My television watching habits are mainly to be entertained and relax my mind. I don’t watch that often. When I am watching a series, I may watch a few days in a row, but sometimes I don’t watch it for a couple of weeks. Most recently, I watched season 6(?) of Virgin River, a sometimes sickly sweet soap opera-ish series filmed in spectacular settings in the Pacific Northwest. It has its share of drama and tension, along with some twists and dangerous drug dealers that live in a wilderness camp nearby, characters suffering from PTSD, and another from trauma after rape. It’s complicated enough to keep my interest, and even my husband’s.
But we have turned off plenty of movies or shows that we started and didn’t like at all. I nearly always watch with my husband who watches a lot more than I do. We have multiple TVs but this feeling that watching TV is an activity done with others has stayed with me from my childhood when we only had one TV. I dont usually like watching by myself. It just occurred to me that this is probably uncommon among people younger than me.
Haven’t seen Virgin River! Love the Pacific Northwest settings though. So pretty.
And very interesting on the solo vs buddy watching. I feel the same as you. I’m usually watching with my partner or daughter, and when my husband is out of town, I’ll go the entire time without watching anything. But I also wonder if GenZ is watching more alone. My guess is probably.
Yay! I know... and Netflix and Prime also target different movies to different geographic locations, so since I'm near Miami, I get the most Miami recs... most of which I'm not that interested in.
My television watching habits are mainly to be entertained and relax my mind. I don’t watch that often. When I am watching a series, I may watch a few days in a row, but sometimes I don’t watch it for a couple of weeks. Most recently, I watched season 6(?) of Virgin River, a sometimes sickly sweet soap opera-ish series filmed in spectacular settings in the Pacific Northwest. It has its share of drama and tension, along with some twists and dangerous drug dealers that live in a wilderness camp nearby, characters suffering from PTSD, and another from trauma after rape. It’s complicated enough to keep my interest, and even my husband’s.
But we have turned off plenty of movies or shows that we started and didn’t like at all. I nearly always watch with my husband who watches a lot more than I do. We have multiple TVs but this feeling that watching TV is an activity done with others has stayed with me from my childhood when we only had one TV. I dont usually like watching by myself. It just occurred to me that this is probably uncommon among people younger than me.
Haven’t seen Virgin River! Love the Pacific Northwest settings though. So pretty.
And very interesting on the solo vs buddy watching. I feel the same as you. I’m usually watching with my partner or daughter, and when my husband is out of town, I’ll go the entire time without watching anything. But I also wonder if GenZ is watching more alone. My guess is probably.
Just joined Letterboxd, will start with your feed! It is possible to find gems on Netflix / Prime but oh lordy they do make it difficult!
Yay! I know... and Netflix and Prime also target different movies to different geographic locations, so since I'm near Miami, I get the most Miami recs... most of which I'm not that interested in.