What do you feel like after watching tv?
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March 6th, 2015
What is your experience? If you watch a few hours of cooking shows, when the tv is off do you get the urge to cook? To buy a new stand mixer? What about travel shows? Do you feel comfortable or do you yearn for the excitement of exotic travel?
I have known people who realized after years of watching cop dramas that it made them feel unsafe and a bit paranoid when they walked outside. We also see portrayals of unrealistic wealth on tv. Do you recognize a difference in a way you think about your own house or life after watching, say “Modern Family”?
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I feel confident and sane after watching an episode of The Bachelor or Hoarders.
I want to feel the same as @ucme ENTERTAINED, so I try real hard to not watch the 99% of crap that is on tv these days.
Which is why @SQUEEKY2 I only watch that entertaining 1%
Poor and plump after watching Downton Abbey
Lobotomized.
Really, TV in and of itself does not generate any empathy or self identification for entertainment (drama or comedy) characters.
It’s a complex question. I can’t say that “I feel nothing” after watching TV, since much of the content is designed to make people feel an emotion. At the same time, I regularly choose which programs to watch, knowing to at least some extent what emotions they will provoke. So, while I might feel something after watching TV, it’s rare that that feeling is an unexpected one. When I do experience an unexpected emotion, that is usually a sign that the show was exceptionally good (because I was surprised) or exceptionally bad (so I am irritated with it).
To address the points you bring up in your details, I don’t expect what I see in TV-land to be an accurate reflection of society, either as a whole or where I live specifically. So, I don’t feel less safe after watching a show about serial killers, for example. But I have had other people report those reactions to me, about watching police dramas and about watching the evening news (which I also do not consider to be an accurate reflection of society).
I feel… full, since I normally only watch television in the evening for an hour or two while I dine alone. (So sometimes I also feel sleepy, as I often put off dinner until a pretty late hour.)
Occasionally I also feel energized… sort of… to google the theme music on a television show or movie and bookmark those YouTube videos for capture or later replay.
I don’t watch TV. Haven’t since the late 90’s, early 2000ish.
I have a DVD library, subscribe to Netflix for movies, documentary films and enjoy some offbeat videos/shows/documentaries on Youtube.
I go to the movies now and then but I hate regular TV and refuse to pay for it, I also hate, hate, hate sitcoms and the news. haha
I feel amused if I have watched something amusing, enlightened if I have watched something meaningful, and sad if I have watched something sad. I choose carefully what I want to pay attention to.
Often I just have the TV on in the background for ambient noise so the dogs don’t bark at every outside noise.
Right now, I feel exhilarated, just got through almost 5hrs watching GB take a 2–0 rubber lead over the USA in the tennis Davis Cup.
#tribes #irony #advantageucme
Amused and vindicated.
Since I gave up broadcast TV some years before 9/11, I only get to watch if I stay in a motel. It’s fascinating to see how thin the drama story lines are, and how poor most of the acting. (Either canvasing all the security cameras in the neighborhood solves the mystery, or no one remembers that there are cams in the hood.) It’s amazing the sheer volume of things you have to ignore for the average plot-line to make sense. Honestly, they should be paying people to watch a lot of that drivel.
To the OP I say that the 24/7 news cycle is the devil. Cop shows usually have a decent percentage of happy endings. Not so with the average news. My grandmother was obsessed with CNN when it was fairly new, and she was too scared to walk from her apartment to Kmart – a walk of about ½ a city block. On asphalt. In a rural town with nearly zero crime.
Do regular TV watchers see trends in advertising? Like that the Progressive insurance gal has spawned a host of “quirky and oddly appealing” commercial spokespeople?
Depends what I watch. If I watch The Walking Dead, I find myself planning where I might go and how I might defeat zombies in the event of an apocolypse.
If I watch Four Corners, I might be angry or sad.
A cooking show like the Great British Bake Off might make me feel inadequate but isn’t likely to inspire me to head to the kitchen to bake a cake.
A history or nature doco might leave me feeling fascinated and encourage me to go and research something more.
A always feel like washing my hands after I’ve watched the news.
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