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TV Viewing trends in the next 5 years
Since everyone are mostly at home and most probably watching TV, here's the trend on TV viewing in the next couple of years https://stateragvacontentservices.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/the-next-3-things-you-should-know-about-tv-viewing-in-the-next-3-years/
Episodes an Intro...
Last year when asked to round-up a few favorite shows for Cannabis Now, Episodes was my first and most obvious choice. In fact, to this day the first season is the only television show I have ever actually purchased from Apple (don’t worry they still have plenty of my money) probably due to my ginormous teenage obsession with Friends.
Needless to say, waiting nearly three years between season four and five was hardly ideal but now that I’m comfortably settled into this Showtime series final season I can confidently say the waiting was totally worth it. Given my own habits I certainly can’t begrudge a writer for taking their time. Anyway, once released I decided to continue to take my time and In preparation I spent a few months of cooking-tv-time fully committed to rewatching the show’s previous seasons.
This of course brings me to a topic I breached in my first very first blog post: the “times and moods, attention and foods” all dedicated to specific shows…. The I’m-mostly-watching-but-I’m-also-chopping-and-stirring-and-sipping-on-gin variety are hours utilized just as specifically as the aforementioned I’m-on-my-couch-eating-dinner-fully-engrossed variety however, these shows will rarely be discussed in detail because, well… frankly… I just give them too little attention to confidently recap. That being said, the fondness for all the tv I dedicate even the smallest attention to grows deep and I consider this a wonderful opportunity to catch up on old seasons before delving into the next. Since I, by nature am not a binger this “task” just like all my other viewing can take several months.
The cooking-tv-time generally wraps when it is cleaning-up-tv-time and while this isn’t at all relevant to an Episodes related recap I suddenly find it essential to mention that in those last few crucial minutes before I sit down to eat (generally spent washing up and wiping veggie bits off the floor) I always tune into that morning’s episode of The View which is actually a total delight. I fully recommend to everyone and I just can’t help but appreciate how hating Trump is an equal opportunity on both the right and the left (they are all journalists after all) and, btw, (since I’m in a tailspin of non-sequiters anyhow) I used to dress up in Whoopi’s old film costumes as a child because one of her besties daughter was my bff at the time (I’m practically famous, I know—eyeroll).
Anyway, I guess what I’m getting at here (and I didn’t really intend this to be my point when I first sat down to write) is that now that I’m three episodes into the final season and left with only four to go I’m hesitant to start my recaps.
Why though? I mean there is a certain sense of finality in recapping the last season of one of my favorite series for the past six years. Also perhaps, the show is just too damn good and I’m like totally intimidated. Or, maybe the end is just so near and I subconsciously figure it’s best to just sum it all in one go, or could it be that I’m feeling lazy and unfocused?
No matter, now that I’ve sat down and written this long why don’t I at least leave you with a taste? Here are just a few of my favorite quotes from previous seasons…
Matt Le Blanc on Disneyland:
“It’s like Walmart with rides.”-Episode 301
Matt Le Blanc On the $126,000 of Brandy he bought from Al Capone:
“I drank it. I was drunk, it was there. As a business decision it’s hard to defend.”- Episode 402
Matt Le Blanc on Holland:
“Everywhere you look, Tulips and hookers” - Episode 405
and if you’re particularly curious here is my Cannabis TV round-up.
