The whole world is cancelled. You’ve been told to stay at home. The only time you should leave your house to get fresh air, pick up your prescriptions and get groceries. You can’t see your friends and families, other than the ones in living in your household. Okay…okay…enough! We know all of this. Get to the point! Get to the question in the title already!

So what are you doing with your time. You have a lot of it to kill…so how are you killing it?

Obviously a lot of us are watching television…a lot of television….too much television, but what else is there, right? Honestly, there’s not a lot to see these days. You would think that with thousands of channels available, you’d find something, right? Maybe….maybe not.

It’s been a few weeks of quarantine….three to be exact. There’s no sports to watch except for repeats of old game. BLAH! How much of that can anyone take? There’s always the news, but it’s so depressing that you can only take so much of it, right? So what do you do to kill the time? What are you binge watching?

Believe it or not, I’ve been constantly watching the Gameshow Network. Hours of Family Feud with my man, Steve Harvey. Reruns of Match Game Seventy-something with Gene Rayburn, Brett Somers, Richard Dawson, Chuck Nelson Reilly and other b-list celebs who have been dead for decades. Then there’s this somewhat new one called “America Says” with John Michael Higgins, who I liked much better when he was working in the Chris Guest movies. It’s kind of a low key version of the Feud. It’s much more chill.

OMFG…really? This is what I’m doing with all this free time? HELP! Please, help!

BUT….a few days ago I figure something out. I’m staying at home in the burbs with the sig other and she has all the channels. And by having all the channels, I can go back in time and catch up on the shows from the premium networks that I’ve missed. We started earlier this week with the current season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Three days, ten episodes…DONE!!

Next week I have plans for the final season of “The Affair.” I know Alison is dead and Cole has left the series, but it’s the final season. If I’ve done four years, I might as well go for five and see how it ends. I’m pretty sure it’s going to suck, but what the Hell, I have plenty of time. It can’t be any worse than ten hours of Match Game, right?

That takes us to mid-April. Only a couple of weeks more until the stay at home ends…..yeah, right! We know we’re doing the same thing in May. Sorry to bring you down, but in your heart, you know it, too. So what’s after The Affair?

I’ve had multiple people say “The Wire” is the greatest show in the history of television. Usually when I hear this, I roll my eyes and do a fake laugh. Not this time. I’ve always believed them. I just never had the time to invest. Guess what, kids? Now I have the time! It’s five seasons, close to fifty episodes which equals nearly fifty hours of television binging. NO PROBLEMO!!

So that’s the binge watching agenda for the next few weeks. I’m not giving up on the Feud or the other games, I’m just diversifying my television watching habits. Maybe one day there will be a question on the Feud that says, “We asked one hundred people ‘What’s the greatest television show of all time’?” I’ll jump up and yell “The Wire!” DING!! It’ll be the number one answer. We’re going to play, Steve. We’re going to play!!

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