So what are we binge-watching for the next 3 weeks?

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NickNaylor said:
Lately I've been watching In Treatment on Amazon Prime (3 seasons available). I've enjoyed it so far. Really liked the first season, don't like the second season as much but it's still good.

I'm missing Breaking Bad, so I might be doing another rewatch of that sometime in the future...

Looking forward to the next season of Better Call Saul coming out, though I'm not sure when that'll be.
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Just started. 2 episodes so far.

My wife sprang for Prime, so I started "The Man in the High Castle" Friday night.
 
Depends on how far back you want to go and which old shows you've already seen. Here are some of my favorites (new and old):

- Spartacus (Action/drama about gladiators)
- Ray Donovan (this is what I'm currently bingeing on)
- Bloodline (Family Drama)
- Rome (Action/drama about the politics of Rome)
- Narcos (Crime Drama about drug kingpin Pablo Escobar)
- Magic City (Drama about hotel gangsters in Miami back in the day)
- The Wire (Baltimore, MD version of Narcos set in the 90's)
- Chappelle's Show (classic Dave Chappelle comedy. Very intelligent humor)
- Making a Murderer (Crime drama aka that show everyone on social media was talking about the last 4-5 months)
 
Not_a_psychic said:
Depends on how far back you want to go and which old shows you've already seen. Here are some of my favorites (new and old):

- Spartacus (Action/drama about gladiators)
- Ray Donovan (this is what I'm currently bingeing on)
- Bloodline (Family Drama)
- Rome (Action/drama about the politics of Rome)
- Narcos (Crime Drama about drug kingpin Pablo Escobar)
- Magic City (Drama about hotel gangsters in Miami back in the day)
- The Wire (Baltimore, MD version of Narcos set in the 90's)
- Chappelle's Show (classic Dave Chappelle comedy. Very intelligent humor)
- Making a Murderer (Crime drama aka that show everyone on social media was talking about the last 4-5 months)
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Minor correction, The Wire is set in the 2000's. The fact that it is happening post 9/11 is important to the plot. However, much of the material is derived from David Simon's reporting work in the 80s, so it does come across as a weird hybrid sometimes
 
+1 for The Wire.
Also recommend The Americans as there's a few seasons you can catch up on.
SyFy just completed the first season of The Expanse, which I recommend. Also, watch/rewatch 12 Monkeys in anticipation of the premiere of the second season later this year. It's an excellent show.
 
Just finished bingeing Fuller House.

I really don't want to say anything bad about it because of childhood memories and all.

I will say that it is exactly what you would expect a reboot of a semi-popular 90s family sitcom to be.
 
clausewitz2 said:
Minor correction, The Wire is set in the 2000's. The fact that it is happening post 9/11 is important to the plot. However, much of the material is derived from David Simon's reporting work in the 80s, so it does come across as a weird hybrid sometimes
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Good call. It always felt like the 90s. I stand corrected.

Also, a few shows I forgot to add because they're still airing now:

- American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson (pretty self explanatory as to what it's about, but the cast alone makes this one worth the watch for me. Cuba Gooding Jr. plays OJ, David Schwimmer plays Rob Kardashian, and John Travolta plays OJ's first lawyer Robert Shapiro. If you can get over the Kardashian centered parts of the show, the rest is pretty entertaining)

- Billions (to me this feels like the investment banking version of the hit show House of Cards. I'm hooked!)
 
Anyone watch the Oscars tonight?

Just like the Super Bowl, Lady Gaga was once again the star of the show. She's made a lot of good career moves and is just really talented.
 
I totally forgot to say Battlestar Gallactica earlier. It's really frackin' good. (Hulu)

Also, if you haven't watched Parks and Recreation or 30 Rock, you aren't living. SAY YES TO LOVE, YES TO LIFE, YES TO STAYING IN MORE!! (Netflix)

Ps - I'm currently workin on my night cheese
 
Parks and Recreation is way different than 30 Rock.

