What We’re Watching: Netflix Edition

Reporter: Alyssa Killeen

  • 1. Young Sheldon
  • The series, which begins in the fall of 1989, follows Sheldon Cooper’s early life as a child prodigy in the fictional town of Medford, Texas. As he grows up, he tries to fit into a world of people, including his own family and friends, who do not understand his unique intellectual capabilities and social ineptitude. 
  • 2. Derry Girls
  • The personal exploits of a 16-year-old girl and her family and friends during the Troubles in the early 1990s in Northern Ireland. The personal exploits of a 16-year-old girl and her family and friends during the Troubles in the early 1990s in Northern Ireland. 
  • 3. Outer Banks
  • The show follows a group of Pogue teenagers who live at The Cut and are determined to find out what happened to the missing father of the group’s ringleader, John B. Along the way, they discover a legendary treasure that is tied to John B’s father. 
  • 4. Breaking Bad
  • Set in Albuquerque, New Mexico, between 2008 and 2010, Breaking Bad follows Walter White, a struggling, frustrated high school chemistry teacher who transforms into a ruthless kingpin in the local methamphetamine drug trade, driven to provide for his family financially after being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. 
  • 5. Friends
  • Friends is a 90’s Comedy TV show, based in Manhattan, about 6 friends who go through just about every life experience imaginable together; love, marriage, divorce, children, heartbreaks, fights, new jobs and job losses and all sorts of drama.