New year, new thread. What’s playing on your screens in 2026?
As the calendar was turning to 2026, we started re-watching The Residence on Netflix. Spawn2 is home for a few days and we knew they’d love it, so it gave Mrs. ricepad and me a chance to watch again. Still fun!
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We finished Blue Lights. Great show, even if it gave me a nightmare I spent almost entirely hiding from bad peeps / human traffickers 
We also watched the Stranger Things finale, which I thought was very well done & fun, despite having almost zero recollection how it all started, the why’s and the whatnots.
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I am pretty glad to be done with Stranger Things, the finale of which could have been shortened by half if 90% of the weeping were removed. I did like the flashbacks, though, and seeing the cast as the infants we did not realize they were at the time.
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As mentioned in the previous thread, oh so much weeping 
But I thought the battle scene was done really well.
If you’ve not yet seen this, I found it very interesting.
Totally agree with you about the weeping!
Surprised half the cast wasn’t lost to drowning.
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That was an enlightening read, thanks for sharing! It also lead me to this earlier article, and a vague plan to watch The Peanut Butter Solution tonight…
Yeah, that caught my eye as well.
We are watching the new episode of Shetland.
I TOFTT. It was kind of a waste of time, TBH.
Oh, that’s too bad. Possibly only worked at the time of its release.
Yeah, maybe. Not sure I would’ve found it any more impressive, let alone traumatizing, as a 12-yr old 
My PIC had never seen Pet Sematary, which had just started while we were cooking, so we watched it after dinner from the beginning. The guy playing Gage’s dad can’t act his way out of a bucket, but I still think the movie does a relatively decent job with the novel — first SK I ever read.
Kind of a dick move for Herman Munster to introduce Louis to the Lazarus “concept,” after which all hell breaks loose, of course.
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Mine was Carrie. A nice short one!
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I’d seen Christine (fun enough if one can groove to the whole “car with a conscience” concept, and at 13 I def could 
), The Shining, Carrie and Cujo before I might’ve read the books, so I never did.
Plus Cujo never worked for me as I always felt sorry for that poor dog, who’d never asked to be bitten by a stupid bat.
Does anyone know where one could catch David Bowie: The Final Act in the US? It’s a new documentary on Channel 4.
I’m more of a 60s/70s/80s Bowie gal, but will watch almost anything with/about him… 'cept for Tin Machine videos
Kubrick’s The Shining is so different from the book that you should read the book.
But I already know what’s gonna happen!!! And the film is so … monumentally well done. I fear it might be one of those where the movie is actually better than the book.
You actually do not! It’s that different. I love the movie, but Stephen King hated it. There is a much more faithful adaptation, made for tv, starring Stephen Weber. Who I would argue is a more convincing “guy going crazy” than Jack Nicholson, who seems crazy from the first frame.
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