Posted on 01/02/2018 11:31:50 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
If watching Mad Men were my full-time job (and what a job that would be), I would only need to dedicate 9.1 eight-hour working days to completing the task. Same with Game of Thrones, as it stands – 9.1 working days, less than two working weeks, before the job was done, signed off, go home and put your feet up. The company AT&T has released a “streaming consumption calculator”, which informs you with casual cruelty how much of your life you have dedicated to watching your favourite TV shows, in terms of data and time. (Obviously not at all motivated by a need to remind customers of how vital their internet services are at a time when US net neutrality has been repealed and many experts agree that prices are likely to rise.) Parks and Recreation, which I did watch with a workmanlike commitment, would only take 5.8 working days; Sherlock, with its short seasons and self-contained episodes, would see you out of there in just 2.2 days. Plenty of time for a long weekend at the seaside before you had to get back to start Breaking Bad.
Surely this is a glass-half-full-or-empty situation for viewers. I came across the calculator on BuzzFeed, which ran the story under the headline, “Here’s a Calculator That Tells You How Long It Takes You to Watch An Entire TV Series, and, TBH, I’m Judging Myself,” and I fully expected to walk away judging myself, TBH, too. For some, to see time given up like this laid out with such clinical precision will be horrifying, and I empathise. In this era of busy lives being seen as a status symbol – when we’re expected to reply to the question “how are you?” with talk about how much work we’re doing
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Imho the best ever is “The Shield”.
You are on the edge of your chair for every episode—amazing stuff...perfect for binge watching.
I have about 9.1 minutes of watching the show in a hotel room. Seemed kind of dumb.
But, I also spent the full 38.6 days watching NCIS on Netflix. I think it was over a 2-3 year period.
“Are the 9.1 days you spent watching Game of Thrones a waste of a life?”..........
Hurray, Hurray, I’m going to live 9.1 days longer since I have NEVER, nor do I intend to watch Games of Thrones. I’m safe!
Watched a couple of episodes and could find no redeeming features in the series. Mostly porn with a lot of blood and guts thrown in.
I can glance at that still pic from the show and tell you that I wouldn’t make 15 min watching before I bailed, disgusted with the PC order of things. Tried to watch The Man In The High Tower...maybe 10 min. and OUT.
“The only way it becomes a waste in my mind is if the stupid, fat, lazy, liberal bastard doesn’t finish writing the last two books, which I think is what will happen.”
GRRM’s Homo obsession will too strong to ignore and he’ll write to satisfy it.
There’s no homo in the books. Only in the TV show.
Yep...Plus Band of Brothers...
Sure but my 9.1 days spent doing other things was not a “waste of time.”
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