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I must say, it's strange watching Traitors after watching Beast Games. It feels slow and lazy.

Traitors is one idea padded out with endless cringey "ceremony". (Claudia Winkleman walks down a corridor in a cape! Claudia Winkelman whispers "murder"! People gather and read out names slowly.)

In the Mr Beast version, the entire series would be boiled down to one 8 minute segment – and there would be 15 other original ideas besides it.

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That's why God made 1.5x speed.

British TV shows have long targeted a extremely aged demographic. Most TV seems to operate as if you're a little senile and aren't really following what's going on, or would be too uncertain and scared by quicker edits and more emotional intensity.

That said -- there's little 1.5x doesnt paper over about bad pacing choices.

As well as 1.5x, jumping a couple of minutes after a screen goes dark often jumps the 'now you would've watched some adverts on real TV, here's a recapitulation of what you may have missed in the first part (you forgetful bastard)'

There's no ad breaks on the BBC.

I have a hard time watching anything for too long at 1.5-2x speed. After a while it feels like my internal monologue is running at the same speed and it's incrediblely distracting.

Hmm, mine already is ...

My thoughts: just because you can ingest everything at super speed it doesn’t mean you should!

Some things are richer for slowly taking them in and syncing up with the vibe and the experience.

Learning to truly focus on something seems to be a vanishing life skill!

The Traitors is for my grandma. Beast games is for teenagers who are used to TikTok.

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