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My TV Shows of 2025

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Continuing the yearly version of this article. Below are the TV shows I started watching in 2025, TV shows I stopped watching in 2025 and TV shows I tried to watch but couldn’t. Also, TV shows I continued to watch this year.

Shows I tried but couldn’t get into

ShowServiceSeasonMy Rating
The StudioApple TV1Excellent
World’s Most Scenic Railway JourneysChannel 51,2,3,4Below Average

The Studio was such a great show, I really loved the 2 episodes that I saw. But sadly, it employs a shaky-cam aesthetic, which left me with motion sickness and vomiting afterwards. Would a doctor prescribe me Dramamine to watch a TV show? It surely seems worth it.

World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys should be called “British Railways”, because the series stretches on about tracks mostly in britain and rest of europe. Bill Nighy’s naration is also sleep inducing.

TV Shows I started watching

ShowServiceSeasonMy Rating
Georgie & Mandy’s First MarriageCBS1,2Above Average
The Last of Us HBO1,2Excellent
AndorDisney+1,2Excellent
Exploring India’s Treasures (Bethany Hughes)Channel 4—Average
Mumbai RailwayBBC—Average
The Nile: Egypt’s Great River with Bettany HughesChannel 5—Above Average
Great Australian Railway JourneysBBC—Above Average
Alien: EarthDisney+1Excellent
The Ba***ds of BollywoodNetflix1Excellent
PluribusApple TV1Excellent

I liked most of the shows I started watching this year. Andor is easily one of my favourite shows of all time, now. I was also happy to see Alien: Earth and Pluribus. The Ba***ds of bollywood was surprisingly great.

Shows I continued to watch

ShowServiceSeasonMy Rating
Tulsa King Paramount+2,3Average
Silo Apple TV2Excellent
Pataal Lok Amazon Prime2Above Average
Severance Apple TV2Excellent
Black MirrorNetflix7Above Average
Gen VAmazon Prime2Excellent
The Family ManAmazon Prime3Above Average
FalloutAmazon Prime2—

TV Shows I re-watched

ShowServiceSeasonMy Rating
Michael Palin’s New EuropeBBC1Excellent

Overall, a great year for Sci-Fi.

PS: I use trakt to track my TV show viewings.

Rant

Lockdown Day 33

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Today is Day 33 of the lockdown. In these 33 days I haven’t gone out of my apartment complex gate once. And it is starting to affect me in some weird and unexpected ways.

  • I do not miss socialising at all. In fact, I welcome this time away from unnecessary socialising.
  • I am having very vivid dreams and remembering them for a change. Normally I hardly have dreams and don’t remember them later.
  • I miss going to Ambience Mall, drinking coffee ☕️ at Barista, eating at Pizza 🍕 Express and just roaming around the mall. It is unlikely malls will open even after the lockdown is relaxed and I am not sure how the mall or the business inside will survive this.
  • I miss drinking fresh beer 🍻 at pubs. Again, not sure when this will happen again.
  • I miss eating out at restaurants. My thoughts especially drift towards Toninos at Two Horizon Center on Golf Course road
  • I miss driving my car 🚗 , while listening to BBC World Service.
  • I miss ordering stuff from Amazon, waiting for the delivery and unboxing the items.
  • I miss going to the park and walking🚶‍♂️ around.
  • I miss going to the nursery to buy new plants 🌱 and fertiliser.
  • I miss going to Galleria, sitting opposite the fountain and sipping Coca Cola.

As per the current situation, restrictions should start lifting in 11 more days, but I have a feeling that’s not going to be the case and things won’t start going back to normal for a long time.