so, what are you watching?

[z_badfaith]

For some reason I can't point out, I feel like I'm late to post - even though it's only 11am around here... but I've been up since 8ish because (a) it's the time I'm usually up and (b) since quarantine started, my University decided to go for live classes and mine go all morning (why, yes, I am writing this while I listen to my professor). But I digress, my classes are not my main subject here (but it could be - I study Translation, if anybody's interested :P).

I'm here to talk about what's most important during quarantines & lockdowns: entertainment!

Because, let's face it, following up on the news all the time can be depressing. Very depressing depending on where you are and what your country's doing about it - I'm from Brasil, and if you are a person who reads up on news a lot you might understand why I'm talking about the need for entertainment. From my perspective, we either do that and try to tune the world off for a bit or we don't and we might become alienated and even extremely scared, if we're not scared already. As someone who's dealt with anxiety and agoraphobia for years, I've found out that creating my comfortable bubble can help a lot.

Creating my comfortable bubble ended up creating a coughbit of a problemcough and I ended up getting attached to a lot of TV shows and watching movies whenever I have the time (last year I watched more than 200 movies, I think)... and I'm always looking out for MORE :D So here's a list of what I'm currently watching:

9-1-1: Lone Star
9-1-1
Castle Rock
Criminal Minds (I haven't watched the last season yet because I refuse to see this magnificent show end)
FBI: Most Wanted
Harrow
His Dark Materials
Into the Dark
Law & Order: SVU
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector
Miracle Workers
Nancy Drew
New Amsterdam
RuPaul's Drag Race

And my current obsession... Chicago Fire

I don't know what is it about the fire and the drama, but I've been loving it so far - I'm currently watching season 5 of 8. Maybe I'm a bit obsessed with firepeople series and medical series... and dramas in general - because then I don't have to focus on my own ha! And now here's what I want to know: what do YOU watch for entertainment? Be it movies, TV shows, miniseries, documentaries or if maybe you play video games instead of watching things... what's your entertainment? Tell me about and rec me new things as well!

Comments

[auroracloud]

For some reason, I haven't managed to start watching much TV yet. I've had so much focus problems in general, and I always tire easily of audiovisual media, I can't watch as much of it as many other fans do. But since I also have trouble reading, I'm thinking of popping out my Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries DVD box and watching a few. And I'm thinking of finally getting an HBO subscription for a bit so that I can watch His Dark Materials and Gentleman Jack.

I wish I hadn't been so upset by the recent season finale of Doctor Who that my relationship with the show is currently complicated, because normally it'd be my number 1 comfort viewing. I'm thinking of starting to go through all of the Second Doctor since he's my favourite, and none of this canon rewrite business really counts for that era anyway...

So far, though, I've just been listening to a loooooot of podcasts. For some reason podcast drama is fine - I think the audio only format is less tiring for me than audiovisual stuff, and it's easier to focus on than reading, and hearing familiar voices is comforting. I've been binging on Wolf 359 lately, am in early S3 and wonder at which point it stops being comforting at all as things get more dire... I'm also re-listening to favorites I've already listened to once, like the existing seasons of We Fix Space Junk and The Far Meridian.

[z_badfaith]

I mostly stream things on my computer, though we do have a TV at home so we can watch movies more comfortably when we want :D I've watched Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and I loved it so much, it was a shame that it ended even if they did that little spin-off series after. I'd recommend either HBO or Hulu for shows right now... Amazon Prime and Netflix are also good, but I feel like both are slow on new shows (or maybe I just binge watch too many things).