Monday, January 5, 2026

What Are You Watching?



This is the time of the year when my wife and I watch our most television. With it being colder weather and less daylight, we tend to catch up on streaming shows and start new shows. We have watched these various streaming series and completed them:  The Man on the Inside, The Beast In Me, Nobody Wants This, The Morning Show, Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King and one of our favorites Ted Lasso. We are still watching Shrinking, The Neighborhood and another favorite Landman. I am also in the late Season 2 of Silo and find it an interesting watch. 

As you can see we subscribe to multiple streaming sites and have our favorite shows for each one. We watch Hulu, Netflix, Prime, Paramount and recently added Apple TV. We also have access to HBO Max and Peacock but watch very little so far on those sites. We quit our main cable tv service months ago and went with Hulu Live for our primary service for local channels. 

We are very much looking forward to The Pitt coming out next week. We really enjoyed the first season and are ready to see the new season. Just yesterday, I watched CBS Sunday Morning do a story on Noah Wyle in which I discovered he was on the ER show in 1994-2000. I remember watching the show but never connected him from The Pitt to the older show.    

On a regular basis, we watch local news and NBC Nightly News and then usually start watching "our shows" on the various streaming services. 

We are always looking for new shows we might enjoy so if you have one you really like, please list it in the comments and we will check it out. You would think with a billion streaming options we would have enough lined up for a lifetime, but sometimes the many options are a little overwhelming to sort through.

What are you watching? Any favorites that really stand out? Do you have a favorite streaming service? One thing I avoid is dubbed movies or shows that were originally in a different language. I just can't get past the fact the words don't match the facial motions. Can you handle dubbing or does it bother you too? How many streaming service do you subscribe to? Do you start and stop the services to watch a particular series?

Whatever you watch, I hope it helps you get through the bleary winter months like it helps us. I personally get burned out after watching 2-3 hours and have to turn it off and read a book. I already look forward to warmer weather and more sunshine ahead.

Happy New Year!

5 comments:

  1. You know your streaming shows! I had Apple TV last summer, signed up to watch Severance & Dark Matter which I liked a lot but I loved Ted Lasso. I'm watching Tulsa King, Land Man & The Good Fight on Paramount, and yep I can't wait for Season 2 of Pitt on HBO. (That show takes place in my own Pittsburgh neighbohood.) Happy New Year, RCS!

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    1. It's always neat to see a show filmed locally where you might recognize some of the scenery. Living in OKC and being familiar with Tulsa, I see many scenes from Tulsa King that I can relate to.

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  2. The only app we have is the PBS Passport. I like that I can time shift my favorite shows and catch up on some older series.

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  3. I just renewed PBS Passport which I had let lapse. I am rewatching every season of the Frankie Drake Mysteries. We also watch BBC News. I want to know the world opinion of what is going on.

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    1. I've watched a little BBC news and it does give you a little different world view of what's going on.

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