Parks and Recreation started out OK in the first couple of seasons but it became like Barney and Friends. Ben and Leslie are the undeniably cute couple who can't do anything but love each other--and every other character is undeniably loveable in their way, as well. And each week there's some challenge that can be solved with civility and an earnest heart. I get less of a sugar crash watching Pollyanna. What kept that show going was people talking fast in a pressured voice while frequently looking at the fourth wall to make sure the audience wasn't drifting along with frequent cut scenes.

30 Rock was genius because of its writing (yes, it got more relationship heavy as it went on, but it started out with such a bang that it coasted to the end fairly well). There was the flashback scene with Liz and Jenna doing improv as Slingblade and Oprah. This is what they accomplished in 13 non-pressured seconds:



Now if you're a student of improv, you know there are two rules: You always say yes, and you never deny someone's reality.

"No you don't Oprah" is a hilarious line because it manages to break the two most fundamental rules of improv in four words in a way that you don't see coming at all.

Or there's the line where Jenna explains why she's upset for having to go to Tracy's fake Pacific Rim award he receives by satellite in the middle of the night. She's upset for not being mentioned, but look how tight the wording is:

"I drag myself out of bed at 4:00 in the morning, go home, get dressed, come in here, and he doesn't even mention my name?"

That's a throw-away line that becomes funny the second you think, "Wait, she wasn't home when she got out of bed?"

That's good writing!

Parks and Recreation wasn't a bad show by any means, but I feel so strongly about good writing that I have to point out the differences.
 
Shikima said:
Has anyone considered binging on Dr. Phil?
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I can do the best Dr. Phil parody. Can't really do the voice here, but the essence of his show is:
Someone comes on asking for help.

Dr. Phil tells the person that there's something wrong with them and that they need help (which is what the person already said). Dr. Phil ignores that the person said they want help and says something like, "I don't know what to do cause this guy needs help. We'll see if we can get him to accept it when we come back from break."

Dr. Phil then goes on to go through the dirty laundry of the guest trying to shame into admitting he has a problem, all the while the guest is continually agreeing that he needs help.

Dr. Phil continues to ignore this and then plays some B roll footage of a poorly re-enacted situation.

At the end, Dr. Phil says he's going to the fly the person to some rehab facility in Texas.

Dr. Phil is basically a drug rehab phone operator who is really difficult to talk to and has a case of schadenfreude.

Granted this is based on having seen only a few episodes probably a decade ago or so.
 
Does binge podcasting count? I'm doing a lot of driving this month and have really started getting into Sword and Scale - I highly recommend to any people who are into true crime type things, some of the episodes are really rough though (some are really interesting from a psychiatry /forensic psychiatry perspective also, the first episode is about a patient suffering from schizophrenia, and the most recent episode discusses a child & adolescent competency evaluation).

When I get home tonight I need to catch up on Girls and Togetherness.

TV wise I've been rewatching some sitcoms, which is my graduation comfort mechanism, I did the same thing in HS and in College. Currently on 30 Rock. I'll be watching House of Cards on march 4th too.
 
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FlowRate said:
Having just caught up... Do you get the feeling Caila is completely insincere?
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She . . . It was weird the way she just decided to up and pounce on Ben on the last day. I kinda wonder of the producers put her up to it knowing it would precipitate the talk they had.

I think she's probably going to be the next bachelorette and it all may all have been geared toward that.


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Does anyone have other podcast recommendations (will check out Sword and Scale for sure)? I only started listening to them over the past year related to a killer commute and will have more coming up as well.

I love: Serial, This American Life (although varies widely based on episode), RISK, and The Moth. Despite seeing patients all day, I can't get enough of intense human stories.
 
Merovinge said:
Does anyone have other podcast recommendations (will check out Sword and Scale for sure)? I only started listening to them over the past year related to a killer commute and will have more coming up as well.

