I’ll go first:

Breaking Bad.

I can’t do it. I’ve seen the first season! I know what you’re going to say next: oh but it gets better after the first season you HAVE to watch it.

The Walking Dead.

Can’t do it. There is so much walking dead bullshit I simply can’t watch it.

Battlestar Galactica.

I know its good. I’ve been told over and over and over again. I simply can’t!

None of these shows are going to live up to the hype I can feel it in my bones.

Andor might be in that boat but I did watch it all the way through. Probably won’t again. I liked it, but if you haven’t seen it yet I can’t imagen it lives up to the hype. Maybe a little.

  • volcel_olive_oil [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    16 days ago

    if someone even MENTIONS a show I haven’t seen to me in person chances of me watching it drop off of a fucking cliff and I don’t know why

    I just can’t seem to be recommended shows

    • woodenghost [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      16 days ago

      That’s really interesting that it works so strongly and for any person who mentions the show, but only in person. I have a theory:

      Maybe being made aware that other, real, offline people watch it destroys the illusion for you. So the characters feel less real because in a way, you can’t help but see the show through the eyes of specific other people. Boring, everyday people who can’t help but feel less real and important than either the hyperreal, exaggerated characters on screen or the anonymous mass of countless “not in person” people, who are watching, who might recommend online, but who are abstract enough not to dirty the vision like your friends do with their mundane, limited and singular gaze. While watching, you know they probably like this character or that moment, but doesn’t it throw shade at the show to know they too see it from the outside, never fully part of this fictional world, just like you?

      And worse, aren’t they also watching you at the same time? Surly they’ll ask later, how you liked the show and about specific moments. Sartre describes how being aware of another’s gaze prevents us from losing ourselves in the moment. But what if losing yourself is precisely what you’re looking for in a show? To forget your live and who you are, even if just temporarily. Then it just won’t work if a real person, who has also seen it, knows you’re watching it and might ask about it later. So no wonder you hate recommendations.

      If it’s that, then please forgive me for “recommending” to try some grounding meditation exercises to practice keeping in touch with basic lived reality and for accepting who you are. Or maybe it’s something else, I don’t know. I don’t know you and this whole thing is just a random idea I had when reading your comment and it probably has nothing much to do with you, really.