trouble watching tv...

[rose_griffes]

I haven't been watching much tv; it took me the entire month subscription to Hulu to watch the 13 episodes of Abbott Elementary (22 minutes each) and ten episodes of Only Murders in the Building, season two (between 30-40 minutes each). I'm not sure if it's the health stuff or something else. That's plenty of TV, though; I guess I put pressure on myself to watch more, knowing that I only had a month (for now) to watch stuff on that platform.

Anyway, back to OMITB: I did enjoy it. The middle of season two was a bit laggy, but it pulled off a solid ending. The main draw continues to be having Steve Martin and Martin Short running around New York City acting very silly.

Oh! I also watched that documentary about Dana Carvey's failed primetime TV show from the 90s. The doc was called Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of the Dana Carvey Show. Recommended, though probably not with little kids around.

Books: Andrea Penrose has a murder mystery series known as Wrexford & Sloane, set in Regency England. I finally got around to reading book two, which was solid. Penrose does well with characterization, prose, and plot. There's a very slow build romance happening; currently expecting book three to start with a major setback in that area, because there are already six books published in the series. Heh. Can't have that love match happen too fast, y'know!

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Glad you liked the doc. We take a long time to watch things (usually) because Mike doesn't like watching multiple episodes of a show in a row. So even with short seasons these days, it took us two months to go through the Trek shows we missed.

We're also still a few episodes away from finishing OMITB, as I don't tend to see people talking about it but I am trying to keep up with discussion about She Hulk 😉

[rose_griffes]

I think I'm like Mike: binge-watching isn't my style. I feel the time limitations of "I have to get up in the morning and go to work" a bit too keenly most of the time.

[elperian]

I watched Abbott Elementary week-to-week last season (and plan to do the same here again), as I did with Only Murders. I can imagine both of those being a lot to binge, because they're both cerebral in a good way but longer formats. One weird unpleasant thing about too-short seasons (gosh, at least give us 10 episodes!) is that I get out of practice watching longer-form content.

[rose_griffes]

I think Only Murders was a harder watch because mid-season felt like things were... swerving around in a semi-directionless fashion.

But apparently my brain isn't that interested in binge-watching anyway. So allowing more time out is better; I'm about to do a two month subscription to a different platform, because that month with Hulu taught me that I don't like pushing myself to fit THIS much content into this much time.

Hm. The exceptions to my "I don't like binge-watching" attitude are both fantasy shows: season one of The Witcher and Shadow & Bone both compelled me enough that I burned through those episodes pretty quickly. By which I mean a week or two, LOL. Not true binge-watching, I suppose...

[elperian]

Hm. The exceptions to my "I don't like binge-watching" attitude are both fantasy shows

I get this, and for me at least, I think it's because they're shiny and rely on lore, but the lore isn't that deep - so it's relatively less dense to absorb. Meanwhile, shows like OMITB rely on their density of storytelling by principle.

I don't think I'd be able to binge-watch a fantasy series I knew a lot of lore about, and was invested in upfront, but like, Cursed? Totally bingeable.