How much TV did you binge on during the lockdown months? And have you retained any of it? Time to find out …
It was a big year for Schitt’s Creek, which saw its sixth and final season nominated for a record 15 Emmy awards, sweeping all four in the acting categories. What did Moira wear to her son’s wedding?
A clown costume
An angel costume
A pope costume
A Mickey Mouse costume
And what happened at the Crows Have Eyes 3 premiere?
Everyone was attacked by crows
Everyone ate crow
Everyone dressed as a crow
Everyone vomited
In The Undoing, what does Hugh Grant do for a living?
Equine veterinarian
Military aviator
Corporate seismologist
Paediatric oncologist
Inside No 9’s Psychoville crossover episode saw two characters dance to which song?
Status Quo – You’re in the Army Now
Soulja Boy – Crank That
Madonna – Justify My Love
Whigfield – Saturday Night
How did the final season of Homeland end?
Carrie married Saul
Carrie started a foundation named after Nicholas Brody
Carrie quit spying to become a jazz musician
Carrie wrote a book called Tyranny of Secrets: Why I Had to Betray My Country
Why was the third episode of Steven Moffat’s Dracula so divisive?
It took place in the present day
Dracula became a woman
Dracula fought Frankenstein
Everyone rapped
What could the central machine in Devs do?
Create robot versions of dead relatives
Transform carbon dioxide into electricity
Look backwards or forwards to any moment in time
Make sausages
In The Third Day: Autumn, what did Jude Law spend 50 straight minutes hauling around?
A wheelbarrow
A sledge
A rowing boat
A tractor wheel
In I May Destroy You, what terrible-sounding book made Michaela Coel’s character famous?
Confessions of a Skint Hipster
Adventures in the Gig Economy
Diary of the Woke Generation
Chronicles of a Fed-Up Millennial
Which of the following is not a song from I Saw a Tiger, the 2014 album by Tiger King’s Joe Exotic?
GW and Me
Books Can’t Teach
Guardians of Children
Pretty Women Lover
What did Jimmy McGill drink in the desert in Better Call Saul?
Poison
Blood
Urine
Coke Zero
Where is Netflix’s The Eddy set?
A failing Parisian jazz club
A thriving Norwegian jazz club
A bankrupt New Orleans jazz club
The world’s jazziest jazz club called Jazz Jazz I Love Jazz
10 and above.
Interesting. You actually managed to watch too much television this year. Seriously, what an unhealthy result.
7 and above.
Not bad. The cinemas, theatres, museums and concert venues might have closed, but at least you watched a lot of Netflix.
0 and above.
Hang on. You spent six months under lockdown and still don’t know anything about television? What did you do? Read books? Ugh.
4 and above.
Not a great result. Next year, try devoting more brain space to the ephemeral trivialities of television.