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TV Shows I Want to Watch in 2022
Jan. 21st, 2022 09:03 pmThis is part of a series I'm gonna do this week, detailing Things I Want to Experience this year: books to read, plays/shows/movies to watch, games to play, music to listen to, etc. These lists are by no means exclusive and being a flighty creature it is likely I either won't get to all of these items or may wind up reading other things instead of/in addition to the ones listed below, but I'm gonna try to get to these and want to look back at the end of the year and see how successful I was at getting through these things.
Base rules on this project: No more than 10 things can be listed. Series can be listed as Series in order to not tie up the entire list with multiple entries. Experiencing at least one thing in a series will count as fulfilling the item. If it's something I started in 2021 but did not finish, it will be put on the list as Continuing: [Name]; otherwise, the item is new to me.
Continuing: Star Trek: TNG + Star Trek: DS9: I really like the Star Trek I’ve seen, but I got to season 7 and didn’t want Star Trek: TNG to end, so I’ve been paused on the last few episodes for like five years now. I think its time to open it up, to go ahead and let it end. I paused DS9 somewhere in the 4th season but I’d like to finish it as well.
Continuing: Discovery of Witches: This is so much better to me than the books it was based on, and it really gained a lot in the translation and most of that is that they really went all out with giving people outside the main pairing a lot more camera time and it’s really done a much better service of building out the whole world instead of just the Matthew/Diana story. I’ve seen all of Season 1, bits of Season 2, and I am hoping to catch up in time to see Season 3.
Ghosts (BBC): I’ve seen most of the American Ghosts with my parents and it was a really cute little show, with a woman who inherits an old mansion and, after suffering a near-death experience, also inherits all the ghosts that live within it. I didn’t know there was a BBC version, but I’m eager to see it!
Xena: I’ve seen this in bits and pieces over the years, but never really seen the whole show. I only know a few things about the final seasons of it: it’s got lesbians, it’s got Ragnarök-but-Greek-sorta, and it got super fucking weird and these are all things I’m down for. Plus I’d like to actually know enough of this to be able to request/treat for this in exchanges at some point since it actually pops up every once in a while.
Continuing: Ted Lasso: I’ve got a free apple trial and naturally I binged this and I just have to say I love Roy and Keeley and lovely Sam with all my heart. I’m def going to finish season 2 and hopefully make it to season 3, though I’ll probably have to pay for it for a bit.
Underground Railroad: I really want to see this one! I liked the book this is based on – about a runaway slave in the 1880s, and a more-literal-than-usual underground railroad. It’s a book that avoids some of the uncomfortable slavery porn that seems to pervade a lot of attempts to write about this period, but it also doesn’t shy away from showing how ever-fucking-present slavery and the threat of being caught as a slave was. Also, Amber Gray’s in this, and I want to see her break my heart again.( Read more... )
Base rules on this project: No more than 10 things can be listed. Series can be listed as Series in order to not tie up the entire list with multiple entries. Experiencing at least one thing in a series will count as fulfilling the item. If it's something I started in 2021 but did not finish, it will be put on the list as Continuing: [Name]; otherwise, the item is new to me.
Continuing: Star Trek: TNG + Star Trek: DS9: I really like the Star Trek I’ve seen, but I got to season 7 and didn’t want Star Trek: TNG to end, so I’ve been paused on the last few episodes for like five years now. I think its time to open it up, to go ahead and let it end. I paused DS9 somewhere in the 4th season but I’d like to finish it as well.
Continuing: Discovery of Witches: This is so much better to me than the books it was based on, and it really gained a lot in the translation and most of that is that they really went all out with giving people outside the main pairing a lot more camera time and it’s really done a much better service of building out the whole world instead of just the Matthew/Diana story. I’ve seen all of Season 1, bits of Season 2, and I am hoping to catch up in time to see Season 3.
Ghosts (BBC): I’ve seen most of the American Ghosts with my parents and it was a really cute little show, with a woman who inherits an old mansion and, after suffering a near-death experience, also inherits all the ghosts that live within it. I didn’t know there was a BBC version, but I’m eager to see it!
Xena: I’ve seen this in bits and pieces over the years, but never really seen the whole show. I only know a few things about the final seasons of it: it’s got lesbians, it’s got Ragnarök-but-Greek-sorta, and it got super fucking weird and these are all things I’m down for. Plus I’d like to actually know enough of this to be able to request/treat for this in exchanges at some point since it actually pops up every once in a while.
Continuing: Ted Lasso: I’ve got a free apple trial and naturally I binged this and I just have to say I love Roy and Keeley and lovely Sam with all my heart. I’m def going to finish season 2 and hopefully make it to season 3, though I’ll probably have to pay for it for a bit.
Underground Railroad: I really want to see this one! I liked the book this is based on – about a runaway slave in the 1880s, and a more-literal-than-usual underground railroad. It’s a book that avoids some of the uncomfortable slavery porn that seems to pervade a lot of attempts to write about this period, but it also doesn’t shy away from showing how ever-fucking-present slavery and the threat of being caught as a slave was. Also, Amber Gray’s in this, and I want to see her break my heart again.( Read more... )
