SERIES, THEY ARE JUST FRIENDS

We had good conversations. About art, politics, sex, death, love, life.

Once upon a time.

There is one topic that sooner or later (usually sooner) comes up, and everyone is all too eager to discuss it. And that is the comeback (and hairstyle) of Winona, Claire's dresses, Michiel Huisman's chiseled torso, the long-awaited return of Lorelai and Rory*. The all-consuming offer of new series, in short. At parties, we talk about Daenerys Targaryen and Mike Ross as if they are our best friends. Our mutual friends, because everyone knows them. Recently, this conversation could be overheard at a table full of reasonably intelligent people:

‘She's just a spoiled brat.’

‘But she is pretty.’

‘But she complains so much.’

This was not about a girl of flesh and blood, but about Piper Chapman, who ends up in prison in Orange Is The New Black and gives white privilege a new face there – and is indeed completely unbearable.

Friend L – of the caliber that makes everyone wonder: how does she do it all? – recently admitted that she wonders in the morning upon waking how it would be with Carrie and her pill popping genius, because she just recently started Homeland. (In the meantime, I could only think: you still have five seasons! And: is Peter Quinn still alive?) Finally, with friend I, who like me binge-watched Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life the weekend it came out, a heated discussion followed before the credits rolled on the screen about why Rory always acts so annoyingly difficult, and that (spoiler alert!) Logan will undoubtedly do the right thing.

But enough is enough. I’ll watch series when I’m dead, or something like that. I’m going to read, walk in nature, find a few new hobbies and then I’ll probably still have time left. And have good conversations, of course. About art, politics, sex, death, love, life.

P.S.: you should definitely check out that hairstyle of Winona, admired in the critically acclaimed series Stranger Things. Just like the good old Sons of Anarchy (Charlie Hunnam on a Harley Davidson – nothing more needs to be added). Also Orphan Black (Tatiana Maslany plays six roles in one without losing an ounce of credibility). And while you're at it, throw in The Blacklist (with the incomparable James Spader, that man just has to look at the camera and you believe him) to finish it off.

*For those who read only books against the tide, or have been living under a rock: this is about the series Stranger Things, House of Cards, Game of Thrones, and Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.

Written by: Maddy Stolk