Signtist

Yeah, I’m a sucker for the “OP protagonist wins effortlessly all the time and everyone loves him” shows. Sometimes you just want to hear a feel-good story set in a world where the good guys just win like it’s the only logical conclusion. There’s enough suffering and uncertainty in the real world without it needing to be in the fake worlds I escape to; I want them to be low-stakes auto-success stories more often than not.

I’ve found I’m a lot happier when I just take things as they come. It’s not so much that I want to watch mid shows as it is that I don’t want the stress that comes from trying to avoid them. I’m much happier just quickly picking something good enough than spending a bunch of time researching the best thing and then still wondering if I could’ve found something better.

I enjoyed watching shows most when I had 10 local TV channels to pick from and just watched whatever seemed good enough out of those options, so now I just purposefully limit my options to emulate that, and it’s been pretty nice.

It did, yeah. It was a bit abrupt for some people, but I didn’t really think there was much left to go over without feeling like it was tacked on.