I found out recently that my partner was "listening" and half looking at a TV show while preparing herself for work. I was quite surprised and asked her if she had run out of podcasts but she told me that show was so addictive she preferred running it in the background than waiting for it. It obviously made her inefficient at everything, preparing herself and following the show.
I've often found most US TV shows were overexplaining everything already. Maybe I have an higher cultural, technical and medical knowledge than the baseline of US TV viewers but lots of dialogs are already filled with what feels to me as unneeded explanations in general that would feel completely weird in a real life dialog.
I am like the opposite of the binge watcher, after one, two episodes at the maximum, I just want to do something else. It works well with my habit of watching movies and TV shows on a projector as it has a kind of ritual to it, you shut off the blinders, turn on the projector and sit comfortably on the sofa. My partner often do not understand how I can I just say "that's it, let's do something else" and shut off the beamer when the show obviously make sure it ends the episode with a moment of uncertaincy/suspense.
Telenovelas were always the thing. They are what they are because they were designed to be watched while doing other things without feeling regret when the other thing requires attention.
Are you writing this, or is it the evil twin you never knew you had, who was dead and buried but came back to life to take your place with the help of your spouse who was plotting behind your back?
My mum watches the art form of cliche plots of first person AI narration with AI generated imagery. She always watched movies in bits and pieces on TV (also watched Gone with the Wind and other long movies in one sitting) so she would have appreciated "LoFi tv" forever.
For this exact reason, I have an Android TV box with a 1TB USB stick that plays TV shows from the 90s and 2000s on shuffle. As most of those shows are in 480p resolution max, you can store a lot with 1TB.
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I've often found most US TV shows were overexplaining everything already. Maybe I have an higher cultural, technical and medical knowledge than the baseline of US TV viewers but lots of dialogs are already filled with what feels to me as unneeded explanations in general that would feel completely weird in a real life dialog.
I am like the opposite of the binge watcher, after one, two episodes at the maximum, I just want to do something else. It works well with my habit of watching movies and TV shows on a projector as it has a kind of ritual to it, you shut off the blinders, turn on the projector and sit comfortably on the sofa. My partner often do not understand how I can I just say "that's it, let's do something else" and shut off the beamer when the show obviously make sure it ends the episode with a moment of uncertaincy/suspense.
Later I realised that as a therapist she just wanted to shut her brain off after dealing with incest stories all day long.
Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529756