Favorite Binges:
- Breaking Bad – lost my binginity to this one!
- Fleabag
- Schitt’s Creek
- Happy Valley
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Great British Baking Show
- Transparent
*Yes, there's an app for that...although I didn't use it, don't have it, and don't intend to get it.
Started Bingeing Lost Interest Along the Way:
- Weeds
- Orange is the New Black
- Stranger Things
Already Saw in Real Time but Would Binge:
- The Americans
- Deadwood
- Broadchurch
- The Sopranos
- Veep
Never Saw Should Probably Binge:
- Mad Men
- The Office
- The Wire
Intend to Binge:
- Castle Rock (because I love Stephen King)
- Black Mirror (because I love the few episodes I’ve seen)
Never Saw Will Never Binge:
- Anything with monsters
- Anything with vampires
Worth Waiting For IRT:
- Insecure
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*Yes, there’s an app for that…although I didn’t use it, don’t have it, and don’t intend to get it.
Barbara BucklesArtist, writer, storyteller, spy. Okay, not a spy…I was just going for the rhythm.
I call myself “an inveterate dabbler.” (And my husband calls me “an invertebrate babbler.”) I just love to create one way or another. My latest passion is telling true stories live, on stage. Because it scares the hell out of me.
As a memoirist, I focus on the undercurrents. Drawing from memory, diaries, notes, letters and photographs, I never ever lie, but I do claim creative license when fleshing out actual events in order to enhance the literary quality, i.e., what I might have been wearing, what might have been on the table, what season it might have been. By virtue of its genre, memoir also adds a patina of introspection and insight that most probably did not exist in real time.
Characterizations:
funny, well written
Hot tip: Black money love! (Turkish soap opera)
This was fun. Kudos for inventing “binginity.”
Turkish soap opera…really? Will definitely check it out! Glad you noticed “binginity”…spell check hates it, so you have to work at it!
We discovered Broadchurch a few weeks ago and ran through it. We STILL haven’t watched The Wire. What’s wrong with us? I watched Mad Men, real time (after the first season, which I caught in repeats), without Dan (what’s wrong with him?) I am in total agreement about monsters and vampires; not into gore or scary stuff – EVER. The world is scary enough right now.
So glad you liked Broadchurch…one of my faves! Although I confess that my enjoyment of so many British shows is hampered by my inability to understand what’s being said, and I hate to miss a word. So, English subtitles! My dirty little secret.
Dan won’t do the subtitles and he controls the remote. I just got hearing aids this week! I can’t understand the “British” English either.
And in Broadchurch especially it’s complicated by David Tenant being a Scot!
ps. Love your Featured image. Very clever.
Brilliant categories, Barb. Really makes your lists that much more interesting for us readers. And, yes, “binginity” is absolutely inpired. (And reminds me of the great Oscar Levant line about Doris Day: “I knew her before she was a virgin.”)
I just like that you mentioned Oscar Levant…speaking of brilliant!
Love this, Barb, and there are so many on the list of interest. In literal terms I guess I need to lose my “binginity.”
As others have already said, I love your categories, and also your invention of the word binginity (should it be bingeinity to keep the soft g sound? Just asking). I adored Breaking Bad, but watched it so many years ago that it doesn’t seem related to the current times. I hated both Fleabag and Schitt’s Creek, and I haven’t seen anything else on your list. So it seems like we have very different viewing habits. Hope you will watch Never Have I Ever, I’m certain you would like it.
Hmmm…I get your point but somehow bingeinity doesn’t track with virginity the way binginity does. I don’t think we have to worry about it though since it will undoubtedly be forgotten by next week.
Bebe, we just now finally got Amazon Prime and Netflix and will join the 21st century!
Now looking forward to trying all the shows on everyone’s list including Suzy’s son’s!
Thanks for the app. Might help to keep track of what we see so we don’t watch it twice (LOL). We also had never seen The Office. Our kids advised us to skip the first season when the show didn’t have its act together. It was really fun! Loved so many of the same shows.
I, for one, was shocked, shocked! to actually list all the shows I’ve binge watched (that “e” in bingeing looks weird, but otherwise it would rhyme with dinging, so we’re stuck with it!), but yours is an impressive list also. I have not watched The Wire or The Office either. Oh well. Thanks for giving me some new ideas!