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Series (TV Shows) we watch on Netflix

21 April 2020 By Avinash Meetoo Leave a Comment

Here are the series (TV shows) that we have watched on Netflix since subscribing in 2016:

Series	Episodes watched	Stopped watching
House M.D.	177
Suits	61	Yes
Orange Is the New Black	52
Jane The Virgin	47	Yes
Money Heist	33
The Crown	30
Twin Peaks	30
The Blacklist	26
Stranger Things	25
Sense8	24
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	23	Yes
That ’70s Show	14
The IT Crowd	12
Video Game High School	11	Yes
The Expanse	10	Yes
The Get Down	9
13 Reasons Why	8
Friends from College	8	Yes
Cuckoo	7
Alias Grace	6
Everything Sucks!	6
iZombie	5
Lucifer	5
Master of None	5	Yes
Black Mirror	4
Kim’s Convenience	4
Marvel’s Daredevil	4
On My Block	4
Brooklyn Nine-Nine	3
Friends	3
How I Met Your Mother	3
Star Trek	3
Yunus Emre	3
The Good Place	2
Unorthodox	2
Altered Carbon	1
Sherlock	1
South Park	1
The Flash	1

Mind you, we also use Plex to watch series and movies at home. So, dont’t take the episode counts too seriously. There are some series which we have watched a lot on Plex but not on Netflix.

The Focusrite 2i2 audio interface and its free plugins

19 April 2020 By Avinash Meetoo 4 Comments

On 22 October 2013, I purchased a Focusrite 2i2 audio interface.

Seven years later, it is still working great and I use it mainly now to connect my Yamaha HS5 monitor speakers to my iMac using balanced connections. I rarely use it for recording.

One great thing about Focusrite is the set of plugins it comes with and its Plugin Collective programme. In essence (and I quote its website), this is what Plugin Collective offers: “When you register any Focusrite hardware you gain access to the most innovative music software brands on the market. Plug-in Collective keeps you up to date with the latest tools, offering you new free downloads every couple of months, along with generous discounts.”

Over the seven years, I have managed to get all of those for free:

Audiority Deleight
Audiority Distortion 1
AudioThing SR-88 (SoundMaster Memory Rhythm SR-88)
D16 Sigmund
Eventide EQuivocate
Focusrite and sonible Balancer
Focusrite Red 2
Focusrite Red 3
Focusrite Scarlett Compressor
Focusrite Scarlett Equaliser
Focusrite Scarlett Gate
Focusrite Scarlett Reverb
Mastering The Mix BASSROOM (for six months though)
Mastering The Mix IGNITE
Novation B-Station (Novation Bass Station)
Positive Grid BIAS AMP 2 LE
Softube Drawmer S73 Intelligent Master Processor
Softube Saturation Knob
Softube TSAR-1R Reverb
Softube Tube Delay
Sound Radix SurferEQ Boogie
Venomode DEEQ
Venomode MAXIMAL 2
Venomode PIVOT
and the quite excellent XLN Audio Addictive Keys

I also have a licence for Ableton Live Lite but I have not installed it because I now use the also quite excellent REAPER.

The Good Place and Life in Pieces

15 April 2020 By Avinash Meetoo Leave a Comment

On 4 February 2020, we watched the last ever episode of The Good Place. The show ran from September 2016 to January 2020. It’s a very nice TV show that we loved watching with the kids because it’s about friendship, philosophy, a bit of science and it’s fun. One thing which is cool is that all the main characters have (more or less) the same importance and the actors performed admirably: Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper), Tahani Al-Jamil (Jameela Jamil), Jason Mendoza (Manny Jacinto), Michael (Ted Danson) and Janet (D’Arcy Carden).Â If you don’t know the show, give it a try.

A few months ago, we also finished watching Life in Pieces. The show ran from September 2015 to June 2019 and chronicles the lives of three generations of the Short family as they go about their daily lives in Los Angeles. What is cool is that each episode is told as four short stories, typically one for each of the three Short family branches and one that ties the other three stories together. It’s a cool show but the characters are not very likeable, apart maybe from Dr Tim Hughes (Dan Bakkedahl), Matthew Short (Thomas Sadoski) and Colleen Brandon Ortega Short (Angelique Cabral).