The 3 TV Show Traps We All Fall For Eventually
Movies are one night stands. They can suck, but fortunately the damage is contained to a single ill-fated evening. Shows on the other hand are long term relationships, and thus have the potential to be much more devastating.
We took a look at a couple of the pitfalls you might run into while committing to your new long term relationship.
Stockholm Syndrome
You ask your friends for a new show recommendation. They shoot back with, “Oh, Community. It sucks at first but after a while it gets wild!”
This is a classic case of a victim starting to come around to their captor.
Just because you wasted evenings of your life and finally found a few pearls that made it all worth it, does not make an endearing recommendation.
The Sunk Cost Fallacy
This is similar to the last scenario, but instead of getting good, the show starts promisingly strong and slowly goes downhill. You’ve spent seasons and seasons with your favourite Vikings, but now you’re on season 6, and the only reason you’re still watching is to see if it gets good again. It’s not getting good again! It’s playing chicken with you and it’s not gonna blink. It’s surviving off your views! You had a good couple seasons together and it’s time to learn when to accept your losses.
Bait and Switch
This is perhaps the most unfortunate. Some shows can be great, until it turns out they actually sucked all along. This is achieved by gimping the ending of the show so badly it retroactively ripples backwards through time and makes the last decade of your dedicated viewing all for nothing. The most spectacular example of this is, of course, Game of Thrones.
