Everything I Watched Last Month (March 2024)
And what I thought about it all
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Back with another monthly watch list recap — and apologies for the tardiness of this one! Will be back to the regular schedule next month.
Once a month I send out a list of everything I watched the previous month to give you some ideas of things to add to your own watch lists, so I’m here to share the rundown of all of the stuff I watched in March.
Also note that I only include seasons of TV shows that I finished in any given month — if it’s still on or I’m still currently watching it, then I’ll include it when it’s over.
RELATED: Everything I Watched in February 2024
You’ll find that my reactions to things lean positive, because 1. I actively try to seek out stuff that I expect to be entertaining, has been well reviewed and/or has value to me — I’m not just going to watch the most popular show on Netflix because everyone else is if I don’t think I would like it — and 2. I’ve given myself more leeway recently to give up on shows that I’m not enjoying (here’s the list of all the shows I dropped last year). I used to force myself to finish things even if I hated them, which is truly unnecessary and a waste of time.
Keep scrolling for the list of everything I watched in March 2024 (and here’s the list from February if you want more ideas for things to watch):
The Traitors US - Season 2 (Peacock) 👍👍
There’s not much else to say that hasn’t been said about the second season of the US edition of “The Traitors,” which was as close to a flawless season of a reality competition series that one could possibly get. It was a masterclass in casting, putting together genuine icons from multiple reality TV worlds, which ensured that fans of each respective corner of the reality TV world would tune in, which ensured that the conversation online about the show would pop off, which made each single weekly episode drop feel like a TV Event. It will absolutely go down as a TV highlight for the entire year.
The Real Housewives of Miami - Season 6 (Bravo) 👍👍
The third nearly-perfect season of “The Real Housewives of Miami” featuring the same perfect cast of nine women — six full-time Housewives, three friends of that over-deliver in terms of their contributions to the show — as the previous two seasons. It’s hilarious and maddening and dramatic and aspirational and heartbreaking all at once, which is what I want in my Housewives. Word on the street is that a cast shake-up is coming, so let’s pray for our girls that most of them stick around — because there’s certainly already a lot of personal drama playing out off-camera that we’re going to need updates on in season 7.
Somewhere in Queens (Hulu) 👍
This movie from last year had been on my list for a while, and I decided to throw it on for me and my parents when I was home for the weekend. Ray Romano directed it, wrote it and stars in it alongside Laurie Metcalf, who plays his wife. They’re part of a big, interconnected Italian family in Queens, New York, and their son is a late-blooming basketball prodigy grappling with whether to pursue his potential, stay put and follow his family’s usual path or take another route. It’s a perfect family dramedy that deserved more eyeballs.
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders (Netflix) 👐
This docu-series had an alluring premise: An investigative journalist goes down a dangerous path while pursuing a political conspiracy called the Octopus, which someone picks up decades later the journalist is found dead in his hotel room. There were parts of this that captured my attention, but it got a little too deep into the inner workings of the government for my taste in a way that just failed to maintain my interest.
Chrissy & Dave Dine Out (Hulu) 👍
I mostly enjoyed this light Freeform show co-starring Chrissy Teigen and Dave Chang (of Momofuku). Each episode saw them visit one of Dave’s friends’ restaurants, with him spending most of his time in the kitchen with a famous chef and Chrissy entertaining a rotating group of dinner guests (for some reason, Joel Kim Booster is her only constant dinner companion — he’s great, but his presence just felt a little random and unexplained to me?) like Jimmy Kimmel, Regina Hall, Simu Liu and John Legend. They mostly just have interesting conversations over delicious-looking food, which is sometimes all you’re looking for in a TV show.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills - Season 13 (Bravo) 👍
There was a lot of complaining about this season of “RHOBH,” a lot of which I understand. It was a different type of season for the crown jewel of Bravo — particularly because it wasn’t the kind of single-issue season that we’d gotten used to on this show, but also because the fairytale marriage of the show’s longest-running cast member started to crumble all of a sudden. I have to say that, while it wasn’t a perfect season and I would’ve liked a little bit more transparency about that situation, ultimately I mostly enjoyed season 13.
Love is Blind - Season 6 (Netflix) 👍👍
This was the best season of Netflix’s best dating show in years. There were so many couples to follow, there was genuinely good mess to follow and the weekly drops (more of this, Netflix!) sustained the online conversation in a way that added to the entertainment. I’m deducting points for Nick and Vanessa Lachey once again dropping the ball during the reunion by failing to get proper updates on the season’s most prominent couple (Jimmy and Chelsea), but overall this season was Thee Moment, and I thank them for delivering.
Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (Hulu) 👍
The premise and the promise of this show were right up my alley, and it mostly delivered for me. It tends to be the case with Ryan Murphy’s shows that promising series end up dropping off during their back halves, and that felt true here, too. Perhaps there just wasn’t enough of an actual “feud” to sustain the show, but I still found the performances to be fantastic, the subject matter to be as juicy as I wanted and the aesthetics to be spot-on.
