Finishing up some Peacock watching, I grabbed Twisted Metal, which I found from someone’s best TV of 2025 so far; I love a best list, and it was pretty fun for what it was. In the brutal category, I also finished the latest season of Peacemaker (HBO), still fun but it sounds like there’s no immediate intention to season 3 though the characters will pick up in other properties. I also picked up Forever (Net), also a best tv so far, but bleh, I get people, especially teens, are full of misunderstandings and angst, but I found it more like homework. And I picked up the second season of Undone (Am) which I started closer to when it was out in 2019, really interesting animation and story.

• Lazarus (Am) Series Premiere, Wednesday 10/22 – The latest Harlan Coben pops up on tv, a forensic psychologist investigates cold cases.
• Nobody Wants This (Net) Season Premiere, Thursday 10/23 – Kristen Bell and Adam Brody were super cute in the first season with a fun cast so I’ll be binging this.
• Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order (AMC) Series Premiere, Sunday 10/26, 9pm – The latest based on the Vampire Chronicles, a secret agency monitors and protects humanity.
• IT: Welcome to Derry (HBO) Series Premiere, Sunday 10/26, 9pm – Another in an existing property, Stephen King’s killer clown keeps going.
• Down Cemetery Road (App) Series Premiere, Wednesday 10/29 – An explosion and missing girl bring a neighbor and PI together to uncover a conspiracy.
• InkMaster (Para+) Season Premiere, Wednesday 10/29 – I guess it’s time to warm up my Paramount+ subscription again, technically the finale isn’t until 12/17 so maybe pick it up in November.
• I Love LA (HBO) Series Premiere, Sunday 11/2, 10:30pm – A friend group navigates life, in LA, and are funny?

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST, please check your local listings.

I had started Shining Vale on a different network and happy to pick up the odd series back on HBO. I still have Peacock, so watched previously touted Angelyne, which had fun with the format for the series, but I ended up feeling like I needed to look her up afterwards. Project Runway was fun enough, and glad to see Heidi back though while I like Christian, I still miss Tim. The second season of With Love, Meghan seemed to better embrace her geeking out on hosting and chatting with friends, old and new. And the second season of English Teacher (Fx/Hulu) was easy to breeze through, though I feel like I’m supposed to like the main guy a little more.

• Boots (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 10/9 – A new Marine Corps recruit hopefully finds his groove.
• 9-1-1 Nashville (ABC) Series Premiere, Thursday 10/9, 9pm – The latest location of ridiculous rescues, I for some reason stuck with the Lone Star version but not the original.
• The Last Frontier (App+) Series Premiere, Friday 10/10 – The US Marshall in charge of some barrens in Alaska is tasked with dealing with a plane crash of violent prisoners.
• Matlock/Elsbeth (CBS) Season Premieres, Sunday 10/12, 8:30/9:30pm – I may need to catch these on a Paramount+ binge at a later date now that I’m Hulu Live/cable-free.
• The Chair Company (HBO) Series Premiere, Sunday 10/12, 10pm – A new comedy where Tim Robinson digs into a conspiracy, he’s not so much my jam.
• DMV (CBS) Series Premiere, Monday 10/13, 8:30 – One of the few if not only original concept new fall shows, on network at least.
• Watson (CBS) Season Premiere, Monday 10/13, 10pm – This show’s not amazing but a decent medical procedural.
• The Diplomat (Net) Season Premiere, Thursday 10/16 – I can’t wait to see where this goes.
• Ghosts (CBS) Season Premiere, Thursday 10/16, 8:30pm – Hmm another CBS show I like…
• Sheriff Country (CBS) Series Premiere, Friday 10/17, 9pm – The spinoff from Fire Country.
• Boston Blue (CBS) Series Premiere, Friday 10/17, 10pm – The spinoff from Boston Blue.
• The Guest (Show) Series Premiere, Friday 10/17, 9pm – Two unlikely friends get caught up in some drama.
• Tracker (CBS) Season Premiere, Sunday 10/19, 8pm – Not riveting, but guy tracks down missing persons.

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST, please check your local listings.

Keeping up my Peacock catch-up, I finished off the season of Revival, which truly got more ridiculous as we went on. And caught The Paper, which had some solid ingredients but maybe not enough episodes to get the momentum that shows like The Office took to get in the groove. I ticked through The Residence on Netflix, which I thought was fun enough to warrant another season. And the latest season of the charming but not revolutionary Family Law on CW.

