Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten away from watching television. There seemed to be no time to keep up with all the shows people were talking about: Game of Thrones, This is Us, Big Little Lies. And Grey’s Anatomy is still on! The last shows I properly binged on were Downton Abbey and Breaking Bad, two shows so good but as different as could be.
Instead I was reading every chance I had and you can see the numbers of books read climb as my TV watching diminished right up to last year where I managed 83 book. Now I have all the time in the world and I’m finding it hard to focus on one book for very long. I had always loved movies so I started going again and have seen The Favourite (astonishing) and On the Basis of Sex (this calls into question what am I actually doing with my life) in the past week. And since I’m solo here in Florida, I turned on Amazon Prime and was delighted to see Lady Bird on there, a movie I had hoped to see in the theater. It is exactly the kind of quirky movie I love. The next night I watched Beautiful Boy, a heartbreaking movie about a drug addicted son that I wrote about here.
This brought me to yesterday. I am trying to go between the books The Alice Network and The Gifts of Imperfection but cannot stay focused. Instead I perused a few YouTube channels I follow but still nothing held my interest. I cleaned around the house and by 6:00 I found myself collapsed in my chair and started looking for something on Netflix. After the requisite 30 minutes of scrolling I settled on You.
I am now properly hooked after binge watching the first four episodes. I don’t know whether it is good fortune or bad but there are only 10 episodes right now so it won’t be a situation where I’m bingeing for days in a row. While You is no Breaking Bad, it is definitely keeping me entertained and surprised.
What are you watching?
MC
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We very rarely ‘binge watch’ unless we are visiting one of our children and no one wants to go out and do anything. Then we will find some of the old movies that were fun to watch like Bruce Willis in the Die Hard movies, or Tom Cruise in the Mission Impossible movies. More recently we watched Liam Neeson in the Taken 1, Taken 2, and Taken 3 series. But the reality of it all is that we probably only binge watch 2, sometimes 3 times a year and even then it is only for about 3 – 4 movies tops. That’s about all I can stand on any given day – I need to be up moving around more than what binge watching allows you to.
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I think the older I get, the more agree with you on less binge watching! There is so much more exciting stuff to do. I love all those same movies.
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