Gosh how I envy someone who has never seen Friday Night Lights, and therefore gets to see it for the first time.
It’s really, really good.
Totally agree. As someone who had absolutely zero interest in small-town life in Texas or any kind of football, I loved it.
Yep. FNL remains at the top of our list. Loved it the first time, and have enjoyed it several more times since then.
Hate football, loved FNL.
I watched the first two episodes of the Danish show Rita on Netflix last night, and I can highly recommend it. It’s about an irreverent teacher and her family. The only downside is you have to keep your eyes on the screen at all times to read the subtitles. Oregon, did you know there’s a four-episode spinoff called Hjordis, about the young teacher?
I echo what everyone has said about FNL. I didn’t try it till a couple years ago thinking it was not for me. I was very wrong.
Finished Staircase with my 15 y/o. Wow is all I can say. We were glued to it.
Love all your responses.
Yes I have watched Hjordes.
I lost interest in Jane the Virgin–same with This Girl
But! I checked and FNL is on MY Demand. So this is my next bing.
And the I will be sad again and be back asking for advice 
One interesting thing–FNL’s appeared as if I had to pay but then when I clicked on
it to check it was for free. This may mean I must watch commercials which would defeat
the concept of bing watching for me. I found the same with Young Sheldon and it is a drag
to watch or mute and wait out each set of commercials.
Just learned about a service called Kanopy.
https://www.kanopy.com/about-us
You get in via a Uor library that’s a member.
I haven’t watched Friday Night Lights either, but I think I will add it to my list of shows to watch! It’s streaming on both Amazon Prime and Hulu.
Anyone watching Glow? I just finished season 2. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I am also looking for something to watch. I watched everything mentioned in the last two pages. I liked season 1 of Dr Forster better than 2.
I loved Season 1 of GLOW. We watched the first two episodes of Season 2 and enjoyed them, but I didn’t feel like I had to sneak more episodes while my wife was out of town.
One problem with getting hooked on binge watching on Prime or Netflix is now I don’t have the attention span to watch shows on the regular broadcast and I need to know what happens the next week immediately, like yesterday.
I had been a sometimes watcher of Blue Bloods but it’s on Friday nights, I forgot to record, etc. etc. Now I just watched half the season in two nights.
We are so spoiled.
@JHS I thought season 2 GLOW developed nicely. It may take more than a couple episodes to get interesting.
I finally finished The Americans…I won’t add any spoilers but wasn’t expecting that ending! Now, I need to decide what to binge next - so many choices!
I just watched Alias Grace on Netflix loved it
Billions great season is done, The Americans best and final season ended. I needed something new and got the first season of Halt and Catch Fire at the library. The show was in an article recommending shows to binge. Lee Pace is so handsome but I’ve never seen his work. Less then three days, 10 episodes but the second season wasn’t available today. Main cast is very good, subject is the early 80s computers. Was hoping it was available On-demand, no luck.
@3sonsmom there are four seasons of Halt and Catch Fire streaming on Netflix.
“The only downside is you have to keep your eyes on the screen at all times to read the subtitles.”
Laughing because our family has watched every tv show with the close captioning on since my kids were babies. It started when I was nursing and wanted the tv on but not the volume at night. I’m more of a visual than auditory person so I loved it. We turned the volume back on but kept the captioning. I’m a super fast reader so read faster than the actors speak. My friend who is a reading specialist claims that this is why my kids were excellent readers by age 4.
Funny, @maya54. My SIL is also a reading specialist. Both her kids had very limited access to TV – but all subtitled, foreign language programming counted as part of their daily required “reading time.” As result, her children were not just excellent readers, but also enthusiastic and quite successful Spanish and French students.
@Mom2jl thank you! I now know that I searched our cable on-demand but didn’t check Netflix! Happy now :)>-