• Brilliant Minds (NBC) Season Premiere, Monday 9/22, 10pm – This was the show I described as “AI wrote a medical show,” you know, smart doctor with an unusual issue (that I don’t think ever comes up anymore) and solves unsolvable cases whilst annoying and endearing himself to others.
• Murder in a Small Town (Fox) Season Premiere, Tuesday 9/23, 8pm – This show is one of those that wonders why you would live in this small town with so many murders and why the town librarian seems to be involved in all of them, but otherwise fine ‘solve a crime’ fare.
• Doc (Fox) Season Premiere, Tuesday 9/23, 9pm – A damaged doctor gets amnesia and starts over, kind of ridiculous premise, but watchable.
• The Lowdown (Fx) Series Premiere, Tuesday 9/23, 9pm – Ethan Hawk stars in this latest from the creator of Reservation Dogs (which was very good) where he digs up the truth from his hub in a rare bookstore in Tulsa, and yes, this gets him involved in something big.
• Hotel Costiera (Am) Series Premiere, Wednesday 9/24 – Jesse Williams stars as a former Marine who returns to Italy to work at a hotel and must find the missing daughter of the owner.
• Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (CW) Series Premiere, Wednesday 9/24, 8pm – I wasn’t sure where to put my colon.
• House of Guinness (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 9/25 – The Guinness family patriarch dies and leaves some drama (and beer) in his wake.
• The Red King (AMC+) Series Premiere, Thursday 9/25 – Exiled to an island, a police sergeant reopens an old case to discover more than she bargained for.
• Wayward (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 9/25 – A creepy look at a school for troubled teens led by Toni Collette.
• English Teacher (Fx) Season Premiere, Thursday 9/25, 9pm – This show was overall pretty amusing as we get a look into some of the foibles in today’s school system.
• The Savant (App+) Series Premiere, Friday 9/26 – Jessica Chastain stars as an investigator infiltrating hate groups to try to stop domestic extremists.
• Bob’s Burgers (Fox) Season Premiere, Sunday 9/28, 9:30pm – For whatever reason, this is the only animated show that stuck for me.
• Chad Powers (Hulu) Series Premiere, Tuesday 9/30 – Glen Powell stars as a disgraced football player trying to leave his identity behind and joins a struggling team in this comedy.
• Shifting Gears/Abbott Elementary (ABC) Season Premieres, Wednesday 10/1, 8/8:30 – I’m not sure these shows fit so great tonally, but the former should get a nice lift from the latter.
• Monster: The Ed Gein Story (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 10/3 – The latest Ryan Murphy take on ‘monsters’, this one stars Charlie Hunnam as the murderer and grave robber, I am not a true crime girlie.
• Maigret (PBS) Series Premiere, Sunday 10/5, 9pm – I guess the last version of this series was 2016, PBS gives this crime solver another go.

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST, please check your local listings.

Wrapped up a few series Squid Games (Net), which really should have called it after the first season. The micro final season of Upload (Am), and while I didn’t really remember what was going on, I thought they did a pretty good arc and close for four shows. And with the temporary addition of Peacock, I was able to finish off solid medical show Transplant, and quirky alien fun with Resident Alien. I also did the first season of Dept Q (Net), which was yet another smart, angry investigative protagonist, but I thought this one had enough of the right elements. And the second season of Wednesday (Net), which plotwise didn’t feel as compelling (and I waited to start part 1 until part 2 was available), but still ended up wanting to see what’s next.

I didn’t end up being able to watch the US Open, and while I almost added on ESPN+ for I think $11 for a month, I ended up not doing it. I’ll want to think about what to do for the four tennis majors if this is the case. I’m not sure they’re all even handled by the same networks. Alas.

• The Crow Girl (Acorn) Series Premiere, Monday 9/8 – Detective and psychotherapist join forces and get more than they bargained for.
• Only Murders in the Building (Hulu) Season Premiere, Tuesday 9/9 – I mean, this premise is getting a little ridiculous, and while it’s not as amazing as it was at the start, it and its guest actors are still mostly a lot of fun.
• The Girlfriend (Am) Series Premiere, Wednesday 9/10 – Robin Wright stars as a mom who is either paranoid or perceptive about her son’s new girlfriend’s motives.
• aka Charlie Sheen (Net) Series Premiere, Wednesday 9/10 – I am not normally a watcher of these documenting the train wreck lives of real people but there’s something about this and his apparent openness that has me a little tempted.
• The Hardacres (Brit) Series Premiere, Wednesday 9/10 – A 1890s working-class family goes from fish dock to country estate, whatever, it’s Britbox.
• Top End Bub (Am) Series Premiere, Friday 9/12 – Australian couple moves from Adelaide to the outback to raise an orphaned niece and balance indigenous responsibilities.
• The Emmys (CBS) Sunday 9/14 – I go as far as looking at the nominations, but can’t care much about this slice of TV.
• High Potential (ABC) Season Premiere, Tuesday 9/16 – This show was actually a fun take on that awkward fit of some sort of genius helps the police premise, much due to the fact that Kaitlin Olson charms. Time to look at Fall tv next.
• Gen V (Am) Season Premiere, Wednesday 9/17 – This spinoff brought me back from the brink of dropping The Boys, sad that one of our main character’s actor passed, there’s enough brutality in the fiction.
• Black Rabbit (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 9/18 – Jason Bateman and Jude Law in a look at a restaurateur being forced into the underworld by his brother’s issues (btw I always thought it was restauranteur with an “n”). Is it just me, or is Jason Bateman always a must-watch?
• The Happy Mess Method (Roku) Series Premiere, Friday 9/19 – I love an organization show, so I may stop by to see experts find sustainable methods for tidy (maybe when I dust off my Roku, I’ll catch the Tracee Ellis Ross travel show too).

