s/o shows: @-friendly binging

[litebright]

Do you binge-watch stuff with your kids? If so, how old are they and which shows? 

The four of us pile into DH's and my bed in the evenings and watch stuff after dinner. (I fought having a TV in our bedroom for so long, but we use that one the most and I kind of love it now even though the kids can be wiggly.) They are nearly-10 and 12. 

We worked our way through the classic Xmen and Spiderman cartoons. We have done the big nature series like Planet Earth/Blue Planet. We all like the Great British Baking Show. We just finished The Good Place and that was a big hit. 

But now we're done with that and we need something new. I am not looking for "kid shows," I want stuff that we can all watch together and be entertained. I'm not opposed to some mild adult humor -- The Good Place had more sexual humor than I was expecting, but we answered their questions ("Mom, what's porn?", lol, and lots of laughing about penis-flattening), and laid down some guidelines for navigating that stuff; which they'll have to do more and more, so I actually think it wasn't a bad place to start. I'm more hesitant about the stuff like Stranger Things, which DH and I like but can be pretty intense/graphic.

What do you watch with your kids? 
 

[1confused1]

My sports loving 13 year old and I watch QB1 on Netflix.

[suburbanzookeeper]

Both of our kids (almost 7 & 10) love The Mandalorian.

[rootbeerfloat]

DD (10) and I watch Sugar Rush, Nailed It, and similar baking shows. We're making our way through all the seasons of America's Next Top Model, which I never watched when it actually aired lol. We also like The Masked Singer.

DS (13) likes us to watch Clone Wars with him. We also watched The Mandalorian.

As a family, we like(d) The Good Place, Brooklyn 99, Superstore (sometimes), Stranger Things, Raising Dion.

[devonpow]

DS1 (about to turn 13) binged Stranger Things (his favorite), Lemony Snicket (great!), Agents of Shield, mandalorian, clone wars, and Hawai’i 5-0 (don’t ask - he and DH are into it lol). He also likes all the kids cooking shows and is currently on a Saturday night live kick

DS2 (about to turn 8) gets scared of a lot of shows lol. He LOVES kids baking championship, and oddly likes watching Rick Steve’s Europe lol. Other than that he’s still all cartoons

[dontlook]

All the baking shows. Nailed It is a family favorite.

Competition reality shows: Next in fashion and Glow Up are the last two we watched.

[lilac05]

We loved watching Tiny House Nation together.

My H and I have been watching Brooklyn 99, and I think that would fit for your family.

[gardengal]

If y’all like mysteries, Midsomer Murders, Father Brown, & Poirot.

They are kind of like Murder, She Wrote Which I think is streaming too.

[simpsongal]

Anamaniacs, the Simpsons
Eta- they’re 3 and 6

[eddy]

Stranger Things
Schitts Creek
Simpsons
Park and Rec

[waverly]

Masked Singer, Lego Master, Goldbergs, Young Sheldon, Schooled, God Friended Me, sports

[jinkies]

My kids are 8 and almost 12.

We recently all binged lemony Snicket on netflix.

We also all like the Office.

Older one likes to watch survivor and project runway with me.

[Dumbledork]

Bob’s Burgers

My mother can’t believe we let her watch it, but it’s fantastic. Every single person in the family is a bit weird, but they are all super supportive of each other.
It’s one of the few shows that has a consistent, fairly realistic, supportive father-daughter relationship.
They’re not rude like the Simpsons kids I grew up with, and they’re all fairly feminist and queer friendly.
I love Gene because he’s “traditional boy” in a lot of ways, but he also loves musicals and has dressed up as a girl more than one time.
And it’s fullllllll of terrible dad jokes and puns. Love it.

After that we binge any kind of cooking show, masked singer, young sheldon, and recently started binging Monk with her.

[AndyCohen]

My kids are young (almost 8 and almost 5) and aren’t into live action shows quite yet, but I watched Netflix’s Lost in Space and really enjoyed it myself and could see a bit older kids liking it as there’s a wide range of ages between the Robinson kids.

