L-Jam3 wrote:I don't get this line of reasoning. If you don't like a show, why waste your time watching it? Why not go into another room and spend that 55 minutes reading or something else.
I never understood the idea of hatewatching something. It seems completely as an utter waste. If I dislike a work, my time is too valuable and in such short supply I don't spend it on it. Like when I realized that I hate Uproxx because I thought "I can find hot chicks in cosplay outfits without this whole elevation of disposable pop culture and the snark assocaited with it", I didn't have any need to go there further.
If a person says to themselves "but I invested all this time", you're a fucking idiot. Start thinking like an economist; the time you spent watching the prior episodes is a sunk cost, and it should not factor in your future decisions. The only thought should be "Would I prefer to spend the next 55 minutes watching the affair, or doing something else?" I dropped Walking Dead last year when I would get bored mid-episode and start fiddling with Plague, Inc., I dropped The Newsroom last year when I said "can somebody explain to me why Sorkin is considered this Jehovah of screenwriting when everything is a goddamn wordy speech which no person would ever say in reality?", and I've dropped other shows.
Fuck the Affair. Tell her she needs to dress like a naughty schoolgirl if she wants you to watch it with you.
A happy marriage is a fine balancing act.
Throughout our years together, we have always had a show that we both watched (and that the kids didn't).
Breaking Bad, Les revenants, Scandal, Homicide.... Since I walked away from
Scandal, my wife has been looking for a show "to share."
If it keeps her from giving me a hard time over watching Champions League soccer off the DVR instead of catching up with the goings on in
Nashville or
The Good Wife than so be it. And my investment of time does not play into it at all, as I no longer care what happened as there is not a single character in the show that I would like to see survive the next tsunami.
And lest you think my wife is not a good judge of quality, she's the one who turned to me two-thirds of the way through the premiere of
The Newsroom and said "I hate all these people." We haven't watched it since. Also, she is loving Steve Coogan's
The Trip To Italy.