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST, please check your local listings.

Finished Apple TV with Bad Sisters and Little America, two shows I had previously started, for me, the sisters could have left it as an initial season but I wish them well and America is a little too sweet for me, but enjoyable enough. Then a little catch-up with Paradise which was good but the twists and turns took it in a direction I didn’t enjoy as much. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia took another outing, and it sticks to its premise; for what that’s worth, it’s still fun. I swept through Leanne on Net, not because it was good, but it was very Reba 2025. And Mo which was good, though it had been more than a minute since the first season. And of course, putting And Just Like That out of its misery.

• Upload (Am) Season premiere/series finale, Monday 8/25 – This has been a fun series, though the plot might have taken a turn or two will see their journey through.
• Playing Nice (Brit) Series Premiere, Tuesday 8/26 – Switched at birth? Two sets of parents deal with the mix-up of their toddlers.
• With Love, Meghan (Net) Season Premiere, Tuesday 8/26 – I don’t know why everyone gives her such a hard time, she was a lifestyle person before the whole royal thing, this show isn’t amazing, but it’s ‘sweet.’
• The Terminal List: Dark Wolf (Am) Series Premiere, Wednesday 8/27 – A prequel series (of The Terminal List) following one of the character’s origin stories from SEALs to CIA special ops.
• Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story (AMC+) Series Premiere, Thursday 8/28 – Ripped from the headlines, this drama is about a model’s dream photo shoot gone bad and the aftermath of her media storm.
• The Runarounds (Am) Series Premiere, Monday 9/1 – A music drama about a group of recent high school grads who form a rock band.
• Lynley (Brit) Series Premiere, Thursday 9/4 – A ‘brilliant’ outsider police detective is matched with an opposite but somehow works partner, you know the drill.
• NCIS: Tony & Ziva (P+) Series Premiere, Thursday 9/4 – For those who follow the NCIS universe, this is the latest offshoot.
• The Paper (Pea) Series Premiere, Thursday 9/4 – From the makers of The Office, this will be set in the same universe and might have some character overlap, intrigued about their take on newspapers.
• Task (HBO) Series Premiere, Sunday 9/7, 9pm – Mark Ruffalo leads as the head of a task force to end violent robberies.

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST, please check your local listings.

My Apple+ subscription is wrapping up this week. I finished Your Friends and Neighbors, which was fun, and Severance, which I didn’t find as enjoyable in the second season. Next up, I think is a little Peacock to finish a couple of NBC and Syfy shows.

• Irish Blood (Aco) Series Premiere, Monday 8/11 – Alicia Silverstone stars and produces this six-part murder mystery where she plays a character learning the truth about a father who abandoned her on her tenth birthday.
• Alien: Earth (Fx/Hulu) Series Premiere, Tuesday 8/12, 8pm – Noah Hawley has had success in bringing film content to series (Fargo), so while I’m not necessarily lining up for kind of horror, I’ll likely check this out.
• Butterfly (Am) Series Premiere, Wednesday 8/13 – A spy-thriller starring and produced by Daniel Dae Kim and based on the graphic novel, Kim plays a former US intelligence officer in South Korea whose past comes back to haunt him.
• The Rainmaker (USA) Series Premiere, Friday 8/15, 10pm – Based on the Grisham novel a fresh out of law school uncovers a conspiracy with his new firm.
• The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox (Hulu) Series Premiere, Wednesday 8/20 – Amanda Knox EPs this so we’ll likely see this (accused of the murder of her roommate) from her POV.
• Hostage (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 8/21 – The British prime minister’s husband is kidnapped and must make impossible choices alongside the French president.
• Peacemaker (HBO) Season Premiere, Thursday 8/21 – The first season of this was pretty fun, so I’ll be tuning back in, releases weekly.
• Long Story Short (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 8/22 – This adult animated series is from the creator of Bojack Horseman, which I keep meaning to rewatch.
• US Open (ESPN) Play runs 8/24-9/7 – I don’t think I get this, but will want to investigate whether I can catch the finals.

