Jack Ryan (N)
Rita (N)
The Story of India; First Civilizations (Annette)
Scandal (N)
Bull (CBS)
My Name is Earl
Mr. Robot
Santa Clarita Diet (N)
The OA (N)
Chef Table
Feud miniseries fx
Fargo
The Night Of (HBO)
Ray Donovan (S)
Gilmore Girls (N)
Jessica Jones (N)
Sherlock
From Helene June 2019: Shows we've watched on Netflix: Safe (Harlan Coben), Imposters, How to Get Away With Murder Scandal (watching now)
From Louisa Fall 2019:
Comedies
The Good Place (in its last season on NBC, past seasons on Netflix)
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Netflix)
The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix)
Santa Clarita Diet (Netflix)
Dead to Me (Netflix)
Dramas
Ozark (Netflix)
The Americans (Amazon Prime)
Mindhunter (Netflix)
Shameless (Showtime)
Pose (FX)
Russian Doll (Netflix)
Orange is the New Black (Netflix)
The Leftovers (HBO)
Orphan Black (BBC America, but now on Netflix and Amazon Prime)
Dark (Netflix)
Black Mirror (Netflix)
David Makes Man (OWN Oprah.com)
The Crown (Netflix)
Masters of Sex (Showtime)
Westworld (HBO)
You (Lifetime, but past seasons on Netflix)
Mini-series and anthology series
Chernobyl (HBO)
Sharp Objects (HBO)
Escape at Dannemora (Showtime)
The Act (Hulu)
When They See Us (Netflix)
American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace (FX, but now on Netflix)
The Night Of (HBO)
The Keepers (Netflix)
Lorena (Amazon Prime)
The Loudest Voice (Showtime)
The Great Hack (Netflix)
Years and Years (HBO)
Who is America (Showtime)
Suggested to us
From Bev M: Outlander, Poldark, Last Tango in Halifax, Offspring (fave of all time: watch at least 3; quirky), The Great British Baking Show, Bridgerton
Some we watched part of and might eventually get back to:
Blacklist (A and NBC)
Shameless (Showtime)
Orange is the new black (N)
Nurse Jackie (N)
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (N)
30 Rock
Lovesick (N)
Grace and Frankie (A):
Mozart in the jungle (A):
Homeland (Showtime)
The Affair (Showtime)
My Crazy ex-girlfriend (N)
The Americans (A)
Showtime
Homeland
The Affair
HBO
Big Little Lies-E (but might be a 3rd season?)
Hulu
A Handmaid's Tale
I Love you, America-E
NBC
Parenthood-E
This is Us
Netflix
An Honorable Woman-E
Atypical (4th last seaon 2021)
Barry; HBO; 3rd season coming
Better Call Saul: season 5 on AMC
Breaking Bad-E
Community
Dead to Me: Season 2 in sp/sum 2020?
Dexter-E
Fauda
Glow: season 4 sum 2020?
House of Cards-E
Huge in France
Kims Convenience
Kominsky Method: 2 seasons so far
Last Tango in Halifax (about to watch it)
Life-E
Living with Yourself
Love-E
Madmen-E
Russian Doll
Shtisel
Six Feet Under-E
The Crown
The United States of Tara-E
The Killing-E
Unbelievable-E
Wanderlust-E
What if
You (April 2020 watching but not sure if we'll continue)
Amazon Video
Catastrophe-E
Fleabag-E
Goliath (liked season 1 more than 2)
The Fall-E
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 4: Dec. 2020?)
Transparent-E
Below are some of our favorite shows we either watched all seasons of, or are watching, and where I remember watching them. They might not be on the same channels now, and might be on other ones. I'm putting an E if the entire series ended already. You can look it up to see how many seasons/episodes there are. Current Faves in blue
Some Books I like:
Sapiens
Sex at Dawn
East of Eden
The Glass Castle
Kookooland
Educated
The Monk series, and Thomas/Charlotte Pitt series, by Anne Perry
Decker/Lazarus series by Faye Kellerman
Books recommended
For philosophy: Man’s Search for Meaning (Frankl) [I read this in English class in 9th grade], Fashion is Spinach (Hawes)
For psychology: Flow (Csikszentmihalyi), Blink (Gladwell), and Stumbling on Happiness (Gilbert)
For management: Napoleon Hill’s chapter on “Leadership” in Laws of Success, and Hard Thing About Hard Things (Horowitz)
For work: Big Magic (Gilbert), Rework (Fried, Hansson), Zero to One (Thiel)
For relationships: All About Love (hooks)
For something beautiful: A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Solnit)
A Gentleman in Moscow
All the Lint we can't see
Season of the Witch
Steinbeck-so far I read Cannery Row, East of Eden (amazing book), the Red Pony (WTF?), and am taking a break.
