So, this is just me rambling, but I’ve been thinking about Eliott’s POV in the trailer which then led me to think about Skam France using time as an emotional tool to kill us all, and since I’m borderline sleep-thinking at this point, I thought it was the perfect moment to not give a flying fuck and just write it down.
It basically turned into an essay: advance with caution.
(It’s still time to turn around)
I think we all know how powerful the live experience of Skam is. We’re fed throughout the week, becoming Skam-addicts and suddenly, without knowing how it happened, we’re in the mains’ head, feeling their emotions as if they were our own (and imo, they probably are).
We get it, but do we actually realise why that is?
To be honest, I had never thought about what it was that connected the viewers to the mains so much before. The story in itself plays a huge part in it, of course, but still, I have watched many TV shows with great storylines where I’ve fallen in love with the characters but never to the extent I’ve fallen for Skam characters, and especially the ones I’ve followed the stories live.
(And let’s be real here, how many of us thought that Skam ruined us for other TV-shows?)
Don’t you remember watching a Skam reactor or talking about the show with a friend who only watches the episode and thinking to yourself: “why don’t they get it? Why aren’t they freaking out like I did when that specific clip dropped?”
This is not to say that they won’t feel emotions by watching it, of course they do, but I truly believe it’s not with the same intensity and it’s all because they don’t live the in-between clips moments, they don’t experience the freak outs over new social media updates, they don’t experience the torturous wait and everything that us who do follow the show daily go through.
I think we get so much into the characters’ head because of the use of time. I know, it sounds kind of obvious, but is it really?
We know that the Skam format plays with time to tells its story. It’s not a secret, we all know how it works: a clip drops, we freak out, we watch it, we feel something right of the bat and then we stay with that specific emotion, a lot of questions and our over-analysing thoughts for who the fuck knows how long.
Sometimes it’s only a few hours. Sometimes it’s a day. Sometimes it’s an entire weekend. Sometimes it’s even longer than that. Bottom line is : we never know when we will have to run away from our personal lives and hide in the toilet to watch a clip.
It’s as glorious as it is pure torture.
Adding a read more to not annoy the people who will see this on their dash:
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