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Mark T. B. Carroll ([personal profile] mtbc) wrote2018-06-10 04:53 pm
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Enjoying television

Several weeks ago I mentioned not wanting to miss out on genuinely engaging television dramas. I was just thinking how it might be time to rewatch Hannibal (2013), at least to start doing so as I think the seasons decline so I would be tempted to stop after even maybe just the first. To take another serial killer drama I might also rewatch Dexter (2006), at least the first couple of seasons as it too declines. I was thinking about this rewatching. I usually wait at least a few years until I have forgotten enough.

With eating favorite foods clearly I can be eager to repeat pleasurable experiences. I guess that is also what my watching shows again is about: I would not miss out because I have already seen the shows but I enjoy watching them and I want to enjoy myself so I watch them again. Perhaps therefore I ought to be careful indeed about my time watching television lest I overly indulge unproductive hedonist tendencies. Some of my other possibly superfluous television watching is initiated by my family: I join in partly as a means to interact with them.