unmoored, untethered adrift in some amorphous grief I can identify but feel intensely. Maybe Willie Nelson’s “Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain” is not the best choice to play over and over and over and … well, it’s where I am now. 100Harmonicas, it’s a newsletter… 🤷♂️
I must get around to watching One Day.
Reading this, I realised I don’t have rules for telly, although I guess I have certain habits. I don’t watch anything heavy before bedtime and like a little chuckle. I changed the settings on Netflix so that I have to manually choose to watch the next episode. Most of the time, I’m not on my phone while watching something. Prefer to give it my full attention. I laughed at the idea of having just one subscription as I think husband and kids would lose their minds. Although we have talked about offing Netflix if they put their price up again. If I’m chilling at home on a weekend afternoon, I tend to watch Murder She Wrote or Columbo. I don’t watch the news, especially news channels — repetitive and draining.
Friends saw me through the early months of the pandemic when I needed lightness from the end-of-days feeling. I watch it or Seinfeld if I wake up in the night and am struggling to get back to sleep. Big Little Lies and Chewing Gum, plus Ghost and Coming to America (my all-time favourite films) were what I watched in the week or so after burying dad. SATC is like getting together with old pals and maybe connecting with my twenties.
Love this! I watch TV in such a similar way as you, I'm ready to buy Netflix again entirely for One Day - and maybe Love is blind whilst I'm there but now that they phase out the episodes it gets a bit frustrating! I also cannot multitask and watch tv with a phone nearby - liking to be entirely absorbed. Hope you're well and thanks for this!
Some really good principles in there. I am guilty of being on my phone while choosing to re-re-rewatch Supernatural. I don't know what's even happening. But I do like to have access to the things I like and the things I've finished... Maybe there's some internal digging I have to do to figure out why.
Thanks!! I was looking for something to watch as I was convinced that everything that could be streamed, has been streamed. That was the premise of my latest harmonica video anyway, which is what I binge out on when I’m feeling sad, unmoored, untethered adrift in some amorphous grief I can identify but feel intensely. Maybe Willie Nelson’s “Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain” is not the best choice to play over and over and over and … well, it’s where I am now. 100Harmonicas, it’s a newsletter… 🤷♂️
I’m so glad you got round to watching it! I finished last week, all the feelings…
I, too have rules for watching TV like you. I divide my watchlist into two: with my dad and on my own.
For this week, "Oppenheimer", "Maestro", and "Killers of the flower moon" are "on my own" watchlist (i've downloaded them via uTorrent).