Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020
The last Terrace House we watched, and the last one ever made. We loved this cast, including Hana Kimura, and what happened to her is impossible to write around.
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Terrace House: Boys & Girls in the City
Going back to the first Netflix Terrace House: the infamous Meat Incident, the studio commentators we loved, and the Tokyo season that started it all.
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Terrace House: Aloha State
The second Terrace House Mary and I watched, the sunny Hawaii season. A likeable cast, a house with a pool we both coveted, and a stretch of 2020 we got through an episode at a time.
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Terrace House: Opening New Doors
The first Terrace House I ever watched, in the early weeks of 2020. The show that got me through the start of the pandemic, taught my ears some Japanese, and gave me the recommendation that started a friendship.
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LOST, and never being able to catch up
The island, the numbers, the hatch, and a six-season mystery I started watching live and then had to chase for years, finishing the whole thing only after it had already ended. The characters I loved, the one I couldn't stand, and why the not-knowing was the whole point.
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Battlestar Galactica, and the algebra teacher who got me into it
How a strict, very pregnant college algebra teacher who would not stop talking about her favorite show turned me into a lifelong Battlestar Galactica nerd. The characters I loved, the twists that floored me, and the ending that still gets me.
Read entry →Survivor, my jam until work took my Thursday nights
Survivor was appointment television for me from the very first season in 2000. Sue's snakes-and-rats speech, Rupert's tie-dye, Johnny Fairplay's worst lie, and the bakery shifts that eventually pulled me away from it. Plus the season won by a kid from my own town.
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