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> If you want to time gate your episodes with your friends you're still welcome to coordinate that with them Forcing everyone to collectively sit with a single

> If you want to time gate your episodes with your friends you're still welcome to coordinate that with them Forcing everyone to collectively sit with a single episode per week is fun. Watching all at once makes them all sort of meld together. Having to sit with an episode for a week changes the experience of watching the show. If you can convince your friend group to watch together, that's great, but things like discussion forums and twitter (where a lot of people like to talk about shows online) will always be dominated by binge watchers.

genewitch 3y ago
the last time i did this, it was with House, M.D., and it was with downloaded copies (to ensure correct subtitles, right?). Episode came out whatever day, a group of us would gather the next evening and watch it together. We had a blind person and two deaf people in the group. The only thing netflix (and possibly others, i wouldn't know) have done to improve that situation is adding descriptive audio service, which brings the usefulness of good subtitles to the audio track, so that blind people can experience more of the show that they can't see. I'm a bad anecdote for a couple of reasons, though: I haven't had a television connected to coax in any way since 2003, and i haven't liked any new television show created after about 2013 or so - furthermore, i haven't really "loved" any series that began after 2004 or 2005. A supermajority of my media (disc and disk) predates the iphone. A plurality predates America Online. Since i'm already on an aside, i'll point out a couple of things: First, thanks to the likes of MTV's indefatigable pushing in the late 80s and through the 90s, everyone raised in that era (and after) thinks that in order to be engaging, you must change cameras every 3 seconds. Bonus points if there's no story reason to do so. Secondly, or if you prefer, as an ancillary to the first point, the constant viewpoint shifts can aggravate certain conditions; for example, new shows tend to tire me out, and a "binge" for whatever reason tends to leave me with a headache that lasts a couple of days. Third, a plurality (and majority, up to ~75%) of all television shows produced in the US are either directly or indirectly Law Enforcement related, and i'm sure a rigorous study would bear out that has a detrimental effect on both public policy and the zeitgeist feelings of law enforcement and related groups.
- tekknik 3y ago
  I get where you’re coming from on modern TV shows as I still enjoy 80s-90s shows, and some 70s shows more than most modern shows. But a majority of what you listed here is clearly emotional ranting. If you for once believe 75% of shows are law enforcement related then it sounds like you’re not looking deep enough. Granted there are a lot but nowhere near 75%. You also stereotyped a whole generation, though I agree that SOME of that generation has ADHD problems because of that style of cinematography, and it’s only getting worse.
  - genewitch 3y ago
    i said "a plurality (and majority, up to ~75%)". I was wrong. Sorry. it's 70% on at least CBS, and more than 50% across all networks. > Of the 69 scripted television dramas that aired on the big four US broadcast networks (CBS, NBC, Fox, and ABC) in the last year-and-a-half, 35 were about law enforcement, according to a Quartz analysis. CBS was responsible for 16 of those on its own. About 70% of the network’s dramatic programming from 2019-2020 were about cops. [0] And that's "Dramas", i guess if you consider "all programming, including for example comedies" the ratio goes down to a peak of 28.7%. however: > Even many of the non-cop dramas on these channels are so cop-adjacent that one could reasonably argue they are also about law enforcement. CBS’s Madam Secretary follows the fictional US secretary of state, a former CIA analyst. Evil follows a forensic psychologist investigating supernatural incidents. Blood & Treasure follows a former FBI agent teaming up with an art thief to track down a terrorist. And now, you said: >> You also stereotyped a whole generation I didn't, if i stereotyped anyone it was cinematographers that grew up with that as "normal", or, if they didn't grow up with that, at least consider it normal. [0] https://qz.com/1872176/half-of-us-network-tv-dramas-are-about-cops https://qz.com/1872176/half-of-us-network-tv-dramas-are-abou...
watwut 3y ago
I just cant enjoy good shows at that schedule. Crappy episodic shows, sure why not. But actually good engaging shows with coherent story and structure are massively better when episodes are watched closely to each other - so that you remember enough from the first episode when you are watching the last one.

genewitch 3y ago

the last time i did this, it was with House, M.D., and it was with downloaded copies (to ensure correct subtitles, right?). Episode came out whatever day, a group of us would gather the next evening and watch it together. We had a blind person and two deaf people in the group. The only thing netflix (and possibly others, i wouldn't know) have done to improve that situation is adding descriptive audio service, which brings the usefulness of good subtitles to the audio track, so that blind people can experience more of the show that they can't see. I'm a bad anecdote for a couple of reasons, though: I haven't had a television connected to coax in any way since 2003, and i haven't liked any new television show created after about 2013 or so - furthermore, i haven't really "loved" any series that began after 2004 or 2005. A supermajority of my media (disc and disk) predates the iphone. A plurality predates America Online. Since i'm already on an aside, i'll point out a couple of things: First, thanks to the likes of MTV's indefatigable pushing in the late 80s and through the 90s, everyone raised in that era (and after) thinks that in order to be engaging, you must change cameras every 3 seconds. Bonus points if there's no story reason to do so. Secondly, or if you prefer, as an ancillary to the first point, the constant viewpoint shifts can aggravate certain conditions; for example, new shows tend to tire me out, and a "binge" for whatever reason tends to leave me with a headache that lasts a couple of days. Third, a plurality (and majority, up to ~75%) of all television shows produced in the US are either directly or indirectly Law Enforcement related, and i'm sure a rigorous study would bear out that has a detrimental effect on both public policy and the zeitgeist feelings of law enforcement and related groups.

tekknik 3y ago
I get where you’re coming from on modern TV shows as I still enjoy 80s-90s shows, and some 70s shows more than most modern shows. But a majority of what you listed here is clearly emotional ranting. If you for once believe 75% of shows are law enforcement related then it sounds like you’re not looking deep enough. Granted there are a lot but nowhere near 75%. You also stereotyped a whole generation, though I agree that SOME of that generation has ADHD problems because of that style of cinematography, and it’s only getting worse.
- genewitch 3y ago
  i said "a plurality (and majority, up to ~75%)". I was wrong. Sorry. it's 70% on at least CBS, and more than 50% across all networks. > Of the 69 scripted television dramas that aired on the big four US broadcast networks (CBS, NBC, Fox, and ABC) in the last year-and-a-half, 35 were about law enforcement, according to a Quartz analysis. CBS was responsible for 16 of those on its own. About 70% of the network’s dramatic programming from 2019-2020 were about cops. [0] And that's "Dramas", i guess if you consider "all programming, including for example comedies" the ratio goes down to a peak of 28.7%. however: > Even many of the non-cop dramas on these channels are so cop-adjacent that one could reasonably argue they are also about law enforcement. CBS’s Madam Secretary follows the fictional US secretary of state, a former CIA analyst. Evil follows a forensic psychologist investigating supernatural incidents. Blood & Treasure follows a former FBI agent teaming up with an art thief to track down a terrorist. And now, you said: >> You also stereotyped a whole generation I didn't, if i stereotyped anyone it was cinematographers that grew up with that as "normal", or, if they didn't grow up with that, at least consider it normal. [0] https://qz.com/1872176/half-of-us-network-tv-dramas-are-about-cops https://qz.com/1872176/half-of-us-network-tv-dramas-are-abou...

watwut 3y ago

I just cant enjoy good shows at that schedule. Crappy episodic shows, sure why not. But actually good engaging shows with coherent story and structure are massively better when episodes are watched closely to each other - so that you remember enough from the first episode when you are watching the last one.