![]() ![]() It’s how I discovered entertainment franchises I still love to this day. ![]() ![]() I’m sure I’m not alone in saying this, but flipping through the channels out of boredom was a pretty formative part of my childhood and teenage years. Unintentionally watching something used to be a pretty important part of our television diet.Ĭall me old fashion, but, as a bonafide couch potato, this bums me out. Mostly to see what the hype’s about, but also as a matter of culturally keeping up with the Joneses. Instead, you watch whatever series on whatever platform that’s the cultural craze du jour. Outside of sports and award shows, appointment television with a hard tune-in time is mostly a thing of the past. Think about it: The home entertainment experience is so very intentional these days. It saddens me to say this, but channel surfing is a dying pastime. The act of channel surfing out of boredom and curiosity, as human behavior, just doesn’t exist on most modern entertainment platforms. In a world of so many screens where everything and anything is on-demand with a few taps, the heavy lifting of “what to watch next” is left to a highly complicated content algorithm that knows your brain a little too well. ![]()
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