It’s showtime!
Ah, confinement life in times of Corona. People have to stay home, work from home and watch Netflix in substitution of a social life. Or as a screenwriter calls it: Business as usual. Well… minus the severe anxiety of getting sick or loved ones getting sick. Minus that.
When people ask me, if I am not concerned about film making and the future of film making and cinemas, I reply that yes, I am very concerned and my personal funds are low and I don’t know if and when we can shoot, but that is not the most important right now.
The most important thing now is to stay healthy. Since there are so many people, who normally arduously work and whose days are filled with so many activities that they didn’t have time to watch TV all day, I put together a list. I am aware, that there is an endless number of lists out there, but this list is different (as would every professional list-seller say). I categorized the productions in “what you want to feel when you watch them”, because that is how I chose. We’ll start with series.
“If you want to get to know new friends and spend some time with their nuttiness”
-Obviously: Friends
-New girls
-It’s always sunny in Philadelphia
-Modern family
-Santa Clarita Diet
-Derry girls
“If you like fantasy, where people wear normal clothes and their super powers are used in a clever way to tell an exciting story and of course they save the world”
-The umbrella academy
-Misfits
-the Boys
-Stranger things
-Sabrina (okay they don’t wear normal clothes)
-Locke and Key
-Watchmen
“If you want to be aware how our life is already horror, technology-wise”
-Black mirror
“If you want to feel uplifted by super quirky people who make you believe in the good of humanity”
-Queer eye
“If you bought a sewing machine and can’t sew for shit, but you’d like to see what you could do with it, if you could sew”
-Next in fashion
“If you like a tied-knit gritty story and want to dwell in awe of fine acting”
-The killing
-Top of the Lake
-Handmaid’s Tale
“If you want to see the most bewildering human interactions, who also committed a crime”
-Tiger King
-Wild wild Country
-Don’t fuck with cats
“ if you like to feel all warm and fuzzy, as you’d lived in the village where Belle from ‘the Beauty and the Beast’ lives”
-Gilmore girls
-Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
“ If you want to see a series where there is romance, but also some serious shit is going down, but it always ends good-well kinda”
-good girls
“If you want to watch a harmless rom-com, where she is a nurse and moves into a small village and is courted by a very sweet bartender”
-Virgin River
“If you want to watch girly stuff and dress up fabulously after”
-Sex and the city
-the Bold Type
“If you want to maybe pursue a career in stand-up, when this is all over”
-Trevor Noah
-Sarah Silvermann
-John Mulaney
-Ali Wong
-Wanda Sykes
“If you like to watch at food and either enjoy your food therefore more or because you’re hungry and this looks really good”
-Chef’s table
-the Final table
“If you are terrible at baking and want to meet fellow artists or if you are really good at it and want to laugh at people who aren’t”
-Nailed it
“If you want to be excited because some serious shit hits the fan in fictitious lives”
-the stranger
-the bodyguard
“If you’re in the mood to consider how just the justice system is“
-unbelievable
-5 park guys
“ If you feel a bit lost and fucked-up and weird and think you are alone and also see the most romantic plot in recent tv-history”:
Fleabag
“If you like to revisit your youth in a much more excessive version that it really was”
-Skins ( Only season 1-4 and then 7)
“If you like political scandals and also a bit of romance”
-The good wife
“If you miss Hollywood or would like to experience it”
Entourage
I left out some classics on purpose, since I am mad at them, mostly because they messed up the ending. Did I forget a favorite series of yours? You can tell me in the comments.