Sopranos Binge Finished. What's Next?

Hawk and I finished our binge of The Sopranos yesterday. I'll write soon about the ending; I have strong feelings about it. For now I just want to acknowledge that our binge-watch is complete.

When I started the series in September I thought it might take 3 months or longer to complete watching its 86 episodes. I noted that even 1 hour/day of TV watching is well above my long term average. Well, we finished the 86 episodes in a span of 54 days, so (rounding each episode to 60 minutes) we averaged 1.6 hours/day of it. That's well above my long term average of about 2 hours per week.

Watching so much more TV than my long term average is not surprising. My LTA is low precisely because I find so little TV worth watching. Conversely, when there's a show I/we really like with old episodes available to stream, we're happy to plow through at 2 hours a day several days a week. We binged at a similar pace with The Mandalorian and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

And yeah, streaming rocks. It's so much more enjoyable to watch a series by bingeing through a whole season in a week instead of watching just one episode per week. That's like water torture. Drip... drip... drip....

What's Next?

So, what's next? There are a few other series one or both of us would like to catch up on. While we've got HBO Max I'd like to watch Game of Thrones. That's 73 episodes. That'd probably take 3-4 months to finish, longer than The Sopranos because it'd be me-only TV. Hawk doesn't want to watch it.

I mentioned above both The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and The Mandalorian. Maisel's 4th season has been in production but doesn't have a release date yet. Show biz articles are saying it'll likely drop in 2022 though it's possible it could arrive as soon as December this year.

The Mandalorian has a 3rd season coming. That's a surprising because a post-credits scene in the last episode of season 2 said the saga would continue as The Book of Boba Fett. Well, both are coming. Boba Fett is due to drop in December, with Mando coming out sometime next year.

What could we watch now? Beyond Game of Thrones, which would be "me" TV, one series of "us" TV would be Lucifer. We watched the first 2 or 3 seasons when it was on broadcast TV, before broadcast TV dropped it and it was picked up by Netflix. Also on Netflix is Breaking Bad. It looks like we'll be adding a Netflix subscription sometime in the next 2 months.

Late Night Seems To Come So Early

We set the clocks back early this morning, ending Daylight Saving Time for the next 4 months. I knew what it was going to feel like when the clocks change. I wrote about it a few days ago. Indeed it was nice to have light streaming through the shutters of my bedroom windows by 7am. (I still slept in 'til 9 anyway. Because weekend.) But on the other end... ugh, it was dark so early. Even though I knew what the change was going to be and prepared for it, it still caught me off balance.

"Wow, it feels so late," I told myself this evening. "It feels like it's after 9pm." 

It wasn't even 6:30 yet.

Well, I'll get used to it in a few days. And the short days will continue getting shorter for another month and a half. Ugh. But hey, on the positive side it's just a little over 4 months until DST comes back around again on March 13, 2022.