In which self-isolating pop culture fiends Kylie Klein-Nixon and Emily Brookes get on the phone and share their dream line up of lockdown activities.
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It’s the end of the world as we know it, and we feel fine… Well, we feel like we have coronavirus symptoms, but we probably don’t. Still, best stay inside anyway, hm?
With lockdown suddenly a real possibility (it’s Kylie’s dream and Emily’s nightmare) we’re thinking about what you could do with all that enforced time at home.
You could get creative! Learn a new skill, or a new instrument! We’ve got a few suggestions for that.
You could read one of those classic novels you’ve always thought you should have read but haven’t! We’ve got a few suggestions for that.
You could pick the fictional universe with which you are most obsessed and write some fanfic about it! We’ve got a lot of suggestions for that.
But let’s face it - after a day or two of that kind of stuff all you’re really going to want to do is lie on the couch and indulge in some binge-watching. And well, surprise surprise, we’ve got many suggestions for that.
Wash your hands, stockpile your toilet paper and settle in: It’s the Off Script Lockdown Special.
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You too can learn to play City of Stars on the ukelele with the help of online tutorials like this one.
The first season of The Good Wife features Josh Charles, and if you really commit to the binging you get Jeffrey Dean Morgan, too.
Supernatural has 50 per cent more seasons than Friends and has been on for so long that when it started Jennifer Aniston was still married to Brad Pitt.
Here is an interesting article about the history of fan fiction, and how authors turn on each other when one of them goes mainstream.
This Wes Anderson Honest Trailer is not supposed to make me love Wes Anderson more, and yet it does.
