When I'm watching Shifting Gears and Georgia speaks, this is how I feel

Just finished "Severance" season 2, and I have one more episode left of "Welcome to Derry". I also started, and finished, "Slow Horses" season 1 today. All of them are great. I'm watching "Pluribus" as it releases, it's a properly good show! Over the holidays, I'll be watching "Masters of the Air", and re-watching "Westworld" on 4K disc.

I’m also watching Pluribus.
That’s the one with Rhea Seahorn with creator/showrunner Vince Gilligan (Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, X-Files). This one is a science fiction.

I just finished a binge rewatch of Bojack Horseman... probably across two weeks or so. Seeing that whole show in a more compact form really hits differently.

The show is a TV-MA cartoon about topics like traumatized people traumatizing others, addiction, guilt, numbness, intoxication, and power dynamics.

Basically a guy who, when intoxicated, everything just seems to wash off guilt-free, but things happen when he's drunk or smacked out on opiates... so when he sobers up the guilt and anxiety hits. It doesn't demonize drug use so much as explores it, and also the abuse of it.

Here are some of the key moments of the show, Bojack is a drama, so it follows something like a Freytagian dramatic arc where the action rises, then the climax is in the middle, and the falling action (not that the action declines, but more like a roller-coaster where the cart goes over the peak of the hill, and is now falling down, and the action is more in the form of consequences and questions are answered instead of asked...). I'll put it under spoiler tags:

Start with this clip because it's in the rising action and doesn't have any major spoilers, for anyone who doesn't know, Bojack was on a show that was basically Full House, and this show takes place decades later, he's in his fifties and Sarah Lynn (who is like the Michelle character) is now in her early thirties (season 1-3):

Pretty much all of season 1-3 are rising action, and right in the middle is the climax. This is at the end of the 6 week bender, Sarah Lynn had been wanting to go here the entire time (End of season 3):

There are so many other important parts to the story, the story is bigger than this, but I think these are probably the biggest points.

Just finished "Silo" season 2, "Welcome to Derry" season 1. 

Felt like it took all year (probably more like half) but I finally got through a full rewatch of King of the Hill followed by a first watch of the new season. The show is every bit as good as I remember and I'm amazed at how many episodes I recalled despite my last watch being over a decade ago (goes to show how memorable the show can be, I guess). And the new season is every bit as good as the old! Like some reviews said, it's almost as if the show never had a massive hiatus and just kept right on cooking. The one downside is that some of the original voice cast is sorely missed and the replacements aren't really holding up (especially Dale's). Still, the new season has a sweeter, more sentimental quality to it and I'm so glad more has been greenlit. Can't wait!

Christmas specials.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which (for those not familiar) is a sitcom which has run for 20 years. A little background is needed before watching this clip:

In the Christmas episode, Charlie and Mac exchange Christmas stories from when they were children. Mac finds out that his the South-Philly Christmas tradition of going to your neighbors houses and collecting gifts were his parents stealing. Charlie finds out that all the Santas coming to his mother's house to give her gifts and money, one at a time in her bedroom, were actually paying her for sex work.

Later, they're at the mall...

Watching Kim's Convenience. Funny show about a grumpy Korean Canadian store owner and the things he puts up with, but a lot of outrageous situations are his own fault.

Just started "Foundation", it's very promising and right up my alley, but the structure and pacing is a bit all-over-the-place at times. Watched, and finished "The Chair Company", which was a pleasant surprise. It's hilarious in a way that few shows dare to be today, and it's full of the type of absurdities and characterization that I love in comedies. 

Tonight, while eating a nice steak dinner, I'll be watching "One Battle After Another" on HBO, I hear only good things!

Two days ago i watched Avatar. Last night Avatar 2. Today im gonna watch the third movie.