I love: Serial, This American Life (although varies widely based on episode), RISK, and The Moth. Despite seeing patients all day, I can't get enough of intense human stories.
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Tim Ferris interviews some interesting folks. Also has a few where a reader goes through some of the works of Marcus Aureulius and Seneca. Good stuff. Not sure where your interests lie, but highly recommend Ferris' interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Really surprised by that one. If you're into lifting/strength check out his interview with Pavel Tsatsouline. Beast.
 
Merovinge said:
Does anyone have other podcast recommendations (will check out Sword and Scale for sure)? I only started listening to them over the past year related to a killer commute and will have more coming up as well.

I love: Serial, This American Life (although varies widely based on episode), RISK, and The Moth. Despite seeing patients all day, I can't get enough of intense human stories.
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Very Bad Wizards is a podcast with an academic psychologist and a philosopher being rather vulgar and funny about philosophy of mind and cognitive science, definitely worth a listen.

If you have the slightest interest in Antiquity, History of Byzantium is one of the better history podcasts out there and covers an era and area that are generally poorly/not taught in Western history classrooms.
 
birchswing said:
I can do the best Dr. Phil parody. Can't really do the voice here, but the essence of his show is:
Someone comes on asking for help.

Dr. Phil tells the person that there's something wrong with them and that they need help (which is what the person already said). Dr. Phil ignores that the person said they want help and says something like, "I don't know what to do cause this guy needs help. We'll see if we can get him to accept it when we come back from break."

Dr. Phil then goes on to go through the dirty laundry of the guest trying to shame into admitting he has a problem, all the while the guest is continually agreeing that he needs help.

Dr. Phil continues to ignore this and then plays some B roll footage of a poorly re-enacted situation.

At the end, Dr. Phil says he's going to the fly the person to some rehab facility in Texas.

Dr. Phil is basically a drug rehab phone operator who is really difficult to talk to and has a case of schadenfreude.

Granted this is based on having seen only a few episodes probably a decade ago or so.
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A member of my back up support group for eating disorder patients (no one I knew personally, just her screenname and the occasional post I might've read) appeared on one of Dr Phil's really early episodes on Anorexia and Bulimia back around 2003 sometime I think. It might have even been one of the first eating disorder centric episodes they did. I remember they made a really big deal about how she had this bowl for purging in and she'd personally decorated it with her name and colours and stuff and how that had to mean something (although they never quite managed to conceptualise exactly what). Just personally my first thought was 'Okay, that's considerate, I mean clearly she doesn't want one of her family member eating of the same bowl that she vomits into'...maybe they thought she should have been puking into trash bags like any other self respecting bulimic would (although yeah the bowl thing is also actually a measuring device as well and I'm being a tad sarcastic). I haven't seen the episode in ages, and it's not available anywhere I can find anymore, but I just remember it being rather strange and infuriating and kinda 'meh' all at the same time. And apparently the help that was offered didn't pan out to be much from what I remember hearing later, it seemed the treatment centre/team they set her up with were more interested in the advertising potential than actually delivering quality care and support. That's not the first time I've heard that from other eating disorder patients who've appeared on those reality TV type shows looking for help either.
 
