TV Shows Reviewers Have Binge-Watched?

Well, that's a short list. Click HERE to see what other reviewers have binge-watched.

I've never binge-watched any specific show. The only time I've watched TV for hours was when I came down with flu while staying at the home of people who had all the cable channels and a TV set in every room. Watching television kept people from worrying that I was bored or lonely, and for two or three days I felt feverish enough to take an interest in revisiting all the cartoon shows that were being rebroadcast on cable. Flintstones, Jetsons, Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry, "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home," "Speed Racer," and even "Atom Ant." 

There have also been nights when I wanted to stay awake, and the person I was watching over was accustomed to television and could sleep while I sat up awake...but I wasn't really watching so much as using the noise to keep me awake and the light to knit by. I've sat through the "infomercials" the makers of products that are really had to sell pay cable channels to broadcast between 2 and 5 a.m.

Every human brain has its own set of "sensory channel" preferences. Some people can absorb information most easily by looking at pictures. I can enjoy looking at pictures if they're pretty, but just looking at pictures sends me straight off to slumberland. I need to do other things, like reading the words beside the pictures, or walking around in a museum, to stay awake past the third picture. If you want a message to get through to me, WRITE THE WORDS. 

 As a general rule, men with average or low IQ scores pay most conscious attention to sight, women with average or low IQ scores pay most conscious attention to touch or movement, and people with high IQ scores pay most conscious attention to words and sounds. If you guessed that this is because IQ tests measure how well people learn in traditional schoolroom environments more than people's overall intelligence, and traditional schoolrooms (and IQ tests) emphasize hearing and reading words, you're absolutely right. Some intelligent people have low IQ scores. People who have high IQ scores aren't stupid, but are not necessarily much more intelligent than other people, either. 

So, some intelligent people, nine out of ten of whom are probably male, would rather watch a "vlog" than read a blog...but in cyberspace those people are definitely a minority. Eye thinkers like television. Computers attract word people, and pictures, especially moving pictures, are either decorations, clutter, or a sleep aid, for most of us.

Even what some very arty people consider the "best" films...If I want to know what happens on the screen in a movie, I have to watch it with someone else. Knitting helps, as do comic effects in the film, but now that so many of the "classic" movies I've "missed" are free to watch on YouTube, I've tried to watch them and fallen asleep every time.