What are you watching in (late 2025 and) 2026?

[payn]

Musical artist finds traction in writing songs about people behaving badly. Go figure.

Sure, telling tales about people behaving badly is a time-honored tradition in music. Songs about yourself behaving badly....repeatedly... Might be something else.

 

[Umbran]

Sure, telling tales about people behaving badly is a time-honored tradition in music. Songs about yourself behaving badly....repeatedly... Might be something else.

Everyone deciding songs are autobiographical, based on zero evidence and much speculation, is also a time-honored tradition.

Phil Collins didn't know a guy named Billy running from the law, nor did he watch a man drown.

And Johnny Cash was not originally named, "Sue."

 

[TheAlkaizer]

Mad Men is my favorite show of all time. And for years, knowing that Matthew Weiner had worked on it, The Sopranos have been on my list. So I started watching it casually during the holidays. About two-thirds of the way through. I like it, it's a good show. But, to my standards, it's nowhere near the level of quality of Mad Men. I'm really happy to be watching it though, and there's some really colorful characters in it.

As for after... I have so much on my list: Shogun, Andor Season 2, House of Dragons Season 2, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and more. I don't know what I'll feel like, and I always watch only one show at a time.

 

[Umbran]

I don't know what I'll feel like, and I always watch only one show at a time.

My wife and I have a short list of shows that, at the moment, we are going through. When we complete one, we add another. That way, we have enough breadth that we always have something that fits our mood, but we aren't flapping in the breeze with options.

 

[Gradine]

My current guilty pressure, by the way, is The Traitors. Always up for Alan Cumming vamping out, and the current season has been an absolutely clinic

 

[payn]

My current guilty pressure, by the way, is The Traitors. Always up for Alan Cumming vamping out, and the current season has been an absolutely clinic

 

[Cadence]

It turns out that BritBox Premier has a bunch of nature documentaries. So last night I couldn't decide what mystery to put on and we both kind of wanted to zone out, so we got to hear Attenborough muse about naked mole rats and narwhals and a few other species (two per episode on his Natural Curiosities).

 

[jian]

We’ve just started watching Pro Bono, a Netflix K-drama about an arrogant ex-judge who’s forced to run a pro bono (corporate social responsibility) team for a huge law firm. Now that we’re done with the setup it looks to be an episodic case of the week format for at least a few episodes (there’s only 12 episodes). So far he’s winning the cases not by being good at law but by using his connections and knowledge of the lawyers and judges involved, which is certainly an approach.

 

[Richards]

My understanding was "Every Breath You Take" was about Big Brother from George Orwell's novel 1984.

Johnathan

 

[Umbran]

My understanding was "Every Breath You Take" was about Big Brother from George Orwell's novel 1984.

Not quite. To quote the artist:

"I woke up in the middle of the night with that line ["every breath you take, every move you make"] in my head, sat down at the piano and had written it in half an hour. The tune itself is generic, an aggregate of hundreds of others, but the words are interesting. It sounds like a comforting love song. I didn't realise at the time how sinister it is. I think I was thinking of Big Brother, surveillance and control."

So, it isn't about Big Brother, but there is a bit of inspiration from there.