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Ceke2002 said:
A member of my back up support group for eating disorder patients (no one I knew personally, just her screenname and the occasional post I might've read) appeared on one of Dr Phil's really early episodes on Anorexia and Bulimia back around 2003 sometime I think. It might have even been one of the first eating disorder centric episodes they did. I remember they made a really big deal about how she had this bowl for purging in and she'd personally decorated it with her name and colours and stuff and how that had to mean something (although they never quite managed to conceptualise exactly what). Just personally my first thought was 'Okay, that's considerate, I mean clearly she doesn't want one of her family member eating of the same bowl that she vomits into'...maybe they thought she should have been puking into trash bags like any other self respecting bulimic would (although yeah the bowl thing is also actually a measuring device as well and I'm being a tad sarcastic). I haven't seen the episode in ages, and it's not available anywhere I can find anymore, but I just remember it being rather strange and infuriating and kinda 'meh' all at the same time. And apparently the help that was offered didn't pan out to be much from what I remember hearing later, it seemed the treatment centre/team they set her up with were more interested in the advertising potential than actually delivering quality care and support. That's not the first time I've heard that from other eating disorder patients who've appeared on those reality TV type shows looking for help either.
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Sounds like a less horrible experience than I would have imagined. Rehab is really expensive (I think $30-40,000 is fairly typical), and so shows like that will get a lot of people without insurance/good insurance desperate for help. They have to go through the experience of divulging their personal secrets, which to me is not terribly different than the "penny a poke" asylums from Great Britain (the public could pay to visit asylums and poke them to provoke them for their amusement).
 
My faves:
Intelligence Squared
The Great Debates
Oh No Ross & Carrie
Anna Faris is Unqualified
Sword & Scale
Welcome to Night Vale
Lore
Mystery Show
Modern Love
Women of the Hour
Pop Rocket
Criminal
Guys We F***ed
Throwing Shade
Mortified
Savage Lovecast
Fresh Air
Invisibilia
Radiolab
This American Life
Serial
 
birchswing said:
Sounds like a less horrible experience than I would have imagined. Rehab is really expensive (I think $30-40,000 is fairly typical), and so shows like that will get a lot of people without insurance/good insurance desperate for help. They have to go through the experience of divulging their personal secrets, which to me is not terribly different than the "penny a poke" asylums from Great Britain (the public could pay to visit asylums and poke them to provoke them for their amusement).
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It kinda is the modern day equivalent though. I'm all for raising awareness of eating disorders, and other mental illnesses, but parading a sick person on TV for ratings and then not actually following up with anything that was promised in terms of treatment is pretty low.
 
Ceke2002 said:
It kinda is the modern day equivalent though. I'm all for raising awareness of eating disorders, and other mental illnesses, but parading a sick person on TV for ratings and then not actually following up with anything that was promised in terms of treatment is pretty low.
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He got in trouble for releasing private details of a meeting he had with Britney Spears. He wasn't legally responsible because it turned out he had already lost his license so he was technically just a lay person talking to her rather than a licensed counselor. The guy's just skeezy. Look on YouTube for "Dr Phil Mad TV" for some funny parodies of him.
 
birchswing said:
He got in trouble for releasing private details of a meeting he had with Britney Spears. He wasn't legally responsible because it turned out he had already lost his license so he was technically just a lay person talking to her rather than a licensed counselor. The guy's just skeezy. Look on YouTube for "Dr Phil Mad TV" for some funny parodies of him.
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Oh yeah I know he's not licensed or anything, I didn't mean he had promised treatment conducted by himself, I meant through the show he'd apparently promised to set this girl up with treatment elsewhere (usual spiel he does, 'we'll send you to a treatment facility, it's one of the best in the world, we'll set you up with counsellors, and dietiticians and whatever you need, blah-di blah blah, etc etc') and after the show those things weren't really delivered. The show can be entertaining on occasion, but not when he tries to delve into the realm of serious issues like this one the basis of promises of treatment that may or may not actually be kept.
 
Still the only thing I've binge watched in the last couple years.
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Shikima said:
http://nypost.com/2016/03/07/binge-watching-tv-is-linked-to-depression/
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It says there isn't a cause-effect direction, but I would bet almost anything it's depression leads to binge-watching and not the other way. And even further, I think TV could have a protective effect. It's good that depressed people have it. Better to have your life on pause than to end it. Think of all the shut-ins, elderly, etc. who wouldn't have a distraction from loneliness without TV. When I'm alone in the house for long periods I'll turn on the QVC. Never bought anything, but I like the chatty ladies in the background.
 
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