TV Shows to Start Watching this Summer

As the summer goes by, I continue to find myself with an abundance of time on my hands and a lack of things to do to fill that time (that I would enjoy doing). So, I’ve been turning to television shows to fill the void in my life that graduating high school has opened. And as far as I can tell, pre-frosh summer laziness is a chronic and contagious illness that can only be cured by TV show marathons and joining fandoms. So here are my recommendations of some shows you should get started on (and perhaps finish) this summer.

1. Gilmore Girls.

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Gilmore Girls, which aired its first episode in 2000 and final episode in 2007, was a fan favorite during its initial run on The WB and later The CW. I remember my cousin obsessing over this show every time we visited her. Gilmore Girls is a show about Rory Gilmore and her single mother Lorelai Gilmore, who live in the small, quirky, and interesting town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. The show follows Rory through high school and college and shows her growing into an adult. I really enjoyed this show because Lorelai and Rory have such a strong bond with each other that it feels like their characters are real and that they are actually family. In addition, this was one of the first shows to have relationship camps (I’m on the much smaller Team Bible Boy because I adore Chad Michael Murray.) If you are at all interested in watching the revival season that will be coming out soon on Netflix, make sure you watch the original series first so that you know where the storyline and inside jokes come from.

2. Psych.

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Psych, the show that I am currently streaming on Netflix as I type, ended in 2014 following a pretty successful run on the USA Network. Psych is a TV show about Shawn Spencer, a man who seemingly never grew up, and his best friend Burton “Gus” Guster. Shawn Spencer fakes being a psychic after he is suspected by the police of having caused the crimes he solved through extreme attention to the details on news reports. He and Gus work with the Santa Barbara Police Department to help them solve crimes. The episodes are extremely interesting and amusing to watch because each episode shows how Shawn is actually figuring out what happened during the crime and then shows him giving a kooky explanation so as to not blow his cover to the cops. Another thing about the show is that each episode contains its own crime story, so you can theoretically skip a few episodes and still understand everything.

3. Girl Meets World.

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The only show on this list actually meant for kids, Girl Meets World is a Disney Channel spin-off of the hit 90s show, Boy Meets World. Riley Matthews, daughter of Boy Meets World main character Cory Matthews, and her best friend Maya Hart take on the perils of middle school and, later, high school with the other friends they make along the way. They explore and face issues very common to our real lives like bullying, teen romance, death, class differences, and absent parents, in such a way that it still seems lighthearted and we can still laugh at all of the goofy sayings and catchphrases the characters seem to have. I’m an incoming college freshman and I’m in love with a Disney TV show. And I’m not the only one. Girl Meets World is rating very well among people my age. It’s funny yet believable, and shows all the things people like to see in TV shows without making it feel like overkill. You can watch Girl Meets World on Fridays on Disney Channel. I hope this helped alleviate the ennui and boredom that you all are feeling this summer, or if not, at least gave you some new TV shows to binge while going through your quarter life/post-high school crisis. For now, I will bid you goodbye!