I feel like a bit of an outlier here. But I just don’t care for them. I much prefer playing video games.
I like all sorts of escapism. TV, Movies, Games, Books are all doorways to me.
I can’t stand most television anymore. Especially now that most streaming services have brought back ads.
You can’t prove anything!
Truthfully it’s my wife who really likes to watch TV. I mostly prefer reading or gaming haha.
TV shows all have the same safe plot now. I don’t even own a TV anymore after Netflix became slop. For the really special stuff that comes out once awhile I’ll just find a pirate stream.
I play multiplayer indie games on Steam with friends, roleplay in second life, or read books.
Should be doing our phasmophobia playthrough for Halloween soon.
A collegue actually sent me a clip about this, and how the producers are dumbing down / over-simplifying plots because they know the audience is watching while on their phone.
I cant find anything to watch either, its all so dumb. Im on my 5th repeat of Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, IT Crowd because nothing new is good… Sigh.
I couldn’t disagree more. We’re in a golden age of TV and have been for a while.
The Pitt? Severance? Hacks? Succession? The Bear? Ted Lasso? Euphoria? The Crown? Schitt’s Creek? Killing Eve? Barry? Veep?
I liked succession and severance. The bear was just ok, I didnt think it was amazing and was surprised at the ratings. The pitt was actually boring. Killing eve was ok first season, then very boring. Barry was decent first season, then got boring.
I will try the others you mentioned. Of course we are not gonna agree but I really want to find a good tv show.
Nope, I just watch Youtube now, specifically things that interest me.
I don’t watch TV. I actually can’t. I haven’t had cable or an antenna to receive anything since I bought my house in 2011.
I have a media server with movies and TV shows. If I really want to watch something I’ll watch one of those. I do like movies but only watch them if they interest me and that’s getting a lot rarer these days.
I don’t play video games at all or have any game consoles.
I’d consider watching TV shows on a personal server watching TV. TV doesn’t need to be live airing. I just saying cuz I too mostly self host, but wouldn’t tell people I don’t watch TV. I think it’s more whether you’re consuming that medium at all or not.
I should be more clear. I don’t mean I consume TV like most people but do it through my media server. I meant that I have the media server and if I get the rare feeling that I want to watch TV I will watch some old show I have on there.
I upgraded my system in 2023 and looking at my history since then, it shows me watching a few episodes of Letterkenny after the update. I actually spent several months before that “binging” it. That was an uncharacteristically lot of TV for me and I actually skipped over every scene with only the Skids in it. I couldn’t stand them
After that, I’ve watched 5 episodes of The Super Dave Osborne Show which came out in the 80s, 3 episodes of Kim’s Convenience 5 episodes of Peep Show and 12 episodes of the comedy Children’s Hospital.
Without commercials those are 22 minutes each, except Children’s Hospital which are 11 minutes, or two episodes in 22/30 minutes. So 19x22 minutes= 418, or 7 hours in two years. I average watching 17.5 minutes of old TV shows per month.
I consider that not watching TV. I don’t keep up with new shows. I don’t finish a show and start looking for a new one to watch. But if I got really interested in a new TV show I’d watch the hell out of it then go back to not really watching anything.
Ohh! Sorry for projecting! I gotcha now.
I never really watched a lot of movies growing up but then at some point realised there was so much that I was missing. Now I view the history of cinema as a smorgasbord and I am really enjoying jumping all over it.
I’m guessing you’re a good bit younger than me, but this is encouraging to hear. Find your favorite genres, watch what inspired them and you have so much amazing artwork and storytelling to explore.
For everyone that grew up with 10 marvel movies a year its not surprising that modern films don’t speak to them.
Challenge yourself and you’ll find your own rewards. I love video games and watching youtube too, but it’s not the same thing as turning off the lights and watching something like Apocalypse Now, Chinatown or a Kubrick movie without distractions.
Good luck on your cinematic journey!
Does YouTube count as TV?
I would say it does not. Well, I guess it depends on what you watch. The stuff I subscribe is nothing like TV.
Yes
I think around here you’re more likely to find folk who play video games rather than watch TV or movies, but I might be wrong.
I personally never play video games. I have nothing against them, just never got into it beyond old Atari ST games in my early teens.
From what I hear from friends and colleagues at work I know I’m missing out, so I’m planning to make an effort to get into some sort of game when I have the time, probably when the sprogs are older. It is sort of intimidating and I don’t really know where to begin, but I’m sure it’ll be interesting.
I go through phases, cycling though comics, books, games, movies, TV, etc depending where my interest and curiosity takes me. I tend to watch more TV and movies when playing/practicing music or playing slower or turn based games.
You are not alone. I have a handful of movies and shows I like to watch, but my excess time is usually spent reading books, browsing thrift stores and library shops for books, or reading articles about books. I also splash a little World of Warcraft, gardening, and house chores in there too.
I’m the same, it makes it even harder for me to socialise with other people though, “Have you seen the new (Blank) show?”…
Don’t you worry about blank, let me worry about blank.
nope not anymore. YT clips are enough since alot of the movies and show these days are very subpar post-2010, also the aggressive push for copaganda, military propaganda, christianity-ganda(movies not parodying or criticizing to a great degree) in some form around the time trumps 1st term. most movies are basically just promoting these 2 things right now, only a small amount are counter to this. since most of them are on streams, im not paying to watch it, if its going to get cancelled anyways.
nutrek is just not interesting, and in light of recent events, people who are fans of trek shouldnt support PARAMOUNT+.
MCU films/movies are quite silly and subpar, except the ones with kathyrn HANH, and cate blanchett.
Go backwards and find the classics that speak to you then. For me good art is usually a little subversive, although there is nothing wrong with pure entertainment of course.
I stopped a long time ago. I just prefer interactive entertainment over passive. TV was easy to axe, cut the cable bill & never looked back. Movies went much later, too many shitty movies back to back, eventually stopped going, so stopped seeing previews, which in turn broke the cycle of wanting to see the next one.
I will say that not watching movies or TV makes it harder to interact with folks. There’s something of a shared culture we have through our entertainment, and not having that makes it harder to connect.
Oddly, I just started watching movies again this year. I’ve been getting better about getting on the elliptical, and I’m now at the point where my ‘runs’ take about 90 minutes. So been catching up on all the movies I considered watching over the last ~25 years. Turns out I didn’t miss much. lol.
Yep me too… not many shows or movies that float my boat any more…video games are much more entertaining .
I’ve always got music on in the background. Less gaming nowadays, doing my best to read more books.
