Having children: I was completely against it for most of my adult life, then dated someone who wanted children while I still didn’t and realised what compromise meant. Now I’ve got a kid with another person and the person who changed my mind is almost set against having kids.

Recreational drugs: I thought they were stupid and should be banned harder until my friends started smoking weed, etc. I eventually became a stoner for a while, but have since figured that the issue is more around disordered drug use which is more socially circumstantial than individual.

My opinions on the death penalty would turn liberal philosophers in their graves enough to power a town.

The servers were struggling with all the people trying to buy it at release, including me. I had been hoping to get a few floors in before heading to work…

Early access

I’ll second (or third) shows like The Wire, Deadwood, The Terror (S1), Chernobyl, True Detective (S01 & S04), etc.

For something less man focused there’s The Change which is a slightly surreal series about Bridget Christie’s character setting off to rural England on her motorbike when she gets tired of her family.

Just started watching Dirty Business which is like Chernobyl but about English sewage, i.e. excellent acting around a slow motion disaster caused by human error and arrogance.

Slightly mad fact that I didn’t notice on my first watching is that it’s mostly in iambic pentameter.

Oh no, they don’t like pylons either. They just want coal plants in poor people’s gardens and subterranean power cabling.