This was supposed to be a lazy afternoon blog but unfortunately my afternoon got extremely lazy and my accidental afternoon nap got extremely long. So, here I am writing this late night blog!
I wrote my last blog about five days ago. And like I anticipated, just like any other new hobby, this blogging thing was totally exciting at first and began getting less and less exciting. I wouldn't say the process of blogging got less exciting but maybe the idea of having to leave my lazy space and do something productive gets harder with time.
I had to drag myself here and slap myself really hard to write this one!
Now finally let’s get into the actual blog!
So I got this idea to write a blog about sitcoms while I was watching “2 Broke Girls”. I must be watching this one for at least 5 months now.
Yes, you’ve heard me right! 5 months!
That brings to my first rule when it comes to watching sitcoms - Don't binge it to death!
I would recommend binge watching only for the short serieses (I don't know if that is even a word). My optimum binge time for a sitcom would be two hours or six episodes in most cases.
Binge watching in itself is damaging, even for short series. But this is a damage you can get away with. The kinda damage it causes when done with longer serieses and sitcoms should be scared upon and avoided.
A simple google search would tell you about the other negative effects of binge watching. This blog is not about binge watching and I’ve used that word a billion times already. So let’s get to the part of the blog that I really intended to write.
The first sitcom that I had watched on a regular basis was “two and a half men“. I ended up on this after a simple search on Amazon Prime Video saying “sitcoms“. Before that I have heard the word “sitcom” so many times and even maybe watched an episode or two accidently on TV , but this time it felt like the beginning of something.
The first day I watched a couple of episodes, probably just two or three. I never really felt the urge to binge it off and complete it. After a couple of days or weeks maybe, because of the app’s recommendation I watched another two or three episodes and over the long run this pattern followed. After a lot of weeks this realization hit me-
“Wait I’m about to finish the first season!”
Then I went on to the second one and on I went.
After ten months or so when I finished the 10th season, I got the urge to binge it and finish it off and so I did!
To sit down and introspect about the relationship I had with the sitcom and in a way with its characters themselves was a very amusing process. I then realized that I was using this series mainly as a tool of escapism. To escape from a hectic day at college mainly (which was almost everyday).
For those two hours I was literally transported into Charlie’s villa and was enjoying every aspect of it; every comical aspect of the characters and the situations they created!
Jake’s character was definitely my favorite!
You literally see him grow and hear his voice get mature over the entire series!
When you see something constantly for such a long time, it feels like an important part of your life. It feels like an important part of your life at least during that time period.
When it felt like, this is the best possible sitcom-
“The Big Bang Theory” happened.
This one didn't take me ten months but by the time I got hooked up with these characters, I totally forgot about the ones from two and a half men.
I began binge watching this one way earlier though. Probably starting from the fifth season.
I finished this one a little quicker and the kind of hangover I had was not as good as the one I had with the previous one (even though I would say tbbt was better compared to two and a half men).
Time is maybe the main factor in deciding this aspect of a show! The hangover aspect I mean.
I learned from that and that’s when I wrote my first rule of sitcoms - Do not binge it to death!
Take it slowly! Just like how you build muscles in a gym!
Now thinking about it I feel like you could easily draw parallels between sitcoms and relationships!
You feel like that is the best thing to happen to you! But only when you’re in them!
You don't necessarily feel the same way once it has ended!
PS: I was in a relationship the same time I started watching two and a half men; the series lasted longer!
So here I am going slow with “2 Broke Girls” and planning to do the same for every other sitcom I’m planning to watch in the future.
To end this blog let me do it by making a confession. What I intended to write was a slightly different piece, mainly focusing on the good and bad aspect of sitcoms. But I ended up beating around the bush and writing about my personal experience with sitcoms. Anyways I'll write that blog as a follow up to this one sometime later.
I loved writing it though!
I hope you feel the same way reading it!