Every TV Show I’ve Watched Since 2020
Until recently, I wasn’t really much of a TV person. Well…I suppose that isn’t entirely true because I certainly watched my fair share of Nickelodeon and TGIF growing up and in high school I was obsessed with classic TV and watched “I Love Lucy” like it was my job, but in my adult life, I ended up hardly watching any TV at all.
It wasn’t in a “I’m too cool for TV” way, I was just…doing other stuff I guess? Out drinking with my friends in my 20s? Buying things on the internet in my 30s? I don’t even know what I was doing instead of watching TV, but I had a pretty long dry spell for a while there.
But then…the pandemic happened and we were trapped in our house for a few years without a whole lot of entertainment options. And then I got pregnant and was tired (and sober) all the time so watching TV became a top activity. And then we had a baby and have essentially been on house arrest for the past 18 months. So yeah, let’s just say, we’ve watched a lot of shows during the past few years—so many that I started keeping a list so I wouldn’t forget which ones we’ve seen (everything in my life has a list, you should see my Notes app).
Most of these are pretty popular so I don’t imagine I’m about to introduce you to anything you haven’t heard of, but if you’re looking for something new to watch, here’s some media that I think is worth consuming (most of it anyways, you could prob skip Tiger King):
Every TV Show I’ve Watched Since 2020
Schitt’s Creek
Big Little Lies
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Sex Education
Succession
My Brilliant Friend
Unorthodox
The Big Flower Fight
Emily in Paris
Indian Matchmaker
Tiger King
The Goop Lab
Waco
The Crown
When They See Us
Yellowstone
The Queen’s Gambit
I May Destroy You
Home
Bridgerton
Surviving Death
Shrill
Q: Into the Storm
The Great
Pen15
The Handmaid’s Tale
Master of None
Hacks
Squid Game
Maid
Ted Lasso
The White Lotus
Harry & Meghan
The Sex Lives of College Girls
Jane the Virgin
Daisy Jones and The Six
Beef
This list is in order of when we watched them (Beef being our most recent undertaking, I’m ready to discuss that wild ride with anyone else who has seen it), but if I had to pick my top 10 absolute favorites and order them that way, I think this is what they would be:
My Top 10 Favorite Shows of the Past Few Years
Schitt’s Creek: Just one of the best shows ever that dug its way into my heart and soul. I feel like everyone has watched it, but if you somehow haven’t yet, you’re missing out.
Daisy Jones and The Six: I loved the book, but I loved the show. I was emotionally devastated when it ended in both a good and a bad way? Gah.
My Brilliant Friend: Another show that was based on a book (a series of 4 books actually), HBO nailed turning Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels into a TV series. Read the books…but watch the show too.
Hacks: Maybe it’s because I love Las Vegas, or maybe it’s because one of the creators of Hacks is from Massachusetts so the sense of humor was spot on for me, but I really loved this one.
Sex Education: I loved high school so much so any show set during that time time period always gets me.
Succession: All the main characters are awful and don’t get any less awful as the show progresses but this is just good TV.
The Crown: I wasn’t really into royal family anything until we watched The Crown but I loved this series and found it really fascinating.
The White Lotus: Dark and twisted and really smart. Both seasons were great.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: I think if I could go back and live in any time period it would be the 1950s, so I loved everything about The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel—especially the wardrobe and styling.
Pen15: Cringe comedy. If you were in middle school/high school in the 90s, you’ll die watching this…while also relating to all of it.
Emily in Paris: A bonus #11, this show doesn’t deserve any awards, but it’s so light and easy to watch and just lovely and stupid and we all need that sometimes, right?
What’d I miss though? I have a running list of shows to watch next so let me know what your favorites are.
And Zane watches TV sometimes too. His favorite shows are Llama Llama, Trash Truck, and watching YouTube videos of heavy machinery or marbles rolling down tracks.