From Don P:
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), My Antonia (Cather), Revenge of the Lawn & Other Stories (Brautigan), Housekeeping (Robinson), Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut), Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver), Confessions of Nat Turner (Styron), Rubyfruit Jungle (Brown), Tell Me a Riddle (Olsen), and The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing (M.T. Anderson).
From Janet M:
My ten: Four Seasons in Rome (Anthony Doerr)
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (Mary Ann Shaffer)
A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute)
A Beautiful Mystery (Louise Penny)
Daughter of Time (Josephine They)
The Rosewood Casket (Sharyn McCrumb)
The Temptation of Forgiveness (Donna Leon)
Maisie Dobbs (Jacqueline Winspear)
My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
The Book of Lights (Chaim Potok)
from Caitlin (friend of Cathy H)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Y No Se Lo Trago La Tierra (Tomas Rivera)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Germinal (Emile Zola)
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
The Things They Carried (Tim O’Brien)
Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)
The Diary of Anne Frank
Runners Up:
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
Tell Me A Riddle (Tillie Olsen)
Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
Sula (Toni Morrison)
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
Mean Spirit (Linda Hogan)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Charming Billy (Alice McDermott)
Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann)
Paco’s Story (Larry Heinemann)
From Helene:
James Paterson (Michael Bennett series)
Harlan Coben (Myron Bolitar series and stand alone books)
The Winter Sister by Megan Collins
Sandra Brown any book is good
Montana Sky by Nora Roberts
Come Sundown by Nora Roberts
The Family Nextdoor by Sally Hempworth
Golden Globes 2019 Winners, etc.
AFI's list of 100 of the Funniest Movies
NewYorkers best of 2010-2019:
“The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013), Martin Scorsese
“Madeline’s Madeline” (2018), Josephine Decker
“Get Out” (2017), Jordan Peele
“An Elephant Sitting Still” (2019), Hu Bo
“Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?” (2018), Travis Wilkerson
“The Future” (2011), Miranda July
“Margaret” (2011), Kenneth Lonergan
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” (2014), Wes Anderson
“Somewhere” (2010), Sofia Coppola
“Li’l Quinquin” (2015), Bruno Dumont
“Film Socialisme” (2011), Jean-Luc Godard
“An Oversimplification of Her Beauty” (2013), Terence Nance
“Holy Motors” (2012), Leos Carax
“Coma” (2016), Sara Fattahi
“Red Hook Summer” (2012), Spike Lee
“Zama” (2018), Lucrecia Martel
“Moonlight” (2016), Barry Jenkins
“The Mule” (2018), Clint Eastwood
“It Felt Like Love” (2014), Eliza Hittman
“The Last of the Unjust” (2014), Claude Lanzmann
“In Jackson Heights” (2015), Frederick Wiseman
“A Ghost Story” (2017), David Lowery
“A Screaming Man” (2011), Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
“A Quiet Passion” (2017), Terence Davies
“Taxi” (2015), Jafar Panahi
“Let the Sunshine In” (2018), Claire Denis
“Infinite Football” (2018), Corneliu Porumboiu
Suggested Movies to Watch
Wolf pack
Maiden trip
Heartbreak kid
Last Tango in Halifax
Loving Vincent
Prestige
Tully
Deadpool
Stardust
Romance from Reed/Ngan: After Time, The Notebook
MiraCosta Library popular selections
Prohibition currently available for free streaming on PBS: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/watch-video/#id=2082675582 (Also available on Kanopy Streaming)
Remaking American Medicine, PBS (Available on Kanopy)
The Life of Muhammad, PBS (DVD on order; also on Kanopy Streaming)
Story of the Blues, MVD (Available on Kanopy)
For additional streaming content, please review Kanopy, Films on Demand, and our other streaming collections.
Life of Emile Zola
Witness for the prosecution