Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney, HBO Max, Peacock. What's Your Bingewatching Pleasure?

In Midwestern Illinois today the temperature reached a balmy 48 degrees with windchills causing it to feel more like a 31-degree morning in December. Drafts from recently opened windows prevailed, the force of mother nature winning the day. Like the beginning of a lockdown half of the people went back inside to hide out, not from fear of germs but to avoid cold and chilling temperatures. So, what was our binge-watching guilty pleasure? What did you watch today.

Netflix brought us the second half of Lucifer today and right from the getgo I could tell we were in for the best of the Tom Ellis lead buddy cop drama about the Devil and Detective Decker. If you haven't ever indulged in an afternoon or evening of Lucifer, this devilish story is stocked full of some of the richest characters ever to grace television. From the former child-star actor Detective Chloe Decker and her bumbling ex-husband, Dan to the Devil himself and his Archangel brothers and sisters, the characters are fun and quirky, filled with dramatic questions of morality surrounding their intermingling with humanity. This season brought the long-awaited appearance and exploration of their relationship with their father as Dennis Haysbert brings us a God that until now only Morgan Freeman could have done.

In the town of Carp, Texas there's a game that the locals all play and it's the only way out. Nobody knows when it started or who created the game but facing their fears is the only way to escape. At the end of every school year, the graduates of Carp High all play for the chance to win life-changing money. They all play and only one can win. This is the hook that involves the drama and intrigue of the show as a group of young actors and actresses get a chance to showcase their skill in this Amazon Original. It only took me two episodes to get to the point this was officially added to my list.

Terra Nova was a Fox Series in 2011 that is on Amazon. Centering around the key arc of the Shannon family and what happens to the world in the not-so-distant future when we've stripped away our resources and overpopulated, Terra Nova takes place in the era of 85 million B.C. Humanities' second chance is a wormhole through time. As the world faces extinction a handful of survivors picked by a lottery, travel back to ensure their survival and that the world has a second chance to get things right. As they face their new lives, which include dinosaurs, a compound protecting the population and looked after by the militant Commander Taylor (Stephen Lang), and untold dangers, the Shannon family finds a way to restart their lives as they get to know themselves millions of years in the past.

The X-Files like, NBC series, Debris is available to binge on Peacock and Hulu. Two investigating partners are chasing down the effects of Debris from an alien spacecraft that broke up as it crashed and landed all over the country. Brian and Finola, agents from two different continents are thrust together as they travel the country looking for the Debris. Each particle gives special powers to the people that find it, including mysteriously making elderly young, opening doors to alternate universes, and bringing people back from the dead. As we await the forthcoming and no doubt explosive report to congress on the UFO phenomenon this has been a very interesting show to watch.

A thousand possibilities for a cold Friday night. From Amazon's the Boys to Netflix's Lucifer. From animated adventures like the Bad Batch to FX's Archer on Hulu, there's something for everyone. So what's your guilty binge-watching pleasure?

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