"With computers, video consumption is also becoming a solitary, self-paced act — and maybe a more analytical act, as well. [..] Game of Thrones. The Bachelor. House of Cards. It's now possible to watch everything. How? It's the future of storytelling. By Jeff Guo WonkblogJune 22 at 1:00 PM GIF Jeff Guo's digital avatar watches TV on fast-forward. (Dani Johnson, Amy King / The Washington Post) I HAVE a habit that horrifies most people. I watch television and films in fast forward. This has become increasingly easy to do with computers (I’ll show you how) and the time savings are enormous. Four episodes of "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" fit into an hour. An entire season of "Game of Thrones" goes down on the bus ride from D.C. to New York. I started doing this years ago to make my life more efficient. Between trendy Web shows, auteur cable series, and BBC imports, there’s more to watch ever before. Some TV execs worry that the industry is outpacing its audience. A record-setting 412 scripted series ran in 2015, nearly double the number in 2009. “There is simply too much television,” FX Networks CEO John Landgraf said last year. Nonsense, responded Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos, who has been commissioning shows at a startling rate. “There’s no such thing as too much TV,” he said. So here we are, spending three hours a day on average, scrambling to keep up with the Kardashians, the Starks, the Underwoods, and the dozens of others on the roster of must-watch TV, which has exploded in the age of fragmented audiences. Nowadays, to stay on the same wavelength with your different groups of friends — the ones hating on “Meat Chad” and the ones cooing over Khaleesi — you have to watch in bulk. This is where the trick of playing videos at 1.5x to 2x comes in — the latest twist in the millennia-old tradition of technology changing storytelling. The concept should be familiar to many. For years, podcast and audiobook players have provided speedup options, and research shows that most people prefer listening to accelerated speech. In recent years, software has made it much easier to perform the same operation on videos. This was impossible for home viewers in the age of VHS. But computers can now easily speed up any video you throw at them. You can play DVDs and iTunes purchases at whatever tempo you like. YouTube allows you select a speedup factor on its player. And a Google engineer has written a popular Chrome extension that accelerates most other Web videos, including on Netflix, Vimeo and Amazon Prime. Over 100,000 people have downloaded that plug-in, and the reviews are ecstatic. “Oh my God! I regret all the wasted time I've lived before finding this gem!!” one user wrote. But speeding up video is more than an efficiency hack. I quickly discovered that acceleration makes viewing more pleasurable. "Modern Family" played at twice the speed is far funnier — the jokes come faster and they seem to hit harder. And I get less frustrated at shows that want to waste my time with filler plots or gratuitous violence. Watch this Modern Family clip the way that Jeff Guo watches it Play Video1:27 Wonkblog writer Jeff Guo watches all his television shows at 160% speed. This clip from ABC's Modern Family will give you an idea of what that looks like. (ABC) As I’ve come to consume all my television on my computer, I’ve developed other habits, too. I don't watch linearly anymore; I often scrub back and forth to savor complex scenes or to skim over slow ones. In other words, I watch television like I read a book. I jump around. I re-read. Sometimes I speed up. Sometimes I slow down. I confess these new viewing techniques have done something strange to my sense of reality. I can’t watch television in real-time anymore. Movie theaters feel suffocating. I need to be able to fast-forward and rewind and accelerate and slow down, to be able to parcel my attention where it's needed. The most common objection I hear is that this ruins the cinematic experience. Annette Insdorf, a film professor at Columbia, told me: “Sometimes watching a movie is like lovemaking: Isn't a sustained seduction more gratifying than momentary thrills?” But the more I've learned about the history and the science of media consumption, the more I've come to believe this is the future of how we will appreciate television and movies. Maybe not everyone will watch on fast-forward like I do, but we will all be watching on our own terms. In a way, what's happening to video recalls what happened to literature when we stopped reading aloud, together, and started reading silently, alone. Beginning in the Middle Ages, people no longer had to gather in groups to hear tales or learn the news or study religion. They could be alone with a text and their own thoughts, an unprecedented freedom that led to political and religious turmoil and forever changed intellectual life. With computers, video consumption is also becoming a solitary, self-paced act — and maybe a more analytical act, as well. If you believe, as I do, in the artistic potential of television and film, then perhaps we are on the brink of another cultural transformation — viewers finally seizing control of this medium. And the medium will