Peek TV.

This is what happens when you're too depressed or lazy or otherwise knackered to do a Two Episode Test, I suppose. Could be the new normal.

Comedy is subjective, of course, but sometimes the little bouts of laughing that get me through the day are the simplest and thus the best. Like when I was talking with my partner about the ludicrous idea that the “Citadel” franchise — wait, “franchise” — was created for and launched off the back of a series almost everyone thought was pretty bad.

“I watched it,” my partner said.

“You watched it? I thought everyone said it was terrible?”

“I watched all of it,” she said.

Of course she did! How many crying emojis should I type here?

She’s the queen of watching bad things. I mean, look, we both ended up hate-watching all of “Disclaimer” so nobody is innocent of bad choices here, but the original “Citadel”?

Anyway, I told her that Amazon Prime had taken a page out of the Netflix playbook and was spinning off “Citadel” stories in different countries and that, if you put your ear to the zeitgeist (harder than it looks!) you heard that maybe, just maybe, a Hindi-language version from India called “Citadel: Honey Bunny” might actually be pretty good.

At that point, what the hell, we decided to watch. I’ll note here that things still are rough and functioning on any level for me at least seems difficult to sometimes impossible, so just the act of saying, yes let’s watch this thing called “Honey Bunny” as a distraction was about all I could muster.

We only watched the first episode, but we both liked it. I had to tinker with the subtitles and was confused by the audio choices — eventually we turned off the subtitles because the English version seemed definitively more spot on and the subtitles appeared as if some stoned Gen Z kid who lied about their language skills did the translating (which was also kind of funny, and as I said, I’m on the look out for such relief).

But anyway, it’s an action series, mostly shot in India (also Serbia) and right now you can take me to just about any country and I’ll go. Plus, this trailer just says “yes please, put this in my eyes” for me:

The point is, I think taking a peek at dozens of shows is likely on my list, for no other reason right now than it’s likely all I can muster (though I’m looking forward to our Box Set: Silo S2 watch starting Friday).