I am aware of its existence; I have never seen it. I have a complicated relationship with TV shows because I can't watch them in the same way as movies—it wasn't really news, but I got a lot of evidence this past year that it is demonstrably bad for me to binge-watch in a way that makes it very difficult to catch up on older, especially long-running shows. I can handle a traditional airing schedule. I can watch miniseries in concentration and be more or less all right. Last spring I watched Crash Landing on You (2019) in just about two days, last summer I watched all four seasons of Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–17) in just about two weeks, last fall I watched the first two seasons of Torchwood (2006–08) in just about a week and a half, and in all cases I deeply enjoyed what I was watching and the experience left me feeling like someone had julienned my brain. I had to be careful with Voyager and Stargate not to suffer the same stress. It's a processing thing and I don't talk a lot about it because I don't enjoy having to defend my neurology on the internet, but it means I get a lot of TV recommendations and I follow up on almost none of them because the logistics of not damaging myself while not also setting myself up for a five-year project are difficult and have only become more so as my general bandwidth has thinned drastically from health, work, bureaucracy, plague, etc. You should talk to me about China Beach, though. Maybe at some point in my future when I don't feel scraped to the bone all the time, it will be an option.
[edit] It took me a little while to figure out why I had heard of China Beach, but I managed to place it in conversation with spatch: it was during the era of Lost (2004–2010), when the show was being praised for its groundbreaking nonlinear structure and all the old-school fans of China Beach came out to mention its final season, thank you very much.
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I am aware of its existence; I have never seen it. I have a complicated relationship with TV shows because I can't watch them in the same way as movies—it wasn't really news, but I got a lot of evidence this past year that it is demonstrably bad for me to binge-watch in a way that makes it very difficult to catch up on older, especially long-running shows. I can handle a traditional airing schedule. I can watch miniseries in concentration and be more or less all right. Last spring I watched Crash Landing on You (2019) in just about two days, last summer I watched all four seasons of Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–17) in just about two weeks, last fall I watched the first two seasons of Torchwood (2006–08) in just about a week and a half, and in all cases I deeply enjoyed what I was watching and the experience left me feeling like someone had julienned my brain. I had to be careful with Voyager and Stargate not to suffer the same stress. It's a processing thing and I don't talk a lot about it because I don't enjoy having to defend my neurology on the internet, but it means I get a lot of TV recommendations and I follow up on almost none of them because the logistics of not damaging myself while not also setting myself up for a five-year project are difficult and have only become more so as my general bandwidth has thinned drastically from health, work, bureaucracy, plague, etc. You should talk to me about China Beach, though. Maybe at some point in my future when I don't feel scraped to the bone all the time, it will be an option.
[edit] It took me a little while to figure out why I had heard of China Beach, but I managed to place it in conversation with