[anonymous]

My kids are 10&7 and we just stared watching the wonder years series on Hulu. They LOVE it

[nsl]

We've watched most of Star Trek: The Next Generation and some of the 2005-present seasons of Doctor Who with our boys, starting when they were around 6-9.

[onomatopoeia]

Another vote for Brooklyn 99. My kids are 11 and 13 and we've been watching that for a while. It's funny but also deals with serious issues like LGBTQ, racism, workplace harassment and sexism, etc in a way that's led to a lot of positive discussions in our house.

We've also watched the Flash, The Mandalorian, The Office and The Simpsons. We are into WW2 history so we've watched a lot of series on that as well.

DS1 (13) will watch Stranger Things with us but it's too intense for my 11 year old.

[karinothing]

My 4 and 8 year old just watched Endings on HULU. It has old SyFy channel vibes. We also watch Making It and Lego Masters.

[partyinmytummy]

My girls (8 and almost 4), DH, and I have been binging anime like Pokemon, as well as any competition shows featuring kids. We also just finished up the latest season of Miraculous (Ladybug and Cat Noir) which isn't anime per se, but I believe is based on one (or at least manga.)

[muffin0]

My kids watched Kate and Alexa on Netflix. It’s got Kelly Kapowski in it. It’s about a pair of best friends. It was cute.

[staceymcgill]

Feb 26, 2020 19:57:11 GMT -5 anonymous said:

My kids are 10&7 and we just stared watching the wonder years series on Hulu. They LOVE it

Omg thank you for this! We just started tonight and my 12 and 9 year olds are already loving it. And I’m loving the nostalgia!

[lolobeth802]

My youngest kids are 13 and 11, and with them we’ve enjoyed The Good Place, Anne with an E, The Durrells in Corfu, Parks and Rec, Downton Abbey, The Office, Atypical, Queer Eye, The Great British Baking Show and The Umbrella Academy.

[frlcb]

My 12 year old son and I binged Raising Dion on Netflix and really, really enjoyed it. With both my 8 and 12 year old we've watched Kids Baking Championship and enjoyed that. My son also loves Coyote Peterson on Animal Planet and The Aquarium, also on AP.

[chedifuen]

Mine are 13 and 9 and I will preface this by saying we are not strict about what they watch if we're watching with them. Their absolute favorites are The Office, Parks and Rec, The Good Place, Brooklyn 99, and The Mandalorian. We all enjoyed Raising Dion and always watch the GBBO together.

The went as Dwight and Michael for Halloween this year. It was hysterical

[snapoutofit]

DS (10) loves the Lemony Snicket series and has watched it several times over. He watched the Mandalorian but didn’t love it. He can binge Pokémon and Yu-gi-oh all day. We’ll alsowatch Mark Rober, Dude Perfect and the Backyard Scientist on YouTube with him. And myth busters.

[Alps79]

@ My daughters watched every season of Little House on the Prairie. I did the read the summery of each prior and we did skip a few shows for various reasons. I loved it as a child and it was fun to rewatch.

My oldest (11 YO girl) loves history and "period" tv shows/movies. She would just die to watch for example The Tudors or Outlander; CLEARLY not appropriate. So if anyone has any period shows/movies that are appropriate for an 11 YO I'd love the recs.

(sorry to piggy back OP)

In our queue we have Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Punky Brewster, Boy meets World

[CurlyQ284]

Not a show, but over the summer we printed out a list of all the Marvel movies in chronological order and watched them. It was fun! It's been a long time since I saw some of those and I found that I even missed a few.

[glitzy07]

My kids (4, 6.5, 13) have enjoyed watching some new and old sitcoms with H, including Boy Meets World, Black-ish, The Goldbergs, and Superstore.

I tend to watch more hour long drama type of shows, but they’ve been around when I’m watching Friday Night Lights or similar - though those can definitely have some pretty adult themes.

[sparrowsong]

My nieces introduced me to a show available on Netflix called Weird Wonders of the World. Bizarre creatures, strange weather phenomenon, medical mysteries... that type of stuff. Each episode describes 4-5 of these weird things.

[katieinthecity]

My kids are younger but we've watched The Mandalorian, Chopped, and MasterChef with them.