electricspacegirl's journal

Shows in bold I'm looking forward to the most.
Starred shows are new.

SUNDAY
Outlander - Starz
Good Girls - NBC
Insecure - HBO - April 12

Monday

Tuesday
*One Day at a Time - Pop - March 24

WEDNESDAY
*Little Fires Everywhere - Hulu - March 18
*Mrs. America - Hulu - April 15

THURSDAY

FRIDAY
Ramy - Hulu - May 29

Shows in bold I'm looking forward to the most.
Starred shows are new.

SUNDAY
*The Outsider - HBO - Jan 12
Outlander - Starz - Feb 16
Good Girls - NBC - Feb 16

Monday

Tuesday

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY
The Good Place - NBC - Jan 9 - SERIES ENDED

FRIDAY
*Truth Be Told - Apple TV Dec 6
You - Netflix - Dec 27 - HIATUS
Anne with an E - Netflix - Jan 3 - SERIES ENDED
Shrill - Hulu - Jan 24 - HIATUS

A universe is born in my eyes when you give me the promise of red.

Your fire heart, your falling leaves. My town, your respite. Consider me yours, but keep my secret close. I'll never tell.

When I first saw it, I was 20 years old and living in my first apartment in downtown Portland. The TV was the old-fashioned kind with the dial and it only got a few channels. I was in transitional housing to get off the streets, and the TV came with the apartment. That summer I had watched the Fox channel exclusively.

Its airing caught me off guard. I had spent that spring watching what I believed to be the best show of all time, a little short-lived anthology show called Tribeca where every episode was like a mini-movie about different people's lives, and each episode intersected at one restaurant in Tribeca, NYC. It was a 7-episode gem that nobody knew about. I was sad it was cancelled, and I had no idea what was about to take its place in my heart.

And then I saw it: THE X-FILES TRAILER. Aliens. Abduction. Mystery. ALIENS. See, I was a HUGE alien buff. I've believed in their existence since 1990 when I was a hippie staying in Laguna Beach, CA and I met someone who was convinced he witnessed a crashed spaceship on the beach and a government coverup happening in real time in that town. He said he had video to prove it, but I never saw it.

When the X-Files trailer first aired I was probably watching The Simpsons. I was alone in my apartment and the minute I saw Mulder and Scully investigating alien conspiracies on my old, crappy TV, I was hooked. I was a die-hard X-Phile before the show even began. I was one of the first people telling others to watch it, before people really knew about it. I watched it when I could over the years (I didn't always have a television), and I used the theme music as my outgoing voicemail on my phone for a long time. This was my show, my identity. I watched it even to the bitter end, even when Mulder and Scully weren't on it anymore.

I call The X-Files my first fandom, though I didn't spend time on message boards. I was a member of an X-Files Livejournal community, and I still have a Scully user pic with the text "spacegirl" on there. Scully will always be one of my favorite fictional feminist icons.

The X-Files will always be in my heart, even when they add stupid episodes in season 10 and fuck it up and even when I can't finish the reboot because YOU FUCKED IT UP CHRIS CARTER. But that is a story for another day.

Shows in bold I'm looking forward to the most.
Starred shows are new.

SUNDAY
*On Becoming a God in Central Florida - SHO - Sept 1
*Back to Life - SHO - Nov 10

MONDAY
The Deuce - HBO - Sept 9


TUESDAY
The Conners - ABC - Sept 24

WEDNESDAY


THURSDAY
The Good Place - NBC - Sept 26


FRIDAY
*Looking for Alaska - Hulu - Oct 18

Shows in bold I'm looking forward to the most.
Starred shows are new.

SUNDAY
United Shades of America - CNN - HIATUS
Big Little Lies - HBO - June 9

MONDAY

TUESDAY
Pose - FX - June 11
*I Love You, Now Die - HBO - July 9

WEDNESDAY
Younger - June 12

THURSDAY
iZombie - CW - SERIES ENDED
Stranger Things - Netflix - July 4

FRIDAY
*Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City - Netflix - June 7
Jessica Jones - Netflix - June 14
*Veronica Mars - Hulu - July 26 - HIATUS
GLOW - Netflix - Aug 9
Mindhunter - Netflix - August 16

Shows in bold I'm looking forward to the most.
Starred shows are new.

SUNDAY
Good Girls - NBC - March 3 - HIATUS
*The Case Against Adnan Syed - HBO - March 10
Killing Eve - BBC America - April 7
Game of Thrones - HBO - April 14 - SERIES ENDED
United Shades of America - CNN - April 28

MONDAY
*The Twilight Zone - CBS All Access - April 1 - NEW NIGHT

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY
*The Act - Hulu - March 20 - HIATUS
*What We Do in the Shadows - FX - March 27

THURSDAY
The Twilight Zone - CBS All Access - April 11
iZombie - CW - May 2

FRIDAY
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - CW - March 15 - SERIES ENDED
*Shrill - Hulu - March 15 - HIATUS
Fleabag - Amazon - May 17
Santa Clarita Diet - Netflix - March 29 - CANCELED
*Chambers - Netflix - April 26
*Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile - Netflix - May 3
*Dead to Me - Netflix - May 3 - HIATUS
*The Society - Netflix - May 10
*When They See Us - Netflix - May 31

Shows in bold I'm looking forward to the most.
Starred shows are new.

SUNDAY
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - HBO
Outlander - STARZ - HIATUS
True Detective - HBO - Jan 13
*Hanna - Amazon Prime - Feb 3

MONDAY

TUESDAY
The Conners - ABC - HIATUS
*Watership Down - Netflix - Dec 25

WEDNESDAY
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - Amazon Prime - Dec 5
You're the Worst - FXX - Jan 9

THURSDAY
The Good Place - NBC - Jan 10 - HIATUS

FRIDAY
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina - Netflix - Dec 14 - HIATUS
Runaways - Hulu - Dec 21
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - CW - Jan 11
One Day at a Time - Netflix - Feb 8