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From W be easy Chicago this is Nernet I'm Greta Johnson I bought myself a Mother's Day pastry box and empowering through it

which means this must be another edition of Burnett's introverts guide to

the good life. I mean I guess under non-pandemic circumstances I also

could have bought myself a box of Mother's Day pastries and enjoyed them but I

don't know for some reason it really only occurred to me now.

So what are you going to do tonight?

Or for that matter, tomorrow night.

Or maybe the night after.

Or what about the night after that?

I can make a really good guess,

and it involves the boob tube.

Today's episode is full of recommendations of things that you should watch on television. TV, like books and music and

podcasts has the power to completely transport you to another place or at least

to provide an exquisite distraction during troubling times.

You need it and Margaret Lyons has it.

You've maybe heard her on Nurdett before.

She is a TV critic for the New York Times and she writes their

watching newsletter which is really good. We stole her for a couple of minutes so

that she could tell us all about the good shows out there. Margaret, welcome to Nertet. Thanks for having me. Okay, so it feels to me, am I wrong or did like a bunch of pretty great stuff just drop like in the last couple weeks? Yeah, I mean as bad as everything is outside, I will say it has been a really good couple of TV weeks just in terms of like shows that are coming out and the sort of like exciting different sort of stories that are part of like this spring TV push and you know at least at least we still have this

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