Like most everyone in the US world, we’ve been staying close to home and watching a lot of TV lately. We have been watching mostly comfort TV. When Donna has control of the remote we are inhaling Food Network and HGTV, both live and stuff from On Demand. Sometimes I get control it is usually tuned to Motor Trend TV. On Sunday and Tuesday from like noon to 10 PM we are locked on WEtv because they have the rights to the original Law & Order, all 456 episodes, and run a marathon.
Our Amazon Prime subscription has come in handy. Modern Love was a recent nice find that we both enjoyed. We have rewatched all three seasons of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and I’ve watched both seasons of Counterpart and it is amazing how different J. K. Simmons looks here than in the old L&O’s.
We also subscribe to Netflix and have been devouring Cheers like it was hot buttered popcorn. We are currently up to Season 8 Episode 8. There are 11 total seasons and after we finish the last hundred or so episodes in the run we may watch all 7 seasons of Mad Men next.
But after watching Cheers we might just cancel Netflix and sign up for Hulu so we can watch all 11 seasons of Fraiser. Then if we are still quarantined, Hulu also has all 8 seasons of Wings, another Thursday NBC Must See TV show to binge.
Right now we are locked on watching Vera, a British police procedural. I equate DCI Vera Stanhope with Columbo, she is kind of rumbled, drives a beat up car (1996 Land-Rover Defender 90) and has a tendency to get halfway out the door while questioning folks before turning around and asking. “Just one more thing.” There are ten seasons of the show and each one consists of only 4 episodes, but each episode is an hour and a half long, so they are essentially movies. We started a 7-day free trail ($6.99 a month after) of BritBox to see the show. Turns out we can only watch seasons 3, 4, 5 and 8, 9, 10 there. We have finished the first three and are ready to start on the next three seasons and have until Monday to do it. If we want to see seasons 1, 2, 6 & 7 we will have to subscribe to Acorn TV for those.