Dune: Part Two (in theaters) 👍👍
I may not have known exactly what was going on the whole time, but this film was epic — and I loved seeing three of the biggest next-gen movie stars in Timothee Chalament, Zendaya and Austin Butler on screen together. Shout out to Rebecca Ferguson, too, for her electrifying performance in this.
Upgraded (Prime) 👐
Sometimes you just need a stupid little rom-com on a Friday night, and this is a fine choice for one. It stars Camila Mendes from “Riverdale” in a sort of “Devil Wears Prada” meets any rom-com in which the protagonist has to sustain a big lie to impress their love interest, and it was as entertaining as it needed to be. It wasn’t particularly original and didn’t make a lasting impression on me, but I enjoy Camila and most movies of this ilk, so… yeah!
Life and Beth - Season 2 (Hulu) 👍
Amy Schumer is not the most popular person online right now, but there’s something very watchable about her to me, and I enjoy her writing style. This semi-autobiographical series picks up where season one left off — only, instead of tracking the beginnings of her relationship with her future husband (played well by Michael Cera), it tracks her pregnancy and their journey to figuring out that he is on the spectrum. It’s a solid show with great side characters, balancing poignant moments with funny ones, in a way that mirrors the appeal of “Somebody Somewhere” (complimentary).
The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping (Netflix) 👐
This docu-series centers on a specific disciplinary school and puts a spotlight on the larger troubled teen industry that it was a part of. I appreciates how much of the series centered the perspective and experiences of the teens who were sent to this nightmare of a place — it was a cool way for the students, who are now adults, to take back some of the power and agency that was stripped away from them when they were teenagers. Given that the school has long been closed, I wish that the series gave viewers a better understanding of how pervasive this problem still is (or isn’t).
Married to Medicine - Season 10 (Bravo) 👍
Season 10 of “Married to Medicine” was my first time watching a season of this incredibly under-appreciated show live. I finally finished my binge of the first nine seasons right before it premiered, and it was fun to be part of the conversation around the show this time and have a few of the cast members on my podcast. The first half of this season — with the introduction of Phaedra and Sweet Tea into the group, Quad rejoining — was great, but I think the back half was pretty forgettable. The reunion was fantastic, though, which bodes well for season 11.
Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (Max) 👍
This docu-series about Dan Schneider and the toxic environment he cultivated on his hit shows during Nickelodeon’s heyday blew a lot of Millennials’ minds, including mine. It forced us to reframe many of the beloved shows that we grew up watching in a necessary but difficult way by shedding light on the abuse and mistreatment of some of the cast members. I found it to be largely well-done, comprehensive and effective, though I found the additional episode they released a week later to feel like rush-job.
Apples Never Fall (Peacock) 👍
Annette Bening and Sam Neil star in this decent crime drama about a WASPy family in West Palm Beach left reeling after their mom goes missing and the blame turns towards their dad. It’s based on a novel by Liane Moriarty, the author of “Big Little Lies,” which tracks, though the series never quite reaches that same level of suspense or entertainment value. It’s still a solid watch if you’re looking for a digestible limited series in your TV diet.
Buying Beverly Hills - Season 2 (Netflix) 👍
The second season of Mauricio Umansky’s reality show about The Agency and his daughters, who all work there, was vastly improved from its first season, largely because they realized what people wanted out of the show. Viewers were eager for his point of view on everything happening with his marriage to Kyle Richards, and the show delivered that and then some. I also genuinely adore all three of the daughters, I enjoy most of the side characters and found a lot of the B-plots to be a step up from season 1, as well.
Plus One (Netflix) 👍👍
I randomly downloaded this rom-com from 2019 from my list for a recent plane ride, and I’m so glad that I did. It stars Jack Quaid and Maya Erskine as old friends who agree to be one another’s plus ones to all of the weddings they have to attend that summer — and I’m sure you can mostly guess where it goes from there. These two had great chemistry, it was a genuinely funny and sweet film and Maya essentially plays her “Pen15” character as an adult, which obviously means she was fucking hilarious in it. Highly recommend this one!
Crashing (Netflix) 👍
This is “Fleabag” creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s first series from 2016, which I had never watched. It’s just six, 20-30-minute episodes and, while it’s a little too weird at times and could use some homing in, ultimately you can see why she was such a promising talent early in her career. There are some genuinely laugh-out-loud funny moments here, and it’s a wild cast of characters that includes a pre-”Bridgerton” Jonathan Bailey.
Full Swing - Season 2 (Netflix) 👍
I don’t watch golf, but I do love this Netflix docu-series about the PGA Tour, which came at a moment of high-drama for the professional circuit as it debated what to do about LIV, the Saudi-backed rival circuit that popped up and poached a lot of its star players for big sums of money. This season captures what happened when the PGA blindsides the world by doing a 180 with its position on the controversy and ends with an enthralling focus on the Ryder Cup.