10 Series to Watch This Winter to Help You Procrastinate and Pass Time
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| Here is some stuff to help you procrastinate and keep you entertained |
Before coming to university I used to watch a lot of
television be it sports, documentaries, local soapies or international series,
but when I came to university I started watching less TV because in res there
were a couple of TV rooms amongst hundreds of students and it was inconvenient
to go out of my room just to watch TV. I would still watch soccer matches of
the teams I supported but soon I stopped following soccer as well. I started
just getting series from other students and watching them on my laptop in my
room. At home I did not have uncapped internet so my internet would run out in
the first few days of the month and I would be stuck watching normal TV again. The thing about TV is whether you have dstv or just normal sabc channels and
etv, TV is always behind and if you have been exposed to series in university
with the amount of internet we are given you are always ahead of stuff that
plays on TV by a couple seasons, the only thing TV is good for is sports and
soapies if those are your kind of things.
It is currently exam time in most universities and if you
are like me, you are up to date with all the main series and they are currently
of break now awaiting new seasons if they haven’t been cancelled of finalized.
If you are behind exam time and vac time is the perfect time to catch up on
those series but if you are up to date now is the worst time because you need
something to watch in your study breaks and when you are procrastinating and
you definitely need something to watch during vac when you are stressing about
your semester results being released.
Top series such as Game of thrones are still playing but
game of thrones only ever has 10 episodes a season and the current season hasn’t
been very exciting with just 3 episodes remaining. Other top series are on
break or the seasons have been finalized so I am finding myself having to find
other cool interesting series to watch until my favourite series return.
Here are a few new and not so new series I have found that will keep you entertained during exams/vac/winter until the return of our favourite series later in the year:
Dominion
Is not a new series but most people don’t know it yet, it’s
a top quality supernatural series about fallen angels descending on earth and
possessing people and the fight between those angels and the remaining
unpossessed humans. This series has a few South African actors and it’s a top
quality series so go on and give it a try, I promise it’s more interesting than
I have explained here. It currently has two seasons so that should keep you
entertained for a short bit.
Lucifer
As the name says it’s about the devil but this shows portrayal
of the devil is unlike other shows, here Lucifer blends in with people on earth
and the series gives us a different perspective of Lucifer. Lucifer tells his
version of the story about the troubles with his father god and how human beings’
perception of him is not accurate. The first season just ended so there are 13
interesting episodes to keep you company this vac.
Into the Badlands
If you are into action movies and martial arts then you will
definitely love into the bad land, at the beginning of the first episode it
might seem all bloody and horror-ish but it’s all about action and great fight
scenes. If you love martial arts movies than this will have you hooked.
Limitless
There was a movie limitless now there is a series which is
about a drug that helps humans get access to 100% of their brain power, this
series is about one such human Brian finch who then ends up working for the FBI
to help them solve cases.
Supergirl
If you like superhero movies and series then you will like
supergirl. For anyone whowatches arrow, the flash etc.
DC Legends of
tomorrow
Also for people who love superhero movies and series
Containment
I just started watching this since I had run out of stuff to
watch, it’s a new series currently playing with a good storyline so far about a
virus outbreak and a certain section of a city had to be contained in order to
stop the virus from spreading to the rest of the population.
Wentworth prison
It’s not a new series but I recently found it. It’s an award
winning Australian series about the going-on’s and power dynamics in a female
prison, there are 4 seasons out so far so if you try it and you like what you
see, you have plenty of episodes to watch.
The Detour
A new short 20min family sitcom you can watch for a few
laughs and since its short it really counts as a study break and not
procrastination.
The Catch
If you like scandal, greys anatomy and any other show Shonda
Rhimes produces than you better try the catch which is about a con artist who
falls for his mark.
If you like stuff like game of thrones here are some other
series I would suggest you try if you have never watched them, the first is Spartacus
about a slave turned rebel against the Roman Empire and the second is Vikings which
follows Viking Ragnar Lodbrok on his rise to power.
Please do try some of these series am sure you will find
something that you like, happy studying everyone and good luck with your exams.
