#mdwatchestv

Wow you guys, I fucked up big and totally failed to recommend you THE best show of 2020 thus far. Forget all those other shows from the January blog, they were whatever and start watching CHEER (on Netflix) TODAY. You think you do not care about jr. college cheerleading? Let me tell you something: you do, you will, you must. Lexi is my sweet angel and I will be worried about her until my last day on this Earth.

Also if anyone has watched The Circle - yes the social media competition show on Netflix, I would like to speak about it. 

Okay so January was a total bust, let’s give February, the month of love and pilots, a shot.

Monday, February 3rd

McMillions (10pm on HBO)

HBO serves up more true crime goodness with their newest doc series McMillions. This is one of my favorite stranger-than-fiction true crime tales about a guy who successfully rigged the McDonald’s Monopoly game on a pretty massive scale. Honestly, it’s inspirational. 

Thursday, February 6th

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (8pm on NBC)

Now that The Good Place is ending this might be the...only network show I watch. Fancy that.

Friday, February 7th

Locke & Key (Netflix)

Locke & Key has been in development and shuffled around for the past 4 or 5 years, which is like 100 in television years, but I have remained mildly curious about it. Sure, the trailer gives off confusing tone vibes and there is no faster tv turn off for me than an indiscernible tone! However, I am hoping the vibe is “teen-friendly Haunting of Hill House that won’t make you throw up out of terror”. And if so - great!

Sunday, February 9th 

92nd Annual Academy Awards (8pm ABC)

Yep, we’re still doing these!

Friday, February 14th

High Fidelity (Hulu)

Can you believe movie High Fidelity came out 20 years ago? We are all old and made of dust. ANYWAY this updated take on the book/movie stars not Jon Cusack puttering around a vinyl store bemoaning lost loves but Zoë Kravitz puttering around a vinyl store bemoaning lost loves! I am usually anti-recycling IP, BUT I have been living in a non-stop nostalgia for the early aughts AND the gender swap is a cute update here. Regardless, Jack Black will be missed.

Friday, February 21st

Hunters (Amazon Prime)

Al Pacino and Logan Lerman hunt down goddamn nazis in 1970′s New York. That’s it, that’s the show. What more do you people want!

Wednesday, February 26th

I Am Not Okay With This (Netflix)

A teenage girl (little Amy Adams in Sharp Objects) has to deal with growing up AND getting super powers!!! Yet another show I should have written first. Well it’s based on a graphic novel so I guess technically I should have written that first.

Friday, February 28th

RuPaul’s Drag Race (8pm on Vh1)

Start your engines!

See you in March xoxo

Here we are luxuriating in Los Angeles’ most glorious season: pilot. I humbly ask you to put down your phones, deflate your hyperventilation bags, and give what is left of your frayed attention span to the television premieres of March. There is much to partake in friends. FX, for example, does not give even half of one shit that it’s the industry’s busiest month and is foisting a seemingly endless number premieres upon us. Also just when you thought it was safe to return to premium cable, Westworld is upon us yet again and reader... I am going to watch it.

Sunday, March 1st

Dispatches from Elsewhere (10pm on AMC)

I think this is based on a real thing in San Francisco, like an interactive world game that is sort of like the game in the movie The Game. But this is a television show about that game. The SF game, not the David Fincher one. Or maybe one was inspired by the other? I don’t know I’m bad at puzzles and would perform poorly in any of those games, but that’s okay because in this show Jason Segel has to solve the puzzles and not me. 

Thursday, March 5th

Devs (FX..but you can only watch it on Hulu?)

Disney owns everything now, including Fox, including Hulu, including this blog (jk, but if you want to buy it Disney my price is reasonable! Let’s talk!) So sometimes FX shows are on FX and sometimes they are on Hulu? Anyway this is the fourth FX-related premiere this month! I didn’t even post about the first four because there is not world enough or time. Regardless, Dev’s is a sci-fi thriller from Alex Garland, that guy who brought us the glorious Ex Machina and the even more glorious Annihilation. Creepy, stylish sci-fi starring a moody girl and with Nick Offerman as villain. I support FX in their quest to make every Parks + Rec cast member into a bad guy. Do Donna next!

Better Things (10pm on Actual FX)

This is a show that I struggle to actually watch but know to be doing Continuously Good Work, and I want to support it. Also I want to support Pamela Adlon and women in general. Also I do like the show. This is not an ad, Disney still hasn’t called (although there is still time!!)

Friday, March 6th

The Most Dangerous Animal of All (10pm on FX - seriously)

Well since you’re already tuned to FX you might as well watch this docu-series about a guy who thinks his dad was the Zodiac Killer! Word puzzles!

Hillary (Hulu)

But her emails.

Friday, March 13th 

The Pale Horse (Amazon) 

Agatha Christie + Witches + British Actors = This is it, this is my brand.

Sunday, March 15th

Westworld (9pm on HBO)

Here we go again! Feels like just yesterday we were all sinking slowly into the opaque narrative mire of what, at its core, is a robot show. If you would like to read my panicked and confused recaps of  season 2 I welcome you to click here. If you are hoping I will be recapping season 3, I regret to inform you I will not because it was difficult and unrewarding. Much like season 2 of Westworld. I’m hatin, but I am also going to watch this so. Jokes on me I guess.

Wednesday, March 18th

Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu)

Idk why I was surprised this had actual fire in it. Spring’s most hotly anticipated new seroes features Kerry Washington and Reece Witherspoon producing AND facing off. Intrigue abounds!

Wow Hulu absolutely crushing it this month with exciting and original content! Great acquisition Disney, jolly good stuff. Once again, myself and this blog are FOR SALE. It’s my dream to be a sell out, I’m a phone call away guys!