be better for it. F OR a very long time, life was limited by the rate at which we spoke. Although we have had writing systems for millennia, early texts were designed to be read aloud, meaning that literature unfolded at the pace of human speech. Many ancient Greek and Roman documents, for instance, lacked punctuation, spaces or lowercase letters, making it challenging for people to understand them without sounding out the words syllable by syllable. “A written text was essentially a transcription which, like modern musical notation, became an intelligible message only when it was performed orally to others or to oneself,” historian Paul Saenger writes. There are physical limits to how quickly we can form sounds, as anyone who has attempted a tongue-twister can attest. Mouths need time to move into position for the next vowel or consonant. A good estimate for the natural rate of speech in English is 200 to 300 syllables per minute, which translates into 150 to 200 words per minute. [..] During the Middle Ages, scribes began introducing spacing and punctuation into texts, which made silent reading much easier for everyone. The practice began in monasteries around the 10th century and slowly spread to university libraries a few hundred years later [..] Chartier called silent reading the “other revolution” — together with the printing press and mass literacy, these developments created both the demand and the supply for a vast quantity of writing. The faster pace of silent reading accelerated the spread of new ideas and vaulted Western society toward religious and political schism. [..] beyond 300 wpm, deeper processes in the brain were getting overloaded. Experiments showed that at 300-400 wpm, individual words were still clear enough to understand; except at that rate, many listeners couldn’t keep up with rapid stream of words, likely because their short-term memories were overtaxed. [..] Just a few weeks of regular exposure seemed to alter how people perceived and processed language, causing them to prefer faster and faster listening rates. [..] I found something of a sympathetic ear in Peter Markham, who teaches directing at the American Film Institute Conservatory. “This notion of privacy, of watching privately and forming your own cathedral of narrative — that’s interesting,” he said. “But that, I think, is mostly an intellectual or cerebral experience. The thing about dramatic narrative is that it creates an emotional, visceral, subconscious experience. That stuff has its own rhythm, its own insistence.” Markham argued that film is more than a stream of dialogue or a sequence of events. The timing of the images imprints on our brains in a special way. “If you speed up Hitchcock, if you speed up "Rear Window," you won’t get the same experience," he said. "It’s like trying to speed up a Beyoncé track. It’s already at the perfect speed.” [..] the rise of "participatory culture" — ways in which fans take control of favorite stories through fanzines, fan art, fan fiction, and more recently, fan videos. "Fans reject the idea of a definitive version produced, authorized, and regulated by some media conglomerate," Jenkins wrote over a decade ago. "Instead, fans envision a world where all of us can participate in the creation and circulation of central cultural myths." [..] one reason that serialized shows have become so popular in recent years. Since audiences can easily catch up on missed episodes — many of them are bingewatching anyway — show-runners can tell longer, more complicated stories with less repetition. The rewind button allows television to be a little more sophisticated. If you didn't understand the first time, just watch again. [..] "People still want to connect. They still want that social experience, only now it's all happening online." [..] "Audiences generally want to see a different version of the show that they love. They don’t really want to see it become something else." [..] creators have always adapted their work to suit who was listening. "Storytelling is a bardic medium," he said. "Bards like Homer would tell a story to a roomful of people and he would be attentive to what they liked and what they didn't like. The same was true of Dickens, whose novels were published serially. He changed plot points and characters on the fly." Now that tools are making it increasingly easy to alter the flow of how we watch films and television, viewers will also have power to change the plot and the characters of a show to suit their own tastes. We should look forward to a future that involves more cross-pollination, more crazy fan-theories, more creative misunderstandings, all of it enabled by new ways of consuming television, whether that means binge-watching, surfing clips on social media or even watching on fast-forward."
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Guilty.
But here’s the truth, there’s just simply too many epic shows out there. As in, for instance, have you guys seen Transparent on Amazon? Holy shit it’s good. Jeffrey Tambor nails it. Trans style.
Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Always Sunny…, Seinfeld…you know this list just kinda goes on for a while. But you get the point, I just haven’t seen Sons of Anarchy at all.
