Our best friends are the ones we see every so often for years, and TV characters should be the same way. I feel like I grew up with Michael Scott, because I spent 22 minutes a week with him every Thursday night for seven years. A friend of mine who recently cranked through all eight seasons of The Office in two weeks (really) probably thinks of Carrell's character like someone he hung out with at an intensive two-week corporate seminar and never saw again. Binge-watching reduces the potential for such deep, Draper-like relationships. While the Grantland piece argues that binges are the only way to forge “deep emotional connections,” in fact, the opposite is true.
I've never binge-watched tv shows. Maybe it's because I'm the last person on the planet without DVR or a DVD player, but I just never have. It does affect how you watch a show, as I pointed out a la Mad Men HERE.
I'm an old fuddy-duddy, but to me there's still something about feeling as if you're watching the show along with other people out there, some sort of collective sharing moments. Hey, so fucking sue me.
Of course, things are s not as difficult as they once were, thankfully.
1 comment:
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