Yes, I’ve been missing for quite sometime. And if you know me and read my previous posts, you’ll know how much I love TV shows. I love it! I can not explain in enough words how much I love quality TV programs.
Over the past two years with CoVid being ongoing….sometimes we were allowed out the house, and then the government said, “No. Stay in.” With that whole shit show going on…my family hunkered down in early 2020 and decided to buy all the streaming platforms. Give me Prime! Give me Disney Plus! Give me Netflix! Give me Crave! So many TV programs at my fingertips! In 2019, my family was on the run…work and the kids’ evening activities. We were at swimming lessons, Cubs, basketball, curling, and tutoring lessons. So, when all that stuff got cancelled, we didn’t know what do with ourselves on those long March evenings.
We were thankful for all the Marvel movies that we watched in order. That took a bit of time, and because school was online, we could stay up later and sleep in. We didn’t have to travel far for school or work. Down the stairs, hang a right into the living room and continue on into the kitchen. We watched every movie series I feel ever created. Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Rocky, and every movie in between. Dumb movies, thought provoking movies, scary movies, hilarious movies and movies that make you cry your eyes out. That was 2020. All the movies.
2021 was a bit different. Sometimes my kids were at school, and sometimes they were learning online. Sometimes, we had evening activities and sometimes/mostly they were cancelled or modified because of CoVid spikes. My one kid was able to have a modified baseball season and play tennis in 2021 because those sports were played outside. Just having those 2 sports brought my kid so much happiness. The younger boy was happy being able to tag along and have playgrounds to play on.
I got really caught up…not just in family evening TV watching, I was watching my own shows…by myself! Folding laundry…watching my show. Washing dishes…watching my show. Curling my hair…watching! In fact, most of my chores were done with a screen in tow. There are so many great things to watch. I watched my own shows, and my daughter and I would pick a series to watch and then we would spend our days saying things like…”Are you caught up on Orange Is The New Black?” “Are you watching Younger? You should.” “Try Nine Perfect Strangers.” “Can you believe The Handmaids Tales?” “Don’t tell me, I’m not caught up yet.” I was also busy trying to convince her to watch a few of my favourites. “Watch Wentworth! It’s so good” “Good Girls!” “You should try Downton Abbey!” And so gross of us, we watched “Tiger King.”
The TV habit carried well into 2022, even though we are mostly in school, and we have most of our sports back. We had sports all summer long, we have sports and activities RIGHT NOW! And we still watch TV! There’s nothing like after a long day, an evening of running around to activities, that we gather around my favourite thing, the TV. We slip into our comfy clothes, we find our blankets, we pick our spots to sit and we find the show that we our watching. We are currently watching “The Modern Family” and just finished “Malcolm in the Middle.” Next on our list is “The Office.”
For the most part, everything that we have watched has prompted questions or discussion about something. Sometimes the topics are hard, like consent. Just watch “Back to the Future” and you’ll see why. A difficult conversation took place after watching “Coach Carter.” Same with “The Blindside.” “Rudy” became a fast favourite and never quit trying. After a comedy, we just walk away with the joy of laughing, we don’t always need a life lesson.
Once again, the escape of TV took me away, to many different lands. I travelled the world, went to the future and slipped into the past. It was sometimes easier to live in a fantasy world then live with what was going on in the real world. It was my way of coping.
The world seems a bit more normal, and my TV watching has waned…a bit? It takes me a lot longer to get through a series. Our days and evenings are filled. Sometimes we don’t have time to sit down and watch. But to the writers and creators of these great programs, I “Thank you” for filling a very large void in my life these past two years. I would not have got through it if it wasn’t for TV shows. I suppose I could have read a book or two, but libraries were closed! TV was never closed!
Thank you TV.
From the 4th line,
Arlene.
P.S. I’m not great at proofreading or the grammar stuff…so…🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
