Time it takes to choose a show

July 05, 2019, 08:42 PM

K0ZZZ

Was listening to the radio today and the DJs were talking about how it takes a "millenial" 10 minutes to choose a show to watch on Netflix, while us older folks can decide a new show in 5 minutes.

Apparently its the difference between just choosing a classic we enjoyed and feel like watching again, vs being paralyzed with too many choices and fear of missing out.

For me it sounds dead on, I love watching a show I've seen before, and if I did decide to try something new, it does seem to take longer to see if it would be worth my time to watch.

Anyone else just go "Ohhh Adam-12!" and just hit play?

July 05, 2019, 09:31 PM

Kevbo

It takes me way longer than 10 minutes to choose a new show

Mainly because it’s a lot of

No

No

No

No

Maybe......nah, no

No

No

(And I’ve already watched Miami vice and magnum pi again many, many times)

July 06, 2019, 05:25 PM

bdylan

I struggle mightily picking a show on Netflix. Sometimes, I waste all the time I had allocated to watch the show just flipping through the different programs.

July 06, 2019, 10:57 PM

Orguss

quote:
Originally posted by Kevbo:
It takes me way longer than 10 minutes to choose a new show, mainly because it’s a lot of

No

No

Maybe......nah, no

No

This is pretty much the way it goes with me. I also tend to wait a season or three before getting into a show. I just started watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Stranger Things this past week.

"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"

July 10, 2019, 11:49 AM

dbuck47

I am an old boomer, but it takes me way too long. Drives my wife insane.

July 10, 2019, 12:12 PM

HRK

It takes more time for me to find at least two shows to watch, so I can flip between them during commercials.

Usually a new one and one I've seen so missing part of the one doesn't matter.

July 13, 2019, 08:53 AM

ensigmatic

quote:
Originally posted by bdylan:
I struggle mightily picking a show on Netflix. Sometimes, I waste all the time I had allocated to watch the show just flipping through the different programs.

Same here. There are times my wife and I have flipped back-and-forth between Netflix and Amazon Prime trying to find something that interests us both and taken so long it got too late to start anything.

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July 13, 2019, 09:25 AM

NavyGuy

Yep, I waste a lot of time trying to find a good movie or series to watch. My "watch list" has grown to 50+ entries because as I'm surfing along looking for something, if I come across something that looks remotely like something in might like, I add it to the list and then move along for something better. I really need to cull that down.

A lot of good suggestions come from this forum.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

-D.H. Lawrence

July 13, 2019, 09:39 AM

cas

Over the years I've been amazed to read threads here about people commenting on how awful a movie they'd watched was. Most of the time I think "How could you not know that would suck?"

I guess because people make no effort to find out anything bout it first.

(though often it's pretty obvious.. "It's got so and so in it, how could it NOY suck!?")