Movies and TV shows to binge during COVID-19
(KYMA, KECY)-With several movie theatre chains being canceled or postponed and theme parks closed due to coronavirus, what should you do while spending all that time at home while in isolation/quarantine?
EW Entertainment brings you a list of movies and tv shows to binge during the pandemic.
Hulu
Better Things-On the surface, it’s a series about Sam Fox (Pamela Adlon), a single mother and her three daughters, but a simple scratch reveals yin and yang, equal parts comedy and drama, with belly-aching humor in the darker moments and surprising emotional heft in the lighter ones.
Stargate SG-1-Need a break from the woes of Planet Earth? Focus on the woes of other planets instead while you binge the sometimes cheesy but always heartfelt sci-fi classic, Stargate SG-1. With enough seasons to produce a bedsore if you’re not careful, SG-1 follows a motley team of explorers who travel across the galaxy using a wormhole device called a Stargate. Scrapes, japes, and high-stakes adventures are never in short supply, but like all the best science fiction, what makes SG-1 special is its heart.
Netflix
Tiger King-Murder, Mayhem, and Madness-This is the pantheon of pop culture rivalries, and we are now proud to induct Carole Baskin vs. Joe Exotic from the hit sensation of a docuseries, Tiger King. The series starts as a goofy look inside the life of an Oklahoma zookeeper — with 200 plus tigers —who has been arrested in a murder for hire plot. He makes country music videos in his free time.
The Society-You think the current state of empty grocery store shelves is bad? At least they get restocked every so often. For the teens who find themselves banished to a strange, empty copy of their hometown West Ham, Conn. in The Society, whatever is left on the grocery store shelves is all they have.
Narcos-What originally started as “the Pablo Escobar story” has evolved into so much more as Narcos: Mexico enters its second season and the fifth overall in the Narcos franchise. You want great actors? Wagner Moura, Pedro Pascal, Michael Pena, Diego Luna, and Scott McNairy are here for you. You want violence? Oh, there’s plenty of that. You want to learn? The narration often provides as much education as a history book could. And with the MCU currently on hiatus, the DC Extended Universe is here for you.
Love is Blind-When it gets to day three of your self-imposed quarantine and talking to the walls starts to become an appealing option, take comfort in knowing that some people have found love doing the exact same thing! Netflix's Love Is Blind is the perfect isolation binge because — beyond being aggressively addictive — it’s also quarantine relatable: On the show, people spend time alone in a pod without physical contact with others.
The Circle-It’s almost a little too on the nose — you’re stuck at home, so you’re going to have to watch reality show contestants cloistered in their tiny apartments only interact with others through social media via a platform dubbed “The Circle." But don’t feel too bad for our (voluntary) quarantinees, because there’s 100k waiting for the one person who doesn’t get “blocked” by their fellow players at the end.
Person of Interest-Sure, everyone is obsessed with Jonathan Nolan’s current technology-focused drama Westworld, but his previous series is far more entertaining and gripping. The five-season show followed Harold Finch, a reclusive billionaire-genius (Michael Emerson) who created an artificially intelligent surveillance system (a.k.a. the Machine) and teamed up with an ex-CIA agent (Jim Caviezel) and NYPD detective (Taraji P. Henson) to stop crimes before they happened.
The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez
Amazon Prime Video
Disney+