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST, please check your local listings.

Over on Amazon, I finished Ballard, which I wasn’t as bought into as I was with Bosch, but still appreciated, and appreciated the character revisits. I also watched Overcompensating because it was on someone’s Best of 2025 So Far lists (I am a sucker for bests), but meh for a college comedy. I also wrapped up Children Ruin Everything on CW, another somewhat meh but cute sitcom.

The big activity is that I have a temporary Apple+ subscription, so I’ve been binging away. Revisiting Mythic Quest, which I always find funny, though this season wasn’t my fave. I also caught their spinoff Side Quest because some of their standalone episodes have been the best but this didn’t quite capture the magic. The Studio is a fun idea with great guest stars, but too cringe comedy for my taste. I thoroughly enjoyed Murderbot as the rogue-ish robot character worked for me. Stick was a super predictable sports arc show, but it worked well enough. And Bad Monkey was very Carl Hiassen, if you’ve read any of his books, it’s always Florida chaos, and thought Vince Vaughn carried it well.

I’ve still got some work to do before the month is up, and I’m still getting accustomed to my lack of Hulu Live. I did miss Wimbledon, so need to decide if I want to worry about tennis. A little more research first.

• Dope Girls (Hulu) Series Premiere, Tuesday 7/29 – Post WWI women seize opportunities around the nightlife industry in this drama.
• Leanne (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 7/31 – A sitcom starring Leanne Morgan about a Southern mom starting over when her husband leaves her, from Chuck Lorre.
• Project Runway (Free) Season Premiere, Thursday 7/31, 9pm – It’s back with Heidi and Christian (sorry Tim), here’s to a new season of fashion and drama.
• Chief of War (App+) Series Premiere, Friday 8/1 – Jason Mamoa steps into a new epic drama based on real-life 18th-century campaign to unite the warring Hawaiian islands.
• King of the Hill (Hulu) Season Premiere, Monday 8/4 – Picking up ‘some years later’ though we haven’t seen the series in about 16 years.
• Wednesday (Net) Season Premiere, Wednesday 8/6 – I watched the first season of this with a Covid fever and found it entertaining enough, take that for what it’s worth, but thought the casting was good and while I’m interested in what’s next I’m not a fan of this part 1 and part 2 so likely hold off until September.
• Necaxa (Fxx) Series Premiere, Thursday 8/7 – While normally I couldn’t care less about Eva Longoria working with a Mexican football club, this is in conjunction with Welcome to Wrexham’s Rob and Ryan, and that series is surprisingly well done.

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST, please check your local listings.

Knowing the outcome of Welcome to Wrexham (Fx) didn’t dull the enjoyment. HBO’s Duster was fun and sadly won’t be back for another season, while I am excited to see where next season of The Pitt gets us. I had Peacock for the latest season of Poker Face, while the episodes are always great it was missing a little of the tension of previous seasons, but set up with even more for the next. While I was in Peacock mode, I also finished out Mr. Throwback and Rutherford Falls, both mid shows I’d started in previous iterations. And a quick season of Ironheart on Dis+, which was an entertaining enough, somewhat standalone Marvel (which I always appreciate). I recently dropped my Hulu Live, which I will update you on, but I’m going to need to poke around a bit to see where I can watch shows.

• Stags (PSN) Series Premiere, Monday 7/14 – Am I the only one who can’t keep up? This is a British series premiering on PlayStation?! The stag party takes a very dark turn.
• Entitled (Net) Series Premiere, Tuesday 7/15 – An offbeat comedy where a man buries his wife, and her eccentric family creates some problems.
• Untamed (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 7/17 – Eric Bana as a federal agent investigating a woman’s death in Yosemite in this dark mystery.
• Transplant (NBC) Series finale, Thursday 7/17 – This show was always a solid medical drama in my Canadian comfort genre.
• The Amateur (Hulu) Streaming Movie, Thursday 7/17 – Rami Malek takes matters into his own hands when his wife is killed.
• The Hunting Wives (Net) Series Premiere, Monday 7/21 – Brittany Snow plays a new wife falling in with some socialites in East Texas.
• Washington Black (Hulu) Series Premiere, Wednesday 7/23 – Based on the novel, a young boy with a scientific mind flees a Barbados plantation and ends up on a globe-spanning adventure.
• Family Law (CW) Season Premiere, Wednesday 7/23, 8pm – This show is part of my Canadian repertoire with a fun family legal drama.
• Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross (Roku) Series Premiere, Friday 7/25 – Reality spotlight, I follow TER on IG and love her fighting the stigma of solo outings and her fashion, this could be fun.

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST, please check your local listings.