Category: Is It Bingeworthy?
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Anthology series
There are a lot of anthology series on tv these days. Not so much the old style anthology shows like The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits where each episode is a standalone story. The new anthology model is a new story each season with usually 10 or more episodes per season. I like this…
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Psych
Psych was a long-running show on the USA cable network about a fake psychic detective, just like The Mentalist only funnier (Psych came first and they often made jokes comparing the two shows). I wasn’t onboard from the beginning because I’d seen the ads for the show and it looked dumb. But I was wrong. …
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Resident Alien
Resident Alien is a science fiction comedy series that currently airs on SyFy but is moving to USA for its 4th season (in 2025? no date has yet been announced). I’ve been evangelizing about this show since it first debuted in 2021 but it seems to still exist under the radar, which is why NBC…
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Groundhog Day
In my last post I mentioned Groundhog Day as a theme for a binge list. What I meant by that is a list of episodes from varying tv shows that feature the “Groundhog Day” trope: a character or characters in the show get stuck in a time loop, like Bill Murray in the 1993 movie…
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What is Bingeworthy?
Getting through the pandemic would have been a lot harder before the streaming age. At least we had plenty to watch while locked inside our homes. But even with (or because of) the thousands of options available, it can be hard to settle on something to watch. You can spend hours combing through Netflix, Prime…