Welcome to Continue Watching...

The short version of why we started this newsletter is that we watch too much TV and we have too many opinions about it and we want everyone to watch everything with us so we can endlessly discuss fictional events that make us feel some type of way.

The longer story is that we met in 2015 while working for a now-defunct feminist webzine, where we quickly realised how different we were. And yet we became what our mothers would call fast friends because we were two of maybe five people who were still watching Pretty Little Liars in 2016. We had found our person, so we were never letting go.

We are not casual TV viewers, we’re the kind who would watch an episode, then tweet about it, then read three articles about it, then discuss it with each other and then (at least Shahana would) write a newsletter entry about it. We do not watch TV just for entertainment, we watch it for sustenance. We have Opinions, not thoughts. And if we’re watching the same show at the same time, we blow up each other’s phones constantly. 

This newsletter is an extension of that. But we don’t always watch the same shows. One of us loves period dramas while the other calls them “old-timey shows.” One of us is obsessed with Hindi TV shows while the other cannot stand them. But we do care deeply about everything we watch, and we are very good at knowing exactly what kind of show will work for which person. That is, unfortunately, not a superpower recognized by Marvel (yet) but it has the potential to change lives, just like any other great piece of art.

Join us in our journey as we struggle to meet deadlines (because we have full time jobs), try to outwatch Netflix and Amazon Prime and take on the persona of the protagonist of our latest obsession. 

Meet the Addicts

Shahana Yasmin would be truly unstoppable, if she stopped procrastinating long enough to actually do the things she wants to do. 

Three all-time fave TV shows

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

• Riverdale ("You haven't known the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of high school football." If you know, you know)

Kashika Saxena has learned all her life and work lessons from TV shows. Her greatest wish is to publish a novel and her greatest fear is that she will never get around to doing that. 

Three all-time fave TV shows (THIS IS TORTURE)

• Gilmore Girls

• Grey’s Anatomy

• Schitt’s Creek / Friday Night Lights / Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon

If you want to read some of our writing, we co-wrote a piece about watching The Handmaid’s Tale in 2017. If you want recommendations for what to watch, reply to this email. And if you want to make us very, very happy, please subscribe to our newsletter and share it with your friends.

We have great taste in TV and we want to spread the joy!