The Friend You Watch Everything With

Our Top Five Friendship Shows + Why Watching Together Matters with Holly Curtis | 🎙️ Episode 12

Winter was long, the world has been heavy, and there have been many moments when all I want to do is go to bed early and watch a really good show. I know I’m not the only one.

I also know the friends I will text right after I tune in.
I bet you do, too.

There’s likely a friend in your life you watch everything with. The one who texts: are you watching this? before you’ve even finished the first episode. The one whose name comes up every time a new season drops. The one who made you watch the show in the first place, and then watched you fall in love with it and felt smug and happy about it for weeks.

For me, that friend is Holly Curtis.

Holly was my very first guest on this show back in January. She’s back! And we did something a little different and a whole lot of fun: we each picked our top five friendship shows of all time, independently, no comparing notes, no cheating, and then sat down and revealed them live.

A few on her list I could have guessed. A few were surprises. There was a lot of debating, embarrassingly enthusiastic gushing about shows we love, making the case for shows we haven’t seen, and then one overlap we’d somehow, inexplicably, never talked about before. That moment alone was worth the whole episode.

We get into the shows that become security blankets - the ones you return to on a hard week because the friendships inside them feel so genuine and warm it’s almost like being with people you love. Why certain stories find you at exactly the right moment in your life and never fully let go. The college or high school years you moved through at the same time as Felicity or Angela Chase. The Stranger Things rooftop moment that mirrors the one you had with your own people where you swore you’d stay together forever.

We even talk about the friendship show that led to me start this podcast.

But really, this episode is about so much more than the shows.

It’s about the shared ritual of watching something together. The post-episode group texts. The remember-when rewatches. The plot twist debates at 11pm. The way certain stories become inseparable from the people you experienced them with.

My camp friend Jenny put it best in a text message she sent me while we were prepping for this episode: she said watching The Pitt with her college friends brings back memories of how she used to make everyone watch the new episode of ER*—while also recording it on a VCR—before she’d let anyone go out to the bar. It wasn’t a rule about TV. It was about being together.

That’s the whole episode right there.

Sometimes what we remember most isn’t the plot or cliffhangers or the characters. It’s who we watched these shows with.

This episode is for anyone who has ever loved a show the way you love a friend. Or loved a friend the way you love a show.

Our Top Five Friendship Shows 💛:

“Life is heavy. Let’s watch TV with friends.”
— Holly Curtis, closing this episode in the most Holly way possible.

The Joy of Watching Together:

Holly’s Friend Picks:

• Listen to the episode to hear the full lists, we’re not giving that away here, friends. 😊

• But Holly’s comfort rewatch right now is Stranger Things. She rewatched the whole thing with her kids so she could watch Sunny and Curtis experience it for the first time. That’s the thing about the right shows. You don’t just watch them once.

Join the campfire:

We want your list! What are your top five friendship shows?

What show do you always send to the friend you watch everything with?
Which shows are nostalgic, taking you right back to the times you spent together?

I want to know what I’m missing.

Post in the comments here or over on Instagram @theyeahnoforsureshow—we’re building a running list we’ll reveal soon and talking about it all week.

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✱ Small claim to television fame: I worked on ER back in college and just after. So The Pitt isn’t only a great show, it’s connected to a core memory and the people I met on set.