How COVID Made Me into a Critic
The Quarantine Life of a Practicing Connoisseur
“We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in the sense of identifying with the characters, although that is an important part of it, but by seeing the world as another person sees it.”
— Roger Ebert
Never have I been a fan of The Walking Dead, The Game of Thrones, or The Office. All of which are seemingly binge watching favorites to a myriad of America and worldwide followers. But, during the past year, I've definitely taught myself the art of binge watching, becoming quite the critic in the process.
I believe the first show I ever totally binge watched was Ozark, the second Stranger Things, and the third Raising Dion, all of which are Netflix productions. Out of those three I'd have to say Ozark is my favorite, because of all the plot twists and turns and the cliffhangers at the end of each season that make me fiend for more. My least favorite of those three is Stranger Things, not because it's necessarily overrated but the fact that it didn't live up to all the hype I had heard about it before I actually began watching it.
In the meantime and in between time, it would seem as if I stumbled upon four classics meant not only for viewers like me, but also…
