Welcome to the Rec Center! IV and Dhanya here, and we are thrilled to welcome you into our community of absolute fun. This will be your go-to spot for escaping that endless doomscroll and finding you next hyperfixation. We are going to provide you with a carefully curated list of what you should watch, read, and do. Whether it’s a gripping TV show to binge, a new artsy hobby to try out this weekend, or a book that you JUST CAN’T put down, we have you covered. Let’s go!
IV:
To Do
Try out reading your horoscope. I started probably a month ago and I never want to go back. Sure, I don’t really believe in zodiac signs or that the stage of Pluto can tell me how I’m gonna die- to be fair I still don’t really know what it does- but what can I say, I’m a Leo. I always want to hear that my poor actions aren’t of my own fruition. It has been revealing though. It’s like a mad-libs diary. The topics will be something like, “Something’s bothering you, stop ignoring it and talk.” Now, is something, literally anything bothering you. Did you just go through a nasty break up, do your teachers suck, is the tiktok your scrolling even less entertaining then this article? Then talk about it! Cry in your moms arms, rage about it to your best friend, tell this rando reading this article to shut the hell up so you can focus on your Lana Swift Kelce and Saja boy Jojo Siwa beef video essay. My favorite place to read my horoscope is this app Co-Star. It has super fun and unique horoscopes. No one wants their blood moon to eclipse, but it is fun to kick and scream when it does happen.
To Watch (Movie)
Watch the movie “My Name is Emily”. The movie is about an Irish girl whose mother dies when she’s young and it turns her father into a big bowl of stressful ethical soup, this stems from his fear not of death but missing out on death. Eventually her father is taken to a psychiatric institution and she’s placed in a foster home. On her sixteenth birthday she runs away with the first boy she saw, who happens to be an abused English chap. It was ridiculous and entertaining as heck. I know they’re going to live yet I’m still full force screaming at my TV. The relationships are also incredibly real, they are able to mix the emotions of humor and fear as little colors in bowls of wax, and when the candle burns it falls apart into a beautiful array of colors. Plus nothing can beat that motherforking Irish accent.
Dhanya:
To Watch (TV Show)
Watch the show “Lockwood and Co”. OH MY GOSH. This show has been a staple of my life since it came out in 2023. I had just finished watching an extremely long show (Gilmore Girls, if you must know. But that’s for another time!) I desperately needed a good thing to watch over Christmas break. I discovered this show had been on the Netflix Top Ten Shows list for the past couple weeks. I started it not thinking it would be anything notable. I was SO wrong. This is a dystopian-horror drama, now the horror part is more fantasy than horror, but there are ghosts! This show is based off of the book series by Jonathan Stroud and I’m going to be honest with you, I haven’t read the books. This is because I am too scared that the books are going to ruin my perfect vision of the show as it is indeed PERFECT. It’s set in the future where ghosts exist when someone does not die happily and select teenagers have different abilities that help identify these ghosts. When traumatized Lucy Carlyle (Ruby Stokes) joins the ghost-hunting agency Lockwood and Co., she faces things that she would’ve never imagined while accompanied by the hilarious George Karim (Ali Hadji-Heshmati) and the ever smug Antony Lockwood (Cameron Chapman). It’s so fun to watch, the cinematography is amazing, and the fight scenes are SO GOOD. This show is truly exceptional and it is one of my comfort shows that I watch every couple months.
To Read
Try reading the book series “Six of Crows”. This book series set my standard for heist entertainment. It is a duology consisting of “Six of Crows” and “Crooked Kingdom”. It is about a band of powerful individuals that work together to do a high-stakes heist. The first book caught my attention as I had seen a lot of good things about the series of social media and they were SO right! It is incredibly thrilling and full of twists and turns. For the couple weeks that I was reading this series, I was fully immersed in the world of Ketterdam. Immersed. While it takes a little bit to get acclimated, like with all fantasy books, once you understand the world, you will NOT be able to come out. The characters are so entertaining and the plot itself is so riveting. This duology is a perfect entertainer for a weekend where you have nothing to do. And to be frank, a heist book seems fitting with the happenings of the world right now. Wink wink!
That’s all folks! At least for now. You read that right. We’ll be back soon with even more things for you to try out, after you try these of course. IV and Dhanya, signing off!
